Pogba started the game and played for the entire course of the contest.
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Mourinho has praised Zlatan Ibrahimovic after scoring both goals in the 2-0 win against Southampton. “Paul Pogba also needs to get to know the players and I need to get to know everybody and the way we play, the simple things on and off the pitch”.
“When United signed Ibrahimovic, we were talking about the quality that he brings, the hold-up play, the flicks but we didn’t talk about these sort of headed goals, these typical English centre-forward goals and he’s scored two of them already”. The way the fans react, it is not just due to their passion for the club, it is also because they are happy with the signs of this evolution. So we are fine for this moment of the season. In 2005/06, they won their opening nine matches and romped the league by eight points.
The 34-year-old Swede has an even more phenomenal winning record than his manager, finishing on top of the league for 13 of the 15 seasons he’s played overseas, for seven big clubs; Ajax, Juventus, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Barcelona and Paris St Germain.
That victory over the Saints broke a 79-year record at United.
‘I believe that we can win the title.
“The way he holds the ball, the way he’s a target man and gives stability to the team, I think he was very good again”.
‘Who scores is less important, as long as we are winning.
“I’m new in the team, I’m only here not even a month”.
‘I feel I am becoming better with every day that goes.
Ibrahimovic, who has graced the biggest stages like the Nou Camp and San Siro, was suitably impressed.
“[He was] a player that was feeling not loved”.
All of Mourinho’s successful Premier League title campaigns were won from the front.
Having missed Uniteds 3-1 win at Bournemouth last weekend, Pogba was given a warm reception in his first game in the famous red of United at Old Trafford since a substitute appearance against West Bromwich Albion in March, 2012.
Mourinho named Rooney, Ibrahimovic and £89m record signing Paul Pogba as his three preferred penalty takers and allowed them to determine their own pecking order.
‘He will score goals in different circumstances.
Southampton were not played off the park at the Theatre of Dreams, and arguably should have scored at least one goal after creating a number of decent breaks.
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Mourinho will now be hoping to make it four wins from four against Hull City next Saturday afternoon.
