Bjorn Hardley has been training with Cristiano Ronaldo and the Manchester United first team ahead of the Premier League showdown with Arsenal.
The 18-year-old has yet to make a senior appearance for the Old Trafford giants, but is a regular member of the Premier League 2 side and has appeared four times in the UEFA Youth League this season.
Hardley scored his first goal for the Under-23s against Liverpool last month.
Born in the Netherlands, the highly-rated defender has trained alongside Ronaldo at company several times already as he continues his development.
And that appears to be the case this week during the build-up to meeting Arsenal on Thursday night (8.15pm).
Michael Carrick is set to take charge for the third and final time before handing over the baton to interim manager, Ralf Rangnick, who still awaits his visa before stepping into the hot-seat.
Ronaldo is, himself, preparing to return to the starting line-up after being benched against Chelsea.
In turning his attentions to the Gunners, the five-time Ballon d'Or winner posted an image on popular social media platform Instagram — and Hardley was front and centre after helping the Portuguese sensation and his team win his small-sided game.
The duo were joined by Dean Henderson, returning England defender Harry Maguire, Amad, Diogo Dalot and others.
Addressing his 372 million followers, Ronaldo posted an image of the players alongside a small caption, which read: "Winning team."
The post has been liked close to 7,000,000 times and has drawn plenty of responses from United fans and players — with Jesse Lingard seemingly questioning an offside call.
United are still without Raphael Varane and Paul Pogba for the Arsenal game tomorrow (Thursday) but Maguire and Ronaldo are expected to return to the line-up.
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