Manchester united boss José mourinho said his team October fixture is a poison gift

Manchester united manager, José Mourinho, has claimed that his team's October fixture list is a "poisoned gift"

The former Chelsea boss was speaking after their 1-0 win over zorya luhansk, in the Europa league at old Trafford on Thursday on night.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored the winning goal, as the red devil struggled to defeat the stubborn ukrarian club.

Mourinho has now turned his attention to upcoming games in October when they will travel to Liverpool before their next Europa league tie against fenerbahce club on October 20th.

That is followed by by a trip to Chelsea the following Sunday and a league cup tie against Manchester city three days later.

"We could have played Liverpool on the Saturday or on the Monday, so as may be we don't have the condition.

"We have this kind of poisoned gift of playing on Monday, which creates a very difficult situation, but we want to try to get to the next round.

"Before that we have stoke, stoke is another poisoned gift. Stoke is not what the table says, that's not Stoke's position", mourinho said.