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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 23693648" data-attributes="member: 158020">Manchester United 0 Valencia 0:  Mourinho's men four without a win after limp display  <img src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1/2018/10/02/21/4713330-6232979-image-a-51_1538512399498.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     Manchester United have now gone four games without a win in all competitions  following Tuesday's 0-0 Champions League draw with Valencia at Old Trafford. Fresh from a humbling week in which they exited the EFL Cup to Derby County  and lost 3-1 to West Ham in the Premier League, Jose Mourinho's side produced  another lifeless display in their second continental game of the season.    A total of just five shots on target being mustered between the two sides  over the whole match underlined the lack of attacking quality, with United again  unable to get the best out of Alexis Sanchez, restored to the starting line-up  after being dropped at the weekend.  The result means the Red Devils are second in Group H, two points behind  Juventus and three above third-place Valencia, but the manner of the display  will do little to ease the pressure on their under-fire manager, with Marcus  Rashford's late free-kick the closest they game to a winner.   United started with far greater urgency than they managed against West Ham  after kick-off had been delayed due to local traffic problems, but Valencia soon  quietened the Old Trafford crowd with some sustained possession and one or two  promising breaks down the left from Goncalo Guedes.    Rashford, starting from the left of the United attack, tried two optimistic  efforts from range but there was little else of note from the home side in the  final third, with Romelu Lukaku managing only one touch of the ball in the  Valencia box in the first half.Paul Pogba stung the palms of goalkeeper Neto  with a free-kick as United at last began to increase the pressure in the second  half, but a scarcity of any sort of link-up between the front three meant the  Brazilian was largely untested.   Valencia were equally unconvincing going forward but Michy Batshuayi wasted a  good chance midway through the second half, lashing over on the half-volley  following a Francis Coquelin cross.Lukaku at last came to life with a strong run  and shot that Neto saved well to his right, before Mourinho introduced Anthony  Martial for the frustrating Sanchez in a bid to spark his attack into life.   Martial won a free-kick from a tight angle from which Rashford clipped the  top of the crossbar, before Lukaku headed over when unmarked in the box, but  that was as close as the hosts came to ending their winless run.</blockquote>

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