Carragher has claimed that Man United boss Jose Mourinho “got it tactically wrong” by deploying Pogba in a two-man central midfield and has branded the Frenchman’s performance “ill-disciplined”.
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Kevin De Bruyne and Kelechi Iheanacho’s goals during an impressive first half proved the difference, with United unable to add to Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s fine strike despite a marked improvement.
“I think he was getting one in the morning from the manager from another big club and one in the afternoon from myself. That is the only thing I can say”. I trust him completely and I know his future will be absolutely brilliant. I don’t know what happened previous year, it’s just a different season. “Normally, people look to the football talent but the personality at this level is very, very important and he was showing that immediately”.
Rashford scored eight goals in 18 appearances in all competitions in a stunning previous campaign for United.
“Jose [Mourinho] said it was a mistake picking Jesse Lingard and Henrikh Mkhitaryan”, Redknapp said in a column for the Daily Mail.
United couldn’t cap an improved second-half display with an equaliser, leaving Mourinho with just one win over Guardiola in his last 10 attempts, and only three in a total of 17 games against Guardiola’s teams.
“In the second half, we knew they would change the system – they put Paul Pogba and Marouane Fellaini more in front and they were much stronger”.
“We created enough chances – at the end [of the first half] United had the goal”.
Several United players have spoken about the need to learn from the 2-1 loss, with Mata underlining the importance of retaining focus after the first of six September matches. Chelsea is the only team apart from City to have a 100 percent winning start, and plays its fourth game at Swansea on Sunday. We lost the ball in these kind of positions, so it was not Mikhi and Jesse it was much more than Mikhi and Jesse. We have a lot of media (commitments), so I didn’t see him. “He wants to win, I want to win”.
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“But we were also punished by our very bad first half and that’s football”.
