“With the manager and the players we’ve got, the Premier League and the Champions League are two competitions we should be challenging for”.
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Rashford came on at half-time of the Manchester derby as United fell to a 2-1 defeat to City on Saturday. “Their performances. So of course I’m going to play other players”.
“For me, the next big game is against Feyenoord”, said Mourinho.
“Yeah [if you pass the ball from the back] it can be too risky; if you lose the ball they will score but you can control the game”.
“They have one European Cup in their trophy cabinet and they are having a great start of the season, with five wins in five league games”. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.theeagleonline.com.ng as the source.
It is just 199 days since the relatively unknown 18-year-old was thrown in for a last-minute debut in February’s Europa League last-32 clash with FC Midtjylland.
City took all 3 points of the match after an outstanding first-half display, led by the inspired showing of the Belgian Mourinho dumped while at Chelsea. Even our central defenders [Eric Bailly and Daley Blind], who were top-class until today, lost easy balls.
Which means we can probably expect Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Jesse Lingard to be relegated to the bench, if they make the squad altogether.
“I trust him completely”. I saw the game (again) yesterday we played against United to realise the things we made good and which things we have to improve. “I know his future will be absolutely brilliant”, Mourinho added. Rashford came on in the second half and looked like he was playing for the U18s against Salford City.
The 18-year-old has enjoyed a stunning 2016 since scoring twice on his debut against FC Midtjylland, netting five goals in just four Premier League starts last season – including the victor in the Manchester derby in March – before a debut strike for England earned him a place at Euro 2016.
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“I think maybe for some guys it’s a new beginning”.
