Mourinho puts defeat at the feet of reactive football

People are saying we need to work on the defence but it isn't just because of the defence we are conceding late goals, it is the mentality. We think the game is won and players switch off, they try things instead of being clinical, not bothered if we lose the ball.

It is infuriating for a coach to see. When you are 3-0 up, you do not mess about. you score another three. Relaxing means you are out of position more, you take longer to make decisions, you take longer to do everything, you stop playing as a team and start playing as individuals.

Jan Vertonghen had to make a game-winning tackle in the 96th minute, otherwise, Callum Wilson would have rescued a point for Bournemouth.

If you are defending you defend as a team and if one or two are slack in their roles then they system has holes and in the Premier League, every team is capable of exploiting them, as we are seeing.

Confidence will certainly be boosted but we are not yet resolving the issue of nerves at the end of the game and we are putting ourselves in situations we should not be getting into.

We will have to show progress in that department over the next 10 games, the fixtures of which are below.

Davinson Sanchez had a goal ruled out because the ball accidentally hit his arm against Bournemouth. I don't have an issue with that if it is a penalty if it hits a defenders arm.

You can not have one rule if a goal is scored and one rule if it is not. You can not have one rule for attackers and one rule for defenders. You can not have one rule in the penalty box and another rule elsewhere on the field.

Rules have to be the same for everyone and at the moment they are not, they are in the favour of the defender who can accidentally handle the ball almost with impunity, yet Sissoko was wrongly penalised in the UEFA Champions League Final to hand Liverpool the control right at the start of the game and therefore influence the result.

That has to be looked at as does the offside law, which currently is stupid.

It has to be taken on the feet and not the chest or armpit. You should be able to lean forward and not be offside, after all, if you are standing in the same position and were not leaning forward you would remain onside. In both circumstances, you are standing in the same place!

Again you are giving help to the defenders because to run towards goal your upper body leans forward and you leads your legs.

Your legs carry you, it is they that determine where you are standing so it is they that should be used to determine onside or offside, particularly if we are using VAR.

Everyone knows exactly where they stand then.

I have been talking for years about proactive vs reactive footballers and how you need to read the game and be proactive.

Jose Mourinho talked in his after-game press conference about how we reacted too late and that led to Manchester United's penalty and gave them three points.

This highlights exactly what I have been talking about. Reactive footballers have to make more tackles, proactive footballers are in a position where they prevent the opposition putting them in that position, they read the game and are moving or ready to move into position, rather than wait to see what a player is going to do and react to it.

Proactive footballers already know what he is going to do with it. Obviously, that isn't the case every time but it is why Toby Alderweireld was heralded as such a good centre-back, he read the game and was in position so didn't have to constantly make last-ditch tackles and get booked.

As a defender, how many yellow cards you get is revealing.