A brace against the Danes proved just the start, scoring another double against Arsenal on his Premier League bow and the victor at Manchester City, before netting on his England debut, going to Euro 2016 and netting a hat-trick on his maiden England Under-21s appearance.
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The second half of the derby began with two substitutions from Mourinho, who made a decision to add more aggression to the game.
The first Manchester derby of the season 2016/17, in which Manchester United hosted at Old Trafford their main rivals Manchester City, ended with the 2-1 victory of Pep Guardiola’s club.
Pep Guardiola and Manchester City next take on Borussia Monchengladbach in the Champions League.
“We know his quality and what he’s able to do”.
“We have played, not all of the games, but part of most of the games at a high level, and of course we have to continue”.
“Until now in the Premier League, we have been okay but we are not ready to go against the best teams in Europe”. We create, but in front we need more.
“But, it is just two months together, so we have time to get better”. “But it had nothing to do with inexperience or age because we have the kid [Marcus Rashford] in the second half and the kid looked like he was playing in the Under18s against Salford City”, United manager explained. I think in the first half we deserved to be losing and in the second half we don’t deserve to be losing. But in a game against Manchester United when you have the chance to counter-attack and score, you have to do that because if not you leave the last minutes like today.
Jose Mourinho insists Manchester United should have been awarded two penalties in their 2-1 defeat by Manchester City. As a result, he was replaced at half time in the game. What the world is seeing now, we already know because we see it every day.
“I had two or three players that, in the first half, if the game was now and I knew what was going to happen, I don’t play them”.
“After the first 15 minutes of the second half we came back stronger and had to change our style a bit because they had a few chances”.
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“We didn’t have a tactical problem, we had problems with poor performances, we lost the ball very, very easy”.
