How Cristiano Ronaldo changed me and Man United's plan for Man City - Diogo Dalot on his award-winning season
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA Portuguese is holding court in the press room at Manchester United's Carrington press room and contemplates the FA Cup final. "As we used to say in my country, finals are there to win and not to just play in." It is a quote coined by Jose Mourinho and uttered here by Diogo Dalot.
Dalot was brought to United by Mourinho and is still very much one of his disciples. Those 11 words are Dalot's maxim ahead of a potentially season-salvaging engagement at Wembley.
Dalot, 25, was an unused substitute in last year's final and unavailable through injury for United's only victory against Manchester City under Erik ten Hag.
United went down with a fight at the national stadium last June. "We finished the game with that feeling of 'we could have won it' actually," Dalot recalls, "and to be so close to winning it and not doing it, this season we have another opportunity. "So the message from inside [the club] is that this is our game of the season.
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