Jose Mourinho insists Manchester United "cannot cry about VAR" following Tottenham's huge Premier League victory at Old Trafford on Sunday.
Spurs finished off a gruelling but pleasing week that has included four games in seven days with a 6-1 demolition of a woeful United side that took the lead inside two minutes through Bruno Fernandes' penalty, but lost the plot thereafter and conceded braces to Heung-min Son and Harry Kane as well as goals from Tanguy Ndombele and Serge Aurier.
A key moment in the game arrived after 28 minutes, when the hosts - then trailing 2-1 - were reduced to 10 men after Anthony Martial was sent off following a clash with Erik Lamela that came when United were preparing to take a corner.
Lamela appeared to elbow Martial, who responded by striking the Argentine. Lamela then went down clutching his face and escaped with only a yellow card as Martial received his marching orders from referee Anthony Taylor.
Asked about that incident after the game, Mourinho said United could not feel hard done by given what his side have gone through in recent weeks when it comes to questionable decisions.
"I didn’t watch it," he told Sky Sports. "Maybe later I will. If someone can cry about the VAR decisions it is Tottenham and if someone cannot cry about VAR it is Manchester United for sure.
"I don't know, the only thing I know is we played extremely well. I told my players that a good result here would be to win and we did that."
Counterpart and under-pressure United successor Ole Gunnar Solskjaer offered no excuses for Martial's reaction, but was hugely critical of Lamela's behaviour.
"There's no excuse but he must be having an operation, the boy (Lamela), in his throat," Solskjaer said.
"It's a bad reaction by Anthony, no excuse, because the game's not lost there and then but we were in the game by then.
"If that was one of my players I'd absolutely hang him up to dry because you don't go down like that. If Ant had gone down, it could have been going the other way. He shouldn't react like that."
In his press conference, Solskjaer added: "Come on, you can't go down like that. It's an absolute joke. If that was my son, he'd live on water and bread for two weeks."
