Jose Mourinho provides injury update ahead of the game against Crystal Palace and spokes out on Smalling contract

Manchester United already sit 12 points off the pace in eighth places, with four defeats and they welcome Crystal Palace to Old Trafford on Saturday. Ahead of the game, Manchester United boss, Jose Mourinho has spoken out to the press. The coach has confirmed all players are fit for tomorrow:” Martial stayed with us, he didn’t go to the national team, the national team was aware of his problems and with permission he stayed, he worked really hard on that. I like to kill that a pre-injury because problems in the muscles around it, they are a dangerous situation and he was in a pre-injury situation, he worked really hard, he’s ready for tomorrow, he plays for tomorrow, is he ready to play three in a row in the same week I don’t know but the most important match is the next. Fellaini also stayed, no national team, they also let him stay in spite of playing 90 mins against Manchester City, he needed to stay and prepare himself better after such an injury that he had before so Marouane is also good. and the boys in the national teams, Rashford came with a little problem but is ready, Lukaku is ready, I would say ready with a little bit of a risk but ready and Paul we knew with this break he would recover from that small muscular injury, so we don’t have players I can say are out of the game tomorrow, we have a huge 23 group to choose for tomorrow.” When asked how United can improve their home form Mourinho said: “The supporters cannot do more than what they are doing, we went through a diff period of results and the supporters were fantastic, they support the team and in some matches even push the team for different levels of where we were at the time and we cannot ask more from them. It’s us to give them and make them go to an even better level, is for us.” More from the press conference Do you have to ask for more from your players in these home games? For us. Team. And of course we need points, of course, we need points, results, we need performances because we also like good performances in the top of points and good results so is up to us, we were playing well and getting good results until one of the last periods, of course, we lost the last match but I don’t consider at all a bad performance and two weeks with a small group of player, waiting for news, good news, bad news in national teams no time to work together but we were in a good moment, playing well, so why not stay the same, to improve and to get good results because of course need now to get points to jump into the position we are in the championships and next week with the Champions League we need points against Young Boys. You said a few weeks ago you believe your team will be around the top four by the end of the year, do you still believe that? I know. I know it’s a big gap but I also know until the end of December if I’m not wrong we have 8 Premier League matches to play, and 8 Premier League matches we are speaking about 24 points, 24 points for us to fight for the other ones in the top four to fight too but I believe we are going to be there. Is it correct Chris Smalling has opened contract talks? I don’t know, honestly, I don’t know.

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