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Dominic Booth

Manchester United lineup vs Aston Villa includes Paul Pogba and Victor Lindelof

Manchester United have included Paul Pogba and Bruno Fernandes together in their side again, as they face Aston Villa this evening.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has once again named an unchanged team for the Premier League fixture, with Mason Greenwood and Nemanja Matic keeping their places too, while Victor Lindelof is fit to play.

Lindelof had been struggling with a back injury and came off at half time of United's 5-2 victory over Bournemouth at the weekend and was replaced by Eric Bailly.

But Bailly is among the substitutes, as Solskjaer keeps with the same starting 11 for the fourth successive game.

United are looking to make it 17 games unbeaten at Villa Park and increase the pressure on fourth-placed Leicester City, who dropped more points at Arsenal earlier in the week. United will go to within a point of the Foxes and two points from third-placed Chelsea if they can win tonight.

Before the game, Solskjaer urged his players to earn the three points with a professional performance at Villa and to guard against complacency.

Speaking to United's official website about Villa, he said: "Football is a game of small margins and maybe they’ve been a bit unlucky.

"They do have some quality players, they’re a very quick counterattacking team, physical and very good at set-plays, so of course we know we've got to play well and win the ball back quickly.

"Any game in the Premier League you need to earn the right to win and we’ll do that by turning up on the day.

“I don’t think any team will go into any game in the Premier League thinking this is an easy ride. We saw that against Bournemouth ourselves at Old Trafford.

"A team that are supposedly struggling came here with loads of belief and courage and they were brave, but thankfully we had some lads with some fantastic finishes."

United XI: De Gea; Wan-Bissaka, Lindelof, Maguire, Shaw; Matic, Pogba, Fernandes; Greenwood, Martial, Rashford.

Subs: Romero, Williams, Bailly, Fred, McTominay, James, Ighalo, Mata, Pereira.

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