Jose Mourinho has suggested Manchester United would not have lost the Manchester derby had the 18-year-old forward, Marcus Rashford, started the game.
Rashford was introduced after half-time and almost scored the equalizer, if Zlatan who was on offside position, had not deflected his shot.
He might have scored the equaliser but his shot deflected off Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who was in an
Mourinho hinted he had made a mistake to overlook the teenager in favour of Jesse Lingard and Henrikh Mkhitaryan – and that had he not ‘we could be speaking about a different result’.
“I felt they had the fragility on the sides and the kids could give us that in the second half on the sides what we didn’t get with Miki and Jesse in the first half.
“He (Rashford) did that for us and because we were playing with Herrera behind Fellaini and Pogba.
“I knew that Fellaini and Pogba were going to be in the box all the time so I thought the game was going to be very direct like it was.
“So I think we read the game really well, the kid gave us what we had needed in the first half and normally we would be here now speaking about a different result.”
“For me the next big game is against Feyenoord and the next game he is going to play. That is the only thing I can say.
“I trust him completely. I know his future will be absolutely brilliant.”s