Erik ten Hag 'confident' for Fenerbahce trip despite mounting Manchester United injury problems

One of the continent's mightiest clubs person performed meekly connected the European signifier of precocious and started the new-look Europa League radical phase with back-to-back draws against Twente and Porto.

Those results mean United person won conscionable 1 of their past 10 matches successful continental competitions, with that mediocre grounds compounded by the information they caput to Istanbul without a drawstring of first-team players.

Kobbie Mainoo, Mason Mount, Dan Gore and Toby Collyer are besides absent from the 20-man squad successful Turkey done injury, but Ten Hag is assured his broadside tin cope.

"Yes, of people (am confident)," helium said astatine the squad hotel. "The players who are disposable person to bash the occupation and they are susceptible of doing the job.

"It is analyzable (with the wounded situation) but it is ne'er easy. We person to woody with it and we volition woody with it.

"As a squad we person to screen galore games successful a abbreviated clip and we volition bash that the champion arsenic possible.

"We person to progress. I deliberation we made a bully measurement (by beating Brentford 2-1) and present we person to travel up time and past spell again connected Sunday (at West Ham).

"But players similar to play shot alternatively of doing training, truthful for the players it's the champion way.

"There are truthful galore games coming up. As agelong arsenic you person capable players disposable and conception a squad and don't person to spell into large wounded risk, past it's the champion to play to games.

"At this infinitesimal we are inactive OK but hopefully we won't get galore much injuries due to the fact that past we volition beryllium short."

Ten Hag's squad arrived astatine their edifice conscionable much implicit 24 hours earlier the 10pm section kick-off successful Turkey, wherever a burning ambiance is definite to prevarication successful hold if erstwhile trips are to spell by.

Ex-United brag Mourinho told Fenerbahce's fans that it needs to beryllium 35,000 against 11 if the underdogs are to triumph astatine the hostile Sukru Saracoglu Stadium connected Thursday.

Ten Hag said: "I deliberation we person capable players successful the team, they are truthful experienced, we faced specified situations much often.

"I deliberation we're looking guardant (to it). It volition beryllium a large ambience, that's substance for our team, it's a existent challenge, motivation, it's truly bully for us."

Former United players Sofyan Amrabat and Fred are among the acquainted faces successful a Fenerbahce squad managed by 1 of the Premier League's astir recognisable managers.

Mourinho coached the Red Devils betwixt mid-2016 and precocious 2018, with Europa League glory astatine the extremity of his archetypal play successful complaint representing the club's past continental honour.

"We won home cups aft helium near but Man United didn't triumph successful Euro and it's besides for america a target, what we privation to execute and we person a large accidental this season," Ten Hag added.

"But truthful we person the quality, we person to triumph games. It's successful a caller set-up, we are 2 games nether way, we person 2 points, truthful we cognize what we person to bash and triumph games."