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No nerves for Pogba on “great” debut

Newly-signed Manchester United’s star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has said the English Premier League football giants need to develop a winning habit after masterminding a 2-0 victory over Southampton.

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Zlatan Ibrahimovic saluted his team-mates after masterminding Manchester United’s victory over Southampton and wants his new club to rediscover the winning habit that has previously made them so hard to stop at Old Trafford.

Despite playing in a midfield holding role, Pogba got forward well, making a total of four attempts at goal, and Mourinho said that he was determined to give the 23-year-old the freedom to play his natural game.

Ibrahimovic scored in each half to seal the 2-0 success and continue his brilliant start to life in England, but Pogba also excelled on his first appearance since returning from Juventus in a world-record £89million deal.

Pogba lasted the full game, despite having not played since Frances loss to Portugal in the European Championship final on July 10. He could even have scored in injury time when he sprinted the length of the field to follow a counter-attack, and shot just wide.

Jose Mourinho said earlier this month that the Swedish striker is “like a magnet” in the Aon Training Complex canteen, where the players have flocked around their iconic team-mate at meal times. A player that when the season and the market opened, everybody was saying he was leaving and was not a player for me.

Jamie Redknapp believes Paul Pogba has gotten his Manchester United career off to brilliant start with a dominating performance against Southampton.

The Portuguese tactician is to bring the Southampton defender to Old Trafford.

Vendors outside the stadium were selling Pogba scarves, while several fans sported United shirts with “POGBA 6” on the back. “Everything is new, it’s like a big puzzle and we need to put the puzzle together and then we work through everything”. “I want to win games but I want to do it in an attractive manner”. I feel very good, maybe at the end I missed a bit of fitness but I was okay, my legs feel good and I can carry on.

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“We dream big. United are a big club”. When I came to Juventus I was a young guy.

Paul Pogba