Mourinho threatens to play Manchester United’s U-23 team against Crystal Palace

Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho, has suggested he could field the U-23 team against Crystal Palace in their last Premier League fixture of this season.

Mourinho is facing a tough end to his first year at Old Trafford, with injuries and a crazy fixture schedule.

After nine games in April, United is facing games every three or four days in May.

“You are punished for doing well and if we beat Celta we have the final on the Wednesday [May 24] and we play against Crystal Palace on the Sunday [May 21],” Mourniho said.

“Before that we play Southampton and, with all respect, we would be playing in disaster consequences. Maybe I can bring [academy coach] Nicky Butt and his team to play against Crystal Palace and hopefully Palace doesn’t need a game to stay in the division because it would be very, very bad if they needed the points for us to play with the under-23s. It’s difficult.”

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