Amorim: Mazraoui cannot play

After the impressive 3-0 away win against Club Athletic last night, Manchester United now have to turn their attention to the rather meaningless Premier League game against Brentford at the weekend.

With the second leg of the semi-final to come next Thursday, Ruben Amorim has spoken to the press about the need to protect players for that game.

The first thing is that the players who are in risk to get injury will not play. No matter what. We need to take a risk in [doing] that. And then we are going to assess tomorrow [Friday] and the next day, who are the best players to start the game.

Then we have to be careful because we are Manchester United and we cannot go to a game without thinking we can win this game. So the process is going to be like that. It’s going to be tough, but we pass so many things this year. It’s one more. Let’s see.

There are some positions that we don’t have more players. For example, Nous Mazraoui cannot play. He’s in the limit to get an injury. So we are going to deal with that and prepare a game against a team that they won today and is in a great moment. And we have always a responsibility to perform. We have always a responsibility to offer the result. But in this moment, we have to be clear. Our focus is more on saving players and trying to be competitive. It’s not a good thing to say, but we need to understand the context.

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