Blackburn Rovers striker wants team-mates to enjoy Manchester United contest

Manchester United have also reached the quarter-finals of the FA Cup and are likely to progress in the Europa League.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a late victor for United after Marcus Rashford had equalised for Mourinho’s men at Ewood Park following Danny Graham’s opener, and Chelsea lie in wait in the quarter-finals.

Graham has a pedigree of playing Premier League and boss Owen Coyle will undoubtedly look to his striker to lead by example this afternoon.

‘In my opinion, Ashley Young was for me the man of the match.

Earlier in the day, England forward Harry Kane netted a memorable hat-trick as a weakened Tottenham Hotspur side swept aside Fulham 3-0 to book their place in the sixth round of the world’s oldest club cup competition.

Tottenham will face London rivals Millwall at White Hart Lane and Middlesbrough will host the victor of the replay between Manchester City and Aaron Mooy’s Huddersfield Town. I think we deserved to win, but I think Blackburn would also have deserved to go to Old Trafford.

United’s passage was far from smooth, though, against the former Premier League champions who are now struggling to retain their second-tier status.

Rashford praised Henrikh Mkhitaryan’s assist for his goal against Blackburn as well as hailing the impact made by star substitutes Paul Pogba and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who combined for United’s victor.

Marcus Rashford equalised for the Reds ten minutes later and Zlatan Ibrahimovic came off the bench in the second half to seal all three points for them.

‘We went back to a situation of stability. They gave us a really hard match and, I repeat, with a different attitude then I think we would have lost the match.

“Their approach was fearless, strong”. You know what the standards are and they’re set right there: winning is everything when you’re at a club like that.

Wayne Rooney is facing a race against time to prove his fitness for the EFL Cup final.

“This is, without a doubt, one of the most complicated ties we could have”. “This was a big boost in confidence today”.

“We gave a very good account of ourselves but nobody likes losing games”.