Manchester United vs West Ham team news: Henrikh Mkhitaryan in line for start, says Jose Mourinho

James Benge25 November 2016

West Ham could face Henrikh Mkhitaryan after his man of the match display in Manchester United’s 4-0 Europa League win over Feyenoord, according to Jose Mourinho.

Mkhitaryan started just his second match since a summer move from Borussia Dortmund to Old Trafford on Thursday having been largely frozen out of Mourinho’s side since a disastrous performance in September’s Manchester derby.

Slaven Bilic brings his side to Manchester on Sunday eager to move away from the relegation zone but they may face an opponent eager to make an impression in the form of Mkhitaryan, who has been urged to pick up where he left off by his manager.

“He just needs now to replicate this kind of performance in the Premier League,” Mourinho said. “The Premier League is different – he needs one more step. Obviously now confidence levels are higher.

“This performance gives him the right to believe that he can play the next match again and he needs to replicate this kind of performance in the Premier League with more physicality and more aggression.

“He needs a little bit more of that but the quality – we know why we bought him, we know we were buying a player with a high level of technical quality. [He is] very intelligent and very bright, the way he reads the game, so good for him because the performance was good.”

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