Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored twice on his home Manchester United debut as Jose Mourinho’s side recorded a 2-0 win over Southampton to make it back-to-back wins at the start of the new Premier League season.
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Ibrahimovic put United ahead in the 36th minute with an imperious header from Wayne Rooney’s right-wing cross and added a second goal with a penalty early in the second half.
“It was the first game for Paul [Pogba] and the rest will come”.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has got his Manchester United career off to the flawless start with three goals from two Premier League games.
Giggs has hailed Ibrahimovic’s professional approach and believes the veteran striker could offer the kind of consistent goal threat to keep United in a title fight. However, the exact opposite has proven the case, with the Belgian’s spell at Old Trafford revived by two starts in the first two Premier League games of the season. It has only been two matches yet and they already have five goals and six points to their name.
Paul Pogba on his second Manchester United debut against Southampton.
The Man United captain was usually the first choice penalty taker under Louis van Gaal but the Dutch manager often rotated who took them if someone failed to find the back of the net. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.theeagleonline.com.ng as the source. It’s a top club and we need to get used to winning and carry on like this.
After the match Ibrahimovic said: “If the team does good, the individual does good, always”.
“Then I think the more organised the team play, the easier for the players it is to feel confident”. The French midfielder though was the one that many fans was talking about and he was just happy the team got the positive result.
“I’m very happy. I know we can not play 90 minutes the way we want to”. Maybe a simple phone call can make a difference to a player who was feeling he was not loved, to a player who when the [transfer] market opened everyone was saying he was leaving.
“I need September to come, because the relations can be good, the players can be great professionals, but a player is a player and when he doesn’t play one game, two, three, the frustration comes and it’s hard to train well”. We have to build a certain organisation around him. “I think the outcome will be good”.
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“He was fantastic”, Mourinho said. “We won comfortably and the margin could have been bigger”.
