Here are your Manchester United nightly headlines for July 24
Injured couple could return for trip to Leicester
Manchester United must avoid defeat at Leicester City to seal their return to the Champions League, and manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer received a double injury boost.
Eric Bailly and Luke Shaw will travel to King Power Stadium for the Premier League final, with Solskjaer suggesting the couple could be online to play a role in the game.
Bailly left the field early during the FA Cup semi-final against Chelsea, having suffered a head-butt with teammate Harry Maguire, while Shaw has not played since a draw with Southampton on July 13 due to a ankle problem.
Axel [Tuanzebe] and Phil [Jones] they’re out, but I’ll give the others enough time to demonstrate their fitness, “United boss Solskjaer said before the trip to King Power.
United enters the game one point and two places ahead of its opponents, meaning a draw will guarantee Champions League football and a loss will still leave United in the top four if Chelsea loses its last game of the season against Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Template for pre-Europa break from the league
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has revealed that he plans to give his players a break during the gap between the end of the Premier League season and the resumption of European competition.
Manchester United’s Europa League campaign will kick off on August 5, and LASK will arrive at Old Trafford in hopes of reversing an overwhelming first-round deficit of 5-0.
“We will give them some free time, they need mental and physical time away from the venue, because the effort has been fantastic, so recharge the batteries for a few days and then come back.” Solskjaer said, acknowledging that his team has played 10 competitive games since mid-June and has an 11 at Leicester on Sunday.
“We have LASK and a 5-0 lead, so we don’t have to go into that game chasing a two or three goal victory. We just want a good performance and we hope that’s enough to get into the quarters.” “Added the Norwegian.
“But a few days off, definitely.”
As long as United doesn’t suffer an unprecedented loss against their Austrian opponents, they will face one of FC Copenhagen and Istanbul Basaksehir in the quarterfinals. The Turkish champions have a 1-0 lead in the second leg of their last 16 draws.
When fans could return to Old Trafford
Manchester United fans were forced to watch the chase of their team’s top four teams from home, with all the Premier League games under Project Restart played behind closed doors.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson had raised hopes that Old Trafford worshipers would be able to follow his team back into the stadium starting in October, but it is unlikely to be a theater full of dreams.
According to a draft of the document from the Sports Ground Security Authority (SGSA), published in the TimesThe Coronavirus guidelines mean that the stages could be between 17 and 33 percent when they reopen.
“The capabilities of the competitions will be key to the amount of stadium that can be used,” Peter Houghton, director of operations for the Association of Soccer Safety Officials, told the publication.
“In general, the older the stadiums, the less space there is.”
The 2020/21 season of the Premier League will be launched in mid-September, more than a month after its original start date of August 8, due to delays in completing the current campaign.
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