Shinji Kagawa praises Wayne Rooney

Former Bor­us­sia Dortmund mid­field player Shinji Kagawa scored a late win­ning goal for Manchester United against Bundes­liga club Han­nover 96 at the AWD Sta­dium in Han­over on Sat­urday.

With only five minutes left, Wayne Rooney headed a long ball to the play­maker who powered the ball across goal to give Manchester United a 4–3 win.

The Japan­ese inter­na­tional was full of praise for his fel­low Manchester United team­mate after the narrow and hard fought tri­umph against Han­nover 96.

Shinji Kagawa said, “Play­ing with Wayne Rooney cre­ates such an excit­ing atmo­sphere and he really senses when he is going to get an open­ing to shoot. My pur­pose is to help cre­ate those oppor­tun­it­ies for Rooney to shoot, if we have to get the ball under con­trol we can have those chances to get a shot away. It is such an hon­our to work along­side him and by play­ing with someone like him, allows me to develop to the next level. I will con­tinue to work as hard as I can.”