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Jose Mourinho has restored Axel Tuanzebe to the Manchester United travelling squad to face Burnley but Antonio Valencia was not spotted by photographers at The Lowry Hotel.

A 19-man United squad was spotted arriving by M.E.N. photographers and it seems Tuanzebe and Timothy Fosu-Mensah are set to return to the matchday squad following Marcos Rojo's and Zlatan Ibrahimovic's lengthy lay-offs.

Mourinho returned to his residence a couple of hours before the United squad turned up on the coach. Daley Blind, who lives nearby, rendezvoused separately and Luke Shaw's mother dropped him off.

Rojo's and Ibrahimovic's injuries have reduced United to a 20-man squad but with Valencia, who did not feature in United's training photos or footage released on Saturday, possibly out as well Mourinho might has just 16 outfield players to choose from.

"We are in trouble," Mourinho conceded on Thursday. "We are in trouble. In this moment, Eric Bailly played six matches in a row, 540 minutes in a row, we've lost Marcos Rojo, we don't have Jones, we don't have Smalling, we are in trouble.

"And now we lose Zlatan, too, but in attack we have options and Rooney is coming and let's see if Mata can also return before the end of the season, let's see what happens."

Rooney has started just one Premier League game this calendar year and Mourinho admitted his conditioning was still questionable.

"He has a good mentality," the United manager added. "He's a fighter, he's a strong man, even if he's not in the best of his condition, even if he's not in the level of sharpness that you need to play high level football but he has the experience, he has the character, so he has to."

Axel Tuanzebe, 19, could make his full United debut as one of only two specialist centre halves available to Mourinho.

"Now we need absolutely everyone," Mourinho stressed. "Now I even have to think Axel Tuanzebe goes to the under-something World Cup in Korea because maybe Axel has to come now. Now we need everybody."

However, Daley Blind could partner Bailly.

"We have Daley Blind," Mourinho reminded. "Who has experience in the position, and I think it's time for Jones and Smalling to be brave, to risk.

"Because for the team they have to do everything, that's the way I think, we cannot do miracles, so miracles I do not expect but we have to try to do everything to accelerate the process."

"They cannot make miracles, they have injuries and even in a crazy mentality they cannot play Sunday. There are no miracles, but with a special spirit you can sooner than expected.

"So instead of coming mid-May you can come the beginning of May, this kind of acceleration of the process."

Mourinho effectively confirmed two starters for Sunday's fixture.

"Herrera plays, he didn't play today," he said on Thursday. "One yellow card and he'll miss the semi-finals. I was thinking about him and Fellaini both at the same time [but] because I did the change with Marcos Rojo I couldn't do and he didn't play, so Herrera is fresh to play.

(Image: Eamonn and James Clarke)

"Ashley Young is fresh to play and who else? Nobody else is fresh to play."

Marcus Rashford is expected to spearhead United's attack and Mourinho believes it would be illogical for him to play for England at the Under-21 European Championship in June.

"I don't want to go in that direction," he said. "I just feel when a player reaches a certain level it doesn't make a lot of sense to drop levels.

"It's like now I'm going to play in the Under-23 to win a derby against Man City, no. Nicky Butt doesn't take him to play that game, he could by age.

"So when you reach a certain level and he reached that level for a long time I don't think it makes sense but the power is in their hands."

Confirmed squad members

David de Gea

Sergio Romero

Joel Pereira

Matteo Darmian

Timothy Fosu-Mensah

Eric Bailly

Axel Tuanzabe

Daley Blind

Luke Shaw

Paul Pogba

Michael Carrick

Marouane Fellaini

Ander Herrera

Ashley Young

Jesse Lingard

Henrikh Mkhitaryan

Anthony Martial

Wayne Rooney

Marcus Rashford

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