Ruud van Nistelrooy denies Ruben Amorim influence on Manchester United line up change vs Chelsea
The confirmed line ups as Man Utd face Chelsea in the Premier League on Sunday afternoon.
Ruud van Nistelrooy has made one change from Manchester United’s last Premier League encounter as Manuel Ugarte replaces the injured Christian Eriksen against Chelsea.
United are otherwise unchanged from the team that lost to West Ham in Erik ten Hag’s final match in charge a week ago, with Alejandro Garnacho and Marcus Rashford selected alongside Rasmus Hojlund in the forward line.
Matthijs de Ligt and Lisandro Martinez are the central defensive partnership, with Diogo Dalot and Noussair Mazraoui selected at full-back. Andre Onana returns in goal after he missed the midweek win over Leicester in the Carabao Cup.
Speaking ahead of the match, Van Nistelrooy denied the suggestion Ruben Amorim’s appointment as the new head coach has impacted his team selection at all.
“No. There’s no contact about this,” he told Sky Sports. “It’s very clear, it’s also communicated with the players, that I’ll be in charge until Sunday, next week, the Leicester game, and after that, the new manager will take over, and that’s what it is.”
On the mood ahead of the match, he added: “I said [on] Wednesday it was mixed emotions. Of course, the beginning of the week, Erik leaving, then taking over, the Wednesday game, how it all went. So, yeah, correct, you go through a lot of emotions. “Obviously, the announcement of the new manager, and when he’s starting, so, yeah, it’s going quickly and we have to deal with it all.”
United XI: Onana; Dalot, De Ligt, Martínez, Mazraoui; Ugarte, Casemiro, Fernandes; Garnacho, Rashford, Højlund.
Subs: Bayındır, Amass, Evans, Lindelöf, Fitzgerald, J.Fletcher, Amad, Wheatley, Zirkzee.