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Premier League: Solskjaer Reveals Man Utd Team News for Burnley Encounter

Man Utd caretaker manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has provided an update on his squad as the in-form Reds look to make it nine wins out of nine in all competitions since he took charge last month.

Alexis Sanchez and Romelu Lukaku were instrumental in the superb 3-1 victory at Arsenal in the Emirates FA Cup fourth round on Friday evening while Sergio Romero and Eric Bailly also impressed after being recalled to the starting line-up. Football fans from around the world can purchase Premier League Football Tickets online to enjoy its stunning performances.

Hence, the boss will have a selection headache albeit a nice one as he prepares to meet a team that has made life difficult at Old Trafford in the last couple of seasons

Marouane Fellaini is still ruled out through injury but fellow midfielder Scott McTominay scored and shone for the Under-23s against Paris Saint Germain on Friday and defender Chris Smalling is closing in on a return to action even if Marcos Rojo is understood to still be unavailable.

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“Chris has trained for a week now, so he is looking good,” Solskjaer told MUTV. “It is about when we get him into the team.”

The Reds face the Clarets at 20:15 GMT on Wednesday, at Old Trafford, and will look to bounce back after the 2-0 defeat to leaders Liverpool on Sunday.

I do not think there were any other knocks in that game last weekend so we should have the same players to be available against Burnley, Solskjaer told MUTV. Which is positive?

Of course, we are stretched and some of the players have played a lot. And they are improving for it and will reap the benefit and get stronger physically and mentally more robust.

Of course, it is great having Eric Bailly, Diogo Dalot and Luke Shaw back in so we have got more choices. 

It is a blow Marcus Rashford is out but that’s football. It is part and parcel of it. He is been fantastic all season for us and now, unfortunately, we have to do without him.

The Reds fielded five defenders at Anfield, with Luke Shaw, drafted into the side, but it would appear likely a more familiar 4-3-2-1 formation will be deployed at home in midweek.

Bailly and Phil Jones were both on the bench, along with Dalot, and it could be the case that more attacking options are also considered to be among the substitutes including youngsters Tahith Chong and Angel Gomes.

In addition to Rashford, Paul Pogba and Scott McTominay remain on the sidelines, and Axel Tuanzebe has also been out.

What about Burnley?

The visitors will be buoyed by their excellent 2-1 victory over high-flying Leicester City last time out with Nick Pope’s penalty save from Jamie Vardy proving a turning point and Ashley Westwood bagging the winner.

That is nine points out of seven games and that does not sound like a king’s ransom, said Sean Dyche. But, in the Premier League, that is a pretty healthy return, especially against some of the teams we’ve faced.

Clarets striker Ashley Barnes misses out after a hernia operation while Johann Berg Gudmundsson is doubtful with a thigh injury.

Ex-Red Robbie Brady returned from suspension during Burnley’s 5-0 FA Cup loss at Manchester City on Saturday but was withdrawn at half-time with a groin injury.

Another player who was on Man Utd’s books as a youngster, Dwight McNeil drew praise from Sean Dyche for his form.

Tom Heaton, also a former member of our Academy looks to get the nod in goal, although Nick Pope played at the Etihad Stadium and Joe Hart is another option.

Matt Lowton and Aaron Lennon appears unlikely to be involved but Phil Bardsley, yet another Manchester United old boy could be available.

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Premier League: Solskjaer gives Manchester United transfer update after Rashford injury blow

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says the Red Devils are open to January signings if there is a player who is the right fit Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says Manchester United will look to make January signings if they are a good fit for the Old Trafford outfit.

Manchester United suffered another blow at the weekend after Solskjaer confirmed that Marcus Rashford will be sidelined for up to two months with a back problem. Football fans purchase Premier League Football Tickets online to enjoy its stunning performances.

The Red Devils missed the England international in their 2-0 loss to Premier League leaders Liverpool as Anthony Martial was wasteful in front of goal.

Naturally, Solskjaer was quizzed about Manchester United signing a new striker in the January transfer window to provide cover for Rashford during his injury lay-off.

Red Devils have been heavily linked with a move to sign Sporting Lisbon playmaker Bruno Fernandes but the Portugal international is not a striker.

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Asked during his post-match media conference whether Rashford’s injury had altered Manchester United’s plans for the January transfer window, Solskjaer replied:

“We have had many injuries to big players this season. Marcus now Anthony has been out for months and Paul has been out for more than half the season and Scott has been out for months.

“It is just an unfortunate situation that we are in. It could be because the window is open we might gaze at some short-term contracts as well that might take us over to the summer.”

We are looking at numbers as well because we have had many injuries so if the right ones there and it will fit for us, we can buy. If there are advances accessible it might be probable.

But I have got players here as well that are champing at the bit. Manchester United lost 2-0 to Liverpool following goals from Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah.

The Red Devils are in fifth spot in the Premier League table and five points adrift of fourth-placed Chelsea. Manchester United will host Burnley in their next Premier League clash at Old Trafford on Wednesday night.

The 20-time English champions have not signed any players in the January transfer window so far.

Manchester United executive Ole Gunnar Solskjaer understood about himself earlier the player when Marcus Rashford chosen up back damage which might keep him out for three months says past England striker Ian Wright.

Rashford, 22, came on as a substitute and then went off injured during Manchester United’s 1-0 home win over Wolves in last week’s FA Cup third-round replay.

Wright about Manchester United

“Ole Gunnar Solskjaer thought he identified Marcus Rashford was struggling and played him beside Wolves, now he is unavailable for three months,” said Wright.

“We are talking around a volatile player that is going to essential to be precise to play.

"Solskjaer’s in intense compression to get Manchester United back where they were and he is assumed about himself earlier he thought about the player, Solskjaer has put himself above Marcus Rashford’s fitness.”

Now, one of their supreme hopeful and most significant players is out and that has to come to the manager’s gate.

Rashford had included in 13 competitions, starting 11 of them, from the start of December to when he picked up the damage on 15 January, counting nine goals in that period.

With the score 0-0 beside Wolves, he came on in the 64th minute but then departed off 16 minutes later with Solskjaer then saying the choice to play him had miscarried. Because Rashford had been hostile for a little while:

Speaking after the Liverpool game on Sunday Solskjaer starved of Rashford was previously sorrow from a back fracture before the Wolves match.

It happened in that Wolves game, he said. Wright added: Rashford has underway every game and for him to play that much football with the difficulties he is having with his spinal, you cannot mess around with that and Solskjaer has to take some fault instill playing him.

After the incident, Solskjaer said Rashford would be out for at least six weeks but reports this week suggest he might not return until April.

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Premier League: Manchester United Anthony Martial has four months to prove he is good enough

Three words that frequently crop up when Anthony Martial is described by those who knew and know him are shy, quiet, and private. If ever a footballer’s key personality traits come across on the pitch, then it is in the case of Manchester United forward.

Head down, eyes lowered, shoulders hunched over, he can often appear as a barely interested bystander when the ball is not near him, as though he may switch channel for a bit and perhaps catch the end of the second half of the game gets better. Football fans can purchase Premier League Football Tickets online to enjoy its stunning performances.

Only when he is on the ball, however, does Martial come alive: dribbling at defenders chasing a pass he believes he knows, he will reach before an opponent when he has the ball at his feet and just the goalkeeper to beat.

The rest of the time it is nonchalance verging on boredom. Standing around lightly jogging here and there waiting for Manchester United to attack an increasingly, infrequent phenomenon in games.

Martial commitment

Martial freely admits he has come across like this from a young age, and it was perhaps, why Manchester City chose not to take him on when he went on trial there aged 12.

Ryan Giggs, the Manchester United legend of the left-wing who probably sees a little of himself in Martial when the player gets going believes Martial can be a victim of his body language and it is true that five years after he signed from Monaco for £36million.

The initial fee, back in September 2015, is a factor which has ultimately worked against Martial in terms of the image the player has adopted.

There was a surprise across much of France’s football fraternity that Manchester United was willing to part with £36m a fee which could have raised to £58m.

For a start, he was still a relatively unproven teenager, not then a full France international and with a decent but not mind-blowing return of eight goals in 31 Ligue 1 games the previous season. Monaco had also only paid £4.4m to sign him from Lyon two years previously.

Such was Manchester United’s optimism; one of the clauses they included in the deal was that they would pay a substantial add-on if he won the Ballon d’Or by 2019.

It remains to be seen whether he is quite good enough for Manchester United, let alone able to compete with Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, et al for the title of the world’s best footballer.

Martial had permission from the club to fly from Los Angeles, where they were due to play AC Milan, to Paris, to be with his partner.

Manchester United Mourinho complain

Yet only four days later Mourinho was publicly criticizing him for not returning to the tour. “He has the baby and after the baby is born, a beautiful baby, full of health, thank god. He should be here, and he is not here,“ Mourinho complained.

Footballers and clubs tend to operate on a different plane to the rest of us but last time I checked men were entitled to two weeks’ paternity leave if they wish to take it.  

And it was not as though Martial had decided to miss the Champions League final or the crucial match against rivals to decide the Premier League title. He was missing a soulless, money-spinning tour of another continent.

What happened to Martial? He was fined £180,000, or two weeks’ wages. Worse than that, it added to the perception that Martial was not much up for it that he had better things to do than play football.

Which, when you are paid that much money, obviously does not go down well with fans, especially those of a club who has enjoyed domestic domination for two decades and are now in dramatic decline?

Opportunities for Martial

Martial will get few better opportunities to change the perception of him at Manchester United than the rest of this season with the club still competing for two trophies only just admittedly, in the Carabao Cup and with a sniff of chasing down Chelsea and Leicester City for a top-four spot.

All that without Marcus Rashford ruled on Sunday for up to three months with a double stress fracture in his back, who has carried the burden of goals with more than a third of Manchester United’s league tally 19, this season.

Now is Martial’s time. His best position winger or No 9 is a regular point of debate and the player himself has made clear he prefers to play as an out-and-out striker.

In the absence of Rashford now more than ever Martial has to prove he is good enough for Manchester United, giving him a window of around four months.

Hopefully, he would not stare out of it blankly, waiting for something to happen, and instead seize the opportunity.

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Celtic and Rangers plus Aberdeen, Hearts and Hibs make signings

It’s expected Bnei Yehuda midfielder Ismaila Soro will seal a £2million move to Celtic in the coming days, amid claims he’s set to have his medical in Israel on Monday. The Hoops also watched Dundee United's Lawrence Shankland score against Hibs on Sunday but boss Robbie Neilson is adamant he’s going nowhere. Football fans from around the world can buy online Europa League Tickets to enjoy its stunning performances.

That’s twice in as many weeks the Premiership champions have cast an eye over the 25-goal Scotland international.

Victor Wanyama was namechecked by Neil Lennon this week but he’s skeptical a return for the Tottenham midfielder is possible.

Celtic have already added Patryk Klimala up top and they’ve also been linked with Stoke City’s Tyrese Campbell, as have Rangers.

Over at Ibrox and Steven Gerrard is likely to ship a few more players out of his squad before the window closes. Jamie Murphy, Greg Docherty, and Matt Polster could be among them, with Glenn Middleton also likely to go out on-loan again.

The Ibrox club insists, however, that James Tavernier, Borna Barisic and Alfredo Morelos will be staying put.

Aberdeen is fending off interest from New York Red Bulls in Sam Cosgrove. The Dons have tied up St Johnstone’s Matty Kennedy on a pre-contract but have held talks over bringing him to Pittodrie this month instead.

Bowyer slams Taylor offer

Charlton boss Lee Bowyer insists the club rejected a ‘ridiculous’ offer for striker Lyle Taylor.

The frontman has been linked with Rangers as he enters the final six months of his deal with the Addicks.

Bowyer slammed an alleged approach from an unnamed club, made last week, for the 29-year-old.

I hope (we won’t sell him). Someone came in with a silly offer on Friday. That was a player for player, there was no money involved. It was a ridiculous offer.

This is something that is out of my hands. I’m not the money person. I’m not controlling that side of things. All I can control is that we keep working hard and trying to win games.

Cavani hands in a transfer request

Edinson Cavani has handed in a transfer request at Paris Saint-Germain, according to the club’s sporting director.

Leonardo claims they’ve already rejected an offer from Atletico Madrid for the Uruguayan striker.

But it appears he’s now made his desire to leave official.

We’ve always said the same thing. We were hoping he would stay with the club, but today (Sunday) he asked to leave.

We’re studying the situation. We’ve had a proposal from Atletico Madrid, but that proposal was not commensurate with the player’s value.

Fernandes latest

Bruno Fernandes has been included in Sporting Lisbon’s squad to face Braga amid claims he’s ‘desperate’ to join Manchester United.

United are set to resume talks with the Primeira Liga outfit over the midfielder despite an apparently large discrepancy between the two clubs’ valuation.

Reports in Portugal claim Fernandes is extremely keen for the move to happen and was angered when Sporting threw out a bid last week.

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Premier League: Man Utd found blueprint against Liverpool

Manchester United were largely outplayed at Anfield on Sunday as their fiercest rivals took another stride towards the Premier League title Man Utd fell to a 2-0 loss at the pointers of Liverpool in Sunday’s Premier League clatter at Anfield.

Jurgen Klopp’s men appeared winning from the match cheers to Virgil Van Dijk’s first-half power while Mohamed Salah closed it at the end with a separate goal after Manchester United had conquered much of the second half. Football fans can purchase Premier League Football Tickets online to enjoy its stunning performances.

First opportunity of note originated in the ninth minute when Sadio Mane associated with Trent Alexander Arnold’s free-kick, but the attacker’s domestic header went inoffensively wide of David De Gea’s stake.

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Yet, Manchester United was not so fortunate five minutes later, when this time Liverpool’s head powered the hosts into the lead. Dutch guardian Van Dijk uppermost in the box to join with Alexander Arnold’s in-swinging angle and the well-placed energy gave De Gea no chance and obtainable the Merseysiders with an initial lead.

Liverpool was on top and it took some excellent defending from Luke Shaw to stop them from grabbing a second, via Mane.

Soon after Liverpool believed they had stretched their lead when Roberto Firmino bowed a power previous De Gea, producing Manchester United’s players to explode in anger at referee Craig Pawson.

However, VAR observed at the event and properly mediated that it was vulgar by the Liverpool no.4 on De Gea.
The swarms were also left unfulfilled moments later when Georginio Wijnaldum originate the back of the net from a fast attack. Yet the midfielder was left lonely as the strike was correctly lined out for offside.
Liverpool had been the better side for most of the half but Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s men grew into proceedings in the latter stages of the opening 45 minutes.

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Nemanja Matic is convinced Man Utd produced enough in their loss at Liverpool to provide a blueprint for the remainder of the season.

Manchester United was largely outplayed at Anfield on Sunday as their fiercest rivals took another stride towards the Premier League title with a 2-0 win.

It was a victory the leaders only secured with a Mohamed Salah breakaway goal in injury time.

Before that it was Manchester United, despite struggling to cope with the hosts for most of the game, who had been finishing the stronger:

“I think they played better in the first half and the first five to 10 minutes of the second half but after that, we had control of the game. We felt we were in the game we could score, and we could create.

“I think we played some good football in the last 35-40 minutes. We were the better side but it is hard if you do not score goals against these kinds of teams.”

I am sure that our staff will analyze everything and the last 35 minutes are a model of how we need to play against strong teams.

The hosts had two goals disallowed before the break and David De Gea saved well from Sadio Mane before Liverpool had a glut of further chances early in the second half. Jordan Henderson went the closest with a thumping shot against the post.

Serbia international saying

Serbia international said: “It is virtuous in three days we have a chance to show we are better than this but, as I said, if someone said we played badly I would not agree.

“Against the best team in the league, for the last 35 minutes, we played better. We controlled it and we felt we were there to score. We have to keep doing exactly this.”

We will continue to do our work, keep fighting and work every day for this club until the end.

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