Those teams: Frank Lampard makes four changes to the Everton side that lost against Burnley in midweek. Seamus Coleman, Michael Keane, Fabian Delph and Allan all come into the side. Jonjoe Kenny, Jarrad Branthwaite, Abdoulaye Doucoure and Mason Holgate all drop to the bench. It’s only Fabian Delph’s seventh appearance of the season but will be his 200th Premier League appearance.
Ralph Rangnick has seen Frank’s four changes and raised him two. Diogo Dalot, Scott McTominay, Raphael Varane, Luke Shaw, Anthony Elanga and Paul Pogba are all either injured or dropped. Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Victor Lindelof and Alex Telles come into the Unbited defence, Nemanja Matic starts in midfield and Marcus Rashford and Cristiano Ronaldo start in their front three.
Everton v Manchester United line-ups
Everton: Pickford, Coleman, Godfrey, Keane, Mykolenko, Delph, Allan, Iwobi, Gordon, Calvert-Lewin, Richarlison.
Subs: Kenny, Holgate, Gray, Begovic, Doucoure, Andre Gomes, Branthwaite, Rondon, Alli.
Man United: De Gea, Wan-Bissaka, Lindelof, Maguire, Alex Telles, Fred, Matic, Rashford, Bruno Fernandes, Sancho, Ronaldo.
Subs: Jones, Pogba, Mata, Lingard, Dalot, Heaton, Henderson, Elanga, Mejbri.
Referee: Jonathan Moss (County Durham)
Match report: Newcastle 1-0 Wolves
Premier League: A Chris Wood penalty settled a Friday night match that was extremely low on quality, putting any lingering fears about relegation Newcastle fans have had to bed.
Today’s match officials
- Referee: Jonathan Moss
- Assistants: Marc Perry and Timothy Wood
- Fourth officer: Martin Atkinson
- VAR: Andy Madley
Early team news
While Allan and Michael Keane return from suspension, midfield loanee Donny van de Beek is unable to play against his parent club. Frank Lampard must also plan without Andros Townsend, Tom Davies, Nathan Patterson and Yerry Mina, who are all sidelined with injury.
Manchester United striker Cristiano Ronaldo is expected to return from the illness that kept him out of his side’s draw against Leicester City last weekend, but left-back Luke Shaw is out and seems likely to be replaced by Alex Telles. Edinson Cavani is still out with a calf injury and it remains to be seen if the out-of-sorts Marcus Rashford has trained well enough this week to earn himself a place in the starting line-up.
Premier League: Everton v Manchester United
hoo boy! Following their disastrous midweek defeat to Burnley, Everton host Manchester United as they try to put some distance between themselves and the relegation trapdoor. Having lost seven of their nine league games since Frank Lampard took charge at the end of January, Everton sit just one point and one place above the relegation zone and are in desperate need of a win.
The form of their visitors has been up and down, and United have just one win from their past four games. They are also in need of all three points if they are to keep their hopes of securing a top four place on track.
Under pressure from both Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham, Manchester United have been far from convincing in recent months but will fancy their chances against a team that looks bereft of confidence and is prone to catastrophic self-harm. Kick-off at Goodison Park is at 12.30pm but stay tuned in the meantime for team news and build-up.
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George is Digismak’s reported cum editor with 13 years of experience in Journalism