The 2-0 win over Southampton at Old Trafford means that the Setúbal-born United boss has lost only nine of 258 home games in his illustrious career. He lost only one home match with Benfica, União de Leiria and FC Porto.
It was with the Dragons that he suffered his only home defeat in Portugal, a 3-2 reverse against Beira-Mar and it didn’t help that his team were down to nine men.
Mourinho’s incredible home record at Porto - 38 wins from 41 games - was one of the reasons Chelsea enticed ‘The Special One’ to make the move to London and the Premier League. After Chelsea, and during his two seasons with Inter Milan at the San Siro, he was undefeated.
Mourinho suffered eight of his nine home defeats in charge of Chelsea and Real Madrid with four of those coming at Stamford Bridge before he was sacked by Chelsea in December last year. Zlatan Ibrahimovic is firing on all cylinders, with four goals in three outings, and he could even better the 29 goals (45 appearances), he slotted home for Mourinho at Inter Milan in 2008-09.
Together with young Paul Pogba, on a €20m-a-year salary at the tender age of 23, in imperious form, who would bet against Mourinho being top of the pile come next May?