Manchester United players and boss Jose Mourinho boarded the train to London on Saturday ahead of their Premier League clash at Chelsea.

The Red Devils travel to Stamford Bridge for the late game on Sunday and could be as many as eight points behind neighbours and leaders Man City if the Blues beat Arsenal earlier in the day.

It is a return to his old stomping ground for Mourinho, who had two separate spells in charge at Stamford Bridge.

United have lost just once in all competitions so far this season and Mourinho was quick to shoot down criticism of the style of football prior to the trip to Chelsea.

Mourinho ahead of boarding the train (
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Phil Jones (
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Antonio Valencia (
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Daley Blind (
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"I think we are doing very, very well. Very, very well. I really think that you and the specialists, you know the football that we were playing in the beginning of the season," Mourinho said.

"You know. And now you pretend you don't know.

"Now you pretend that we never played amazing football, we never scored lots of goals, we never scored amazing goals, we never had our midfield players and our defenders arriving in the opposition box and scoring goals and creating chances, I know that you know that.

Ashley Young (
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Eamonn and James Clarke)
Jose Mourinho (
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Chris Smalling (
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"You just pretend because it's convenient for you to pretend that this didn't exist, but [it] exists.

"And we miss our players, of course, and we had to play big matches without them and probably we are going to play one more without them again."

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