Rashford, 18, injected much-needed pace and energy into United’s attack after coming off the bench in their 2-1 loss to Manchester City on Saturday, nearly scoring in the 70th minute only for the goal to be disallowed as it brushed Ibrahimovic who was offside. The former Chelsea manager said that it is hard to predict how players will react when selected for big games though.
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City, however, were also unhappy at the officiating, claiming that United’s Eric Bailly should…
And the Spaniard, making an assessment that might strike a nerve with Mourinho, said: “Until now, in the Premier League it has been okay – but to compete against the best clubs in Europe, in this moment with the way we are playing, we are not able to”.
Claudio Bravo may have come away with a win on his Manchester City debut, but it was a Premier League bow to forget for the Chilean.
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The Portuguese had started Juan Mata and Anthony Martial out wide in all three league games prior to the Manchester Derby, but chose to drop them for Mkhitaryan and Lingard.
“It is more hard because it is a big decision and sometimes the referees they are like us, they are human and they think twice before big decisions”. Without Rooney running around, Claudio Bravo had so much time on his hands and with City in their comfort zone we hardly made them worry at all. I think he’d stick a midfielder in goal if he could! “Sometimes we do not agree but that is part of the game”. We have 34 more games, so we must win our next game.
Kevin De Bruyne is relishing Pep Guardiola’s attacking style as Manchester City look to move on from a “very difficult” year. Rumination ceases as their next game is at Feyenoord in the Europa League Thursday. What the world is seeing now, we already know because we see it every day.
“I didn’t anticipate the opportunity, but when it came I took it, am very happy”.
De Bruyne – who opened the scoring in the 15th minute with a slotted finish, then saw his shot off the post in the 36th tee up Iheanacho – has emphasised how City had to battle to see out the victory.
Mourinho switched to a 4-3-3 formation in the second half, meaning that Rashford was played wide on the left.
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“Against City, I felt they had the fragility on the sides and the kid [Rashford] could give us in the second half on the sides what we didn’t get with Miki and Jesse in the first half”, he said.
