Sunday 6 November 2016

Manchester United overpower Swansea with Zlatan Ibrahimovic double

Maybe José Mourinho should watch from the stand more often. Serving a touchline ban, the Manchester United manager was able to savour the sight of his team registering their first Premier League victory in five matches as well as Zlatan Ibrahimovic rediscovering his touch in front of goal on an afternoon when Swansea City capitulated and the simmering frustration among their supporters started to boil over.

Ibrahimovic struck twice – his first goals in the Premier League since 10 September – after Paul Pogba had opened the scoring with an exquisite shot from distance that set the tone for an embarrassingly one-sided first half in which Swansea were comprehensively outplayed. United were 3-0 up inside 33 minutes and it felt like a trick of the mind that Mourinho’s team had come into this game short of confidence and facing so many questions about their form.

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