Zlatan Ibrahimovic grabbed a brace as Manchester United defeated Southampton 2-0 at Old Trafford on Friday night.
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“I came here to win, that’s what I always wanted”, said the France midfielder who has gone back to his first club from Juventus for a fee of £89 million (RM466.5 million).
“I think the biggest compliment I can give him is that I was watching that game and watching Paul Pogba and I wasn’t thinking of £89m”.
Intriguingly, Ibrahimovic appears to have bumped captain Wayne Rooney from penalty duties. Sometimes you need players to fill in for you but I don’t see why he can’t do that, he added. “The important number is to score one more goal than the opponent and at the moment we are scoring two more, so we are fine!”
“I think it is important that the club aren’t afraid to do what we did”, the boss continued.
“I’m very happy. I know we can not play 90 minutes the way we want to”. He was also quick to use the spot-kick awarded to the team and made it another goal, as reported by BBC.
“The player was feeling not loved”, said Mourinho.
The rest of the match was largely a formality for United, but Pogba missed a glorious chance after 64 minutes to open his account and completely kill the game as a contest. He pointed to Marouane Fellaini as one illustration.
Ibrahimovic then converted a penalty after left back Luke Shaw was tripped by substitute Jordy Clasie as he surged into the Southampton area. But we need to work hard for it and we will do everything to bother all the other teams that want to win. “The first time I was running to celebrate a goal at touchline”, the former Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid manager said.
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Pogba played the whole game although not fully match fit and could have scored in injury time when he sprinted the length of the field following a counter-attack and shot just wide. Together with Jose Mourinho, the head coach of MU, who has already won the trophy twice with Porto and Inter, Zlatan Ibrahimovic can finish his European career brilliantly and leave football as a king. “It was interesting seeing that when Thierry asked him about his qualities and he doesn’t actually know his best qualities”, Giggs told Sky Sports. Everyone was saying he wasn’t for me.
