KEY POINTS

  • A VAR review called a foul on a contact that saw Heung-Min Son on the ground for a few minutes
  • Ole Gunnar Solskjaer takes a dig at Son after the game
  • Jose Mourinho wasn't happy about Solskjaer's comments

Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho thinks Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer went too far in commenting about one of his star strikers.

It has been an action-packed Sunday afternoon at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, but in the end, Manchester United managed to seal a decisive 3-1 victory over the Spurs.

At the 33rd minute, the Red Devils thought they had taken the lead with a goal from Edinson Cavani, but after reviewing the VAR, referee Chris Kavanagh ruled it out due to a foul on Tottenham striker Son Heung-min

Son was sent to the ground just before Cavani’s goal after unintentionally being hit in the face by Manchester United’s Scott McTominay. Despite the evident minimal contact, the South Korean stayed down for a few minutes, something Solskjaer wasn’t happy about.

"But I have to say, if my son stays down like this for three minutes and he gets his 10 mates around him if gets that in his face and he gets 10 of his mates to help him up, yeah, he won’t get any food," Solskjaer told the media of Son’s fouling.

As for Cavani’s goal, the Red Devils boss insisted that it should’ve been allowed while also suggesting that the officials should’ve done a better job.

"The game has gone. The game has absolutely gone," Solskjaer told Sky Sports of Cavani’s disallowed goal. "If that’s a clear and obvious error, it’s an obvious error he had to look at it. It was a perfectly good goal. But then again we shouldn’t be conned.”

Job done: Manchester United's comfortable win at Tranmere was a welcome relief for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
Job done: Manchester United's comfortable win at Tranmere was a welcome relief for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer AFP / Paul ELLIS

Revealing his take on the subject, Mourinho believes that his Manchester United successor’s comments about Son were below the belt.

"I’m very, very surprised that after the comments that Ole made on Sonny," Mourinho said in his post-game conference. "I told Ole already this because I met him just a few minutes ago – if it’s me, telling that player A B or C from another club, if it was my son I wouldn’t give him dinner tonight, what would be the reaction of that? It’s very very sad."

The renowned manager then took a personal dig at Solskjaer, even making bold comparisons about their fatherhood.

"I just want to say that Sonny [Son] is very lucky that his father is a better person than Ole [Solskjaer]. I am a father. I think as a father you have always to feed your kids,” the Spurs boss pointed out. "[It] doesn’t matter what they do. If you have to steal to feed your kids, you steal. I'm very very disappointed."

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