Mourinho explains why Mkhitaryan didn't start
“One thing is fit and not injured, another thing is match fitness, match intensity and ready to play this game. I play with Lingard and Martial and I have Rashford and Memphis on the bench, I cannot play with everyone at the same time. Mikhi has not played for a long time.””
“As I was saying it’s not the most important competition but we don’t want to throw it away and being in a group like we are, if you change too much and don’t respect the opponents we have a big risk of not qualifying, so we have to try. Not full strength, not the team that will be playing in case we don’t have a match on the Sunday but we have good balance in the team.”
“I’m a bit tired of that conversation really, first of all because we have a game today and on Sunday another one. Why your approach isn’t the phenomenal team couldn’t beat us, and why they couldn’t.”