Patrick Dorgu swapped messages with a Manchester United hero he’s trying to emulate after his goal-scoring performance within the win over Manchester City on Saturday.
The 21-year-old scored the second goal of the 2-0 win for the Red Devils after Bryan Mbeumo had put the house side ahead at Old Trafford.
It was the second goal of the season for the Denmark international, who was playing further forward than the wing-back role he has often filled since joining from Lecce last yr.
Dorgu has been a daily in the primary team this season, making 23 appearances in all competitions, and is clearly fancied by recent interim manager Michael Carrick.
The win over City was Carrick’s first game in charge since his appointment as interim manager and Dorgu got the nod within the starting XI ahead of the likes of Mason Mount and Matheus Cunha.
Former Manchester United star Patrice Evra was actually impressed with Dorgu’s performance, posting the comment on an image of him: ‘Pleased with you @patrick_dorgu.’
The present Red Devils star replied: ‘Thanks bro, attempting to follow in your footsteps.’
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It will not be the primary time Dorgu has been deployed in a complicated role, having played on the wing and scored the goal within the 1-0 win over Newcastle last month.
‘I’ve done that at my old team as well, so it’s nothing recent to me,’ Dorgu said after the goal against the Magpies. ‘I’m just completely satisfied to attain the goal.
‘I knew already a couple of days ago, so I just tried to recollect the right way to play there.
‘It’s the identical [as wing-back], just you come inside to your stronger foot, so sometimes it’s even easier to attack and connect with the team-mates, so I find it very easy.’
On his versatility he said after the win over City: ‘I enjoy playing on the pitch. I don’t care if it’s within the defence or attacking. I just need to be playing and I’m really completely satisfied at once.’
He added on the impressive, fluent, energetic performance of the team: ‘Everyone gave 100 per cent. It’s never easy to play against Man City. They keep the ball so well, so we would have liked to stay together in difficult moments and we did that basically well.
‘It feels good, you understand, we get the space in behind, and it’s never easy to play in these games.
‘But with these players we’ve got, it’s at all times easy to search out the players because everyone wants the ball and you would see today that everybody was giving 100% on the pitch.’
Next up for Manchester United is a Premier League trip to Arsenal next weekend, with the Dane saying: ‘We’re going there to get three points. It’s going to be one other difficult game, but we’re going there to win, so hopefully we’ll get three points.’
Carrick describes the trip to north London as ‘big’ and ‘tough’ but hopes his Red Devils can replicate the performance they produced on Saturday lunchtime in Manchester.
‘Listen, we’re not going to have games with the emotion and feeling and the whole lot that today brought, I feel all of us understand that,’ he said. ‘But there’s definitely levels of standards and expectations that we’d like to live as much as from ourselves as much as anyone on the skin. I’m totally aware of that.
‘Consistency is the important thing to any success and in the event you can find that, then you definately’re on to a winner, in order that’s our challenge. You’ve got to search out a way of doing that. Big one next week [against Arsenal], obviously one other tough one. But on the back of today, we’ve got foundation to construct on.’
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