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Samuel Luckhurst

Why Anthony Martial, Luke Shaw and Jesse Lingard are not in the Manchester United squad

Anthony Martial, Jesse Lingard and Luke Shaw have missed Manchester United's FA Cup tie at Wolves through illness.

The MEN reported on Friday Martial and Lingard arrived at United's Carrington training complex in the morning but left 15 minutes later. United are believed to be keen for players who are unwell to not be on site before games and neither of them travelled with the team to Wolverhampton on Friday night.

Shaw is also unwell and missed the trip to the Midlands. United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer confirmed at his pre-match press conference some players were unwell and would sit out United's final training session before they decided on the squad.

"Paul [Pogba] is out," Solskjaer said. "Axel [Tuanzebe], Eric [Bailly], Tim [Fosu-Mensah] are getting closer but won't be ready for this. [Marcos] Rojo won't be ready for this. There are a couple of feelings of illness and cold, which is normal for this time [of year], so I'll just have to see who wakes up tomorrow and feels okay.

"Today, of course, we've got a training session as well but some of them will miss that one."

United have previously travelled to Wolves the day before and on the day of the game under Solskjaer, but stayed over in Wolverhampton on Friday night.

Shaw, Lingard and Martial started in the defeat at Arsenal on New Year's Day. Brandon Williams, Andreas Pereira and Mason Greenwood have replaced the trio against Wolves.

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