Mourinho agrees with this, saying that Rashford is “absolutely brilliant” and that he will start for the Red Devils in Rotterdam on Thursday evening.
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After entering the fray as a second-half substitute on Saturday, Rashford was only denied an equaliser against City when his shot deflected in off the Swede who, unfortunately, was in an offside position.
Bravo was thrown straight in at the deep end as City made the short trip to Manchester United, where his composure disappeared with his clean sheet when he failed to deal with a Wayne Rooney free-kick.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the other main striker, has been prolific but a little stodgy in his movement and Mourinho suggested he may even choose to play both strikers through the centre in future.
The pair were removed at half-time and the hosts looked much more risky with the introduction of Ander Herrera and Marcus Rashford in their place.
“For me, the next big game is against Feyenoord and the next game he (Rashford) is going to play”, he said. He [Rashford] is going to play is the only thing I can say.
“I’ll help him every day, him and all the others, in any way I can”, he admitted. He’s a man of great pride, but they’ll respond, it’s still early days, and it doesn’t tell us about the league title and where it’s going.
“They didn’t give me what I want”.
And the contest saw the Blues, particularly in the first half, once again produce the sort of slick, passing football with which their new manager has for so always been associated.
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“The season is just starting, we don’t lose, we learn”. The kid Jesse – how many times has he played big matches? “We started the game bad, with some players really below their normal level in terms of their concentration”. “But to get back to the Champions League we need to do well in the Premier League, so the first step is to recover the self-esteem, which I think we are doing”.
