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      "body": "<h2>The Season So Far.</h2>\n\nThe season started so brightly for Mourinho's United. Three games. Three Wins. Ten Goals Scored, none conceded. I was grinning despite being a Spurs supporter. Why? Because I had predicted it. It would be the year of Manchester. United would win the Premier League with Mourinho taking his standard second-season title and Pep's City would run him close with a project, in my mind, too far from completion looking at last season's performances.\n\nSo a four goal draw to end that run against a less than impressive Stoke shorn of one of their best attacking creatives in Arnautovic should have been a flashing red light. Especially to someone like me who refuses to be mollified with talk of \"bogey teams\", something my Man United loving friends were quick to point out Stoke were. Besides, three more wins scoring nine and conceding none showed: just a blip.\n\nBut more blips showed up and a pattern started to emerge. An away loss to Huddersfield. 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Jose Could not find it in his DNA to aggressively attack and the United team fell two goals to one.\n\nSince that match Manchester United have picked up nine points out of a possible fifteen so that by the end of the twentieth Game of the season Manchester City has a lead of fourteen points over them. Only an unlikey repeat of the heroics of 95/96 could give the Reds hope of the title.\n\n<h2>So What Went Awry?</h2>\n\nReservations over Lukaku: I was quite suprised at the signing of Lukaku for a Jose Mourinho team. Successful Jose sides have a DNA that, although defensive in nature, centre around a certain type of striker. Didier Drogba, Zlatan Ibrahimovich and Diego Costa are that type. All have physical presence and are excellent in the air. All have great footballing brains. All have phenomenal technique. They are Jose Mourinho strikers. 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