He said: “I’m clearly disappointed with the the first-half”. But we need to keep doing that because, if one or two switch off, it gets really hard.
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“You can not come to Old Trafford and dominate for 90 minutes, it’s impossible”. But when we did win the ball we had the chance for the counterattacks, and we had many, but we just didn’t finish. In the last period of the first half we scored a goal and we could immediately score again but I think that was outside the context of the game in the first half. “I didn’t expect the shot, I didn’t expect it to hit the post and come back, but I’m happy to be in the right place and to score”.
Mkhitaryan and Lingard are among those who can expect to start this week’s Europa League game on the bench, judging by comments from Mourinho, who said: “If you are asking me if some of them are going to play against Feyenoord, then no”.
United fans are also calling for Jose Mourinho to start the 18-year-old more often at club level but Ibrahimovic believes there needs to be lowered assumptions on the promising forward who possesses all the qualities to become a superstar of the future.
It was bad enough for Jose Mourinho that his first Manchester derby ended in defeat.
“We have to focus on the next game now and be ready”. But we have just two months together so we have time to get better. I like the keepers to attack the ball and after what happened, in the second half he continued to play and that’s a good thing about his personality. “But it had nothing to do with inexperience or age because we have the kid [Marcus Rashford] in the second half and the kid looked like he was playing in the Under18s against Salford City”, United manager explained. We lost the ball very easily. They didn’t give me what I want. Frustration is when you want to do that, when you want to change something and you are not able to. “That means a lot”. “But it’s what I am”.
There was no sign of the bitterness that marked their meetings in Spanish football when in charge of Barcelona and Real Madrid, with Mourinho and Guardiola shaking hands and even sharing a hug before kickoff and at fulltime.
He said: “I came here”. So I don’t open my mouth when Liverpool go and beat Arsenal at Arsenal, when City beat Man United here, when Man United beat Chelsea or Tottenham away – nobody opens their mouth with surprise because it’s a normal result.
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“It was a very important victory for us”, Bravo added.
