“We were good enough to deserve the victory and be in control”, Mourinho said. He was quick to take on the responsibility when United were awarded a spot-kick; his finish was his 25th successful conversion from his last 28 attempts.
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Manchester United great Ryan Giggs lavished praise on Paul Pogba after the world’s most expensive footballer made his first start for the Premier League giant, mentioning him in the same breath as former captain Roy Keane, Bryan Robson and Steven Gerrard.
“That’s what I’m saying, I need September because the relation can be good, the players can be good professionals, they can feel I trust all of them, but when a player doesn’t play one, two, three games, the frustration comes and it is hard to play well”, he explained.
Pogba has played in the Premier League in his previous spell with United, making three subsitute appearances before leaving to join Juventus in 2012. We are becoming better and better. Then I think the more organised the team play, the easier for the players to feel confident.
Mourinho’s pre-match call for United’s fans to create an intimidating atmosphere was not observed to the letter, but in the 36th minute the players generated some noise on their own.
“I’m very happy. I know we can not play 90 minutes the way we want to”.
“‘Play!’ No no. We have to build a certain organisation around him, but he has to play free, but for a player to play with the freedom, we have to build a certain organisation around him”. Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored in his debut, they got a goal out of Wayne Rooney and Henrikh Mkhitaryan was impressive off the bench.
All the buzz was around the starting line-up as it was announced that Paul Pogba would start in midfield on his return to Old Trafford. “We need to get used to winning, because the mental part is also important”.
“Here the game is tougher [than France] and you need to work through the game”.
Jordy Clasie, on for the injured Oriol Romeu in the first half, daftly brought down Luke Shaw in the penalty area, and Ibrahimovic stepped up to slot the ball into the bottom corner.
He continued: “I don’t have any problems with him and I never had”.
This was a deserved goal as United looked the stronger of the two teams going into the break, Ibrahimovic and Pogba both going close. I know that you have more space than in Italy so I’ll just try to find the space to run – without the ball too.
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Paul Pogba was someone touted for a good game today and he had one hell of a debut.
