Jose Mourinho’s style, Lead from the front, was demonstrated by his team Manchester United on Sunday to register a 3-1 win against Bournemouth.
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“One goal changes the picture as in the beginning of the second half they tried to put more pressure on us, which opened more spaces”.
Fellaini played an important role in the 3-1 victory, as goals from Juan Mata, Wayne Rooney and Zlatan Ibrahimovic at the Vitality Stadium ensured the Reds made the ideal start to the new campaign.
But the comment of the evening came in with regards to the most “hated” footballer in this current United side, Marouane Fellaini.
Fellaini also talked about his new teammates and praised their performances, “The new guys are good and bring quality”.
Manchester United’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic celebrates scoring their third goal against AFC Bournemouth during Barclays Premier League at Vitality Stadium, on Sunday, August 14, 2016. I thought we deserved to win.
Armenian Henrikh Mkhitaryan, who played for the last quarter of an hour at Bournemouth, is another contender for a midfield place, having also been added to a squad that Mourinho said had been “sad” when he first encountered them. Forget that he is 34, the body and the mentality is not of 34.
But he said: “It was an important goal, a clever goal, a goal by somebody with a natural instinct to play football”.
“I don’t think they need a statement”.
“Look, the first thing I can tell you is that (at) his table for breakfast and for meals he is surrounded by the young ones, the kids”, Mourinho said. “We weren’t surprised and then we started playing”, Mourinho reflected.
“This week was really good for us, we worked really well and hard and we prepared the game well”.
United, without world record signing Paul Pogba who was suspended, were denied a clean sheet soon afterwards when defender Adam Smith beat David de Gea with a fierce shot from 12 metres.
“Let’s see what happens”, Ibrahimovic said when asked whether he might consider staying for more than a year.
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“Everybody knows we are going to fight for the title”, added Mourinho. “We know we can play better than we did today [Sunday], although we did quite well, and I’m sure we will over the coming weeks”.
