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Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford is now in contention to face Chelsea tonight - after travelling down on his own.

Rashford had previously appeared to have been ruled out after failing to travel with the rest of the United squad on the way down to London on Sunday.

But it has now be revealed that the hit man DID make his own way away from his teammates.

Club doctors are keeping a close eye on the teenager ahead of a late decision over whether he can start - with a tricky Europa League second leg with FC Rostov to come on Thursday.

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The news will be a huge boost for Jose Mourinho - who already has top scorer Zlatan Ibrahimovic suspended.

Wayne Rooney and Anthony Martial are also ruled out with injuries to leave the former Blues boss without a recognised front man.

Midfielders Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Marouane Fellaini had been mooted as potential options to test Antonio Conte's back line.

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"We have three days and we have to travel," Mourinho said ahead of the game. "We have to go to London. It’s really hard. We don’t have Zlatan, of course not, but we go with everything we have. We don’t put a [weakened] team out like some clubs sometimes - Manchester United cannot do that.

"We know this Europa League is very important for us, and the FA Cup is beautiful. We cannot go there with a [weakened] team, we'll try to manage it within our squad and get a good team to compete with them.

"Manchester United is Manchester United, it's the winner of this competition. It's not Chelsea's fault we were given this Monday match. We'll make changes, as we played on Thursday, but we cannot go to Chelsea with a [reserve] team."