Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho revealed that his side will not give up in their chase to finish in the top four after a routine 3-0 win at bottom club Sunderland yesterday saw them leapfrog Arsenal into fifth in the Premier League.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Marcus Rashford were on target for Manchester United, with Sunderland heading back to the drawing board ahead of next weekend's home tie against West Ham United.
"I think we have been a bit unlucky this season, if we had just turned three of our draws into wins - and I know which ones - we would now be stable in the top four and playing for second or third".
Mourinho will certainly have approved of the final result at the Stadium of Light, which sees United move to within four points of the Champions League places.
The 26-year-old made several errors and had little command of his box, with it clear that he was struggling with the physicality of English football in his early years (he was even dropped in favour of Anders Lindegaard, who is now playing at Preston).
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"After Liverpool and Manchester City's victories, if we didn't win today it's nearly mathematically impossible (to finish fourth)". You need these players to break it. Substitute Rashford added gloss to the scoreline in the 89th minute. We know we go to Brussels for the Europa League and it is more hard for us but we keep fighting.
"He didn't make mistakes, he was confident on the ball and he was focused so easy for me to tell him it was good, solid performance". "We're still there, trying to put some pressure on to go into the last month still fighting", Mourinho said. We controlled the match and with the second goal immediately, it was finished.
And Ibrahimovic says he feels "more intelligent" in his approach to the game at this late stage of his career.
It resumes its campaign with a quarterfinal first leg in Belgium against Anderlecht on Thursday. "I thought about changing him at half-time because he'd been booked and I needed to be sure he'd be available for the next game but then thought that would be too harsh".
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