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The Lead
Team newsofficially confirmedcompleted
Martinez is available tonight but suspended for Aston Villa on Sunday
United's own team news resolves the question left open since Lisandro Martínez was sent off at Chelsea on Saturday. His one-match ban applies to the Premier League fixture against Aston Villa on Sunday, not to the Champions League tie against Roma, where he remains available. Leny Yoro's European suspension, picked up for missing the Como defeat, has been served, and he returns for Roma free of restriction. United said the same in Monday's preview of the tie. The split rests on competition: a domestic red card at Chelsea carries no weight in Europe, and a European ban carries none in the league. Two defenders, two different calendars.
The Briefing
Roma visit Old Trafford with United winless since September, 17th in the league and 21st in the Champions League table after three games.
Match previewofficially confirmed
Luke Shaw is out for the week per Carrick, with Ugarte and Šeško also missing and Rashford day to day; Dorgu is fit but won't feature.
Injuryofficially confirmed
Carrick rejected the idea Roma and Sunday's Villa game are his last two in charge, saying he is focused only on the Roma tie.
Quoteofficially confirmed
Bruno Fernandes is among 26 players shortlisted for FIFPRO's World 11, with the result due 9 November.
Team newsofficially confirmed
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Creator Spotlight
Laurie Whitwell
Laurie Whitwell, tier 1, credibility 92 on our own scale.
Laurie Whitwell covers United for The Athletic, the heaviest beat volume we track: 363 attributions across 283 distinct stories in our last 30-day window. He's the reporter for training-ground detail and squad news, the byline that tends to set off coverage elsewhere rather than follow it.
Club Pulse
Ownership: quiet (thin sample)
Manager: -22, +4 on a sample of 3
First Team: -15, -1 on a sample of 13
Academy: quiet (thin sample)
Women: quiet (thin sample)
Mood ticks up slightly in the dugout, still negative; the wider first-team reading stays about where it was, both anchored to the same post-Chelsea discontent.
Player in Focus
Leny Yoro
2 mentions on the day's count, sentiment positive. That is a thin base and we read the trend as noise.
Yoro's reading sits strongly positive, but on just two mentions: noise, not signal. The one that matters is substantive, his European ban served and Carrick naming him one of United's best performers this season, knee strapping and all.
His European suspension is spent, so he is available again in this competition. The strapping is a tendon that flares up and settles, and the manager rates his season highly.
Loan Watch
Barcelona's interest in Martínez and Real Madrid's in JJ Gabriel both hold at watching and rising respectively, with no fresh movement since the last snapshot. Dan Gore and Chido Obi have already completed their exits, to Luton Town and Willem II.
Watching Lisandro Martinez. Lisandro Martinez, CB, Barcelona.
Rising JJ Gabriel. JJ Gabriel, FW, Real Madrid.
Departed Dan Gore. Dan Gore, CM, Luton Town.
Departed Chido Obi. Chido Obi, ST, Willem II.
From the Archive
11-03 · 2004
4-1 v Sparta Prague
United beat Sparta Prague 4-1 at home in the Champions League. Van Nistelrooy scored four times. Attendance 66,706.
In 2004, Van Nistelrooy scored four times as United beat Sparta Prague 4-1 at Old Trafford in the Champions League, watched by 66,706.
Hot Topics
Roma at Old Trafford (9, rising) · Carrick's position (3, rising) · United's injury list (2, stable)
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