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Erik ten Hag will as soon as once more be with out Lisandro Martinez for tomorrow’s journey to West London to face Chelsea.
Martinez’ lengthy nightmare with harm continues as he’ll now be out for a month or so with a muscle harm after his return from one other harm lasted only one substitute look towards Brentford.
The 2 beginning centre backs in that recreation, Raphael Varane and Victor Lindelof, each went off injured and while Varane has an opportunity of creating tomorrow’s recreation, the Swede, too, is sidelined for round a month with a hamstring drawback.
Jonny Evans can also be unlikely to return in time and Luke Shaw, who has been used at centre again by Ten Hag, continues on the sidelines as a part of the curse that would go away simply Harry Maguire and the inexperienced Willy Kambwala as the one match centre backs on the roster.
It’s a farcical scenario however for the needs of our predicted XI we’re going to be constructive and declare Varane match to play.
Elsewhere it’s to be hoped there aren’t any new accidents. This could permit Andre Onana to proceed in purpose and Diogo Dalot and Aaron Wan-Bissaka to supply some stability within the full-back roles.
In midfield, it appears seemingly Casemiro will probably be introduced again in alongside Kobbie Mainoo with Scott McTominay returning to the bench. The Mainoo-McTominay partnership was very poor towards the Bees and can absolutely be modified.
There may be, remarkably, a full choice of midfielders to select from, with Sofyan Amrabat, Christian Eriksen and Mason Mount different options.
Ten Hag would definitely be forgiven for ringing the modifications on the wings after the Brentford debacle. Marcus Rashford got here in for lots of criticism from the media and social media after the sport and Ten Hag hauled off Garnacho halfway by the second half.
There are different choices – Mount, once more, who scored from the left wing place, and Amad Diallo, who will probably be getting back from his one match suspension a hero after his winner towards Liverpool within the Cup. Antony, who additionally scored towards the Merseysiders, can also be exhibiting belated indicators of discovering kind.
We’d not be shocked if Ten Hag doggedly sticks with Rashford however with Garnacho additionally wanting a bit of jaded and there being one other large recreation on Sunday towards Liverpool, the probabilities are he may ring the modifications.
Bringing Mount in on the left wing would permit him to tuck in out of possession and supply a bit of extra help for the midfield as effectively. And though followers would like to see Amad getting a begin on the proper, Antony appears the extra seemingly possibility.
Bruno Fernandes is sort of sure to proceed within the quantity 10 place and in Anthony Martial’s continued absence, Rasmus Hojlund is a useless cert to start out up entrance.
Ten Hag might present some readability at his pre-match press convention this lunchtime, which will probably be reported right here at round 12.30pm. Within the meantime, right here is our predicted XI for tomorrow’s recreation:
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