Blackburn Rovers have earned praise from Jose Mourinho after they gave a very spirited performance against Manchester United. United defeated Blackburn 2-1 to get through to the quarter-final of the FA Cup.
The outfit are currently second from bottom in the Championship and are facing an uphill task in trying to save themselves from relegation. United had to fight hard to earn a victory against the Championship strugglers. Danny Graham opened the scoring for the home side. But their lead was short-lived as Marcus Rashford equalised from a brilliant pass by Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
Mourinho had to introduce Zlatan Ibrahimović and Paul Pogba in the second half and the both were involved in the winner. The 35-year old Swede scored his 23rd goal of the season to put the Red Devils into the next round.
Mourinho said, “Did they give us a good game? More than good, they gave us a hard game and congratulations to them.
“Their approach was brave, strong. They had real competitors and if we didn’t have the right attitude from everybody we would be in real trouble.
“For long periods of the game you couldn’t feel which one was the strongest team, they were brilliant. If they transfer this quality to the Championship they will have a big chance to survive. We conceded a brilliant goal. It was a brilliant goal. The movement and shot was really good, it didn’t affect any player individually for us.
“For long periods of the game you couldn’t feel which one was the strongest team, they were brilliant. If they transfer this quality to the Championship they will have a big chance to survive. We conceded a brilliant goal. It was a brilliant goal. The movement and shot was really good, it didn’t affect any player individually for us.”
