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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 will likely 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 decide up nasty accidents that have been to portend the season to come back. It was additionally an early warning that Ten Hag’s new transitions-based system could be problematic, because it led to some terrible performances equivalent to a colorless loss to lowly Wrexham.
With stars of Euro 24 and the Copa America nonetheless on vacation, the supervisor could have a lot of adjustments 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 characteristic 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 will likely be match sufficient and obtainable. Maguire’s harm value 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 carried out.
Andre Onana needs to be obtainable to play in objective, with Tom Heaton probably 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 are going to most likely 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, might characteristic alongside Casemiro.
We then count on the remainder of the crew 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 considered one of United’s best 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 recreation time at centre ahead.
With all that in thoughts, right here is our predicted XI for the sport:
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