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Jose Mourinho: Injury crisis will NOT weaken Man Utd's 'amazing squad' for Chelsea clash
JOSE MOURINHO says Manchester United losing four players to injury will not weaken them this weekend.
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United are without Michael Carrick, Marcos Rojo, Daley Blind and Phil Jones who all picked up injuries last week.
But Mourinho insists that United have an amazing squad that will help them manage.
Many are expecting Louis van Gaal to have to play a weakened side to cope with the casualties, but Mourinho doesn’t accept that will be the case.
He said: “I disagree because their squad is amazing.
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Their squad is amazing.
“In numbers, in players, in experience, in solutions, their squad is amazing.
“Every week I have in my office not the team that I am going to play against but the squad on the big screen.
“And this week when I arrive in the room for the first time in the week I realised what they have is amazing.”
United are going to be particularly short in the centre of defence with Jonny Evans also unavailable but Mourinho said: “They have Smalling - of course they don’t have Evans and Jones - but Van Gaal is a fantastic coach to bring up players.
“The kids, they played a lot of matches - they are more than ready.”
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