While Manchester United secured qualification for the second stage of the Champions League, Chilean forward, Alexis Sanchez was not involved.
This was not due to an injury as Mourinho explained and it seems all might not be well between the two
“No he is not injured, but it is quite curious because you always speak about the ones who are not playing,” Mourinho stated “Today you had Rashford as a 9, that’s what you want, what you ask all the time, it’s what you had.
“So don’t speak about Lukaku and tell me he hasn’t score at Old Trafford since March, then you ask why he’s not playing.
“You put me in difficult situations, with difficult questions, but you could be nice to me and say; ‘tonight, Jose, you play Rashford as a 9’ and I could go from there. But no, you say I left big names outside.”
Mourinho added: “Yes I did, but I play other guys and for me the good thing is those who played gave everything and I’m happy with their attitude.”
Rashford was unable to score, but Mourinho doesn’t regret starting him stating that his workrate was one of the reasons he was picked in the first place.
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“We don’t score enough, but it’s not about Marcus, it’s about the team,” Mourinho said. “It’s difficult for us to score goals, but Marcus makes the runs, works hard when we do and don’t have the ball and I can never blame a player because of a missing chances.
“Can I have on the touchline – where not a lot of the ones that comment on football were there – can myself or another manager [have a] reaction of frustration?
“I would invite those people to sit on the bench as managers, but I think its maybe better to have lots of holidays in Barbados and sit in a TV studio and touch the electronic dummies, I think it’s much more comfortable than to be on the touchline.
“I’m pretty sure a proper football manger would never criticise an emotional reaction on the touchline because it’s deja vu for them. For those who have a nice life, it’s different.”
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