Red News 5th April 2021

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United player absence update ...

Eric Bailly is isolating after a positive Covid test... Ole said "Unfortunately he won't be with us for a little while. He's been away with Ivory Coast and he tested positive with COVID and he's not back in the country yet.”


Martial is unlikely to play again this season ... Ole said “Unfortunately, he sprained his knee with France. It’s always when they go away on internationals… you can keep your fingers crossed and hope they come back fit. Losing Anthony for what might be the rest of the season is very disappointing, especially when reports from there [France] was that it wasn’t anything serious but it looks a bad one"


Phil Jones is injured ... Ole said nothing about that because its easier to tell us when Phil Jones isn't injured

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Mason thinks it was an important time to win v Brighton

“Coming back after the international break, it’s always good to get a win and obviously it’s a spring in our step before the Europa League. I’m sure we’ll do well in that as well.”

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Mason feels "in the zone"


“Yeah, I’m getting back into the zone, really,”

“It’s somewhere I wanted to be earlier in the season but it’s come now. I’ve kept my head down and just concentrated, worked in training and I’m happy it’s coming on to the pitch now.”

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Mason enjoyed using his head to score

“Obviously, it’s a confidence booster,”

“I know I haven’t scored as many in the league but I scored a header tonight, something I’ve been working on for a long time behind the scenes but we’re all good with the win.”

“It was one of my weaknesses I’d say,”

“To be a striker and an attacker you have got to be able to do it all and that was one area where I was weak on. With practise and help from the coaching staff, it’s obviously strengthened now and I’m bringing it on to the pitch.”

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A tackle on rashford forced the substitution v Brighton


“He got caught with a tackle so he had to come off. Let’s see how he goes again.

“Marcus doesn’t want to miss any games or any minutes, but he had to come off.

“Your fingers are crossed and you hope he's going to recover from it. He had to come off but he's a tough one.”

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Ole accepts that at times United have to live with points over performances

“[That shows] excellent spirit, attitude, character and of course, quality to come back. Sometimes the game doesn't work you the way you want it to. I thought we started brightly, played some good stuff, but if you make some easy mistakes in your own half too many times, you'll get punished and they punished us. So we had to react again - as you've said, we've done that so many times. It's not a position you want to be in but these boys now have showed time and time again that we can compose ourselves and keep building momentum and creating chances.”

“You always want to perform because the better you perform, the more chance you have of getting a result. But sometimes you've just got to find a way to win. We've built momentum, we've built pressure, we've got players with quality and we managed to find a way.”

“Yes but we're not going to rest. We fight for our lives, the boys fight to play in the team. I've got a good squad, they know that there's competition for places. We fight as long as we can to move up the table. It doesn't really matter what anyone else does, as long as we win and we get our points because we're in second place. It's a long way up [to first] but second place we want to consolidate that one. We want to at least keep that one and we've got a big game on Thursday [in the Europa League] as well.”

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Ole talks about the United goals v Brighton

“The first one was from good play by Bruno, with a great finish by Marcus. That's my favourite type of finish, when the striker's in control. He's in control of the whole situation. The corners are always open and it's a big goal, so a good finish. And the second goal overall [from Greenwood] was a very, very good goal - a diving header, or a header inside the six-yard box.”

“He's coming good at the right time. We've said it for months really, he's played some great football, he's maturing. Today I thought he was one of our best performers in the first half. Neat and tidy, he got hold of the ball. Sometimes he had a change of pace, he drove past people, he hit the post. He hit one that goes over the bar which was a bit scuffed, but he was there, he's always there.”

“He [Mason] has learned from Edi! And of course it's important when Edinson is here now, he's not going to play football forever, but the traits, his movement, he [Mason] has probably picked up. Mason needs to add goals like that to his tally, because we know what a wonderful talent he is. He played really well tonight and when he can add those goals, we know we've got a top forward there

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Ole felt Unietd need half time to regain their rhythm v Brighton

“I thought we started well but when they scored, after that we couldn't find our rhythm again and we needed half-time to compose ourselves and go again. In the second half we played some good stuff.”

”It [the second half] was nothing tactically [different] from what we wanted in the first half. It was more runs in behind, more movement, better movement. Sometimes after international breaks it takes time and then maybe the fireworks have to be lit at half-time. It was a very good second half"

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Bruno wasn't happy with that challenge in the lead up to the Rashford goal v Brighton


“I didn’t see it because someone almost broke my ankle!”

“But I’m happy for the team, I am happy for Marcus. It was a good effort because as everyone knows he has come back from injury and he’s helped us.

“This effort comes from everyone. The press for the first goal was good it made them do the wrong ball and I recovered the ball and passed to Marcus and he scores. Everyone is happy when we win and it doesn’t matter who scores.”

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Bruno has some advice for all those talking about Greenwood


"What everyone has to know is Mason is a young player. Now everyone starts to know how Mason is, so it starts to become more difficult for him, it’s normal. It’s part of the development of him and he will learn from here. It doesn’t matter how many goals he scores, what’s important is he still helps the team and does his best because as a team that’s what matters.

"It doesn’t matter who scores, if Mason scores or not for us, it’s important if he can do a job, recovering balls, pressing, defend when we need, creating assists, create danger. So it’s not important for him to score. He has to understand that, he’s such a young lad, every striker wants to score but anyway he will score more goals more and more. With the passing of the seasons he will score more and more"

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