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United Under-21s face Middlesbrough - Official Manchester United Website

United U21s face Boro

Manchester United's Under-21s entertain Middlesbrough on Monday night with the league game switched from Old Trafford to the AJ Bell Stadium.

Warren Joyce's champions won at Southampton in a first outing of 2014 but still face a long battle to climb the table given the number of fixtures in hand on most of the other clubs. The return of several loanees has presented the Reserves coach with a large squad again containing plenty of options.

The need to give game time to the more experienced figures will be balanced by the desire to blood members of the Under-19 squad that competed in the UEFA Youth League. Jesse Lingard scored at Southampton, with a contender for Goal of the Month, but has been in and around the first-team squad of late and might not feature with the Capital One Cup semi-final second leg against Sunderland on the horizon.

Boro currently sit in 17th place in the table, eight places below United, but defeated Arsenal 3-1 in their last outing. The Teessiders also have been involved in some high-scoring games and it should be an entertaining affair in front of the live MUTV cameras.
 
Team: Johnstone; Fabio, Thorpe, Ekangamene, Blackett; Petrucci, James, Lingard; Macheda, W. Keane, Cole.

Zaha on bench.
 
Something must be going on behind the scenes for Zaha to be on the bench in the U21s.
 

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