Manchester United and Burnley are going to play on Thursday the 30th of December at 8:15 pm in the 20th week of the Premier League. The match is going to be staged in Manchester at the Old Trafford. The referee will be Jonathan Moss.
Manchester United sits in the 7th place in the league with 28 points. It comes from a 1-1 draw against Newcastle United in its last match in the Premier League. Thus far, it has won 8 times, draw 4 times, and lost 5 times.
Burnley sits in the 18th place in the standings with 11 points. It comes from a 0-0 draw against West Ham United in its last match in the Premier League. As of now, it has won once, draw 8 times, and lost 6 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Manchester United
Manchester United has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (11 times or 64.71%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (11 times), 4-2-2-2 (3 times), 4-3-1-2 (once), 3-5-2 (once) and 3-4-1-2 (once).
Ralf Rangnick is expected to play against Burnley with the following players: D. de Gea Quintana, L. Shaw, R. Varane, H. Maguire, A. Wan-Bissaka, S. McTominay, M. Rashford, B. Borges Fernandes, J. Sancho and C. Ronaldo.
If this will be the line-up, the resulting average age of Manchester United would be 27.00.
Ralf Rangnick will probably not be able to employ P. Pogba because of injury.
E. Bailly, V. Nilsson Lindelöf and A. Martial will definitely miss the match.
Burnley
Burnley has mostly adopted the 4-4-2 line-up most used during the season (14 times or 93.33%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-2 (14 times) and 4-5-1 (once).
Sean Dyche is expected to play against Manchester United with the following players: N. Pope, C. Taylor, J. Tarkowski, B. Mee, M. Lowton, D. McNeil, J. Brownhill, A. Westwood, J. Berg Guðmundsson and C. Wood.
Presuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the resulting average age of Burnley would be 29.00.
There are doubts about the presence of G. Cornet.
Sean Dyche will probably not be able to employ C. Roberts because of injury.
A. Barnes will definitely miss the match.
