Manchester United head coach Jose Mourinho said it would have been an injustice to the English Premier League (EPL) game against Watford if his team had not scored in the first half when they played fluent football.
Manchester United defeated Watford 2-0 at home, stretching their unbeaten run to 16 games, with French winger Anthony Martial scoring a brilliant goal on his return
to the side's playing XI after Juan Mata's first-half opener on Saturday. "It was beautiful. The period before the first goal was amazing. The quality, the chances, the
beauty, the football, the movement, the chances, the saves," Mourinho told the club's official website.
"It was absolutely amazing. It would have been a football crime if we didn't score a goal in that period. We scored and it was an important goal for our confidence. It was a little bit of a sense of relief, arriving at half-time winning," he added.
He also revealed that rather than telling his players to score the goal in the first minute, he advised them to play quality football from the start of the game.