“We were shown the games before from Manchester United, when they played against Hull City and other teams”.
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“We make sure that we stand up and be counted on Sunday because we’ve got a big result to get”.
Inter are continental royalty and boss De Boer has European pedigree, as a player at least, having won the UEFA Cup and Champions League with Ajax Amsterdam in the 1990s, but his team were picked apart and fell behind nine minutes after the break.
United, playing in the Europa League group stage for the first time, never really looked like scoring even after striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic was introduced in the second half and they were picked off on the counter in the 79th minute.
Stefano Okaka is likely to be the only player unavailable for Walter Mazzarri, who has insisted he no longer has any kind of feud with his opposite man Jose Mourinho.
“I think we had two matches where we didn’t play well for 90 minutes, but two matches where we deserved a better result than what we did”. “We know that. We know that when Man United goes to the Europa League we are going to be the team that everybody wants to play against, that everybody wants to fight to their limits, which they did and they had the luck on their side to score a goal in the last part of the game”.
“He said that it is unbelievable that I am here still running and flying around without any trouble”. I know that the situation is not click your fingers and everybody is ideal.
And manager Mourinho accepts United were off the pace in the opening period. “Double unlucky because he [Jorgensen] was offside”.
“The second half was different, it was exactly when we were trying to win and Feyenoord was trying not to lose that they scored the goal, which I think we didn’t deserve”. “I think on Sunday character … needs to shine through because it’s unacceptable to lose three games in a row”.
The Portuguese made a host of changes for their trip to Rotterdam, resting the likes of club captain Wayne Rooney, Antonio Valencia and Luke Shaw, but Mourinho’s star-studded side were defeated by a late goal in a lacklustre display.
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“I will be ready when the manager wants me to play”. Southampton easily held on in a drab second half and substitute Jay Rodriguez – on for Austin – stabbed home in injury time to seal a comfortable night’s work.
