“It is not a competition I want, it is not a competition the players want”. I’ve gone with Chris Smalling to warm him up to pair Eric Bailly at Vicarage Road, where Blind shouldn’t have to come up against Watford’s physical strikers.
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After being substituted off at half-time against City, Jesse Lingard appeared to be one of the players with whom Mourinho wasn’t so impressed.
“We are also going to play a very important game on Sunday”. In addition, playing in the Netherlands is a massive occasion even if the opposition is poor. “In the position he plays, I have lots of solutions”. Michael Carrick could come in to make his first start of the new season while Morgan Schneiderlin is also pushing for some game-time. “This is not a competition that Manchester United wants”, Mourinho said.
Jose Mourinho will have several strong players to choose from as the club their make first European appearance since exiting to Liverpool in the last 16 of the same competition last season, but the Portuguese coach has omitted Antonio Valencia, Luke Shaw and Wayne Rooney from his squad.
Mourinho says that young attacking sensation Marcus Rashford will play after his impressive second-half cameo along with midfielder Ander Herrera on Saturday.
With the decision of Wayne Rooney not playing, fans are concluding that the captain is resting.
“I will keep doing the same the manager wants me to play”. Ibrahimovic is United’s best bet for a goal this week, with the Swede hunting down a fifth goal in as many games.
Of course, Mourinho is not the reason why United is in the Europa League this season. “I think we want to do well in the competition and for a club of our dimension to do well is not to be out in the group phase”. I don’t expect a full side out, with the league looking like the main focus I think the Europa League will be used to sharpen players up and utilise the depth in the squad. I’ll try to have a strong team here and a strong team for Sunday. “The players are going to be punished, I am punished, [Feyenoord manager Giovanni] van Bronckhorst will be punished”.
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“I trust him completely and I know his future will be absolutely brilliant”, Mourinho said. But were also not included in the 20 man squad battling with Feyenoord.
