Ghana international Ernest Nuamah is still absent, though, after undergoing surgery on an anterior-cruciate knee problem.<\/p>\n
Young striker Alejandro Gomes Rodriguez has not made the trip, despite being in a Europa League matchday squad for the first time last Thursday.<\/p>\n
Former Reds midfielder Nemanja Matic is included, after being an unused substitute in the first leg, as a 21-man squad is available for coach Paulo Fonseca to choose from.<\/p>\n
During his press conference, the Lyon boss admitted that, although Fofana has made the flight, the winger is not fit enough to play the full 90 minutes.<\/p>\n
“We’re playing here at Old Trafford against a great team that has the same ambitions as us,” he said. “It will be a decisive match for United’s season.<\/p>\n
“We want to play well in this game and have the chance to win, but we know it will be difficult.<\/p>\n
“I expect to face the best Manchester United, with the best players. As Ruben [Amorim] said, it’s a difficult moment for United but, tomorrow, they will have a super-motivated team.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ghana international Ernest Nuamah is still absent, though, after undergoing surgery on an anterior-cruciate knee problem. Young striker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[17298,748,393,1592,4884,18,2465,12239,12,20,16,15,21],"class_list":{"0":"post-28791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-2025_04_17_old_trafford_manchester","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-first-team","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-like","14":"tag-manchester","15":"tag-nemanja-matic","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-search","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-united-now"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114355978160662581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}