Patrick Dorgu sends message to Manchester United legend he’s trying to replicate

Patrick Dorgu swapped messages with a Manchester United hero he is looking to emulate after his goal-scoring performance in 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 home 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 year.

Dorgu has been a regular in the first team this season, making 23 appearances in all competitions, and is clearly fancied by new 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 in the starting XI ahead of the likes of Mason Mount and Matheus Cunha.

Former Manchester United star Patrice Evra was certainly impressed with Dorgu’s performance, posting the comment on a picture of him: ‘Proud of you @patrick_dorgu.’

The current Red Devils star replied: ‘Thank you bro, trying to follow in your footsteps.’

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It is not the first time Dorgu has been deployed in an advanced role, having played on the wing and scored the goal in the 1-0 win over Newcastle last month.

‘I’ve done that at my old team as well, so it’s nothing new to me,’ Dorgu said after the goal against the Magpies. ‘I’m just happy to score the goal.

‘I knew already a few days ago, so I just tried to remember how to play there.

‘It’s the same [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 really easy.’

On his versatility he said after the win over City: ‘I enjoy playing on the pitch. I don’t care if it’s in the defence or attacking. I just want to be playing and I’m really happy right now.’

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 needed to stick together in difficult moments and we did that really well.

‘It feels good, you know, we get the space in behind, and it’s never easy to play in these games.

‘But with these players we have, it’s always easy to find the players because everyone wants the ball and you could see today that everyone 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 will be another 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 everything that today brought, I think we all understand that,’ he said. ‘But there’s definitely levels of standards and expectations that we need to live up to from ourselves as much as anyone on the outside. I’m totally aware of that.

‘Consistency is the key to any success and if you can find that, then you’re on to a winner, so that’s our challenge. You’ve got to find a way of doing that. Big one next week [against Arsenal], obviously another tough one. But on the back of today, we’ve got a good foundation to build on.’