But for Mourinho, at least, the midfield bruiser remains “so important” at this moment in time. He was decent throughout the game. The defensive midfielder made 6 important tackles, 3 clearances and maintained an astounding 98.7% passing accuracy, highest among the Manchester United starters.
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“When you buy somebody like him you have always the question mark which is how the personality adapts to a complete different situation from before”, Mourinho said of the big-money summer signing from Villarreal. He added that if Fellaini keeps consistently performing for the team, the fans “have to love him because he’s being so important for us”.
Ibrahimovic is set to play a vital role for Man United this season and his arrival at Old Trafford with the experienced quality in the box that they have missed in recent years.
While talking to MUTV, he said, “It was a tough game for both sides”. We found our game much more in the second half and scored a second and third one.
The player himself was delighted too.
Fellaini hopes to see “more goals” this season from United, and acknowledges that the team have to “keep working and keep improving” with every game and each training session.
Manchester United put three goals past Bournemouth yesterday to record an opening Premier League weekend win.
“Like everybody, I want to start so I’m happy to start today (at Bournemouth) and show my quality and show the manager what I can do”, the Belgium global added. These sorts of games were the ones where we conceded goals previous year so maybe when we go 2-0 down we need to be more defensive and stay in the game rather than chase it.
“The way the goal’s come about was a hard one to take, because it looked as though we’d got away with the mistake, and then for the unlucky ricochet we concede”.
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Fellaini offers the kind of physical qualities that no one else in the United setup now does.
