Jose Mourinho said he couldn't give an honest assessment of his team's performance following Manchester United's 3-2 defeat to Brighton.

“When I am critical with my players you just don’t accept it, so please do not ask me to go in this direction because it is not good for me,” Mourinho said.

“I will be very happy to analyze my players’ performances when they were very good. When I cannot do that, don’t push me to the other side because I will not go to the other side.

“If I was in your position, I think this game today would give me quite a lot of material to write about. But don’t expect me to speak with you about it because you and your colleagues were really critical of me when in previous seasons I was probably too honest and too open in my analyzing and I was too honest and too open in analyzing about players’ performances.

“So don’t ask me to do what you criticised me so much for. Expect from me to be really happy to say after Leicester, A, B, C, D an amazing performance, this and that. Don’t expect me to go in the other direction.”