Fresh from losing 2-1 at home to Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City, an undercooked and under-performing United started their Europa League campaign with a whimper. Tonny Vilhena’s late strike had those inside De Kuip bouncing and gave Kuyt another memory to cherish against United.
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“It was for me a good challenge to play against him and I am lucky to win”.
“I am very pragmatic in my approach to matches and competitions, the next match and next competition we play is always the most important”. I know that the situation is not click your fingers and everybody is ideal.
“Both games are gone now and we need to look forward”.
Like the defeat to City, the United boss was frustrated by the officials after Nicolai Jorgensen was not called offside in the build-up to Vilhena’s victor.
After three consecutive victories at season opening, Manchester United lost in the Manchester derby.
“I am not saying bad, but I’m saying not with the ambition you need to win football matches”.
“Obviously when you lose matches then the mood and feeling is not the same”.
“We don’t have time to dwell and we have a few days to recover. He openly wanted to be the best player in the world”. I think he was isolated far too often. “It’s something I don’t like”. “Some of the players were playing their first minutes of the season, not many minutes for them”.
“He was lively again [against Feyenoord] without being special”.
“In the second half, I think our urgency was there but we need to start that in the first half”.
“But I think today we were very good physically and they didn’t create a lot”.
“But we knew that if we could keep the ball against Manchester, there are possibilities”.
Mourinho admitted that although he made eight changes, the team did enough in the second half to win the match.
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“After that the spirit came in the team and the determination to be there for the last 15 minutes. We have fought us in the game and patiently waited for our chances”.
