Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored on his Manchester United debut.
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Ibrahimovic scored his first United goal just four minutes into his debut in Saturday’s 5-2 friendly win over Galatasaray in Gothenburg.
“Everybody has been waiting for that moment”, a typically immodest Ibrahimovic told the club’s television station MUTV referring to his first appearance. “Let us say that if Pogba comes too, it’s going to be very interesting”.
His scissors kick went past Fernando Muslera in Galatasaray’s goal.
Jose Mourinho will bring match-winning confidence back to Manchester United, according to club captain Wayne Rooney.
“Of course it was unbelievable to hear this from Mourinho and he said he will keep an eye on how I do this season”, the winger added.
Shedding light on the same, Rooney insisted that it feels more like the old United now, especially because of the presence of Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford, who made strong impact last season.
Though it appears the 21-year-old will not be a permanent fixture in Mourinho’s starting eleven after his omission, Januzaj and other fringe players could play an important role should they “understand” the squad dynamics.
“We are going to play 60 matches (in a season) – you can not do it with 11 players”.
“We have the players to do this – and the manager”.
“I think it’s good to have such competition within the squad because there are a lot of good players for every position in a big team”.
“We’re in a very good spot now”.
“But if Rooney plays as a nine or 10 then he will score more goals. We think we can challenge for the Premier League and we want to put a marker down in the Community Shield with Leicester [on Sunday]”.
“We need time and we don’t have time, the only solution is to train hard and train hard against opposition like today”.
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Fonte, the 32-year-old Portuguese, was superb during his country’s unexpected run to the UEFA Euro 2016 title in July.
