Though Lukaku is grabbing all the headlines, Mourinho – speaking to Sky Sports – praised his entire team’s effort for their Champions League group-stage win in Russian Federation, with man-of-the-match Anthony Martial grabbing a goal and two assists and Henrikh Mkhitaryan scoring in the second half before CSKA’s consolation goal. Each team has to play six matches.
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“I know there is no limit to the work I can do and I just want to provide as many assists and goals as I can”. We killed the game.
“I think the game also adapted to his qualities”, Mourinho told BT Sport.
“It was expected. 3-0 at half time was unexpected, but we started strongly”. We pressed them, we recovered and our counter attack was always strong and unsafe.
Harry Kane has already scored five Champions League goals this season, making him the top goalscorer after two games – two of those came in a 3-1 win against 2013 finalists Borussia Dortmund while a flawless hat-trick against APOEL made it five. They started off with a 1-2 come from behind win over Benfica. We have a game on Saturday.
Jose Mourinho heaped praise on Romelu Lukaku after the Belgian continued his remarkable scoring run by bagging a brace as Manchester United swept aside CSKA Moscow.
“He is having a great record”.
“A goal is always important even on a penalty but his contribution was very good, a pity he couldn’t play for 90 minutes because I was ready let him play the whole game”.
“The big test for all United strikers is whether he can score the big goals in the big games”.
He added: “There are Champions League matches that have really wowed me, like when I saw the final between Real Madrid and Juventus. Four more matches to play but we start really strong and we are nearly there”.
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Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho hopes Marouane Fellaini will be out for only about two weeks. We are showing we can adapt, play different formations and play in different ways.
