He balanced out dropping deeper to either help build up play or win the ball back, with being a menace in front of goal, scoring two to win the match for United, and also to win him today’s honour of being Man of the Match. “Because September we have Capital One Cup, we have Europa League, we have seven matches in September and they all play and then I am happy”, he said. “We are becoming better and better”, said Ibrahimovic. And it was a good start. It’s a top club and we need to get used to winning and carry on like this.
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Having missed United’s 3-1 win at Bournemouth last weekend, Pogba was given a warm reception in his first game in the famous red of United at Old Trafford since a substitute appearance against West Bromwich Albion in March, 2012. “There is no doubt that his talent was on show”, Carragher told Sky Sports News.
“Then I think the more organised the team play, the easier for the players to feel confident”. “I got what I wanted, what the players need, what the players deserve”. We get to know the philosophy of the coach also, which I’m used to from before. “So we’re going to need to be really up for the game”.
“I think the biggest compliment I can give him is that I was watching that game and watching Paul Pogba and I wasn’t thinking of £89m”.
Mourinho said: “He is very good in the air but he is very good with his feet”. It’s a natural evolution of things. The way we are playing football.
“When United signed Ibrahimovic, we were talking about the quality that he brings, the hold-up play, the flicks but we didn’t talk about these sort of headed goals, these typical English centre-forward goals and he’s scored two of them already”.
“If the team does well the individual does well, always”.
“(Things are improving by) Evolution, step-by-step, the integration of players, working together. “He has played will with Michael Carrick, he has played well with Ander Herrera, he has played well with Paul [Pogba]”. “It was a collective effort so I’m pleased for the boys”.
“Luke [Shaw] and Antonio [Valencia] were offensive when they had to be and very good defensively”.
Southampton were more than happy to allow United possession as they threatened on the counter-attack, with Nathan Redmond looking particularly lively in the early stages, but they lacked a cutting edge and never truly threatened David de Gea’s goal.
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“When the market opened everybody was saying he was leaving, everybody was writing he was not the player for me, he was on the move, maybe a simple phone call the day after my presentation changed a lot”.
