Are you happy with that performance or disappointed?
First half it seemed like we couldn't get the grips with going 1-0 down
but when you concede a goal as early as that at Old Trafford, you've
got plenty of time to get back into the game, but I felt we we didn't deal
with that particularly well and lucky to go in half time with one each
I felt it was but second half was good, second half we put pressure on them
create chances, yet they could have.. they had a decent chance as well back
stick with Grealish but we created lots of big uns that we should have
won this game but overall I don't think we deserve to especially after the first half
How do you assess the progress of the team so far this season now you had a few games? is it where you thought it would be?
Well you do get with a young team
we are a young team and I don't want to use that as an excuse but because we are Man Utd
and we want to get a run and as soon as we get a run of three or four
games together here now that's what we need that's what these boys need I feel
and we just have to make sure we do everything right now until Wednesday because it's a short and quick turnaround
That Lindelof goal was the first headed league goal that you've had in 2019, how do you explain that?
Didn't Rashford head it? (It's an own goal actually) Alright, well that's
part of the game that we have to improve on and of course we've had a few
decent chances over the over the course of the season so but I was
pleased with that goal, we should have kept on to that lead of course but then
when they get a corner straightaway, they are a very physical side, play the clever
clever corner and we just couldn't as a team get up and play him offside
When it comes to that Rashford goal, as a striker, do you think it's a bit strange that it's awarded an own goal when you see the ball kind of spinning?
I've not seen it on the video so, I'll see the video and I
can't understand if it's not a Rashford goal but that's, what do I know about goals
What do you say to people who say "Man Utd are 9th after 14 games"? "Man Utd shouldn't be 9th no matter what rebuilding"
We don't, how do you say? I wouldn't have sat here and talked about
us being 5th if we got that one goal extra, so the league table at this
point is not the the the biggest concern because it's so tight, I just need to
make sure that we get performances and get three or four performances after
each other and results, what I can say is so far we've had the lead in so
many games and we haven't been able to win those games, six seven times I'm sure
that we've been 1-0 up or 2-1 like today or 3-2 like last week
and we should be better at seeing them games into wins
Since you got the job permanently Ole we've won six games and two league matches
What makes you confident you can actually go on a run of five six wins on the bounce
because there's no evidence to suggest this team..
Well I think there's loads of evidence that these boys are a closer to winning games than losing
games and to tip their margins in our favour of course we got to work on
different things today first off wasn't good enough, disappointed in that because
all the boys stayed here, while the young boys and I went over to Kazakhstan so we
should have been coming out of the traps quicker and the first half wasn't good enough
the second half was was what we want to see
Some of the fans around us were giving Pereira a bit of stick, I know you said a few weeks he's had a bit of criticism and he couldn't
he put a good cross in for the goal but he has started a lot of games this season
is that becoming out of necessity because there isn't a midfield choice?
Andreas is improving all the time, he's a young boy that's working hard every
single day to improve his game and he's played quite a few games this year and
we found more or less his position earlier on in the season he's an
attacking midfielder, of course when you when you lack your three.. call it more
experienced.. with Nemanja, Paul and Scott. Andreas has to cover that role
and his he's doing a job for the team
You spoke about giving up leads, what is that down to? Is it lack of experience, composure?
Probably a few things, then again
experience yeah, we are a young team and we are probably the youngest team in the
league and but I shouldn't.. that's not an excuse for us to do not see games out
and not winning games that we are winning cuz we've put ourselves in that
position as well as to win games and what we want to see then is to get to
two goal lead and three goal lead, so we're disappointed today that we conceded
straight away after after getting the lead and then the game became more
end to end that it should have been because if you can control the
game winning, then you can control the tempo of it we we weren't able to
There's one incident where Mata put a great ball across the 6-yard area and again in the second half James and the end of it
Do you feel your teams's lacking to get hose sort of goals?
Today we created chances to be stood there three yards away from going just tap it
in and of course then Dan created some chances down his right, Juan was a
decent chance as well for us, so yes we.. I've said it a few times we've got
players who score worldies and then but get yourself them four or five extra
goals every season, it'll give us points, it'll give them confidence and so but
we're working on this, it's not that they stand outside the box because they don't think the balls coming
so it could have been a couple of tap-ins today for some of the boys
Huge praise for Jack Grealish, the goal he scored today, I wondered what you thought of him and is the kind of player Man Utd are lacking?
I can't talk too much about other teams players if
they're Man United calibre or targets but fantastic goal, I think he hit one of
them you know them corners that I've hit a couple of times so it was a great
great finish, but then again we should defend better
show them down the left to be fair so, but what a goal and he
played a good game, definitely
Is there any update on Pogba and McTominay in terms on Wednesday night?
we've still got two days, we need to look at everyone here as well, we've only
got two days so let's see and hopefully we could can see one of
them on the pitch but they are working hard behind behind the scenes
Okay thanks
you