IT WAS CONTROLLED
"I've had some crazy weeks in my time but, to be honest, it wasn't actually a crazy week. It felt controlled and a bit normal, to be honest. From the outside, it always looks very different to what it's like and everyone at the club has been so good. My coaching staff, backroom staff, the players have been great. It hasn't been the whirlwind it probably seems. We've had a compressed time to get the players ready for today. They've been unbelievable, this week, to cope with the information and the new people people, emotionally, to put it together in the way they did."
A PROPER UNITED DISPLAY
"I don't want to get carried away with all of the DNA kind of thing. We wanted to play well today. We wanted to put things into the game that would help us to do that, we wanted to be good defensively as a whole team. We felt that we had a threat when he had the ball and in transitions, at times, but, when we did have the ball, I felt we did look dangerous. It's an easy thing to say but I couldn't ask for any more from the boys. They gave everything. We only had three days to prepare and they took everything on board, tactically, and to be able to deal with it emotionally was exactly as we hoped for."