When requested by MUTV’s Stewart Gardner if the opening half was one of the best show of the marketing campaign, the centre-back replied: “There have been some good [ones] – the second half in opposition to Barcelona if we’re speaking about halves, however, first half, I might most likely say that is the strongest, for positive.
“If we might are available in at half-time 4-0 up, I feel no-one could be complaining.
“However nothing is ever snug within the Premier League, to be trustworthy. It ought to have been snug. That’s for positive. When the sport is at 1-0, you’re by no means snug, something can occur within the Premier League. Everybody has that little bit of high quality. Set-plays, they’re harmful from. They gained a variety of headers and you already know they’ll have these one or two moments.
“We needed to kill the sport off at half-time, the primary half was glorious, nice soccer on the entrance foot. Quite a few possibilities, managed the sport, performed of their half. I feel we completely deserved the three factors. The one factor most likely lacking was extra objectives.”