"MANCHESTER UNITED IS FOR MEN AND NOT FOR KIDS"...MOURINHO.

Jose Mourinho has told his Manchester United players they must be “men” as they try to dust themselves off Chelsea's 4-0 humiliation.

United face local rivals City in the EFL Cup on Wednesday.

“There is no way to hide, because I think our faces speak by themselves,” said Mourinho.

“We are really, really sad, but again this is not for kids, this is for men and we have to be men and work for the next one.

“I would prefer to play in the Premier League [rather than the EFL Cup]. It’s a bad feeling in the Premier League.

“With the combination of results the gap to the top is six points. We’ve had a very difficult period of matches.

“We lost points this week and even in the match when we played phenomenal against Stoke, we lost points then.

"Now we need to win matches. I’m not saying they are easy ones, but we have Burnley, we have Swansea, West Ham, Sunderland, Middlesbrough, matches that we need to win.

''The top four, the top five, they have to play between themselves like we did this week against Chelsea and Liverpool.”

United will play without injured Eric Bailly. The Ivory Coast international sustained a knee injury in the game versus Chelsea on Sunday. Report shows that he will likely miss the next 4 weeks.

If the game is not won in regulation time, it will go into extra time and or penalty shootout if need be.