Carabao Cup: Jose Mourinho says clubs would be fresher without competition
The Portuguese manager made nine changes but scored a good side as the winners beat the Burton 4-1 Championship Wednesday night.
Mourinho told BBC Radio 5 live: "If you ask me, can English football survive or even be better without this competition?" May be.
"Perhaps we would be cooler for the European competition."United beat Southampton to win the League Cup last season for the fifth time - Mourinho's fourth success - and Chelsea's former boss wants to win it this season.Mourinho's highly-modified side still contained 11 internationals, while the club captain and midfielder Michael Carrick made his first appearance of the season.
Rivals Manchester City gave Yaya Toure and Ilkay Gundogan the first
start of the season, while Eden Hazard used the contest to make his
first start of the campaign for Chelsea."If the competition is an official competition, it is important for Manchester United and for me as a manager," added Mourinho."I want players to think the same way. We have this competition, we
have to respect the sponsors, we have to respect the opponents and many
of us try to do our best."If we can win it, we win it. If we do not win it, it's because the opponents are better than us."For the Wednesday night's League Cup games, Arsenal made 11 changes
against League One Doncaster, Chelsea made nine to face the side of the
Nottingham Forest Championship, and Manchester City and Everton both
made eight.On the championship side, Burton made nine changes, but manager Nigel
Clough said the competition is extremely relevant to the club -
financially, and for those traveling enthusiasts who saw Lloyd Dyer's
late consolation goal.
"Our fans will be coming home with wonderful memories tonight," he said."We've played Old Trafford twice in 11 years and nobody would have
waited for it. No one comes here to expect a result but we gave a good
account of ourselves and we scored a goal."It will help us to stay in the championship, the president is happy,
there was a good crowd, and that's a big part of our budget."The
main thing was to reward the guys who brought us here, they were the
coolest players available.The League Cup is not a nuisance, we have a
regular team and all those boys who played tonight think that they should be in the first team ".The BBC Sport public, Danny Mills, who won the League Cup in 2004 with
Middlesbrough, do not think that amateurs are little changed by teams
that make radical changes to their alignments.He
said to BBC Radio 5 live: "If you buy a ticket for the third round, you
know that all the teams will make changes. You do not have to buy one,
it's not part of your season ticket ."The
roads for the young players of the best clubs are blocked, and this
competition is an opportunity, it is competitive, it always means
something, it qualifies you for Europe. to rotate their squads. "
Mourinho told BBC Radio 5 live: "If you ask me, can English football survive or even be better without this competition?" May be.
"Perhaps we would be cooler for the European competition."United beat Southampton to win the League Cup last season for the fifth time - Mourinho's fourth success - and Chelsea's former boss wants to win it this season.Mourinho's highly-modified side still contained 11 internationals, while the club captain and midfielder Michael Carrick made his first appearance of the season.


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