Manchester United vs Crystal Palace: Team news, kick-off time, probable line-ups, odds and stats from Premier League clash at Old Trafford

  • Jose Mourinho has selection issues with a host of Manchester United stars out
  • Michael Carrick joins Paul Pogba, Marcos Rojo on the sidelines with injury
  • Crystal Palace face a major shortage and have Freddie Ladapo as only striker
  • The Eagles are yet to establish a single Premier League victory this season

Ahead of this weekend's action, Sportsmail will be providing you with all you need to know about every fixture, with team news, provisional squads, betting odds and Opta stats.

Here is all the information you need for Manchester United's home clash with strugglers Crystal Palace.

 

Manchester United vs Crystal Palace (Old Trafford, Saturday 15:00)


Team news

Manchester United

Jose Mourinho expects Manchester United to be without several players when Crystal Palace arrive on Saturday.

Michael Carrick joins Paul Pogba, Marcos Rojo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic on the sidelines, while Phil Jones and Antonio Valencia will be assessed having missed the midweek Champions League trip to CSKA Moscow.

Manchester United will be without Paul Pogba and a host of other stars due to injuries

Manchester United will be without Paul Pogba and a host of other stars due to injuries

Marouane Fellaini also missed the match in Russia with an ankle injury that is still under assessment, while Anthony Martial went off in the 4-1 win in Russia.

Provisional squad: De Gea, Romero, Pereira, Valencia, Darmian, Lindelof, Bailly, Jones, Smalling, Blind, Shaw, Young, Fellaini, Matic, Herrera, McTominay, Mata, Lingard, Mkhitaryan, Lukaku, Rashford, Martial.

Crystal Palace 

Rookie forward Freddie Ladapo could solve Crystal Palace's striker crisis in Saturday's Premier League clash at Manchester United.

The 24-year-old is Palace's only fit recognised striker after Christian Benteke was ruled out for at least six weeks with knee trouble.

Former Wolves winger Bakary Sako could be pressed into service as a makeshift striker. Ruben Loftus-Cheek has a thigh problem, and James Tomkins is ill.

Rookie striker Freddie Ladapo is the only recognised fit striker in the Crystal Palace

Rookie striker Freddie Ladapo is the only recognised fit striker in the Crystal Palace

Provisional squad: Hennessey, Speroni, Riedewald, Dann, Delaney, Fosu-Mensah, Kelly, Ward, Sakho, Lee, McArthur, Cabaye, Milivojevic, Mutch, Puncheon, Sako, Schlupp, Souare, Kaikai, Townsend, Van Aanholt, Ladapo.

Key stats - Supplied by Opta

- Manchester United have never lost a Premier League game against Crystal Palace in 16 previous meetings (W13 D3 L0). The only team they’ve faced as often without losing are Charlton Athletic (W14 D2 L0).

- Crystal Palace’s last league victory over Manchester United came in May 1991 at Selhurst Park – Ian Wright scoring one and John Salako netting a brace in a 3-0 win.

- However, their most recent victory over Manchester United came in the League Cup in November 2011 – Darren Ambrose and Glenn Murray scoring in a 2-1 win in the quarter-final.

- Manchester United have won 10 consecutive home top-flight matches against Crystal Palace, conceding just two goals in that time – both in the same game, a 5-2 win in December 2004.

- Eight of Manchester United’s 17 Premier League goals so far this season have arrived in the final 10 minutes of matches (47.1%) – as it stands, this is the highest proportion by any team in any single Premier League season.

- Crystal Palace are the first side in England’s top four tiers to lose their first six games of the season without scoring.

Mourinho will hope to take advantage of struggling Palace to get his side back top of the table

Mourinho will hope to take advantage of struggling Palace to get his side back top of the table

- The Eagles are the only team in Europe’s ‘big five’ leagues yet to score a goal in league competition this season.

- Only two teams in English football league history within the top four tiers have previously failed to score in their opening six league games of a season – Burnley in 1997-98 (third tier) and Halifax Town in 1990-91 (fourth tier). Halifax hold the all-time record, as they failed to score in their opening eight league games in 1990-91.

- Romelu Lukaku has scored six goals in his first six Premier League appearances for Manchester United – the record tally of goals by a Man Utd player in their opening seven PL games for the club is held by Andrew Cole (seven goals).

- Romelu Lukaku has scored 19 goals in his last 21 Premier League appearances – in comparison, Crystal Palace have scored 18 goals in their last 21 Premier League matches.

- Juan Mata’s next Premier League appearance will be his 200th in the competition. Just six Spanish players have previously reached this landmark in the Premier League (David de Gea, David Silva, Cesc Fabregas, Pepe Reina, Mikel Arteta & Fernando Torres.) 

MAN UNITED VS CRYSTAL PALACE

Kick-off: 15:00pm, Saturday

Referee: Mike Dean

Odds (subject to change):

Man United 2/11

Draw 11/2

Crystal Palace 16/1

Managers:

Jose Mourinho (Man United)

Roy Hodgson (Crystal Palace)

Head-to-head PL record:

Man United wins: 13

Draws: 3

Crystal Palace wins: 0

League form (latest result first):

Man United - WWDWW

Crystal Palace - LLLLL

Season at a glance

  • Premier League
  • Premier League
  • Championship
  • League One
  • League Two
  • Scottish Premiership
  • Scottish Div 1
  • Scottish Div 2
  • Scottish Div 3
  • Ligue 1
  • Serie A
  • La Liga
  • Bundesliga

 

 

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