{"id":808358,"date":"2026-10-20T07:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808358\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T07:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:02:15","slug":"man-united-lineup-vs-como-predicted-red-devils-xi-for-key-champions-league-contest-including-lisandro-martinez-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808358\/","title":{"rendered":"Man United lineup vs. Como: Predicted Red Devils XI for key Champions League contest including Lisandro Martinez decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-muted sm-article-infos mb-0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBy<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/team\/matt-law\/\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLaw<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t19 Oct 2026 18:40, Last updated: 19 Oct 2026 18:42\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/man-utd\/\" title=\"Manchester United\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester United<\/a> are sweating over the fitness of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/lisandro-martinez\/\" title=\"Lisandro Martinez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lisandro Martinez<\/a> for Wednesday&#8217;s Champions League clash with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/como\/\" title=\"Como\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Como<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez was replaced at the interval of Sunday&#8217;s Premier League clash with Leeds United due to a thigh issue, and the Argentina international now needs to be assessed before a final decision on his involvement is made.<\/p>\n<p>Manuel Ugarte (knee), Patrick\u00a0Dorgu (hamstring), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/leny-yoro\/\" title=\"Leny Yoro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leny Yoro<\/a> (suspended) and Benjamin Sesko (shin) are definitely out of the European fixture.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0Ayden\u00a0Heaven (illness), Kobbie Mainoo (unspecified) and Luke Shaw (unspecified) all need to be assessed ahead of the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Man United would have a major issue at the back if Martinez, Shaw and Heaven are all missing, as Yoro is also out of the clash due to a European suspension.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/bryan-mbeumo\/\" title=\"Bryan Mbeumo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryan Mbeumo<\/a> is set to continue through the middle, with Noussair Mazraoui for Yoro potentially the only change to the side that started against Leeds, providing that Martinez proves his fitness.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Baleba and Andrey Santos are forming a solid partnership in the middle of the park and are expected to continue that on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United possible starting lineup:<\/p>\n<p>Lammens; Mazraoui, Maguire, Martinez, Dalot; Santos, Baleba; Amad, Tielemans, Fernandes; Mbeumo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Matt Law | 19 Oct 2026 18:40, Last updated: 19 Oct 2026 18:42 Manchester United are sweating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4985,5906,218,372,59,5904,3553,5905,221,5903,217,101,3022,5907,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-808358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cycling","tag-epl","tag-football","tag-formula-1","tag-gb","tag-golf","tag-nfl","tag-olympics","tag-premier-league","tag-rugby","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-sports-mole","tag-teams","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}