The players are out on the pitch and Turf Moor is looking packed. Hopefully the teams will put on a show.
I have a feeling it is not warm in Burnley. But the Burnley team are all in short sleeves apart from Hendrick.
On BT Sport Marcus Rashford is taking Robin van Persie around Manchester and has been explaining the homeless issue there. As someone from the city, he is absolutely right to raise awareness of how bad the situation has become. He’s a good egg.
I always get a little tinge of sadness when I see Joe Hart on a bench; he was so good for Man City for so long and since then has, metaphorically, fallen off a cliff.
A busy time for the Pope.
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(@vkmagus)@Will_Unwin
Nice to see Pope lining up just 3 days after Christmas
Continuing the trend of Wolves and Norwich , Burnley could make it a holy trinity weekend
Burnley is known for causing difficulties to Man U
Anyway … when will we stop talking about the actual football and turn our thoughts to VAR? I will go for the 17th minute
No surprises in the Burnley team. They will be even more excited looking at the United side. I suspect McNeil will be happier to face Young than Wan Bissaka.
No Pogba, so they have dusted off Matic for the game. His last league appearance came in September.
Starting lineups
Burnley: Pope, Bardsley, Taylor, Tarkowski, Mee, Cork, Hendrick, Westwood, McNeil, Barnes, Wood
Subs: Hart, Lowton, Gudmundsson, Drinkwater, Brady, Rodriguez, Long
Manchester United: De Gea, Young, Lindelof, Maguire, Williams, Fred, Matic, Pereira, James, Martial, Rashford
Subs: Romero, Jones, Mata, Lingard, Shaw, Greenwood, Wan-Bissaka.
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Good evening!
Sean Dyche’s Burnley sit happily in mid-table and are not even looking over their shoulder, so will be very content with life. The squad and style are pretty much set and they will certainly make life difficult for a Manchester United team on a high after thrashing Newcastle.
Scott McTominay will be missing for United having knacked his knee on Boxing Day and it will be interesting to see how much the team misses him, especially up against a side as well-drilled as Burnley.
The Clarets will be ready to rough up United’s back four, even resting Ashley Barnes for the Everton defeat in order to ensure he would be raring to go against Harry Maguire and Victor Lindelof. The lack of McTominay should have meant a Premier League start for Paul Pogba after a couple of promising cameos in the last two games and he is someone United need if they are to challenge for the top four but he is absent again, it would seem.
Burnley’s back four impressed against Everton until the killer blow from Dominic Calvert-Lewin so will be looking to go one better against Rashford and Martial.
Anyway, it should be a cracker at Turf Moor.
Kick-off: 7.45pm (GMT)
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