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Matthijs de Ligt should look ahead to his first begin for Manchester United as he’s as soon as once more named on the bench for this lunchtime’s Premier League conflict with Brighton and Hove Albion.
Harry Maguire begins as soon as once more alongside Lisandro Martinez within the centre again roles.
The crew is unchanged from the one which beat Fulham final Friday.
Noussair Mazraoui is at proper again and Diogo Dalot on the left.
Luke Shaw, Tyrell Malacia, Victor Lindelof and Leny Yoro are all out injured.
Andre Onana can be in aim.
The midfield additionally stays the identical, with Casemiro and Kobbie Mainoo the starters and Christian Eriksen, Scott McTominay and Toby Collyer on the bench.
Within the attacking positions, many followers anticipated a return to the beginning lineup for Alejandro Garnacho, however this isn’t the case and he’s as soon as once more named on the bench.
Mason Mount will as soon as once more play within the quantity 10 position, with Bruno Fernandes the false 9.
Amad Diallo begins on the fitting wing regardless of the tragic information of the passing of his mom yesterday. Marcus Rashford is as soon as once more on the left wing.
Joshua Zirkzee is one other ready to make his first begin regardless of scoring the winner in opposition to Fulham. He, too, is on the bench. Rasmus Hojlund is injured.
Additionally on the bench are goalkeeper Altay Bayindir, Jonny Evans and Antony.
This implies one other snub for Jadon Sancho and it due to this fact seems as if the rapprochement between him and supervisor Erik ten Hag was short-lived.
The place this leaves the membership so far as his switch standing goes is anybody’s guess. There may be merely no membership prepared to pay something near the asking worth of £40 million and United don’t wish to ship him again out on mortgage.
Juventus are the one lifelike suitors in the mean time however he’s solely their fourth choice and they’d require a hefty sum from the sale of Federico Chiesa to afford him.
Kick off on the Amex is at 12.30pm.
The boss names an unchanged crew — let’s go United! 👏❤️#MUFC || #BHAMUN
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