Man Utd, We're in trouble…. Mourinho
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has expressed his
frustration at the Red Devils's growing injury list, with Zlatan Ibrahimovic
and Marcos Rojo both now out of action
Mourinho
has conceded that Manchester United are "in trouble" after their injury
crisis worsened ahead of Sunday's meeting with Burnley.
Defensively
the United are down to the bare bones, with Marcos Rojo having now joined Chris
Smalling and Phil Jones on the treatment table.
Zlatan
Ibrahimovic also suffered a potentially season-ending injury in the 2-1 win
over Anderlecht on Thursday night to add to Mourinho's problems ahead of
Sunday's meeting with Burnley.
And
the Portuguese could not hide his frustration at the situation at Old Trafford
today. He told reporters: “Eric Bailly has played six matches in a row - 540
minutes in a row.
"We
lost Rojo, we don’t have Jones, we don’t have Smalling.
“We
are in trouble and, now, we lose Zlatan too but, in attack, we have options:
Rooney is coming and let’s see if Mata can also return before the end of the
season. Let’s see what happens.
“Herrera
plays [against Burnley]. He didn’t play on Thursday – one yellow card and he
would have missed the semi-finals. I was thinking about him and [fellow
substitute Marouane] Fellaini both at the same time but, because I made a
change with Marcos Rojo, I couldn’t do that and he didn’t play.
“So
Herrera is fresh to play. Ashley Young is fresh to play and who else? Nobody
else is fresh to play! Now we need absolutely everyone and I don’t have to
think about Axel Tuanzebe going to the Under-20 World Cup in Korea because
maybe Axel has to come now. We need everybody.”
United
are on an eight-game unbeaten run in all competitions, with their last defeat
coming in the FA Cup against Chelsea.
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