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Now it seems only a matter of time until four more seats in the bleachers of scattered Premier League stadiums are filled by more substitutes. EFL clubs have been given permission to make five substitutions in league matches through the end of the season, and the onslaught of muscle injuries is likely to cause a U-turn from Premier League clubs who voted against keeping. the rule of five substitutions.
Attrition has already prompted David Moyes to change his mind after he recommended that West Ham vote to reduce the substitutes to three out of five. It is no coincidence that the coaches of the ‘big six’ have made the loudest noise about the well-being of the players, although Jurgen Klopp was not questioned as to why Trent Alexander Arnold, forced to retire due to a calf injury at City 11 days ago, he was pulled in the 81st minute of his beating from Atalanta five days earlier. Liverpool were leading 5-0 after 54 minutes.
Manchester United has the luxury of including a 23-man squad on Champions League rounds, the same number of players as international coaches appoint to tournament teams. In domestic service, coaches still have five fewer players and it is an identifiable issue that the Premier League did not increase 18-man teams when Bundesliga clubs were allowed 20-man teams before the pandemic and Italy was ahead of the curve with 23.
United entered the international hiatus by winning what was arguably their biggest game of the season at Everton on Saturday.
The Reds under pressure came from behind to beat the Toffees thanks to Bruno Fernandes’ double and Edinson Cavani’s first goal for United.
United are on a two-week hiatus and many of their stars are headed for international service; We will keep track of how everyone is doing and preparations for their next Premier League match against West Brom.
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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has 31 players to monitor and disappointing a handful rather than nearly half would spare him some unhappy conversations. Brandon Williams, for example, signed a new contract on August 4, started in the Europa League semi-final 12 days later, and received a team number update for the new season. The 20-year-old has not had a kick in the Premier League and only came on the bench once.
The decision rests with the coach, ultimately, and United decided they needed a left-handed left back to compete with Luke Shaw. Alex Telles has only played 67 minutes, but he recovered from the coronavirus and was not used in the qualifying victory for the World Cup in Brazil over Uruguay. Tuesday night’s schedule gives him plenty of time to replace the injured Shaw for a kickoff at 8 pm against West Brom on Saturday.
Shaw suffered another hamstring strain at Everton 12 days ago and is just one of five United players to start all seven league games. Shaw was enjoying his best domestic display of the season until he fell to the grass in front of the Bullens Stand at Goodison Park in the 67th minute and was replaced by Axel Tuanzebe.
Tuanzebe started as a left back against Arsenal last season and couldn’t imagine ending up there again. The change encouraged Everton and their two standout opportunities to equalize came from crosses delivered by the usually erratic right winger Alex Iwobi, evidently spurred on by taking on an auxiliary left back.
Had Abdoulaye Doucoure connected cleanly in the 95th minute, it would have reflected horribly on Solskjaer, as Williams and Telles were fit and both at Goodison, but neither was on the bench. They were the only outfield players eliminated from the provisional squad that met at The Lowry Hotel.
Solskjaer was enraged by Shaw’s injury, but this is a player whose United debut was delayed a month in 2014 due to a hamstring strain and missed 96 days of last season with a tendon problem. of the hamstring. Shaw was likely to arrive at lunchtime start after hard work Wednesday night in Istanbul.
United did not have Mason Greenwood, so Solskjaer made up for his absence with unused winger Daniel James, Tuanzebe has played in the back four, Edinson Cavani is the substitute forward, Dean Henderson is the substitute for David de Gea and then there were three midfielders: Nemanja Matic, Paul Pogba and Donny van de Beek.
The best players are not always part of the best team and Bruno Fernandes, Fred and Scott McTominay have established themselves as United’s most trusted midfield troika. Solskjaer has hosted the six specialist midfielders in nine of the ten Premier League and Champions League games this season and Matic only missed the first game of the season against Crystal Palace while in quarantine.
Logically, a seven-man bench would be made up of a goalkeeper, a central defender, a winger, two midfielders and two forwards. Solskjaer is evidently reluctant to cut one of the midfield sextets and has already raged with questions about Van de Beek’s wait to start the Premier League. Pogba is always topical, and if Matic is ruled out, attention will be drawn to the three-year contract he signed in early July, a month before his 32nd birthday.
Van de Beek and Pogba have changed the game from the bench and their presence is more daunting than Matic’s. Tuanzebe was a commendable containment midfielder towards the end of the 2016-17 season and Solskjaer isn’t averse to stuffing that square peg down a round hole.
It is not surprising that United voted for five alternates.
Possible squad of United vs West Brom: De Gea, Henderson, Wan-Bissaka, Maguire, Lindelof, Tuanzebe, Telles, Williams, McTominay, Fred, Pogba, Van de Beek, Fernandes, Mata, Greenwood, Rashford, Martial, Cavani
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