Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a brace and Paul Pogba impressed on his second debut, as Manchester United beat Southampton 2-0 at Old Trafford.
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The 34-year-old has now hit three goals in two Premier League games for United but he insisted the Premier League is presenting a tougher challenge than he faced in Ligue 1 with Paris Saint-Germain.
Ibrahimovic has never finished a season scoring less than 20 league goals in his 20-years-career as a footballer and that won’t change at United.
Ibrahimovic’s first goal came when he jumped above Jose Fonte and headed in Wayne Rooney’s cross. Two games, two wins.
Zlatan made no mistake from 12 yards against Fraser Forster and he added that the decision had been made before the season had begun.
Pogba played the full 90 minutes in his first United appearance since completing his £89million transfer from Juventus as the Manchester club defeated Southampton 2-0 on Friday.
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“Perhaps in the first 15 minutes it wasn’t good, but after I think we played a good game, with good football and good possibilities”.
The Portuguese coach has a veteran striker, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, on fire with four goals in three games and world-record signing Paul Pogba made his debut and dazzled with individual moments of magic on Friday. We need to get used to winning because the mental part is always important as well as the physical part. “I want to win games but I want to do it in an attractive manner”. The fact that his first action was bad – loses the ball, gives a free kick to the opposition – means that you can see even more the ego and the personality.
But with Mourinho now in charge at Old Trafford the “Special One” is slowly reinstating United’s DNA with an impressive winning start to the new campaign. “He is learning to play with us”.
“I believe that we can win the title, I have this vision”. After that I felt better.
The 23-year-old is delighted to play under the former Real Madrid and Chelsea manager at United.
“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 dream big. United are a big club, I know we will do big things this season”.
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“The player was feeling not loved”, said Mourinho.
