Manchester United had been and not using a host of gamers for his or her solely pre-season pleasant at Aston Villa as we speak.
A leaked crew surfaced on-line after the sport kicked off at 2pm and was broadly reported as truth by sure retailers however was truly inaccurate.
Donny van de Beek made his first United outing and Dean Henderson got here in for his maiden look for the United first-team within the absence of David de Gea, who was not even on the bench.
Diogo Dalot returned to the first-team XI for the primary time since March and Luke Shaw made his comeback after sustaining an ankle damage in July.
The United squad was so depleted Ole Gunnar Solskjaer named James Garner and Anthoy Elanga on the bench after the pair began within the Underneath-21s’ midweek thrashing of Salford.
De Gea and Anthony Martial had been on worldwide obligation earlier this week and weren’t named within the 16-man matchday squad, though Scott McTominay began for Scotland and lined up at Villa.
Paul Pogba and Axel Tuanzebe aren’t totally match whereas Chris Smalling and Marcos Rojo are coaching individually from the first-team squad in their very own bubble amid the chance they may go away.
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Mason Greenwood shouldn’t be scheduled to return to first-team coaching till early subsequent week and Sergio Romero, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Eric Bailly, Phil Jones, Fred, Nemanja Matic and Juan Mata have been fully absent from pre-season coaching.
Bruno Fernandes has not been at Carrington following worldwide obligation as his spouse gave beginning final week in Portugal. Fernandes posted an image of himself in coaching on Instagram on Saturday afternoon.
Full United crew vs Villa: Henderson, Dalot, Fosu-Mensah, Maguire, Shaw, McTominay, Van de Beek, Rashford, Lingard, James, Ighalo
Subs: Grant, Williams, Garner, Mengi, Galbraith, Elanga