Tonny Vilhena scored the winning goal with just 11 minutes remaining at De Kuip, consigning Jose Mourinho’s side to a second consecutive defeat after they lost the Manchester derby on Saturday.
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“In the second half, they answered my half-time words and it is not disappointing as it was in our best period that we lost the game”.
“I was not saying that we are a phenomenal team and we are going to destroy every opponent”.
“I don’t like to individualise too much”, Mourinho said when asked about Pogba. I know the situation is not click your fingers and everybody is ideal.
“Look I don’t want to personalise”, he added. Some of the players were playing their first minutes of the season, not many minutes for them.
“We go back to a normal team without so many changes [against Watford]”.
United will be back to full strength on Sunday for its away match against Watford in the Premier League. We were trying to win and they were trying not to lose.
“I think the game on Sunday [against Watford] will be an independent game, a new event, another match, it starts at minute zero at 0-0 so it has nothing to do with the previous two matches”. “We lose the game in a moment we didn’t deserve to”. Few of the Red Devils did themselves justice with Paul Pogba largely anonymous and Anthony Martial shooting wide in the only chance of an insipid first-half.
Zenit St Petersburg pulled off one of the most impressive fightbacks in European competition history when they came back from 3-0 down against Maccabi Tel Aviv to win 4-3 with all the Russian side’s goals coming from the 77th minute onwards.
Mourinho can point to a missed offside call in the build-up to Feyenoord’s victor, but there can be no excuses for how easily they were carved open. “They have to be fit, they are, and they have to be mentally strong”. The game represented numerous same faults that occurred against City, especially not being able to start strong from the get-go.
Tonny Vilhena scored Feyenoord’s victor late on, though Nicolai Jorgensen, who delivered the cross, was offside. Zlatan has scored 4 goals in 4 league games for United, so it’s hard to argue with his production.
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Not for the first time since his world-record move to United, France midfielder Pogba was a subdued figure and he shot tamely over early in the second half.
