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Charlotte Duncker

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer welcomes Manchester United squad boost ahead of Man City clash

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has admitted it will be 'great' to have Luke Shaw back in contention for Manchester United for their clash against Manchester City.

The left-back has missed United's last two league games through suspension having picked up his 10th booking of the season in the the defeat against Wolves and was also forced to sit out the second leg of the Champions League quarter final against Barcelona having picked up his third card of the campaign in the first leg.

The 23-year-old is back in contention for Wednesday night's Manchester derby at Old Trafford and Solskjaer is happy to have the defender back.

"Luke’s been very good,” Solskjaer told MUTV . "He’s disappointed that he’s missed the three games that he has. He knows he has to improve on that.

"Some of his yellow cards weren’t yellow cards but some of them are his fault where he’s taken the easy option. We’ve spoken about that.

"It’ll be great to have him back because, both defensively and in attack, he’s been one of our best players."

In terms of absentees Ander Herrera, Antonio Valencia, Marcos Rojo, Eric Bailly and Matteo Darmian all missed the defeat to Everton last time out and there has been no update over their availability.

Phil Jones came off at half time at Goodison with an injury.

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