Jose Mourinho says Manchester United players were too relaxed in warm-up

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Jose Mourinho had a sense Manchester United would begin slowly against St Etienne as a result of his players "lacked focus" within the readying.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a hat-trick at previous Trafford as United beat their Ligue one opponents 3-0 to require management of their Galilean League last-32 tie.

But Mourinho was sad by his side's poor half, adding they were lucky to succeed in half-time ahead.

Ibrahimovic's deflected free-kick had given them the lead however solely when a sloppy backpass by Eric Bailly conferred Romain Hamouma with the game's initial chance within 3 minutes.

Despite not registering their initial shot till the thirtieth minute, St Etienne had eleven tries before the break, the foremost by AN opponent at previous Trafford within the half since Athletic Bilbao had thirteen in March 2013.

"I had the sensation like a shot within the room," Mourinho same. "Too noisy, too funny, too relaxed.

"My assistants had the sensation within the readying with a number of the blokes not very targeted on obtaining the correct hormone in their bodies.

"The game started and also the very first thing we have a tendency to did was a backpass to a striker to be face-to-face with Sergio [Romero].

"A lack of concentration and once you do not have it, it's tough to recover therefore the half was onerous and even myself on the out of bounds I felt that was tough, the communication.

"I required half-time therefore we have a tendency to were lucky, yes, to be winning at half-time 1-0. The half was a distinct story and a distinct result."

Put to him that the angle could also be all the method all the way down to the actual fact it fully was the Galilean League rather than the Champions League, Mourinho said: "I perceive Champions League is that the competition everyone must play, everyone must win, i do recognize that.

"But we have a tendency to don't play Champions League, we have a tendency to tend to play Galilean League.

"I suppose inside the 0.5, it fully was too relaxed. Then, St Etienne were inside the sport with the proper perspective and intensity, which they created problems.

"We don't play Champions League, so if that is the case i'd favor to play inside the Galilean League than be reception observation TV. so i feel with the players it's identical."

Mourinho did stress the 0.5 was "a fully completely different story" and aforementioned of the match overall: "To score three goals and not concede inside the initial leg reception, it's usually a good result - it isn't over, but it is a good result."