“But this is football and sometimes players, they disappoint managers, and sometimes players, they give us great surprises”.
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“If they believed I failed in Munich because I didn’t win the Champions League I have to accept that but I never said it is how I would be judged”.
Lingard, who came through the ranks at Old Trafford, spent loan spells at Leicester, Birmingham and Brighton before establishing himself as a regular in the United side last season.
Manchester United legend Sir Alex Ferguson was impressed by Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City on Saturday.
Half-time substitute Marcus Rashford made a lively contribution after coming on, setting up Ibrahimovic to fire over from six yards, before De Bruyne hit the post again and De Gea thwarted Nicolas Otamendi with a fearless double-stop, as City held on to the 2-1 win.
“Look, I have two or three players in the first half who if I know what was going to happen I would not play them”. And when I see him, I say “wow – this guy can play” because he’s training like Vincent is.
“In Bucharest we played at that level for 90 minutes”.
The Scot was waiting in the lounge as the new Etihad chief made his way to do his post-match press duties following victory over arch-rival Jose Mourinho.
And the contest saw the Blues, particularly in the first half, once again produce the sort of slick, passing football with which their new manager has for so always been associated.
“Let’s speak, for example, about Mkhitaryan”, said Mourinho of the Armenia worldwide bought this summer from Borussia Dortmund.
Despite an interrupted pre-season with worldwide commitments, the 25-year-old lauded his club’s preparation for the new campaign, which has seen City win all four Premier League matches.
His initial press conference immediately after the game laid bare the frustrations of the manager as he felt some of the players had disappointed him before taking a u-trun and terming the result as his own fault, stating that he should have been tactically more efficient.
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“Ander was phenomenal in his attitude”. I knew that Fellaini and Pogba were going to be in the box all the time so I thought the game was going to be very direct like it was.
