Man United
Line-up
- 20Sergio Romero
- 23L. Shaw
- 12C. Smalling
- 3E. Bailly
- 25A. Valencia
- 31N. Matić
- 39Scott McTominay
- 14J. Lingard
- 8Juan Mata
- 11A. Martial
- 9R. Lukaku
- 18A. Young
- 27M. Fellaini
- 19M. Rashford
Subs
- 1David de Gea
- 2V. Lindelöf
- 6P. Pogba
- 7Alexis Sánchez
Brighton
Line-up
- 26T. Krul
- 29M. Suttner
- 5L. Dunk
- 22S. Duffy
- 21E. Schelotto
- 7B. Kayal
- 24D. Pröpper
- 13P. Groß
- 20S. March
- 25J. Locadia
- 16L. Ulloa
- 19José Izquierdo
- 17G. Murray
Subs
- 12Niki Mäenpää
- 18C. Goldson
- 2Bruno Saltor
- 51M. Sanders
- 9S. Baldock
After drawing the away leg of their Champions League tie 0-0 with Sevilla, Manchester United were understandably heavy favourites to progress. However, a dreadfully lacklustre performance saw them struggle to break Sevilla down on Tuesday, and a Wissam Ben Yedder brace in the second half saw the hosts needing three goals in the final 12 minutes. Unsurprisingly they couldn’t manage this, ending 2-1 down and crashing out of the Champions League.
This leaves their only realistic prospects of silverware this season as the FA Cup, so it’s unlikely that Jose Mourinho will opt to rest any players on Saturday evening.
Overall Manchester United are actually in good form. They have won nine of their last 13 competitive matches, and all but one of these failures to win came away from home. At Old Trafford they have lost just two competitive games this season, winning 15 of their other 17 outings. Not to mention their defensive stability, which has seen them keep a clean sheet in 13 of their 19 home games this season.
This is bad news for the visiting Brighton. They lost 2-0 at Everton last weekend to end their seven match unbeaten streak, but their troubles away from home this season have been clearly evident.