The 18-year-old winger hopes he performed well enough to make his old club regret letting him go as his new side picked up a narrow win <\/p>\n
Jadon Sancho admits he had “a point to prove” in Borussia Dortmund’s 1-0 International Champions Cup win over Manchester City.<\/p>\n
A penalty from Mario Gotze gave Lucien Favre’s side the victory over the Premier League champions at Soldier Field.<\/p>\n
Sancho had something of a fractious relationship with City during his final months at the club and took the chance to leave for Dortmund on deadline day last August.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n The 18-year-old, who made 12 Bundesliga appearances last season, says he was particularly motivated against his former employers.<\/p>\n “It was nice to see my old team-mates,” he said.<\/p>\n “I’m happy that we won and happy to play against my old club. I had a point to prove and I think I did well in the game. Hopefully, it carries on through the season.<\/p>\n “I’m very motivated for the season, very excited. We have a special team.”<\/p>\n Head coach Favre described Sancho as a player with “exceptional potential” and the winger is keen to repay that faith in what he hopes will be a positive season for Dortmund.<\/p>\n “I’m happy to hear it. I’m glad he has faith in me,” he said.<\/p>\n “I just want to have a great season. Goals, lots of assists, help the team win and carry the team sometimes. We can reach anything with this squad.”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 18-year-old winger hopes he performed well enough to make his old club regret letting him go as his new side picked up a narrow win Jadon Sancho admits he had “a point to prove” in Borussia Dortmund’s 1-0 International Champions Cup win over Manchester City. A penalty from Mario Gotze gave Lucien Favre’s side…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n