Wayne Rooney inspires Manchester United to a comprehensive victory

A Wayne Rooney special goal to couple it with an assist and some brilliant individual performances on a European night.

The Red devils were absolutely lethal in the night.

It was one of the important games to stay in hunt for a place in last 32 and Manchester United just played like that.

The hunger to score, the eagerness to get the ball every time it was with opponents, it was the kind of performance one expects to see from a United team.

Wayne Rooney was the star of the night, as he broke European goal scoring record for Manchester United.

As soon as he chipped the goalkeeper to open the scoring in the 35th minute, a move which he started himself and finished, he went past Ruud van Nisterlooy of scoring most goals in European competitions for Manchester United. He now moves to 39 goals.

Rooney assisted another for Juan Mata to score with a sublime reverse pass to make it 2-0 for United in 70th minute. Manchester United look ever hungry to score goals as  they added two more, an own goal from goalkeeper Brad Jones, trying to save a Zlatan Ibrahimovic shot and a stunning finish from substitute Jese Lingard in the dying minutes of the match.

Manchester United had 12 shots on target, most in Mourinho's era till now.
It's also the biggest win since the arrival of José Mourinho.

One player who proved himself on the night was Henrikh Mkhitaryan. He displayed an absolutely brilliant individual performance like he did all the time in Germany.
He got heavily involved in a number of chances and deserved a goal to his name but unfortunately didn't. He showed Mourinho what he had been missing. 

A player of his calibre deserves to start and even José Mourinho agreed in the post match conference.

Read what Mourinho had to say on Wayne Rooney's record breaking goal, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and more.

"It's an amazing achievement obviously," Mourinho said of Rooney at his post-match media conference.

"His performance was like the team performance. We showed direction even at 1-0 up, we want to score more goals and get into a position where we are ahead of them in a situation where there are two or three teams on the same points.

"It will be even better if he can help the club to win the one trophy they don't have in their history which is the Europa League.

"I know it's not the biggest competition, but let's push. Let's qualify, I know there are a lot of knockout games, but let's try."

Mourinho heaped praise on Mkhitaryan too.

Mourinho said: "I am very happy. We coped very well with the pressure on our shoulders - it was a good solid performance.

"Some players had chances, like Sergio Romero who made a double save at 0-0 and Mkhitaryan who put in a good individual performance.

"I think now Mkhitaryan just has to replicate this kind of performance in the Premier League.

"The Premier League is a level higher and he needs to replicate that in the Premier League with more physicality, with more pressure.

"But the quality we knew - that was why we brought him to the club. He has great quality."

And about Jese Lingard's superb late goal.

He added: "The goal was amazing. If it is another team scoring that goal with another manager on the touchline people would say that it's magic. But not Man United and not a Mourinho team."

It felt great to see Manchester United get back to winning ways in a must win game.

This performance if replicated in Premier league will surely make it even more exciting.

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Wayne Rooney gets in trouble over inappropriate photo

FA to investigate Wayne Rooney's matter

Reports have emerged that The Football Association will be conducting a "proper investigation" to find out about what did Wayne Rooney and any of its staff were involved in last Saturday night.

Rooney has "unreservedly" apologised to interim England Manager Gareth Southgate, The Football Association and football supporters in general after some inappropriate pics went viral on the social media and everywhere else.

The Sun printed a photo of Wayne Rooney in which he was seen partying with two women, probably in an inebriated state.

The FA has made it clear that the overnight free time, which has been in place for a number of years, will now be under the scanner.

The allegations also suggests some England's backroom staff members were also there with him at the party.

Source: ESPN

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7 players to miss Manchester United's clash against Arsenal

The task getting tougher for José Mourinho and Manchester United 

It's been said that seven players are about to miss one of the most important clash of the season.

Manchester United made a perfect start to the season winning their first 3 matches but after that they didn't manage to click , lost their rhythm and now find themselves lagging behind at 6th position. 

As they face Asene Wenger's fourth placed Arsenal this Saturday, it will be a daunting task for them given the fact that several first team players will miss the match. 

Two of Manchester United's four summer signings will miss the clash, Eric Bailly who sustained a ligament injury a couple of games ago will miss and Zlatan Ibrahimovic who got his fifth yellow card of the season in previous match against Swansea will be serving his first suspension of the season. It will be a huge boost for Arsenal as Eric Bailly is considered as one of the best defenders this season and Zlatan Ibrahimovic regained his goal scoring form after scoring a brace. 

Chris Smalling and Luke Shaw are also suffering injury crisis, but even they are fit they will hardly be picked as they were openly criticized by the gaffer recently for not committing  enough to the winning cause. 

Marouane Fellaini also picked up a knock on international break and will be facing a race against time to be fit for the weekend clash. 

Wayne Rooney in the match against Scotland also picked up a minor knee injury and returned to Manchester. He also missed the friendly against Spain last Tuesday and is most likely to miss Arsenal game. 

Last one is right back Antonio Valencia, who is recovering from a fractured arm at a much quicker rate will be kept on the bench as José Mourinho wouldn't want to risk him. 

Arsenal also have their own injury problems 

Santi Cazorla will not be there as his return date is not confirmed. 

Hector Bellerin picked up an injury while on duty with Spain U-23 squad and may miss the game. 

Alexis Sanchez's selection in Chile squad was questioned by Arsene Wenger as he was suffering from muscle injury but he seemed to have overcome his injury after featuring in the game against Uruguay and also scoring a brace.

Though, Arsenal will make sure he is completely fit before crunch clash once he returns to Emirates. 

It will be a huge boost for Arsenal if he is in the squad. 

Manchester United hosts Arsenal this Saturday in a crucial Premier League clash. 

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