“We lost six points in the Premier League, but the reality is we are not drawing”.
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“Wayne Rooney is a big player for me, United and this country”.
“I am (not) upset with anything”, he said. One thing I know is the rules of the game. I want to be able to play on the left, on the right and down the middle.
If Manchester United’s performance in a 4-1 rout of English champions Leicester City on Saturday is anything to go by, Wayne Rooney may struggle to get back into the starting eleven.
Jose Mourinho’s side snapped a three-game losing streak with a 3-1 win over Northampton Town in the EFL Cup in midweek and the manager is hoping that result will lift the confidence in his dressing room. We had intensity, we had movement, we were strong against a team that is hard to cope with. “Of course we are playing against the last Premier League winners, the champions, so we have to respect them but we have to try to win”.
Pogba and Mata ran the midfield in front of the anchorman Ander Herrera, Zlatan Ibrahimovic floated around prompting play in his inimitable way, while Rashford was his usual busy, direct self and scored for the third straight game.
Rooney is England’s record scorer on 53 goals.
But Ranieri insisted Drinkwater remained key and the Foxes had no desire to lose one of their stars after Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez signed new deals, also without release clauses.
“I think Wayne Rooney has played himself out of the team”.
“We are very solid on corners and free-kicks”.
It took 10 minutes, but eventually United did have a second.
“I’m just trying to play with freedom like I did previous year and the manager supports me with that”.
Pogba made it 4-0 by heading in Blind’s outswinging corner for his first goal for United since returning as the world’s most expensive player.
“I am blaming the people that after the England match against Slovakia was, in my opinion, too strong with somebody that is a very important player in the history of English football, is the captain of England, is the record of goals, is nearly the record of matches”.
“Obviously we all want more from him and the team. I have nothing else to say, he is my man, I trust him completely, he is happy as I am in this moment”.
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However, the hosts were reminded they were still in a game just short of the hour, when halftime substitute Demarai Gray skipped past both Jesse Lingard and Antonio Valencia en route to curling a spectacular shot into the top corner of de Gea’s goal.
