JOSE MOURINHO SAYS Manchester United would be happy with a point from tomorrow’s Champions League trip to Benfica.

United were criticised for their approach to a Premier League clash with Liverpool on Saturday, in which they were accused of playing deliberately for the 0-0 draw.

Mourinho’s side head into the meeting at Estadio da Luz with two wins from two group games against Basel and CSKA Moscow, and another victory would put them in a commanding position to reach the last 16.

However, the 54-year-old feels Benfica are the strongest side they will face — despite the Portuguese side losing their opening two matches — and insists a draw would not be a bad result in their bid to progress.

“Our sole objective is to qualify. Within that context, one point away against the strongest of the three teams in the group is a positive result,” Mourinho told a news conference in Lisbon. “But the match can also be analysed outside that context and analysed just as a match, a match we want to try to win.

“Benfica could win 12 points and finish with the same possibilities as everyone else. What I was trying to show yesterday was Benfica are much better than CSKA Moscow and Basel. I think the players were convinced in the meeting we had in the morning that results aren’t the real indicator of the value of a team.”

Mourinho says he has yet to tell his players what the starting line-up will be but claims it is “easy to guess” his plans given United’s injury concerns.

Marouane Fellaini, Paul Pogba, Michael Carrick, Marcos Rojo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic remain out of action, as does Eric Bailly, who sat out the Liverpool game after picking up an problem on international duty.

Mourinho added that Rojo is likely to return “in two weeks” from a knee injury sustained towards the end of last season.

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