Manchester United football club has recorded its first major trophy win under Jose Mourinho after defeating Southampton 3-2 in the English Football league cup final this evening.
Jose
Mourinho, started the match with the 4-2-3-1 formation, with Zlatan
Ibrahimovic spearheading his attack, Mata, Lingard and Martial the
supporting trio behind the striker while Rooney who recently rejected a
mega deal move to China, had to opt for a place on the bench.
Southampton,
meanwhile have not enjoyed success in terms of trophies in recent years
but started with England goalkeeper Ben Forster and a strong back-line
of Cedric, Yoshida, Stephens, Bertrand.
Southampton (4-3-3): Forster; Cedric, Yoshida, Stephens, Bertrand; Romeu, Davies, Ward-Prowse; Tadic, Redmond, Gabbiadini.
Manchester United (4-2-3-1): De Gea; Valencia, Bailly, Smalling, Rojo; Herrera, Pogba; Lingard, Mata, Martial; Ibrahimovic.
Southampton's
coach, Puel instructed his players to put the opposition under pressure
and that's what they started doing from the beginning of the game.
United
in the 6th minute after some early pressure, started to get their
groove back and enjoyed some possession, then Cedric in the 10th minute
got past the byline and passed to Gabbiadini who scores.. Goal???? No,
no goal.. The linesman raises up the offside flag ..Was it a wrong
decision by the referee? Mourinho looked relieved at the official's
decision.
Southampton continued with their
attacking display and you could sense Bailly and Smalling were becoming
nervous. Oriol Romeu fouled Herrera and was then yellow carded. Zlatan
Ibrahimovic stepped up to take the resulting free kick.
Gooooaallllll!
Man U's enigmatic striker opened the scoring for the Reds in the 19th
minute with a curling free kick. What a marvelous beauty!
Southampton
who hadn't really tested De Gea between the sticks, but then
Ward-Prowse tries his luck with a strike on goal from around 25-yards
which De Gea saves on the 28th minute.
United
enjoyed a period of sustained possession but Southampton started to
defend vigorously behind the ball, this was turning into jungle
football, the alas.... Goallllllll!!!!! Jesse Lingard places the ball
smoothly into the bottom corner after some wonderful interplay from
Mata, Martial and Rojo.
Man U 2-0 Southampton..
It started looking like a foregone issue for Man U, but Jose Mourinho
was seen looking bullish, he knew from experienc that anything could
happen in a final.
Goallllll!!!!! Southampton
get back into this, just before halftime. Ward-Prowse drifted into the
right wing at the 46th minute and Rojo sloppily gave him space, his
cross into the center goes to Manolo Gabbiadini, who directs the ball
into the net.
Man U 2-1 Southampton. Halftime!
United
came back for the second half and introduced veteran Michael Carrick in
place of Juan Mata.. Southampton shock Man U again and its Manolo
Gabbiadini again.
De Gea was shell shocked as
Davis crossed into the box and Gabbiadini latches on to the bouncing
ball with a nice one time volleyed finish into the bottom right corner.
Man U 2-2 Southampton...48th minute..
Southampton
let loose! They go ham on Man U, making attacking forays upon forays
upon forays...The ball hits the woodwork, De Gea saves, Carrick shoots
from a resulting free kick but it' blocked. Dušan Tadić leaves and
Sofiane Boufal is introduced into the game, Marcus Rashford comes in for
Lingard, Gabbiadini the goalscorer leaves for Shane Long.
Both sides start chasing for a last minute goal... Zlat!!!!!!!!!
Zlatan
Ibrahimovic heads a wonderful masterpiece into the net after receiving a
wonderful cross from Ander Herrera in the 87th minute. Two goals today
from the 36 year old Swede...He truly came to England and has conquered,
just like he did in his previous clubs. Southampton pressure Man U,
but its all over. Man U win their first major trophy under Jose
Mourinho and he'll hope there is more to come...
Speaking to Sky Sports after the match, Zlatan Ibrahimovic said:
More photos below...'I came to win, the more I win, the more satisfied I get,' Ibrahimovic told Sky Sports.You appreciate it [winning cups] more the older you get. At the beginning it's fun. Now I'm older its about collecting trophies. This is what I predicted. Everything I saw has happened. Too many i couldn't do it but I keep going and I am enjoying the game.'
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