Jose Mourinho decries ‘enemies’ after Pogba blow during Europa League win over Rostov

Jose Mourinho said “enemies” were undermining his team after Paul Pogba was injured in a 1-0 victory over FC Rostov that sent Manchester United into the Europa League quarter-finals.

Pogba, who turned 24 on Wednesday, hobbled off with a hamstring injury early in the second half of Thursday’s 1-0 win, which completed a 2-1 aggregate last-16 success.

United had previously played on Monday, losing 1-0 at Chelsea in the FA Cup quarter-finals after going down to 10 men, and travel to Middlesbrough in the Premier League on Sunday.

In an apparent reference to United’s domestic fixture schedulers, Mourinho complained: “We have lots of enemies. Normally the enemies should be Rostov, but we have a lot of enemies.

“It’s difficult to play Monday with 10 men. It’s difficult to play now. It’s difficult to play 12 o’clock on Sunday. We have a lot of enemies.”

Mourinho said Pogba would be out for around three weeks, ruling him out of the trip to Middlesbrough and France’s forthcoming games against Luxembourg and Spain.