Jose Mourinho berated his wasteful players after Manchester United conceded a stoppage-time equalizer against 10-man Leicester.
The performance was "childish." Players lacked intelligence and showed "no maturity." There were "joke chances" missed before collapsing to draw 2-2 that further imploded United's faint title hopes.
Harry Maguire's strike for Leicester in the fourth minute of stoppage time left second-place United 13 points behind Manchester City in the English Premier League after the rampant leader beat Bournemouth 4-0 earlier Saturday.
"I think childish in their box and childish in our box ... mistakes plus mistakes," Mourinho said at King Power Stadium.
"Some players they have childish decisions and time helps them to have maturity and to decide better but some other players stay with childish decisions until the end of their career."
The warning signs were there in the 27th minute when United was foiled by the one thing teams know to prepare for against Leicester — a counterattack.
Jamie Vardy played a part in starting the intelligent move before completing it with the opener.
"We had childish decisions in front of goal and bad decisions as it was not just about the goals we missed, or dribbling or hitting the post," Mourinho said. "It was not just about missing chances with an open goal, it was also about decisions. Easy decisions to make in easy transitions to counterattack."
"In the end no maturity because Smalling was in trouble," Mourinho said. "They put in the last minute Maguire (up front) as an extra man, the players on the pitch cannot react to that and analyze the game and make a quick adjustment."
It was a further blow for Mourinho after United was eliminated from the League Cup on Wednesday by second-tier Bristol City.
"I cannot stop the game and give a team talk," Mourinho said. "For the last two minutes the players had to immediately adapt, to read the game, which they didn't."