“They are much stronger in the air, but I think we coped well and we just missed the third goal in the second half”. “How many big matches has he played?”
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“It’s meant to be a tough game and if we want to get the three points we will have to be at our best”. And after only a couple of months it is too early to know them really well.
“I felt so sorry for Marouane Fellaini”.
“Today we made a lesson with the ball”.
Mourinho’s side were overwhelmed in the opening 40 minutes of the contest with Kevin de Bruyne and Kelechi Iheanacho scoring, before a goalkeeping error from Claudio Bravo saw Zlatan Ibrahimovic pull one back for the home side.
“Football isn’t easy”, he said when asked if the Spaniard’s style was hard.
Manchester United’s £89 million ($118.1 million) signing struggled to impose himself as Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City dominated the first half of the game at Old Trafford.
But although United improved following the half-time introductions of 18-year-old Marcus Rashford and Ander Herrera, they could not find an equaliser.
“I’ll help him every day, him and all the others, in any way I can”, he told MUTV.
Mourinho added that those players who did disappoint in the first derby of the season could lose their places on Thursday, but insists they are not being punished.
“The way we train and the way we play has given me a lot of confidence”.
“It only gets easier when you know the players very, very well”.
City has four wins from as many league games to start the campaign, netting 11 times. “We are very happy that he is here with us”.
“But to compete against the best clubs in Europe, in this moment with the way we are playing, we are not able to”.
The biggest Manchester derby ever was billed as an individual battle between Mourinho and City mastermind Pep Guardiola.
“Until now, in the Premier League it has been okay”, Guardiola said. I know it’s impossible for 90 minutes but I’m sorry, I will not negotiate that.
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“We are fathers. I am a father, he’s a father, so I didn’t come here to see about the rivalry”.
