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Noussair Mazraoui among the Manchester United players tracking back during the draw with Tottenham(Image: Marc Atkins\/Getty Images)<\/p>\nManchester United welcome Everton to Old Trafford on Monday night with a chance to push themselves towards the European qualification positionsNoussair Mazraoui among the Manchester United players tracking back during the draw with Tottenham(Image: Marc Atkins\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Manchester United defender Noussair Mazraoui says he is happy to play as either a wing-back or centre-back ahead of the visit of Everton on Monday night. The Moroccan returned to the United starting XI before the international break as a right wing-back as Amad played in one of the No.10 roles.<\/p>\n
It was the 28-year-old’s<\/a> first start for United<\/a> since the victory over Chelsea<\/a> and he was largely faultless on the right flank. With Amad<\/a> excelling at right wing-back and the back three seemingly picking itself at present, Mazraoui will need to be versatile if he is going to gain minutes this season.<\/p>\n Speaking to the United Review ahead of Monday’s fixture, the Moroccan<\/a> insisted he is happy to play in either role to help the team. “I always used to do both,” he said. “So, whenever I was a right-back, I always liked to do the attacking but I also liked to defend, to catch my opponent, one against one, and just win those duels.<\/p>\n “For me, it’s also a nice feeling so I think, yeah, those two positions just suit me and I don’t really have a preference.” When asked what he felt the differences were between the roles, Mazraoui <\/a>said: “Of course, they are different positions, so they ask something different from you.<\/p>\n “In [terms of] attacking, and in defence as well. I think, as one of the centre-backs, it’s more defending, controlling the game, controlling the counters of the opponent. And more building up, so that is basically what your job is during the game.<\/p>\n “I think, as a wing-back, it’s more going up and down. So you have more of both sides.<\/p>\n “A little bit more defending but also you have to be decisive because you come a lot into the last third of the pitch, the last-third part of the pitch. And that asks again something different from you than being at centre-back because then you have to give like an assist or be decisive or give a great ball, where it comes to a chance.”<\/p>\n Mazraoui’s willingness to play in multiple positions for United will be music to the ears of Ruben Amorim as he prepares for a potential selection headache against Everton. Benjamin Sesko<\/a> has been ruled out and there are also question marks surrounding the fitness of Matheus Cunha after he pulled out of the Altrincham Christmas lights switch on<\/a> due to an accident suffered in training.<\/p>\n If Cunha is missing, Amad could retain his place at No.10 allowing Mazraoui to feature at right wing-back to cover the Ivorian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United welcome Everton to Old Trafford on Monday night with a chance to push themselves towards the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,1467,4884,2465,423,26709,12242,99,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-588609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-everton-fc","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-manchester-united-fc","14":"tag-manchester-united-fc-team-news","15":"tag-noussair-mazraoui","16":"tag-ruben-amorim","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115598669752877730","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588609","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=588609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Noussair](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1_JS381117666.jpg\")
Manchester United defender Noussair Mazraoui could offer Ruben Amorim options ahead of the clash with Everton(Image: Michael Regan\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n