Mourinho: Lukaku can’t rest until Ibrahimovic returns

United have fared well without their star player, as they have continued their unbeaten run in both the Premier and Champions league.

Mourinho refused to take credit for Lukaku’s blistering start, instead insisting it is the result of hard work and steady, gradual improvement since he arrived in the Premier League as an 18-year-old in 2011.

Lukaku scored his seventh of the Premier League campaign, equaling a United record held by Andrew Cole, as Mourinho’s side thumped Crystal Palace 4-0 to keep pace with neighbours Manchester City at the top of the table.

“Look, without Zlatan we can not rotate the striker, especially because Marcus Rashford is playing also in other positions”, Mourinho told reporters.

“I feel really good”.

“All managers are different”.

“Without Zlatan, we can not rotate the striker, especially because Marcus Rashford is playing also in other positions”, he said.

“They do not play what we would consider to be a 100% Scottish style. Ibra, Pogba, Rojo, I don’t think about these players”.

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“It is just four matches at home”, said Mourinho. Mourinho thought it was the strongest CSKA team in years but we never got to find out because United didn’t let them settle: the speed that brought their first early goal left the Russians bewildered.

“The most successful club in England and hopefully we can add to the trophies we won last season and hopefully win some more”.

Our pick for top spot is a player we’re a big fan of, Kevin De Bruyne. I don’t say that we played well for 90 minutes because sometimes we have periods where we lose a bit our consistency, our intensity.

Erik Sviatchenko and Eboue Kouassi remain out but defender Dedryck Boyata came through 90 minutes against Rangers after a recent injury.

After picking up 19 points from seven league games, United are second in the standings below neighbours Manchester City on goal difference.

Manager Roy Hodgson admitted he faces a tough fight to avoid relegation, but believes it can be done. Up until now, the Portuguese has played 11 against a Russian opponent (as a manager) and has emerged victorious in 8 of them with Wednesday’s triumph being the latest one.

“But the lessons we are learning could stand us in very good stead”.

Ex-Colchester youth product Ladapo joined Palace from Margate a year ago, but has yet to feature in a competitive fixture for the first team.

The ex-Leeds player wrote in the Irish independent, “All of this came about because he had to replace Diego Costa and I’m convinced that Conte knew he wanted to offload his problem player as early as last Christmas and babied him through the final months of the season”.