Jose Mourinho accused his Manchester United players of ignoring his instructions with “ridiculous” defending as Tottenham Hotspur scored after just 10.5 seconds.

“I don’t think it’s very normal, to concede a goal like we did,” the Manchester United manager said, after his side’s 2-0 defeat.

“After kick-off is ridiculous, especially ridiculous because the players watched the Tottenham kick-off many, many times. We analyse opponents and they knew the long ball and Harry Kane normally is already inside the opponents half before the kick-off. We knew everything.

“We did not press the ball, one mistake. We did not win the header, two mistakes. We did not win the challenge, third mistake, we did not track (goal-scorer Christian) Eriksen, fourth mistake. Four mistakes after 15 seconds and you are losing one-nil against a good team.”