Man Utd sweat on Rashford injury

Manchester United will assess Marcus Rashford's knee injury after the England forward "felt something" during Wednesday's Champions League win over Benfica.

Rashford scored the only game at the Estadio da Luz with a 65th-minute free-kick that 18-year-old Benfica goalkeeper Mile Svilar spilled over the line, but the Academy graduate limped out of the game 12 minutes later after signalling to the bench that he felt discomfort in his knee.

"It is something in his knee," Mourinho told BT Sport.

"I thought it was cramp or a bit of fatigue but he said it is something he felt in his knee. 

"I hope it is nothing important."

Rashford, 19, has six goals and four assists for Manchester United in all competitions this season.

United are unbeaten in 12 matches in all competitions since the start of the season, and have a 100 percent record in Champions League Group A following victories over FC Basel, CSKA Moscow and now Benfica.

And Mourinho says he doesn't understand why his players do not get more credit for their defensive solidity, after conceding just twice in eight Premier League matches, and once in the Champions League. 

"I feel that sometimes defending properly is seen as a crime but it's not," the Portuguese continued. 

"That's why we controlled the game. The goal was not against the current - but 12 matches, 10 victories, 2 draws, nine clean sheets. We're not bad."

United were without injured forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic, midfielders Marouane Fellaini, Michael Carrick and Paul Pogba, and defenders Eric Bailly and Marcos Rojo for the game in Portugal, but Mourinho says injuries are part and parcel of a manager's life.

"There is another situation, maybe I'm guilty of," he said. 

"I never cry about injuries. Ibrahimovic, Pogba, Fellaini, Marcos Rojo. Other managers cry and cry. I can cry but I don't, so we do it with what we have."

You can watch all of Manchester United's Champions League campaign on the eir Sport package. Jose Mourinho's side face Basel, Benfica and CSKA Moscow in Group A. The Red Devils take on Benfica at Old Trafford on Tuesday, 31 October live on the eir Sport platform [kick off 7.45pm]

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