Moutinho's purpose gave Wolves a 1-zero win on Monday to go away the Midlands club eighth within the Premier League - just one location and three factors behind United.
It turned into no more than Wolves deserved after they controlled an outstanding 15 shots within the first 1/2 on my own earlier than the 35-year-old Moutinho struck past due directly to steady the crew's first win at United since 1980.
"For me, I desired to help the group of path with a aim, triumphing right here at Old Trafford, towards a massive team, superb gamers, a very good educate, it's splendid for us," Moutinho advised Wolves' website.
"We got here right here to play our game, play soccer, play with the ball - that is what we did inside the first half of."
The Portuguese midfielder introduced: "I think we created a whole lot of possibilities, a whole lot of photographs, but we failed to rating... We deserved this victory, this win, and I wish we will preserve with these performances."
The end result noticed United suffer their first defeat under period in-between manager Ralf Rangnick, with a lacklustre show leaving the English giants 4 factors adrift of the top four and a place in subsequent season's Champions League.
United defender Luke Shaw even went up to now as to impeach the attitude of his team-associates, prompting former Red Devils and England centre-back Rio Ferdinand to jot down on Twitter: "For any group to be defined like that is terrible... But by way of a participant who participated it is a damning reflection at the group!"
One comfort for United become the performance of centre-again Phil Jones, who betrayed few symptoms of a lengthy injury lay-off in what turned into his first appearance for the membership in 708 days.
"What Phil's been via the previous couple of years... Criticised daily, been injured for over a yr," left-again Shaw informed MUTV. "He's had all of it going towards him, human beings against him, however he is caught with the aid of it.
