Manchester United are the unluckiest team in the Premier League, according to boss Jose Mourinho.
Juan Mata put United ahead in their encounter with Arsenal at Old Trafford on Saturday in the 68th minute, but Olivier Giroud headed home with one minute of normal time left to ensure the spoils were shared.
It is a third successive league draw at home for Mourinho's side and the Portuguese manager is growing frustrated by United's recent misfortunes.
"We are the unluckiest team in the Premier League," he told Sky Sports. "In the last three matches at home, against Stoke we have to win 5 or 6-0 and we draw, against Burnley we have to win 5 or 6-0 and we draw and today we have to win 2 or 3-0 and we draw too, so I think we are the unluckiest team. "But the team is playing well, the team is working really well."
Mourinho felt his team were worthy of all three points at Old Trafford, hailing the way they stifled Arsenal with a strong showing in defence. "We were the best team by far. I don't want to say they didn't want to win, but they had no chances to win," he continued.
"They couldn't be Arsenal the way they normally play football. We were phenomenal defensively – the way we pressed, we were very strong without the ball, controlled their counter-attacks, their best players.
"When we had the ball we were very comfortable. We played quality football, we scored a fantastic goal. We had chances to kill the game. The Marcos Rojo and [Paul] Pogba situations for the 2-0 were open goals and then the only time we had a situation that we couldn't resolve they scored the goal.
"So they were the lucky ones and we were unlucky, but that's football."
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