Everton vs Manchester United highlights: Jose Mourinho defends Fellaini decision after another PL draw

Manchester United took the lead, and then surrendered a late equaliser to slump to another draw in the Premier League. Jose Mourinho was left a frustrated man after Everton scored a late goal to pull off a 1-1 draw at Goodison Park on Sunday.

After Zlatan Ibrahimovic had given Manchester United a 1-0 lead just before halftime, with a nice chip, Manchester United would have wanted to finally pick up a much-needed win, but it was not to be as Leighton Baines scored from the penalty spot in the 89^th minute to give Everton a point.

The home team were awarded the penalty after substitute and former Everton man Marouane Fellaini brought down Idrissa Gueye. The obvious question after that penalty lost Manchester United two points, was why even bring Marouane Fellaini on?

"What do you mean by that," Mourinho fired back to the question. "I thought you would know more about football than you do because the answer is obvious. Everton is not a passing team like they were. Everton is a team that plays direct. Everything is direct.

"Goalkeeper direct. Ashley Williams direct. (Ramiro) Funes Mori direct. Everything is direct and when a team is losing and plays direct intensifies the direct football, and you have a player on the bench with two metres, you play that player in front of the defensive line to help the team win the match."

However, that plan did not work, with Gueye going down under the challenge of Fellaini and Baines slotting the ball into the corner, past the diving right hand of David De Gea, who had earlier kept Manchester United in the lead with a fantastic save to deny Kevin Mirallas.

Soon after that chance, Manchester United almost made the game safe when Ander Herrera cannoned a shot off the crossbar and Mourinho felt luck was not on his team's side again.

"It's another game with a very good performance in a very difficult place to play, in a very emotional stadium, against a team full of good players," Mourinho added. "So, it was a very good performance but a bad result in relation to the performance. We were the best team by far but we didn't win.

"We had chances for 2-0, we had the ball against the post and then we lost a goal in the last few minutes."

Manchester United were not necessarily the better team, with Everton growing into the game towards the end. After the 90 minutes, when both teams look at their performances, they will probably realise a point each was the right result.

The point means Manchester United gained some ground on Manchester City and Liverpool, who both lost at the weekend, but not as much as they would have liked. Manchester United are sixth in the table, 13 points behind leaders Chelsea and ten adrift of fourth-placed City.

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