Ruben Amorim has confirmed that two players on top of Benjamin Sesko and Harry Maguire are injury doubts ahead of Manchester United\u2019s clash with West Ham on Thursday, but wouldn\u2019t reveal who.<\/p>\n
United host the Hammers on Thursday and could move into the top four should (a lot of) results go their way.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: Top 10 transfer flops of the season: Liverpool trio shamed as Premier League clubs waste \u00a3500m<\/a><\/p>\n Maguire (thigh) and Sesko (knee) are set to miss the game, but Amorim said in his press conference on Wednesday that two further players might not be available, though the Portuguese boss kept his cards close to his chest as he didn\u2019t want to reveal his tactics to counterpart Nuno Espirito Santo.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have two doubts for the game,\u2019 Amorim said. \u201cI will not say who today as we are going to change how we approach the game.<\/p>\n \u201cLet\u2019s see if they can play tomorrow. The rest of the squad is good. Matheus is back but Harry and Sesko are still out.\u201d<\/p>\n Cunha does return in a big boost for Amorim, after the summer signing missed the defeat to Everton and the win over Crystal Palace with a head injury on the back of his first goal for the club against Brighton.<\/p>\n \u201cHe has more levels to go,\u201d Amorim added. \u201cHe\u2019s at a different club, different pressure, he was struggling because he was not scoring, he was thinking too much about the numbers but the influence he has in the team is important to us.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE MAN UTD COVERAGE ON F365\u2026 Amorim also confirmed 18-year-old Shea Lacey \u2013 who\u2019s been on the bench for the last two games but is yet to make his senior debut \u2013 will \u201chave the chance\u201d to impress for the first XI at some stage.<\/p>\n \u201cTry to explain every day how to play, if you\u2019re comfortable and don\u2019t have any doubts when you are playing that will help the kids,\u201d he said of the process of introducing academy talents.<\/p>\n \u201cThen to work the physicality, the speed of the pressure, the moments to have the ball and pass the ball is completely different to U21s.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019ll have the chance, I don\u2019t know, but he\u2019s ready to play.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ruben Amorim has confirmed that two players on top of Benjamin Sesko and Harry Maguire are injury doubts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[914,42,917,43054,43,919,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-174163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-front-page","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-manchester-united","11":"tag-matheus-cunha","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-ruben-amorim","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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