Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho admits Luke Shaw is not yet fully fit.
Mourinho concedes Shaw is having a 'difficult period'.
"Of course," he replied when asked if Shaw's injury record had influenced his decisions to exclude him from recent squads. "You try to have in the squad the players with more minutes, the players in better shape, in better condition.
"In Luke Shaw's case, even in the game against Reading, when he could have started the game and had 90 minutes, in the morning of the game he was ill and not ready to play.
"So even in that match, which could have been good for him, he was not able to play, so he's having a difficult period."