Manchester United midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan pleased with his performance against West Ham

Bastian Schweinsteiger returned from his Manchester United exile with a late substitute appearance in Wednesday’s EFL Cup quarter-final against West Ham.

“I’m so happy with his performance today because it was against a Premier League team with Premier League qualities and characteristics”, said Mourinho.

“We’ve done a good job”.

Mkhitaryan was asked how he felt about his performance afterwards and answered: ‘I’m more pleased we won.

These similarities are reflected both in their league positions – United, in sixth place, are only a point ahead of Everton – and the fact they have conceded the same number of goals, with United having scored 18 to Everton’s 16.

Fletcher told whufc.com: “It can only give me a lot of confidence getting my first goal for West Ham and I go into every game thinking I can score and now I have got my first one, hopefully many more will follow. Perhaps now we will see Andy Carroll make his return after another long injury absence?”

“The Gunners have been in the top four all season, are yet to lose away from the Emirates Stadium and are unbeaten in twelve Premier League matches”.

“Yesterday (Tuesday) we worked really well and everybody was prepared”.

A long clearance by West Ham goalie Adrian was headed back to the feet of Wayne Rooney, whose pass bisected Hammers’ midfield to release Henrikh Mkhitaryan goalwards.

A second for Ibrahimovic in the 93rd minute secured an impressive victory for United, who face Hull City on January 10 in the last four. You can’t expect anything here when you have such a slow start to the game.

ZLATAN Ibrahimovic and Anthony Martial hit a brace apiece as Manchester United emphatically ended West Ham United’s EFL Cup hopes at Old Trafford.

The former Germany captain has only recently returned to the first-team squad after being frozen out by Mourinho and received a huge ovation as he came on.

“But today was against a proper and a typical Premier League team and Mikhi could perform this way”.

Now let’s see if United can take the stellar form that they displayed here and carry that over into Premier League play.