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Man Utd midfielder Scott McTominay: What Mourinho told us before kickoff

Manchester United midfielder Scott McTominay was thrilled to make his full Premier League debut in victory over Crystal Palace.

The 20 year-old revealed manager Jose Mourinho spoke with the youngsters before sending them out.

"He was just saying be calm, be composed and go and play your normal game and enjoy it," McTominay told the Mirror. "Obviously it was a brilliant experience today with all the young lads making their debuts and having a positive result in the end. We wanted to go out and win the game and that is what we did.

"It was an unbelievable feeling going out there in front of 75,000 people - the biggest crowd that a lot of our lads have played in front of. You just have got to embrace that whenever you go out there and play like it is a normal game, and go and grab the opportunity."

"If you want to be a top, top player, you have to play in pressured environments in these games. Throughout my career I want to be playing in the Premier League so that's the most important thing for me, to get as many of these games as I possibly can and hopefully push into the first-team.

"We're all teammates and we're all young players. It's just a dream to be playing in front of all these people and winning the game and doing what we do on the pitch. It was a brilliant day. Very proud."

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