“When you have Zlatan Ibrahimovic you know know that he maybe doesn’t touch many balls, but (when he gets) one right then he’ll score a goal”, the Italian said.
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Ibrahimovic had been kept quiet on his debut until late on, first having a scuffed shot hacked off the line by Danny Drinkwater before producing the match-winning moment.
“I made my congratulations to my players”. The Spaniard has been United’s most creative player since he arrived at the club and for a good reason. He gave me exactly what I needed.
“So we are competing in every competition the club is in and we want to win whatever we can”.
Jesse Lingard, whose stunning extra-time volley won the FA Cup for the Red Devils in May, opened the scoring with a solo effort only for Jamie Vardy to equalise following a costly error from Marouane Fellaini.
Manchester United may have come out on top in the Community Shield on Sunday afternoon but there was one bone of contention, with Juan Mata’s double substition raising plenty of quizzical eyebrows.
Now the former Sweden forward has targeted more trophies after a winning start.
“Even if Fergie had a fallout with Pogba’s agent back in 2012, you can not allow a player of that quality to walk away for nothing and the scale of his error has been highlighted with the cash Man United had to pay to get him back”. It was hard to leave out good players like Memphis Depay, Phil Jones and Ashley Young, but I had to make choices.
“My ambition is a stupid ambition”, Mourinho said. If you think we have to fight against United, City and the rest because we won the title, you make a mistake. “You can see it’s a strong team”.
“It feels good”, he said.
Ibrahimovic has insisted there is still a lot of work to be done, but is hoping to lift more trophies under Mourinho in England.
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It wasn’t a vintage performance, however – the Portuguese will be pleased to get his United career off with a win and will be happy with the performance of new signing Eric Bailly, who received the man of the match.
