Mourinho: Goals Will Come For Rashford

The goals will soon flow again for Marcus Rashford, according to Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho.

The England striker led the line on his own during the 3-1 win over Middlesbrough and unsettled the home defence throughout with his pace and movement. However, he was twice denied by Victor Valdes in the first half as the scoring was ultimately left to Marouane Fellaini, Jesse Lingard and Antonio Valencia.

Despite drawing a blank, the teenager earned considerable praise from his boss in deputising for the suspended Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who was serving the second of his three-match ban.

"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. 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."