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Manchester United face Leicester Metropolis within the Carabao Cup tomorrow below new administration.
Ruud van Nistelrooy shall be within the Previous Trafford hotseat tomorrow for the primary time following the sacking of former supervisor Erik ten Hag.
Van Nistelrooy is a little bit of an unknown amount, making prediction of his first line-up one thing of a guessing recreation, though with all of the accidents to his squad in the intervening time, there are usually not too many troublesome selections to be made.
It could be that Van Nistelrooy will begin with Altay Bayindir in purpose. The Turk’s solely recreation for United got here in the identical competitors and he wants minutes. Maybe the interim boss will do the fitting factor and provides him a recreation, significantly as he stored a clear sheet in opposition to Barnsley.
Given the accidents to defenders, together with Harry Maguire, Leny Yoro, Luke Shaw and Tyrell Malacia, we count on Ruud to maintain the identical again line that misplaced to West Ham on Sunday, with Diogo Dalot, Matthijs de Ligt, Lisandro Martinez and Noussair Mazraoui working from proper to left.
Jonny Evans and Victor Lindelof are additionally choices.
One massive change that might be anticipated is within the set-up, with Van Nistelrooy typically preferring a 4-3-3 throughout his time at PSV. This may make no distinction to the personnel, but it surely might imply Bruno Fernandes dropping again into someplace between the 8 and 10, quite than being pushed additional ahead.
Christian Eriksen may have to take a breather, having been overplayed in latest video games. So count on Manuel Ugarte and Casemiro to play behind Fernandes.
Kobbie Mainoo and Mason Mount are nonetheless out injured.
Up entrance, Marcus Rashford and Alejandro Garnacho will most likely flank Rasmus Hojlund. We’ve stored Garnacho on the left and Rashford on the fitting in our prediction however Van Nistelrooy likes his wingers to chop in and shoot, which might recommend the right-footed Rashford is extra more likely to begin on the left and the leftie, Garnacho, to begin on the fitting.
Amad Diallo and Josh Zirkzee are different choices, however Antony is unavailable by way of damage.
With all that in thoughts, right here is our predicted XI for tomorrow’s 7.45pm kick off at Previous Trafford:
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