City defeated Manchester United 2-1 in the Manchester derby at Old Trafford on Saturday to maintain their winning start to the new Premier League season. In the Premier League they have had two really good halves.
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“They’ve been behind us from the first game after I came here when we first started playing out from the back”. I trust him completely.
“I made a couple of decisions that I thought individual qualities of certain players would give me what I know that I I want and I didn’t get it”, he added.
After managing to regain control of the dressing room, the Portuguese coach took off Jesse Lingard and Henrikh Mkhitaryan in an attempt to alter the course of the match.
Iheanacho made history as the first Nigerian to score in the Manchester derby, netting City’s second goal in the first half which turned out to be the victor. However, United were not able to find the equaliser despite coming with a better show in the last 45 minutes of the game. But his big personality is there. [Rashford can play as a] wide man or we play with both [him and Ibrahimovic up front], which we can do perfectly like we did against Hull City.
“Look, honestly, I had two or three players in the first half who, if the game was played now and I know what is going to happen, then I wouldn’t play them”, Mourinho said after the game.
Jose Mourinho was left disappointed by a derby defeat the Manchester United manager believes was borne out of a poor first-half display and some refereeing mistakes. Just to decide in relation to what I have and what do I have [to help me decide]? And what do I have?
“I did not change after 20 minutes because I didn’t want to destroy the players”.
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Marcus Rashford has the potential to be a leading player in world football if he is given time to develop, according to Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
