{"id":342152,"date":"2025-12-12T02:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/342152\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T02:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:16:07","slug":"manchester-united-xi-vs-bournemouth-confirmed-team-news-predicted-lineup-injury-latest-for-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/342152\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United XI vs Bournemouth: Confirmed team news, predicted lineup, injury latest for Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester United<\/a> look likely to remain without Benjamin Sesko<\/a>, Matthijs de Ligt and Harry Maguire for their Premier League clash with Bournemouth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All three players were absent from training at Carrington on Thursday <\/a>as Ruben Amorim\u2019s side stepped up preparations for another Monday night contest at Old Trafford, though Noussair Mazraoui, Amad Diallo<\/a> and Bryan Mbeumo<\/a> all took part amid ongoing confusion over whether or not they will be available to play one final club game before departing for the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n

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Striker Sesko has been sidelined for more than a month now after suffering a knee injury during United\u2019s dramatic 2-2 draw away at Tottenham<\/a> on November 8.<\/p>\n

Amorim said afterwards that the Slovenian international would be out for a \u201cfew weeks\u201d, though excitement over an earlier-than-expected return for Sesko was sparked this week<\/a> after his agent Elvis Basanovic said: \u201cBenjamin is feeling very well. His rehabilitation is progressing according to plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to say precisely when he will return. That will be up to the medical staff and the manager, but I think we\u2019ll see him back on the pitch very soon. Maybe even sooner than expected.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sesko\u2019s absence initially led to a run in the team for the previously little-used Joshua Zirkzee, though Amorim deployed Matheus Cunha as the central figure in attack for Monday\u2019s 4-1 demolition of rock-bottom Wolves<\/a> at Molineux, supported by Mount and Mbeumo.<\/p>\n

That seems unlikely to change against Bournemouth, if Mbeumo is indeed available for a game that takes place on the same (delayed) date as clubs have to release players for AFCON in Morocco.<\/p>\n

Maguire has been out with a hamstring injury since the same Spurs game in which Sesko was hurt, while De Ligt picked up an unspecified knock before the recent draw with West Ham <\/a>and also sat out the win at Wolves despite being expected to return.<\/p>\n

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Amorim surprisingly started teenager Ayden Heaven in defence once more at Molineux despite his struggles against West Ham that saw him booked and taken off at half-time, though the likes of Leny Yoro and the fit-again Lisandro Martinez will now be pushing to come in.<\/p>\n

Predicted Manchester United XI (3-4-2-1): Lammens; Mazraoui, Yoro, Shaw; Amad, Casemiro, Fernandes, Dalot; Mbeumo, Mount; Cunha<\/p>\n

Injured: Sesko, Maguire<\/p>\n

Doubt: De Ligt<\/p>\n

Time and date: 8pm GMT on Monday December 15, 2025<\/p>\n

Venue: Old Trafford, Manchester<\/p>\n

How to watch: Sky Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United look likely to remain without Benjamin Sesko, Matthijs de Ligt and Harry Maguire for their Premier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[189929,132555,64,63,189930,12045,39772,1753,107356,596,40468,62965,62967,107359,5752,1525,32191,189928,54080,14674,1614,1532,85,24942,189927,66279,1530],"class_list":["post-342152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-africa-cup-of-nations","tag-amad-diallo","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ayden-heaven","tag-benjamin-sesko","tag-bournemouth","tag-bryan-mbeumo","tag-dalot","tag-football","tag-harry-maguire","tag-joshua-zirkzee","tag-leny-yoro","tag-lisandro-martinez","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-united","tag-matheus-cunha","tag-matthijs-de-ligt","tag-noussair-mazraoui","tag-old-trafford","tag-premier-league","tag-ruben-amorim","tag-sports","tag-spurs","tag-striker-sesko","tag-west-ham","tag-wolves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}