The result of the International Champions match between Manchester United and Borussia Dortmund (4-1) in Shanghai on Friday did not give Jose Mourinho any reason to judge his players. He said, “Unfair to make any decision. Day by day they are starting to win my trust."
Dortmund has been back for a month already, and it showed with superior levels of fitness in the International Champions Cup match played in an energy-sapping temperature of 35 Celsius despite an 8.05 pm kick-off. In his statement below;
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“I know in pre-season the team in the advance stage of preparation looks better,” he said.“It happens year after year. It was too obvious. We knew after 10 minutes that one team started training a month ago and played four games.”Gonzalo Castro scored twice for the German side, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang bagged a penalty and Ousmane Dembele showed why the Frenchman is regarded as one of the best young talents in Europe with a superb finish.“The reality is even in this situation we have six players still in Europe, plus (Wayne) Rooney and (Chris) Smalling who are only training. That is eight not involved.“We had no (Zlatan) Ibrahimovic, (Anthony) Martial, (Marouane) Fellaini, (Morgan) Schneiderlin – lots of them aren’t here yet.”
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