Manchester
United midfielder Paul Pogba has broken his silence on their derby fixture defeat
to Pep Guardiola’s Man City. Paul Pogba insists Manchester United will learn
from their derby defeat to City at Old Trafford, reports Manchester
Evening
News.
The Premier
League leaders schooled United in the first-half but United rallied after
Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s brilliant strike and should have been awarded a
second-half penalty for Claudio Bravo’s lunge on Wayne Rooney. Pogba was one of
a number of United players who badly under-performed and, having told
journalists in the mixed zone he ‘doesn’t speak’, he gave his Instagram
followers an update. Pogba posted: “The season is just starting, we don’t lose,
we learn. United we stand.”
Mourinho felt
individual performances affected United’s approach against Pep Guardiola’s
side. “I’m clearly disappointed with the the first-half,” Mourinho stressed.
“Disappointed with some really poor individual performances that affected the
level of the team.
“It was not
just about them [Mkhitaryan and Lingard]. Other players were also not playing
really well and obviously, as well as my decision, I don’t like to go in the
direction of singling out players. Let’s say our team didn’t play well in the
first-half and their responsibilities are my responsibilities.
“We didn’t
have a tactical problem, we had problems with poor performances, we lost the
ball very, very easy. Even now our central defenders today they lost easy
balls, bad passes, first station passes from Bailly to Fellaini and Blind to
Pogba. We lost the ball in these kind of positions,
so it was not
Mikhi and Jesse it was much more than Mikhi and Jesse. “I made a couple of
decisions that I thought individual qualities of certain players would give me
what I know that I I want and I didn’t get it,” he added.
“And at the
same time because we were losing the ball so easily under the pressing we were
making, we were never able to bring the defensive line up, so we stayed with
the defensive line in our half.
“I didn’t
change after 20 minutes because I don’t want to destroy the players, I didn’t
want to make three changes at half-time because I was afraid in a long 45
minutes something might happen, but if it was a sport in free number of changes
and with changes during the first-half is normal, like basketball,
I would do
after 20 minutes. “But I did at half-time, we changed the direction of the game
but we didn’t get the compensation I think we deserved in the second half.”
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