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		</div><p>Jesse Lingard has revealed how a heart-to-heart with Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer helped give him a second chance to kick-start his season.</p>
<p>The 26-year-old midfielder found himself taking on more family responsibilities for his younger brother and sister after his mother fell ill.</p>
<p>Lingard admits the extra burden had impacted on his playing performances during the first part of the current campaign.</p>
<p>However, after opening up to Solskjaer and making a return to form, the midfielder is looking forward to tackling the challenges ahead.</p>
<p><em>“I am normally quite bubbly and want to put smiles on people’s faces, but people have seen the change in my ways,”</em> Lingard told the Daily Mail.</p>
<p><em>“I have been down and glum; just worrying. I felt like everybody just passed all the stuff to me and it weighed on my shoulders. It was like, ‘Here you go Jesse, you deal with this on your own’.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Lingard added:<em> “I wasn’t performing and he was on me all the time. He (Solskjaer) wanted more from me.</em></p>
<p><em>“I felt it was best to get everything off my chest and tell him why my head wasn’t right, so I knocked on his door.”</em></p>
<p>The England international feels he can now focus on playing again.</p>
<p><em>“When I came on the manager said to me, ‘just go on and play with a smile and enjoy it’. To hear that gives you confidence. He knows what kind of character I am. I need to be smiling,”</em> Lingard said.</p>
<p>“He has just told me that everything will be OK. Maybe I just needed someone to say that.</p>
<p>“He said he just wanted the old Jesse back and maybe I can give him that now.”</p>
<p>Lingard added: <em>“As a man I have to take this responsibility on and be there for everyone. I’ve had to mature and wise up.</em></p>
<p><em>“Sometimes when your worries are so deep you can’t function properly. Now it’s about getting back to my best and I feel I can do that.”</em></p>
<p>In a wide-ranging interview, Lingard also reflected on his England ambitions and targeting a return to being a regular in Gareth Southgate’s squad ahead of the Euro 2020 finals.</p>
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<p>The midfielder also talked about his social media activity and friendship with Paul Pogba.</p>
<p>Lingard drew criticism for a crude video he made while on holiday with United team-mate Marcus Rashford which was briefly uploaded to his personal Snapchat account.</p>
<p><em>“It genuinely was a mistake to post it. I have a lot of young followers and I would never put that out there deliberately,”</em> he said.</p>
<p><em>“It was an accident. I was meaning to send it privately to one of my friends. I was on a plane waiting to take off. Someone from the club texted me and said, ‘take the video down’.</em></p>
<p><em>‘When I realised what I had done, my heart just sank into my stomach. I was like, ‘I am done at United now. This is the final straw’.”</em></p>
<p>Lingard gave a personal apology when returning early to the club, having been told he was on his “last chance” by the manager.</p>
<p><em>“He said I had to get my head down and that is what I have done. I am not stupid,”</em> Lingard added.</p>
<p><em>“There is no way I was going to let what I have at this club be taken away.</em></p>
<p><em>“On the whole I have cut down on my social media stuff now. You do what you have to do.”</em></p>
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