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Manchester United kick off their pre-season tomorrow with a 5pm BST kick-off towards Norwegian facet Rosenborg in Trondheim.
There shall be no want for floodlights within the northern Norwegian metropolis, as with 21 hours of daylight in the summertime, the solar won’t set till manner after the match, at 11.05pm.
United boss Erik ten Hag will need a greater pre-season than 2023, which noticed Kobbie Mainoo and Amad Diallo choose up nasty accidents that have been to portend the season to return. It was additionally an early warning that Ten Hag’s new transitions-based system can be problematic, because it led to some terrible performances comparable to a colorless loss to lowly Wrexham.
With stars of Euro 24 and the Copa America nonetheless on vacation, the supervisor can have various modifications to make from what would seemingly be the XI that kicks off the Premier League season towards Fulham on August sixteenth.
A participant who will certainly not function is Jadon Sancho. The England man has lastly patched up his variations with Ten Hag, however he solely began coaching on Wednesday so won’t fairly be prepared to participate.
One other query mark is whether or not Harry Maguire and Jonny Evans shall be match sufficient and obtainable. Maguire’s damage price him a spot within the England Euros squad and Evans has solely simply signed a brand new deal, so it’s unclear how a lot coaching both participant has completed.
Andre Onana ought to be obtainable to play in objective, with Tom Heaton doubtlessly as backup.
In defence, Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Victor Lindelof, whose Sweden facet didn’t qualify for the Euros, ought to play. If each Evans and Maguire can be found, they’ll in all probability make up the remainder of the again line but when not, we count on younger Harry Amass to be given an opportunity to shine.
Likewise in midfield, Toby Collyer, who has simply signed a brand new deal at United, may function alongside Casemiro.
We then count on the remainder of the group to be made up of first teamers, with Amad, Antony and Mason Mount supporting Marcus Rashford up entrance. It will likely be an early probability to see whether or not the arrival as coach of one among United’s biggest ever goalscorers, Ruud van Nistelrooy, may help Rashford discover the scoring boots he was lacking for a lot of final season.
Ethan Williams may additionally get some sport time at centre ahead.
With all that in thoughts, right here is our predicted XI for the sport:
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