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tag, the Belgian added: “No, just joy for the team. When you play for Manchester United everybody has a job to do and mine is to score goals for the team. The team did a good job today, everybody was creative.”

United manager Jose Mourinho believes Lukaku’s display will help his confidence. “It’s always important,” said the Portuguese. “New players in new clubs, new strikers, everyone expects goals from them. The pressure is with them.

“It’s always nice for NEYMAR marked his Paris St Germain debut with a goal and an assist as his new team cruised to a 3-0 Ligue 1 win at Guingamp.

The Brazil forward, making his much-anticipate­d first appearance for PSG since joining them from Barcelona for a their confidence.” Despite seeing his side go top of the embryonic table, Mourinho still felt United could have come out of the blocks quicker.

He added: “The game was difficult, the game was open – at 2-0 they had a chance. I don’t think the game was 4-0.

“We didn’t start especially well, we were a little bit nervous for 10, 15 minutes. Then we had a quality performanc­e, good personalit­y, they played with lots of confidence and have given the result.”

MEANWHILE, Graeme Souness has called on former employers Newcastle to discard Jonjo Shelvey following the midfielder’s dismissal for standing on Dele Alli in the Magpies’ 2-0 defeat to Tottenham.

Shelvey seemed to be annoyed by Alli’s refusal to hand over the ball and impetuousl­y stood on the England midfielder’s ankle in full view of Andre Marriner, who dished out a red card to the Newcastle captain three minutes into the second half.

It proved a turning point in the St James’ Park clash, with Alli opening the scoring just after the hour before Ben Davies’ 70th-minute goal sealed a season-opening victory for Spurs.

Newcastle manager Rafael Benitez revealed Shelvey – banned for five games last season after being accused of making racist comments – has apologised for his mad moment. But Souness, Newcastle boss from 2004 to 2006, told Sky Sports: “He’s gone from captain to clown in 10 seconds. I like Shelvey but you can’t have anybody doing that at a football club. Nobody. That should be his last chance because you can’t do that.” world-record 222million euro (£200.6million) transfer fee, opened his account with a simple close-range finish in the 82nd minute, set up by Edinson Cavani.

Neymar had earlier provided a 62nd-minute pass from which Cavani struck to make it 2-0.

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