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Bearlegged
Mourinho doesn't know how to win with a team that has a history of attacking football.
He's at his best when he's setting up teams to soak up pressure and then counter. history/fan pressure at United won't let him do that. And he's struggling with the presence of Guardiola, and his current success, whose philosophy is everything that Mourinho is against.
Remembered this Sid Lowe article
https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/apr/23/jose-mourinho-the-anti-barcelona-chelsea-pep-guardiola
which references how he alone from the managers who came out of that Barca period in and around Van Gaal and Robson, is the one who doesn't play possession/attacking football.
Mourinho works best with an underdog team Porto/Chelsea/Inter desperate for success, and who don't care about the quality of attacking football, but just that they win. Teams that want attacking football and success Real Madrid/Man Utd, and where the fans require those as the starting points for their team, make him uncomfortable.
Don't get me wrong Mourinho teams can play great counter attacking football, but his first/second and third instinct is to nullify the opposition first, score goals second..