Jose Mourinho has waited six months to complain about the officiating in Manchester United’s defeat to Manchester City in September.

United slipped to their first loss of the season at Old Trafford, with goals from Kevin de Bruyne and Kelechi Iheanacho cancelling out Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s strike.

It was a deserved victory for the visitors, but United felt aggrieved not to have been awarded a penalty when Claudio Bravo crashed into Wayne Rooney with a sliding tackle.

In what was Bravo’s debut, the Chilean escaped censure for the challenge, and City went on to secure all three points.

Mourinho, speaking after the draw with Bournemouth at the weekend, again pinpointed that game as points needlessly dropped.

“If you look at the points we lost at home, I don’t speak about the Man City match because everybody knows what happens, everybody knows the penalty and the red card to Bravo,” the Portuguese said.

He added: “But in all the other matches we drew, if you accumulate all those points, you are talking 10 or 12 points and then you are not just talking about the top four but speaking about the top two or top one.

“So we lost too many points at home and it’s just us our position.

“Are we bad in relation to the top four? No, we are not bad. There are matches to play, points to win, points to lose, points to fight for.

“We are not bad, but the reality is that we are losing too many points at home.”