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Man Utd boss Mourinho: England didn't use Rashford properly

Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho believes England didn't make enough of Marcus Rashford's free-kick ability in their World Cup defeat to Croatia.

Mourinho suggested England did not utilise Rashford's set-pieces as clinically as they could have as they attempted to take the tie to penalties.

"The decisions of the lateral free-kicks that happened, I thought England went the wrong way at that time," he said. "Because they were trying to have the soft ball to [Harry] Maguire but in previous matches Maguire was very, very dominant in relation to other opponents and today was not the case.

"They were giving [Dejan] Lovren the mission to go with that first ball with Maguire. Marcus Rashford is very good taking the lateral free-kicks with tension, with speed and into other areas and they decide always for what I call the 'balloon' coming down and gave time for Lovren to adapt to the position and for [Danijel] Subasic to come out to catch."

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