Manchester United face Crystal Palace in their first Premier League game of the season this afternoon.

Palace of course got their campaign underway last week with a win over Southampton. United’s start to the season has been delayed due to their involvement in the latter stages of the Europa League in August.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer revealed some early team news yesterday. “Phil Jones is still out,” Ole said to ManUtd.com. “Axel is not 100 per cent back with us yet, but he’s on the grass running, which is a positive. Apart from that, we don’t have any serious injuries, but, as we’ve said, the players are at different stages of their training programmes.

“Teden’s jumped up. He’ll probably play some Under-23s games this season, when it’s possible for him. He needs games at that stage regularly. But he’s done absolutely brilliantly in training and he came on for half an hour against Villa and didn’t put a foot wrong. He’s with us every single day.

“The players are at different stages. Mentally, I think everyone’s ready. Physically, they’re at a different stage, some of them have played more games than others. So we’ll have to be clever and good about when to play players because we know this period now, until the first international, is a hugely important one.

“We need points and the players need games but some of them haven’t trained enough or had enough football. Some of them have been in quarantine, it’s just one of these situations which we’ve adapted to really well before and the players have done well.”

Solskjaer confirmed that Donny van de Beek was likely to make his debut but stopped short of confirming any starting news.

Predicted team :

De Gea

Wan-Bissaka Lindelof Maguire Shaw

Matic

Van de Beek Pogba

Fernandes

Rashford Martial