• United score four goals in opening two matches for first time since 1907
• ‘It’s not always motorway. You always find difficult roads’
Manchester United continued their superb start to the season by again scoring four goals – the first time they have done that in their opening two matches since 1907 – but José Mourinho warned his players that “it’s not always motorway” and there will be “roadworks” ahead. The United manager did admit, though, that his team are playing with the sort of confidence they lacked last season after three late goals in four minutes against Swansea completed another emphatic victory.
Romelu Lukaku, Paul Pogba and Anthony Martial all scored for the second game running, with Eric Bailly getting the other goal on an afternoon when Swansea imploded in the final 10 minutes. When it was pointed out to Mourinho that United had not made a start like this to a season for 108 years, the Portuguese replied: “I prefer to say we start last season with two matches, six points and we finished sixth. That’s not a lesson, it’s a reality of football – two matches are not the end of the world for people that lose and it’s not paradise for people that win. I am happy, of course, and the quality of the performance gives me even more confidence.”
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