Manchester United will travel to the City Ground this Saturday to continue their fine form of late. After picking up a 4-2 win against Brighton last weekend, Ruben Amorim will be hoping to replicate a similar performance in which United dominated.
United will be hoping to end a 2 game losing streak with the most recent games seeing the Reds suffer a 3-2 defeat at Old Trafford and 1-0 at the return fixture.
United go into this game off the back of 3 wins coming against Sunderland, Liverpool and Brighton more recently with Brazilian Matheus Cunha recording his first of hopefully many goals during his time here at Old Trafford.
Speaking in his pre match press conference on Thursday, Ruben Amorim confirmed that Harry Maguire is a doubt after picking up a minor injury in training which forced him to sit out the Brighton game.
Everyone else is fit and set to feature with the game kicking off at 3pm.
In other news, Lisandro Martinez returned to full team training on Thursday with Ruben Amorim continuing to be cautious upon the Argentinian centre backs return.
“He started training with us but we had to change some things in the exercise for him, so slowly he is going to get better.”
“He is really good, he is really good, and he gives us that edge in every training session and that is also really good for us.”
Nottingham Forest team news
With this being Sean Dyche’s first taste of a league game at the City Ground he will be keen to make a first good impression on the Nottingham Forest fans.
On Thursday he stated that Chris Wood, who scored 20 goals domestically last season is ruled out with a knee injury with full backs Ola Aina out with a long term hamstring injury and former Manchester City fullback Oleksandr Zinchenko is absent with the Ukranian suffering a recurrence of his groin injury.
Oleksandr is “taking longer than we thought”, Dilane Bakwa is “still a no but is making good progress”, Ola Aina is “making good progress” and Angus Gunn has “opened up his knee ligaments”.
3 points for United will see them rise into the Top Four on 19 points and provided results go our way United could be in with a chance of staying in the Top Four past this weekend.
Forest on the other hand a victory will see them move up to 8 points but will remain in the relegation zone as Fulham currently have a superior goal difference of -5 to Forest’s -12, with Fulham set to face Wolves which kicks off at 3pm this Saturday at Craven Cottage.
