Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho insists a top four finish and Champions League football will remain his priority for now.

"Against Everton, we'll try to play our best team and try to win the match," Mourinho said after Saturday's stalemate with West Brom. "After Everton, we go to Sunderland with the same perspective. After Sunderland, comes the Europa League and then I don't know.

"It's then possible you see me play in the Premier League with a team where I'm going to protect the players I consider fundamental for the Europa League. But only if the results in the next matches put us in the situation where mathematically it becomes almost impossible to [finish in the top four].

"I go with mathematics. Until it's mathematically impossible, we keep trying and, because this week is a week without the Europa League, we have nothing to think about Europe so this week is easy from the focus point of view.

"We're thinking about the Premier League and nothing else."