Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

Ole names his United side for Cherries clash

Saturday 04 July 2020 14:00

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had the wonderful luxury of naming an unchanged side again in the Premier League, as Bournemouth provide the opposition on Saturday.

The boss has opted to retain the XI that performed so impressively when recording 3-0 victories over Sheffield United and Brighton & Hove Albion, despite the hectic schedule facing the Reds.

It is rare that we have named the same team for three successive league matches, in a bid to maintain consistency, in recent years.

Bruno Fernandes and Paul Pogba both start, despite seemingly spurious scare reports in some circles that they were both major injury doubts. Bruno, who has been confirmed as our Player of the Month for June, has been an ever-present since the Premier League began for us back on June 19 with the draw at Tottenham, when he scored a late penalty equaliser.

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Captain Harry Maguire and left-back Luke Shaw have also been named in all the matches since football began again last month.

Solskjaer had the further easy task of naming the same substitutes' bench he used against Brighton with the squad remaining injury-free from that trip.

United are looking to make it 15 games unbeaten either side of the restart, against a Cherries side missing suspended striker Callum Wilson.

United: De Gea; Wan-Bissaka, Lindelof, Maguire, Shaw; Matic, Pogba; Greenwood, Fernandes, Rashford; Martial.

Subs: Romero, Bailly, Williams, Andreas, Fred, McTominay, James, Mata, Ighalo. 

Bournemouth: Ramsdale; Smith, Ake, Rico, Kelly; L. Cook, Lerma, Brooks; Stanislas, Solanke, King.

Subs: Boruc, Travers, Stacey, Surman, Billing, Gosling, Danjuma, H. Wilson, Surridge.

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