Manchester United News: Major announcement, Mourinho message to Rashford, injury update

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Roy Keane launches attack on Jose Mourinho

The second Manchester derby of the season will take place on Thursday April 27.

The game at the Etihad was due to take place on February 26 but had to be postponed because United were in the EFL Cup final.

It is one of nine games for United in April.

Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho has told Marcus Rashford to remain patient as he searches for his first Premier League goal since September.

"Marcus is a completely different player to Zlatan," said Mourinho. "We have to try to play and adapt to his qualities. Rashford is in trouble to score a goal, it's really difficult to score a goal for him, but his movement is top class.

"His dynamic [play] is second to no-one. He's so intelligent and so sharp.

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The Manchester derby will take place next month

"The first touch is to put the ball in the best position to attack the space and to attack the goal. For me, he played phenomenally.

"The goal will arrive, no problem at all, but, of course, we had no Zlatan, no Paul Pogba and we lose Henrikh Mkhitaryan [who was an unused substitute]. These are people who want the ball, who want to control the game by having the ball.

"So we played differently and gave more of the ball to our opponents, dropped our line back a little bit and attacked the spaces."

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Rashford hasn't scored in the league since September

Jose Mourinho believes Jesse Lingard’s ankle injury is not serious after the 24-year-old was forced off during their 3-1 win over Middlesbrough.

"I think it is something in his ankle, I don't think anything big," Mourinho said.

"It looks to me like it's minor stuff."

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