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Rashford has ´brilliant´ future – Mourinho

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho bombarded Paul Pogba with calls and text messages as he battled to secure a return to Old Trafford for the France midfielder.

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“Last season we struggled a lot to beat them, both at home and away, so I have no reason to think it’s going to be easy this time”, the Spaniard added.

It was bad enough for Jose Mourinho that his first Manchester derby ended in defeat.

With its crisp passing and movement, City delivered a footballing clinic in the first half at Old Trafford to humiliate United and Mourinho, who acknowledged that he couldn’t wait for halftime to come.

Guardiola said he had not seen the incident, but revealed that Aleksandar Kolarov had lost a tooth during the game. And we won. He won when he was younger and I won when I was younger and we will win when we are a little bit older.

There has also been a 6-0 Champions League play-off win on aggregate over Steaua Bucharest.

“We started the game with some players really below their normal level in terms of their concentration and mental availability to play a game of this speed”. “That’s the only thing I can say”.

“The season is just starting, we don’t lose, we learn”.

“It has nothing to do with inexperience or age because you have the kid (Rashford) then in the second half and the kid looks like he was playing in the Under-18s against Salford City”.

“In the second half, we knew they would change the system – they put Paul Pogba and Marouane Fellaini more in front and they were much stronger”. 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.

Mourinho mixed things up for the second half, throwing on Marcus Rashford, Ander Herrera and later Anthony Martial and taking a more direct approach in search of an equalizer, but City still looked more risky on the counter-attack and De Bruyne almost restored the two-goal cushion when he ran onto Leroy Sane’s pass and shot against the inside of the post. He is mainly a number nine – if you want to play him in different positions, we need to work him, we need to improve him, but his big personality is there.

The same pair combined to double City’s lead, Iheanacho tapping in after De Bruyne’s low shot came back off the post.

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“It was hard, especially in the second half, because they were much stronger physically and in the air but I think we coped well and we had the chances to get the third in the second half”.

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