Jose Mourinho felt his Manchester United side controlled proceedings against Zorya on Thursday night.

The Red Devils defeated the Ukrainian side 2-0 in Odessa to advance to the Europa League's Round of 32 thanks to second-half goals from Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Following a few frustrating draws in the Premier League, Mourinho was thrilled to see his players achieve a deserved result on the European stage.

"We played well tonight. One thing is to play badly and get bad results, which kills confidence and is more difficult to cope with," he said.

"When you play well, you have to hope the results will come. The reality is nobody was better than us [in recent weeks], even though we had disappointing results. And in the players' brains, that plays a part.

"We had the ball, we had the control, they were defensively good, they had a couple of occasions on the counter-attack and at a free-kick, but we were dominant and if you look at the numbers, we were the team to win."