“I think Jose Mourinho got it tactically wrong”.
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The Premier League giants suffered a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City on 10 September, which was United’s first loss of the 2016/17 season.
Three games into Paul Pogba’s Manchester United career, and the 23-year-old already appears to be facing a lorry-load of criticism, some of it from seasoned English Premier League pundits.
Guardiola said: “For the people asking me to win the Champions League here now, at Manchester City – I really have to be a good coach”.
Mourinho won the Champions League with FC Porto in 2004 and then with Inter Milan in 2010, but did not manage to lift the trophy during his two tenures at Chelsea.
‘I think for a central midfield player in a game of that magnitude, it was one of the most ill-disciplined performances you’ll see in the first 40 minutes. “That’s the only thing I can say”. Many pundits have said City’s performance – even if not reflected in the scoreline – has laid down an important marker because it was so superior at times to that of United, another of the country’s heavyweights.
“We can speak about Eric Bailly, who was playing for Villareal who never played in a derby of this dimension, but was our best player, was the player of the month, and produced a fantastic performance”, he said. The Red Devils sacked their former manager Louis van Gaal just days after he guided them to the FA Cup triumph and replaced him with the Portuguese tactician. “Rome was not built in one day and a football team is probably more hard to build than Rome was!”
I am going to tell you something, they [goalkeepers] will make mistakes.
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Meanwhile, Guardiola has revealed he is looking forward to welcoming Sergio Aguero back into the fold for Citys opening Champions League fixture, after he missed the Manchester derby because of suspension. They have a lot of quality.
