Manchester United squad vs Watford revealed

Manchester United squad vs Watford revealed

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has named a 21-man squad for the Premier League fixture vs Watford.

Jose Mourinho is set to make at least one change to the�Manchester United�side that lost to Feyenoord against Watford after he omittedMatteo Darmian�from his 21-man squad.

Darmian made his first start of the campaign in the midweek Europa League defeat but was one of a number of players who under-performed in Rotterdam and was not spotted boarding the train to London at Stockport Station on Saturday afternoon.

Marcos Rojo,�derided by the majority of United supporters during and after his poor performance, has managed to remain in the squad.

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Jesse Lingard�remains sidelined after his shoddy showing in last week's derby defeat, while Timothy Fosu-Mensah will not make the matchday teamsheet, either. Injured pair Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Matteo Darmian remain unavailable.

The apparent absences of Lingard and Mkhitaryan could reprieve Juan Mata, who was substituted for the fourth time this season against Feyenoord. Mata might start on the right of United's attack, with Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Wayne Rooney set to be restored to the starting line-up.

United players board their train

"It's obvious we left Valencia and Shaw back to play and to be fresh," Mourinho told BT Sport. "So we go back to a normal team obviously without so many changes.

"I don?t want to go into that direction [singling out bad performers], I don't want to personalise. Some of the players were playing their first minute of the season, not many minutes for them, but some players played better than others, but I cannot just judge them after one game.

"And I have to understand one thing it's players like them playing with their best team, with the boys who play week after week and they have already six matches in competition against some of my guys who played today their first minute."
United have lost their last two games

Mourinho recently assembled 20-man squads in preparation for the Premier League games against Hull and City, as well as the trip to Feyenoord, but 21 United players travelled south on Saturday.

Fosu-Mensah could make his first appearance of the season at Northampton in the EFL Cup on Wednesday.

Mourinho last suffered three successive defeats as a manager in 2002, when he managed Portuguese club Uniao de Leiria.

Ahead of Sunday's game. Mourinho defended world record signing Paul Pogba over his recent form.

        "The world record player is always a question that will be open until somebody breaks the record and I think that there are clubs that paid �20million, �30m, �40m which is a bigger deal than what Man United paid for Paul," Mourinho explained.

Blind or Smalling could start

"You make a relation between what you pay and the club revenue and you realise that other clubs paying 20, 30, �40m is a much bigger thing than what Man United did and I just want Paul to forget that and to play his football.

      "He had no pre-season, Euro 2016 final, no pre-season, holidays, come back, it?s normal that in the first week he had the very good impact in the first game.

"It?s normal that after the first game he has a little decrease, but I am full of trust with him because I know the player he is. I know he is a very good guy with a lot of ambition so the form will come naturally and will come with the team improving.

"The team improves, he will improve. No problem."

Full squad: De Gea, Johnstone, Romero, Blind, Bailly, Smalling, Young, Rooney, Rashford, Shaw, Carrick, Pogba, Schneiderlin, Valencia, Martial, Depay, Fellaini, Ibrahimovic, Mata, Herrera, Rojo