Reflecting on the performance, Eamon Dunphy said: “The attitude from United was very, very good”. Mourinho’s team is powerful and pragmatic – rarely enthralling but usually effective.
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Anthony Martial has helped himself to three league goals so far, while Marouane Fellaini now also has three after his brace in Saturday’s 4-0 win over Crystal Palace.
Roy Keane believes that Manchester United superstar Romelu Lukaku was a bargain buy for £75m, following an impressive display against CSKA Moscow where he netted twice.
“He is confident, he is happy with his contribution to the team”.
Dedryck Boyota and Moussa Dembele both missed the PSG loss but are now back which boosts the Hoops at both ends of the field and they look capable of at least causing problems for a team in a bit of a mess right now.
The 24-year-old sustained a hamstring injury during United’s comfortable 3-0 win over Basel in their opening Champions Trophy clash at the Old Trafford earlier this month.
Lukaku will face his first big test of the campaign when United travel to Anfield to face Liverpool after the worldwide break on 14 October, but Keane insisted Lukaku should be judged at the end of the campaign.
In the aftermath of United’s victory over CSKA Moscow, Jose Mourinho has branded Liverpool as “Luckier” than the Red Devils as Klopp’s men have an extra day to prepare themselves for the upcoming Premier League showdown.
Would this new-look United do the same?
The United boss has masterminded a seamless start to United’s season, with their only dropped points coming against Stoke City away.
“We are playing well”.
“But the lessons we are learning could stand us in very good stead. If one day to win we have to play defensive football, we have to do it”. A date with Antonio Conte’s reigning champions Chelsea follows on Bonfire Night.
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But Mourinho says because he needs Marcus Rashford to play wide he can not afford to leave out Lukaku, who has hit 10 goals in his first nine games to beat Sir Bobby Charlton’s club-record start of nine in his first nine set in 1956-57. This said, they are yet to face any of the five teams who finishes above them in the table last season. That, as much as their struggles against lesser sides, scuppered their title and top-four aspirations.
