Saturday 7 January 2017 17:16, UK
Jose Mourinho was buzzing with compliments after watching his Manchester United ease into the FA Cup fourth round on Saturday.
The Premier League hosts were much-changed for the visit of United legend Jaap Stam and his Championship side Reading, but scored four times, including Wayne Rooney's landmark 249th goal to stretch their unbeaten run to eight games.
"It was very professional, I could feel it from the first minute, there were two big chances already to score," Mourinho said after the 4-0 victory.
"The team was intense, the team was dynamic, playing well and then obviously, as we expected, they are good with the ball so when we give them the chance to have the ball, they had it and they moved the ball, created not big chances but some attacking football and for a long time the game was still open at 2-0.
"I'm really happy with our attitude. It just confirmed what I knew already [about the squad]. People are very professional, people train so well and because they train so well they can come here and perform the way they did.
"They train very well, they have a big desire to play, they are very good friends in-between them so they are always positive and when someone is not playing, he's motivating another one and waiting for their opportunity.
"Everybody that played gave a very good answer but it is no surprise to me."
Rooney may have grabbed the headlines but the performance of striker Marcus Rashford was one of the most pleasing aspects for the Portuguese coach.
The 19-year-old raced through to score his first in a one-on-one situation before pressuring Ali Al-Habsi into a calamitous error to round off the rout late on.
Mourinho added: "I spoke with him at half-time and told him I don't care with the goals he missed in the first half because he had a big responsibility in the way we were breaking their defensive line.
"He was playing so well, one more goal, one less goal, it doesn't change. But for an attacking player to score a goal means happiness, confidence, it was good for him.
"He's very fast and the team knows how to change between Marcus and Zlatan (Ibrahimovic), they are two different players, we know the kind of movements we have to do.
"With Marcus in the first half we were very objective and we created lots of problems to Reading."
