“He wants to win, I want to win”.
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“So if you are asking me if they [the players he was disappointed with on Saturday] are going to play versus Feyenoord, no”.
But the 53-year-old Portuguese revealed there is one crucial thing missing this season – Champions League football.
Later on, Mourinho voiced his annoyance at the fact that Bravo was not booked nor the penalty given, after the Chilean had lost control of the ball inside his own area.
“There were times when we couldn’t because we were high-pressed but we always looked to pull them out of position and do what we wanted to do”.
When you are the most expensive player in the world, you are expected to take a game by the scruff of the neck and stamp your mark on proceedings. “Ander was phenomenal in his attitude”.
“Kevin had an incredible, unbelievable game”, Guardiola said. “We started the game bad, with some players really below their normal level in terms of their concentration”.
David Silva and Kevin De Bruyne played superbly in the derby with the Belgian global opening the scoring and Silva scheming inventively throughout the match. Everything around the game – the derby, the big game, Man United-Man City, the focus, the attention – some of the guys felt it.
The season is long but Mourinho will still be alarmed in the way the Kevin De Bruyne and company ran circles across United in the opening half before Bravo’s freaky antic allowed Zlatan Ibrahimovic to score.
“You never know the way players are going to react, especially when you don’t know them so well”.
“It was an important game, but let’s be realistic: the season has just started and there is still a long way to go”.
“The performances are the deciding factor”, Mourinho said on Saturday. It was Guardiola’s eighth win over Mourinho in their 17 meets.
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‘Now you have a Friday night fixture, so if an English club is in an [important] Champions League [game] on a Tuesday I’d expect that they would be given the Friday fixture, to have one more day to rest. “We should be challenging for every competition”.
