Alexis Sanchez thinks the Manchester United players “are the same” with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as they were with Jose Mourinho – but admits there are number of key changes that the Norwegian has made.
The 30-year-old has struggled to adapt to Old Trafford life since his high-profile move from Arsenal a year ago but the club’s results have improved with the appointment of Solskjaer as caretaker boss.
United have won all seven of their matches under Solskjaer, a run of results that has seen them catapult themselves back into Champions League contention.
“The players are the same with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as they were with Mourinho,” Sanchez told the Mirror.
“But now we are having more success in attack and we are defending better.
“The fact he has so much history with this club opens the way a lot when he speaks. His philosophy is to touch the ball a lot, to control the game and to score goals.
“You can tell that his position on the field as a player was as a forward, but he still wants us to take good care of our penalty area too.
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“That’s the way you get better results. The only thing the manager told us was that we could improve the situation ourselves.
“He said that everything depended on us and it was in our own hands to climb the table.”