Marcus Rashford to start for Manchester United at Feyenoord

Goals from Kevin De Bruyne and Kelechi Iheanacho gave City an early lead before Zlatan Ibrahimovic pulled one back for the Red Devils after capitalising on Claudio Bravo’s minor slip up in the first half.

Pogba improved in the second half as Manchester United pressed for an equalizer that would have been undeserved had it happened, given City’s overall dominance. “Ander was phenomenal in his attitude”, Mourinho told reporters.

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has taken the blame for his side’s derby defeat to Manchester City at Old Trafford on Saturday.

Mourinho said he viewed Rashford as an out-and-out striker, but conceded the forward had offered his team a better outlet when deployed on the wing against City than established wide players such as Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Jesse Lingard.

“So if you’re asking me if they’re going to play against Feyenoord (in United’s Europa League group game in Holland), then no”. I think he has intention, because even though the arm is behind his body, he knows the cross is not going in his face, it’s going in his back’.

“In here (in the press conference), we will be speaking about a completely different story”.

“It is more hard because it is a big decision and sometimes the referees they are like us, they are human and they think twice before big decisions. Performances are the only way that I can decide”, he said, as reported by The Sun, who claim he was left furious with their displays. “We are very happy that he is here with us and we are very relaxed with him, and that’s it. Making your debut in a derby like this is not easy but I thought he played well”.

United’s 100% start to the 2015-16 season was brought to a juddering halt on Saturday (10 September) after defeat against arch rivals Manchester City.

“Other players were also not playing really well and obviously, as well as my decision, I don’t like to go in the direction of singling out players”.