“I don’t think it was so much that Pep Guardiola got it massively right than Jose Mourinho got it tactically wrong”, Carragher said.
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“I know what he wants, I know his demands”, Ibrahimovic said.
“He wasn’t helped by the performance of his players – he subbed two at half-time – but specifically the performance of Paul Pogba”.
City played well in their 2-1 win over Manchester United at Old Trafford and will attempt to extend their 100 per cent record under Guardiola when the Bundesliga side visit the Etihad Stadium. Individually, almost every player on the team let their manager down. That’s what I tried to say after the game.
Carragher went on to detail Pogba’s positioning throughout the game as space was left in the centre of midfield, adding: “This must have happened 10 to 15 times during the game”. The Red Devils sacked their former manager Louis van Gaal just days after he guided them to the FA Cup triumph and replaced him with the Portuguese tactician.
Although Mourinho may well have been disappointed with the performance of his players on Saturday, at least he can’t deny their passion off the pitch.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has said that “jealous people” will regret criticizing his Manchester United team-mate, Paul Pogba.
It started with Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Jesse Lingard each making their first start of the season for United and seemingly holding a contest over who could play worse.
Woodward was basking in the afterglow of United’s record-breaking financial results, which showed they had become the first UK club to earn more than half a billion pounds in a single year.
“So we have to improve to win the Premier League, from what I saw in these three or four games”.
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While an almighty argument between United’s players didn’t affect the scoreline in the second half, they looked a completely different side after the break. With that change Guardiola admitted that United were going to win, and his only chance was to shut down and kill the game. We didn’t know if one was definitively better then the other.
