Speaking after United’s 2-1 win over Leicester City in the Community Shield at Wembley, Mourinho told BT Sport: “It’s wonderful that such a good player is with us”.
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s late header consigned Leicester to defeat at Wembley, though Ranieri was unperturbed. “Everywhere I’ve been I’ve had to cope with that situation”.
“I dedicate it to him and to my seven players who were not involved. I wish everything goes well for them”. But he insisted the Spain worldwide now understands why he was replaced.
Summer signing defender Eric Bailly also started and played the full 90 minutes for United, while fellow recruit Henrikh Mkhitaryan was only a late substitute for Juan Mata, who himself was a sub after the hour mark. “Without him, we wouldn’t be here now celebrating”.
After intercepting Musa’s pass, the Belgian prodded the ball back towards goal and into the path of Vardy, who rounded David de Gea before slotting home with Leicester’s first shot on target. That’s what it’s all about, winning trophies.
“It feels good”, he told BT Sport.
“This is my 31st trophy”. I’m super happy. Hopefully I can win much more than this.
Have Liverpool to be top scoring team at 9/1 (888sport) – that’s a shade too big in a small-field race. The only one I can compare is Milan. Zlatan is exhausted. I think he’s exhausted even before the game starts so (he’s) a bit slow, lacks a bit of sharpness but then we have one cross, one header, one goal, one trophy.”POGBA MEDICAL ARRANGED “He (Pogba) is a fantastic player”.
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They begin the defence of their title at Hull on Saturday and boss Claudio Ranieri was pleased with their display. The team is fantastic, good team-mates, good spirit, good professional players and the coach – he wants to win and does everything to win. Money, he would get from many big clubs so that’s not the point. “What we achieved last season, has to stay there”. “Before the match I asked for 120 per cent and they gave me 120 per cent”.
