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Ball-playing Bravo shows good, bad side in Man City debut

“We played good. We had the ball and when we lost it, we won it back quickly”.

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“I don’t know if he respects me, but I respect him a lot”, said the former Bayern Munich coach. Just to decide in relation to what I have and what do I have [to help me decide]?

“That is the only thing I can say”.

“I know it’s a risk”. If you want to play him in different positions, we need to work on him, we need to improve him, but his big personality is there.

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has confirmed that Marcus Rashford will start against Feyenoord in the Uefa Europa League on Thursday night.

Later in the second half, City’s Argentine defender had spun away from an Antonio Valencia cross while he was in City’s penalty area – the ball hitting his trailing elbow.

Herrera and Marcus Rashford replaced Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Jesse Lingard at half-time, and the Basque midfielder brought some much-needed aggression to United’s loose midfield. “I think in the first half they were much better than us”, said the Red Devils boss.

And the contest saw the Blues, particularly in the first half, once again produce the sort of slick, passing football with which their new manager has for so always been associated. “What I did see is Kolarov is missing one tooth – that is sure”. I like goalkeepers to play in front and after that [United] goal, he continued playing in our build-up, playing long balls and coming out to pick it up.

Ibrahimovic’s arrival has cost Rashford his first-team place, but he made a big impact off the bench in Saturday’s 2-1 loss to Manchester City and his Swedish team-mate believes the future will be his.

“Therefore it is my fault, I am the manager and it was my fault because it was my choice”. The kid Jesse – how many times has he played big matches? I’m very happy for my team because they worked very hard and I’m happy for the fans too.

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Valencia has also transformed himself under Jose Mourinho, and he gives his teammates another alternative when going forward.

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