Jose's first 65 games...So to answer. I was way more satisfied with the Liverpool performance than the Man City one, although in the very short term the Man City one provided more successful.
However you pick one game where it was successful against a top club, I can point to many where it wasn't against much weaker teams than us.
You do not need to sit back and hope not to concede to beat the vast majority of teams in the League, not with the squad we have. You should not have to rely on our forwards to significantly outperform XG for the vast majority of the season to give us a chance.
Mourinho currently has the worst win rate of any manager we have had since Ramos, this is totally down to his negative tactics. The sum of the parts is so far down on the individual components.
And to put up with statistically our worst performing manager since Ramos, we are having to put up with the worst brand of football in living memory. The only manager comparable was the 8 games Santini had which were this mind-numbing.
Selectively picking out 1 game, when there are significantly more that totally counter your argument is somewhere between ridiculous and laughable.
I honestly don't think you even believe what you are writing most of the time, but are doing it for shits and giggles, because it is defending the indefensible.
If you play this brand of football you have to win, end of story. Anything else the fans will turn on the manager. His only hope is that Covid continues for a lot longer, because it would be very toxic at the ground if fans were present.
I will say it, a League Cup win will not suffice, it would not be enough reward for having to put up with the last 14 months. I want him gone, and be able to go back to actually enjoying the game.
If you offered me now, A League Cup win and 6th with Mourinho staying, or no League Cup and Mourinho gone and replaced with a progressive manager, I would take the latter.
P65 W34(52.3%) D17(26.2%) L14(21.5%)
GF131 GA79 CS18
Poch's last 65 games...
P65 W33(50.8%) D10(15.4%) L22(33.8%)
GF122 GA88 CS21
Context helps for statistics, additionally one of them has only been around for about 14 months while the other had 5 years to work with the players.
Also we only had 1 clean sheet in the league in Poch's last season (12 matches), in Jose's most recent dozen league games we have clean sheets in half of them.
Also we're in a Cup final and still in with a shout in 4 competitions...during a season rife with cunting VAR and Coronavirus.
Players usually don't like losing btw...even if they play lovely fucking football that's really nice to watch.