Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho says that his players are showing extra motivation in the final days of the current season.

United are currently involved in the race for top-four and will face local rivals Manchester City in a crucial league fixture on Thursday.

The Red Devils are favourite to win Europa League and are set to face La Liga side Celta Vigo in the semi-finals.

"I think the fact that we are fighting for important things still is a good motivation to keep people together, to make people make an extra effort," Mourinho said.

"Wednesday's training session started at 3pm: I was here at 10:30am and when I arrived some players were already here, taking care of little details and taking care of their recovery. That is motivation.

"I think maybe opponents they look at us with different eyes because we don't have Zlatan and Paul and Marcos and Mata and Jones and Smalling.

"Maybe they look at us with different eyes but I think they are not stupid, they are not naive, and they know that we are going to give them a fight."