Manchester United Fans Enjoyed My Goal Against City – Rooney

Wayne Rooney said it was a “sweet moment” to score the 200th Premier League goal of his career in Everton’s draw at Manchester City on Monday night.

The 31-year-old became just the second player to accomplish the feat after Alan Shearer, who finished his career with 260 goals in the Premier League, which began under its current format in 1992.

“It was nice,” Rooney said about his record goal after the game. “To do it today in such an important game for us, with tough games coming up, it was a sweet moment and I am sure the red half of Manchester will have enjoyed it as well.”

“To join Alan Shearer, that amount of goals, obviously a lot to do to catch Alan,” Rooney laughed. “No, but obviously it’s a great moment and hopefully a lot more to come.”

“The manager has made it clear he wants to play me in the attacking positions,” Rooney said. “I have done that throughout my career and the thing for me is to play. I didn’t play as much last year and if you don’t play you don’t get that match fitness.”

“We can certainly improve. It is early days obviously,” he said. “We have made a lot of signings this summer. We are ambitious, we try to move forward. Time will tell, we aim to get better hopefully over the next year or two and hopefully that brings success.

“Everton have shown their ambition. We are trying to close that gap on the top teams.”
Koeman said Rooney’s resurgence did not come as a shock.

“I am not surprised about Wayne Rooney,” the manager said. “I know how eager he was to come back to Everton. We are really happy that he is back.

“In the first game when we played Stoke at home, there was a difference between him and the rest about cleverness in the game, view of the game and also tonight he had a big impact on the final result.”