There was no debate about who would take the spot-kick when Luke Shaw tumbled in the box in Friday night’s 2-0 win over Southampton, with Ibrahimovic quick to pick up the ball before slotting home from 12 yards for his second goal of the match.
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The Reds have made the flawless start to the new season, lifting the Community Shield at Wembley before beating South-Coast sides Bournemouth and Southampton in the Premier League.
The left back went on to say that “this is a sign of champions” but he didn’t want to speak too soon, and there was tonnes of belief due to the strength of the strong Mourinho had put together.
He added: ‘But we need to be fighting for titles and I think they’ve got a good chance this year, I really do. “I have this vision”, the Swede told United Kingdom newspapers. “But we need to work hard for it and we will do everything to bother all the other teams that want to win”.
“I felt that Lingard and Mata were better options for the team in these matches, with the reality of the Premier League, so I made that decision”.
“The season is long”. I will work hard, the team will work hard and slowly we will get better and better, so let’s see what the outcome will be.
“When the market opened everybody was saying he was leaving, everybody was writing he was not the player for me, he was on the move, maybe a simple phone call the day after my presentation changed a lot”.
“It’s a great feeling, I’m very happy”, he said.
When some managers buy players, they feel they have to protect their choices by playing the player all the time – I am not like this. You can only play the teams in front of you on your schedule, and United have taken care of business against two teams that will be mid table at best, but most likely lower than mid table.
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“It is really incredible and we should use that and give them something back – and if we do this together we are going to be very successful”.
