Manchester United on Wednesday afternoon named a stronger team to travel to Italy for their Europa League second leg matchup against AC Milan. Almost a fully fit and firing team with the exception of two players, Eric Bailly and Juan Mata.
Manchester United has their work cut out for them in the last leg of the Europa League round of 16. The overall result is far from decided and a place in the quarter-finals is only a goal and a clean sheet away for the Red Devils.
These small but significant features they need to achieve in the second leg looks even more obtainable with the named travelling squad from Wednesday. They have some big hitters that returned to full training prior to their journey.
#mufc's travelling squad to face AC Milan: De Gea, Henderson, Grant; Lindelöf, Maguire, Shaw, Telles, Tuanzebe, Wan-Bissaka, Williams; Amad, Fernandes, Fred, James, Matić, McTominay, Pogba, van de Beek; Cavani, Greenwood, Rashford #mulive
— utdreport (@utdreport) March 17, 2021
Travelling Manchester United to take on AC Milan at the San Siro
Goalkeepers: De Gea, Henderson, Grant;
Defenders: Lindelöf, Maguire, Shaw, Telles, Tuanzebe, Wan-Bissaka, Williams;
Midfielders: Amad, Fernandes, Fred, James, Matić, McTominay, Pogba, van de Beek;
Strikers: Cavani, Greenwood, Rashford
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Paul Pogba, Edinson Cavani, Marcus Rashford and Donny van de Beek were all missing for the first leg, as well as their Premier League Matchday 28 victory over West Ham United that followed on Sunday past.
They were pictured in full training ahead of the EPL win but were not risked by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, keeping them for Man United’s attempt to progress further in the tournament. Rashford was the only player used of the injury returns in the Hammers affair.
There are only two important squad players missing from the travelling list – both Eric Bailly and Juan Mata were not present. The former was named on the bench in the weekend’s past action but involved during the 90 minutes of English football, with the latter missing for a couple of outings now.
Juan Mata and Eric Bailly are not part of the United travelling squad. However, Pogba, Cavani, Van de Beek and De Gea have been included ahead of Thursday nights' #UEL tie vs AC Milan.
— Ben Dinnery (@BenDinnery) March 17, 2021
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A win places them in the final eight of the European competition and keeps them on track to try and better last season’s Europa League run where they lost in the semi-finals to Spanish side, Sevilla.
They were ousted 2-1 with a Bruno Fernandes penalty not even enough to see them through to the final round of the tournament.