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Manchester United will as soon as once more be with out Lisandro Martinez for tomorrow’s journey to Villa Park to face fourth-placed Aston Villa.
The unfortunate Martinez suffered a medial cruciate ligament damage in United’s final match in opposition to West Ham and is prone to be out for eight weeks.
Harry Maguire got here on to switch him in that sport and we anticipate the previous skipper to maintain his place alongside Raphael Varane in central defence.
Varane will most likely change to the left centre again function with Maguire on the proper.
Diogo Dalot and Luke Shaw ought to proceed at full again, with Andre Onana in aim.
Supervisor Erik ten Hag has typically used Shaw as a LCB in Martinez’ absence, with Dalot switching to LB and Aaron Wan-Bissaka coming in at RB, however with the previous Palace man nonetheless most likely unavailable resulting from damage, a Maguire-Varane partnership is nearly sure this time.
Victor Lindelof and Jonny Evans are additionally choices. Tyrell Malacia continues to be out injured and has now missed a lot of the season.
In midfield, the identical trio of Casemiro, Kobbie Mainoo and Bruno Fernandes is anticipated.
Scott McTominay, Sofyan Amrabat and Christian Eriksen also needs to be obtainable however Mason Mount continues to be sidelined.
The entrance three are additionally prone to stay unchanged, with Marcus Rashford working on the left wing, Alejandro Garnacho on the proper and Rasmus Hojlund by way of the center.
Amad Diallo, Antony and Omari Forson are different ahead choices, however Anthony Martial continues to be injured.
A lot of gamers at the moment are out on mortgage and subsequently unavailable, together with Brandon Williams, Donny van de Beek, Hannibal, Facu Pellistri, Jadon Sancho and Mason Greenwood.
Right here, then, is our predicted line-up for tomorrow’s 4.30pm kick-off in Birmingham:
