Jose Mourinho has explained the reasons for his double substitution against Burnley.
The Portuguese manager started Zlatan Ibrahimovic in his first Premier League start of the season but was subbed at half-time.
Ashley Barnes' close-range finish and Steven Defour's stunning free-kick putting the Clarets in 2-0 lead in first half.
Ibrahimovic was replaced at the half time as Jesse Lingard and Henrikh Mkhitaryan came on.
Lingard scored twice for Manchester United to rescue a draw.
"It's a bad result for us. We are never happy with a draw - especially in a match where we are so dominant."
Jose's post-match verdict:https://t.co/FJPt1uvYXypic.twitter.com/cJAGL2qxZy
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) December 26, 2017
"[It] was tactical, play only with one central defender. We know that they don't normally have the ball, they just play direct," he said.
"So really in the line-up, play one against one, [Phil] Jones was a risk Jones accepted, [Nemanja] Matic was there just to bring the ball from totally free positions, so he was bringing lots of balls into midfield.
"And then instead of more positional players like Zlatan and [Romelu] Lukaku, we decided to go with Mkhitaryan, Lingard and [Juan] Mata all three trying to play in these areas behind Lukaku and we can say we had some success.
"I still think with so many balls in important areas, lots of crosses, good crosses, low crosses, we didn't attack all these balls well, and also not lucky with the rebounds, so I'm happy with the effort, the personality, the feeling of we didn't lose but of course we lost two points."
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