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By Patrick Davison
Last updated: 23/02/19 06:58
Patrick Davison met Ole Gunnar Solskjaer before United's clash with Liverpool at Super Sunday
The account of his interview with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer by Pat Davison delves into the serene character of the head of Manchester United's interim goalkeeper.
You wondered if the smile would finally erase. He was just gone at 9am and it was his sixth interview of the morning.
After a key press conference, a conversation with Sunday newspapers, Norwegian and Swedish television and an interview with the Premier League reporter, it was time for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to sit down with us.
I do not think I reveal a commercial secret if I tell you that his predecessor would have been exhausted. As an interviewee, Jose Mourinho gave us a lot of good times, but he said clearly, more and more publicly, that he did not like them. These moments of waiting before the camera began to roll were generally filled with awkward silences and cheek puffs. I did not really expect it from Solskjaer, but I did not expect a man so fresh and apparently happy to be there as he was.
Solskjaer has brought Manchester United back to the top four in the Premier League
"It does not bother me at all," he said, before looking out the window at the sun shining on Carrington's training grounds. "How can you not like being on Manchester United's training ground a morning like this?"
Then, still relaxed, it was on Liverpool. The game and the rivalry that has always counted for him more than any other.
"His the big game, the one you expect. Liverpool has always been that one. The rivalry between the clubs, the job description of the manager to "knock them out". We immediately felt in him that Liverpool was special, that it was the reserve, the under 18s or the first team. Regardless, it was an important game for everyone in this club. Through their merits and rights, we have been the two most successful clubs in the country. "
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For Solskjaer, a match between the two stands out. January 1999, fourth round of the FA Cup. A match in which Liverpool scored early.
"We were behind the game, Michael Owen scored early, we had so many chances, Roy Keane hit the post, Giggs had opportunities, and Dwight Yorke scored.
"I thought it was going to be played again until Jaap Stam raised the ball, Scholes controlled, I blocked him and I scored, I had three hits in this match, one for the first time. stop, one to touch it Jamie Carragher I was strangled more or less during the celebrations, I could not breathe.I tried to kiss the badge, but everyone was above me. "
Solskjaer looks during Manchester United's training
I'm pretty sure he knows it's Carragher's legs that he's been through, as Gary Neville reminded him. The rest is his own memory. Other matches between United and Liverpool, even after his retirement, seem just as fresh in his mind.
"There were not a lot of matches that I had come from Norway but I managed to see the match in 2015 [a 3-1 United win at Old Trafford]. David [De Gea] was fantastic that day. "
He was also at Old Trafford 18 months earlier, mainly for a scouting mission, but also a day when, as a fan of United, there was very little reason to smile.
"In 2014, I was the manager of Cardiff, so I watched that one." Liverpool was trying to win the title and they won 3-0 that day, Ian Rush and Kenny Dalglish were sitting in front of me, they had a big smile and I was very happy I thought I noticed a weakness in Liverpool before our match the following week, but it was a good camp. "
Cardiff was beaten 6-3 the following week and after the match, he was asked to Solskjaer when he thought Liverpool could win the title. "I do not care," replied the answer.
"I remember the interview," he says five years later. "What I said was true!"
Diego Forlan's goal at Anfield is a welcome souvenir for Solskjaer
After Cardiff, the emotion aroused by the rivalry between Liverpool was evident on his Twitter account. Ryan Giggs and Diego Forlan celebrate their famous victory at Anfield in 2002. In March, after United defeated Liverpool at Old Trafford, he tweeted a photo of Marcus Rashford celebrating on television, with the replica of the shirt. his daughter Rashford draped on the television.
Now, however, he must remove the emotion. He says that he will be less nervous on Sunday as a manager than when he watched it in March as a fan.
"I am more focused on my work, controlled.As a supporter, you are more emotional because you can not do anything about it.Now, it's the way of working, so less nervous."
"It's 20 to 18 [in league titles] and you never want your rivals to surpbad you. But that's not about it for us. As a supporter, yes, of course, it's a big problem, but as a manager, I have to make sure that we focus on doing ourselves a favor, not stopping anyone, but to do it for ourselves. "
And with that, he went to do his job. With a smile, of course.
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