United fixture list a ´poisoned gift´ – Mourinho

Juan Mata is hopeful that Manchester United’s Europa League victory over Zorya Luhansk on Thursday will kickstart the club’s season.

Of United’s creativity in front of goal, Ibrahimovic added: “We play as a team, we create as a team and we are trying”.

“I had on the bench players to change the game, I used three but I had different attacking options”.

Victory gives United a crucial 3 points in the Europa League Group Stage, after their first round defeat to Feyenoord.

“We had a good game, we won, and it’s good for confidence, but we need to step it up and do a lot more”. That creates a very hard situation, but we want to try and qualify for the next round. We’ve seen what he’s done in his career and he wants to win trophies with Man United as well. “We are trying to play in a different way”, he said.

“Long time to go, nearly a month”.

However, despite spending vast sums of money on new players, United have been sluggish at times already this season and it appears they have a long way to go before challenging for the title.

Asked if he tried to get the Liverpool game moved back from Monday or whether that was impossible, Mourinho said: “I think it is impossible”.

“We have to run behind him because we need depth in the game. We did that”, said the Swedish striker.

A much better performance than this will be needed in those matches, but for the here and now a win, any kind, will do.

“If we continue this and step it up, we will do good”.

Manchester United are unbeaten in their last 16 home games in all competitions against the Stoke (W15) winning the last 13 in a row.

“I was very happy with my guys’ performance”, said beaten manager Yuriy Vernydub, whose side are now second in the Ukrainian Premier League.

“It was a big honour for Wazza [Rooney] to give me the armband and play as the captain of Manchester United”.