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#1 Alexis Sanchez is the ideal Jose Mourinho player
Ander Herrera summed it up well - “I think he [Alexis] can play anywhere, he fights for every ball, he runs for everything. We are going to enjoy him.".
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United are going to enjoy him, and Jose Mourinho is going to enjoy him. While many superstars may have thrown a strop at having to make a debut on the lumpy, wobbly, Huish Park pitch - Alexis just rolled his socks and relished the challenge.
He was at the heart of everything United did on the night - wherever he went, the ball followed him, and his first 70 minutes in a United shirt provided a promising glimpse of what could lie ahead.
He did, of course, misplace passes often - but unlike at Arsenal, where possession is God - it is exactly this fearless risk-taking that Mourinho, and United, need to push them past the final dredges of Louis van Gaal's mind-numbing sideways passing philosophy.
On closer inspection, Alexis appears to be Mourinho's inner-footballer-incarnate on the pitch, the kind of fighter he wants in every team of his; and this just might be the beginning of something good.
