“I have to focus, work hard, of course, and I’ve done that throughout my career”.
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Manchester United are now preparing for their League Cup clash against Northampton, as they look to return to winning ways following three successive defeats in all competitions under Mourinho. That’s football, I think.
“We’re all disappointed because I think we were in the game, but they’ve come, it’s one of the biggest teams in the world and we haven’t disgraced ourselves”.
“I’ve done that [played in different positions] throughout my career”, said Rooney.
United have been draw at home to local rivals Manchester City in the last 16 of the EFL Cup and Rooney said it was the ideal way to avenge their 2-1 Premier League defeat to Pep Guardiola’s side at Old Trafford earlier this month.
“He was thrown in last season when we, the other players, weren’t sure he was ready”.
Klopp acknowledged the “big opportunity” for “all the teams” with six of the remaining 16 from the Championship or lower, insisting: “They all try to go through and you can see this with the line-ups”.
As for the rest of the team, that is up for debate but if United want to beat the defending Premier League champions we’ve certainly got to play with more energy and intensity than we have in the last few games.
“We were not going to be able to drive too much the ball, so great victory and now we are facing in the next round Man City so it’s very good for everyone”.
“It’s exciting. It’s the first draw I watched live because I saw the game before”. I think City will have 7,000-8,000 fans here, which will obviously make it an even better atmosphere.
City, having won their first five league games under Guardiola to top the table, visit Swansea City for the second time in four days, after Guardiola’s side won 2-1 in a League Cup tie on Wednesday.
Rooney is convinced the Reds will be challenging for honours this term, with Jose Mourinho working hard behind the scenes to find the winning formula. As such, I would persist with Rooney wide right, in a trio of Rashford and Ibrahimovic, with Pogba and Fellaini as your attacking midfielders and Herrera holding. “Training has changed a lot”.
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Come the end of the season we want to be challenging.
