London: Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho repeated his complaints about the Premier League's festive fixture pile-up after his side laboured to a 2-0 win at 10-man West Ham United on Monday.
"It's very difficult to play football in these circumstances within 48 hours. It's amazing for the fans around the world, everybody has the Premier League, I'm more than happy to do that but it's very hard for the players," Mourinho told reporters.
"It's not just hard for the team with 10 (players) but hard for the team with 11. When you have one more player you also need to think well. My players were too tired to think well, we had lots of bad decisions," Mourinho added.
Mourinho again aired his complaints that league leaders Chelsea have two days more to rest before visiting Tottenham Hotspur, United's rivals for a top-four finish, today.
"We go step-by-step, we try to win our matches. But in relation to Tottenham v Chelsea, I hope it's an amazing match, they are two great teams with the privilege nobody else has so they are fresh," he added.
On the other side, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has criticised the Premier League's festive fixture list also by calling the schedule the most "uneven" he has seen in 20 years.
"It is, in 20 years, the most uneven Christmas period I have seen on the fixture front," the 67-year-old manager, who took the Arsenal job in 1996, told the reporters.
"The difference of rest periods is absolutely unbelievable, compared to the other teams it is unbelievable."
"Every game is so difficult in this Premier League that we go now into a game in 48 hours' time with a big handicap on the fixtures," the Frenchman added.
