Ole said after 2 games or so we're not there yet energy wise due to short preseason and some players getting back late and we'll be there, fit, soon enough in a few games and he was right.
From a get go our players were right at it, full of energy, quick to every ball, confident, really looked like a team who wants to win at all costs. Leipzig was organized and in some parts of the 1st half pinned us back but during the whole game, especially in the last 30 minutes we were a better and a more dangerous team.
All in all just like PSG game this made my day and a week even more than last week. It's such a joy to see us play like that and it just proves how much potential this team has.
One thing which hasnt been pointed enough (as far as I saw) is that our defense has improved. There was an outcry after Chelsea game but barely anyone mentioned how defensively we stopped a dangerous Chelsea team. Same happened last night and even vs PSG too, they werent exactly dangerous, few chances, nothing major. Kudos to Ole for sticking up for Maguire and it paid back.
Kudos to Ole for handling Pogba too, finally he looked up for it yesterday, maybe him starting for the bench last few games got him thinking that he must put in a shift more. Beautiful assist and overall a good, good game.
All team was great, I liked VDB, theres a player there. Martial was fantastic, working his ass the whole game, Shaw and AWB were good too, DDG did what he was asked, barely had anything to do. Matić was the old Matić, everywhere and fixing everything what needed to be fixed on the pitch. Fred was immense again and again it looked there are 3 Freds out there, he was everywhere, doing a great job making plays, connecting passes and ever better defensively. When Bruno came in our game stepped up a notch and we were unstoppable, Leipzig was blown away.
Special mention to Rashford. I got sick seeing all those comments about him being a run merchant or whatever its called, being stupid, average, no better than Welbeck and so on. It seems he needs to prove himself to the haters time and time again and last night he proved himself yet again. A brilliant performance, true modern striker one, he did everything, scored a hattrick and was a huge problem for Leipzig from the second he stepped in. Combine that with his charity work and he's a beautiful human being, a role model and still so young.
Ole, doing really good for a PE teacher.