Henrikh Mkhitaryan was singled out for advice by Jose Mourinho during Manchester United's final training session ahead of their Europa League showdown with Celta Vigo on Thursday night.
"He's leading it, he's the manager, he's guiding us through and guiding the club through", he said. "My feelings, it's also the most important match of our history".
"Yes is all on the Europa league", said Mourinho, "but you can not say we did not try to win".
"We lost four players in one week, when we lost (Chris) Smalling and (Phil) Jones in the (England) national team and (Marcos) Rojo and Zlatan (Ibrahimovic) against Anderlecht (in the previous round)". "He's won everywhere he's been, so that's nearly enough".
"It is the competition we want to be in but in this moment we have to focus on where we are". I want to focus on where we are'.
Mourinho said: "I see a difference between games".
"It is important to be back in Champions League". Fighting for a title and on top of it the bonus of playing in the Champions League. But we will give everything we can.
The vacant spot in the Europa League is then left unfilled, with the highest ranked team in the first qualifying round receiving a bye to the second qualifying round. For the prestige and the finance, Champions League is Champions League.
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We shouldn't be conceding like that just because we switched off. "We have grown in respect to two years ago, when we were a surprise".
Manchester United midfielder Michael Carrick is "desperate" to end the season with Europa League glory.
"I am not speaking about myself". I am thinking about the club and I am thinking about the players. So hopefully tomorrow they have this feeling it's a semi-final second leg and more important than a quarter-final second leg.
It would be very important to fight for the only trophy the club has never won before. We have just a little group with European success. No one else did it before.
The two clubs have arguably had the most defining rivalry of the Premier League era in the past, with numerous bust-ups between players and staff on both sides during regular ill-tempered clashes. "Realistically this will be hard through the league".
Neville, on the other hand, placed emphasis on the importance of seeing Mourinho make more additions to the squad before fully judging his managerial style at Old Trafford. They managed to broke the defiance of the United in the second half when they scored two goals in the span of three minutes. They played from the first minute until the last minute. They'll have to hope they can quickly turn up their form to beat Celta Vigo and reach the final. So we have to fight tomorrow'. The win could not have been better timed and was Wenger's first over Jose Mourinho in a league game.
"The situation is simple". "17 matches in seven weeks, with 16 players is impossible". It was not a gamble. "A decision based on common sense", Mourinho told a news conference on Wednesday. 17 matches in seven weeks, April and May, with 16 players is completely impossible.
"They are a very good team, very unsafe when they play away and we will need our fans at home".
"It was not a gamble, just a outcome of our situation". No matter what, we are giving everything we can. "When you give everything, no problem".
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