Manchester United host Tottenham in Saturday's early kick-off and Jose Mourinho will be hoping to welcome back a number of first team stars.
Marcus Rashford and Ander Herrera are both likely to face late fitness tests ahead of the game, which pits second against third.
Both sides are level on 20 points in the table, with United sitting higher on goal difference alone.
This is what Mourinho had to say ahead of the game...
Summary
Here is what Mourinho had to say...
On Saturday’s game: “At home, we are a confident team. We trust our game, the results have been positive and we will try to be the same tomorrow.”
On injury news: “Nobody is back. Jones was on the bench the other day and is okay. Bailly is a possibility.”
On Kane being out: “I don’t speak about injured players, so don’t ask me about Harry Kane because if I speak about him I have to speak about Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Fellaini, Pogba, Rojo, Carrick.”
On Old Trafford ‘fear factor’: “I don’t think it’s fear factor, I don’t think anyone is afraid to come and play us at Old Trafford.”
On United’s one day advantage: “I hope every time I have one day less than the opponent you do the same question but I don’t think it makes an impact because my feeling is the majority of the players who played that match are not going to play tomorrow.”
On signing Matic after failed Dier bid: “I have the player that I want to have, probably I have the player I didn’t think it was possible to have but we got the player I really wanted.”
On the Carabao Cup draw
“Which draw? I’m not [happy].
“First of all, because I didn’t watch the draw and what I watch was not a live draw, was some images of a draw, but no, I didn’t like it.
“I like the draw, I like to see it, I like to feel it, I don’t like, not at all.”
On Luke Shaw saying he wants to play under Pochettino again
“Luke Shaw was just honest. The manager that helped him to come to the first, to come to the best moment of his career is a manager that do not forget he likes a lot and that maybe one day he would be reunited again so for me the perfect words that show Luke Shaw character in relation to the people that he happy with.
“He has a future here - I think he has - but the situation is not easy because he comes from injury after injury after injury. He needs two, three, four, five or six matches in a row to play, to make mistakes, to get condition, to get match fitness and I cannot give him that. In this moment I can’t give him that.
“If he was a midfield player, central midfielder player, then yes, because we only have two left backs we have so many options, so the situation is not easy.”
On failed bid to get Dier, signing Matic
“I have the player that I want to have, probably I have the player I didn’t think it was possible to have but we got the player I really wanted.”
On United's advantage over Spurs
Man United have had an extra day to recover from their mid-week exploits. Mourinho had this to say when asked about it.
“I hope every time I have one day less than the opponent you do the same question but I don’t think it makes an impact because my feeling is the majority of the players who played that match are not going to play tomorrow.
“Maybe I’m wrong but I think Sanchez, Vertonghen, Eriksen, Aurier, Winks, they had so many players not involved in the game or played just a few minutes that are going to play tomorrow so I don’t think it has a real impact.
“Alli played but he didn’t play against Real Madrid and I don’t think it’s a problem for them and they are a young, strong team, also physically, so I think they will be what they are, a very good team.”
On the Old Trafford 'fear factor'
“I don’t think it’s fear factor, I don’t think anyone is afraid to come and play us at Old Trafford.
“Just think normally we have good performances at home, we trust our game and yes, the results we can say positive at home.
“We had lots of draws last season, too many but normally at home we are a strong, confident team so we try to do something tomorrow.”
On Harry Kane being injured
“I don’t speak about injured players, so don’t ask me about Harry Kane because if I speak about him I have to speak about Zlatan Ibrahimovic, [Marouane] Fellaini, [Paul] Pogba, [Marcos] Rojo, [Michael] Carrick - so I don’t speak.”
On defensive options
“Jones is good, he was on the bench on Tuesday, no need to play, but he was ready - so he is really ready. Eric - let’s see, [he’ll have] one more training session, but he is the only one that I hope from the injured group that can be ready for tomorrow.”
On team news
“Nobody is back. Jones was on the bench the other day and is okay. Bailly is a possibility.
“We have no Zlatan Ibrahimovic, no Paul Pogba, no Marouane Fellaini, no Marcos Rojo, no Michael Carrick, so don’t speak to me about Harry Kane.”
Mourinho on Saturday's game
“I think we are fine, I think we are strong and I think we are ready.
“At home, we are a confident team. We trust our game, the results have been positive and we will try to be the same tomorrow.”
Zlatan's being talking to MUTV
Ibrahimovic on his return: “The aim is, like I said before, to finish what I started. Just for me to come back and have the smell of the grass, feel the heat and feel the atmosphere. That for me will be the trigger point where I will switch on and be the lion that I am.”
United recognised for 1999
Manchester United have now officially been world club champions twice following a ruling by FIFA today.
The council of the sport’s world governing body said it had officially recognised the winners of the Intercontinental Cup, which was staged between 1960 and 2004, as club world champions.
The competition was usually played between the winners of the European Cup and South America’s Copa Libertadores but was dogged by violence, disagreements over the format and disinterest from European teams. Liverpool, for example, refused to play Argentina’s Boca Juniors in 1977 and 1978.
British clubs had a very poor record in the competition, with Celtic, Manchester United, Nottingham Forest, Liverpool (twice) and Aston Villa all losing finals before United finally beat Brazil’s Brazilian side Palmeiras in 1999.
The Red Devils also won FIFA’s revamped tournament, the Club World Cup, in 2008.
Welcome
Harry Kane will miss Tottenham’s Premier League clash at Manchester United on Saturday due to a hamstring injury.
The England striker came off during the closing stages of last weekend’s win over Liverpool and will not be risked at Old Trafford.
Victor Wanyama (knee) is the only other absentee for Spurs as they look to claim a victory that would see them leapfrog the Red Devils in the table.
But what about United’s injury news. Marcus Rashford and Ander Herrera are both in with a chance of playing but Marouane Fellaini, Eric Bailly, Michael Carrick, Paul Pogba, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Marcos Rojo are all still out.
Stick with us for updates on them and much more as Jose Mourinho faces the media ahead of the visit of Mauricio Pochettino.