{"id":658287,"date":"2025-08-17T04:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T08:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=658287"},"modified":"2025-08-16T22:13:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T02:13:52","slug":"manchester-united-predicted-lineup-vs-arsenal-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/08\/17\/manchester-united-predicted-lineup-vs-arsenal-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United Predicted Lineup vs Arsenal for August 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United get their Premier League campaign underway this Sunday at Old Trafford (with kick-off at 4:30 PM) against old foes Arsenal. Here is the Manchester United predicted lineup for the clash in which the Red Devils will be looking to start their season on a winning note.<\/p>\n<h2>Manchester United Predicted Lineup In Opening Day Showdown vs Old Rivals Arsenal<\/h2>\n<h3>How Manchester United Have Lined-up Recently<\/h3>\n<p>On their pre-season tour of the USA, Ruben Amorim experimented extensively with his line-up, giving minutes to the whole squad at his disposal as the Red Devils participated in the Premier League Summer Series in New York, Chicago and Atlanta. Perhaps the best indication of how United plan to line up came in last Saturday&#8217;s friendly against Fiorentina at Old Trafford, with L\u00e9ny Yoro, Harry Maguire and Aydon Heaven as the back 3 and Amad and Patrick Dorgu as wing-backs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/08\/09\/manchester-united-rasmus-hojlund-departure\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">\u00a378K Per Week International Linked With Manchester United Exit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Casemiro and Bruno Fernandes anchored the midfield, with summer arrivals <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/08\/07\/bryan-mbuemo-brings-to-manchester-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Bryan Mbeumo<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/06\/03\/matheus-cunha-manchester-united\/\" target=\"_self\"> Matheus Cunha<\/a> behind false nine Mason Mount. New signing <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/08\/13\/benjamin-sesko-brings-to-manchester-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Benjamin Sesko<\/a> is yet to make his debut and could be in line to start on Sunday.<\/p>\n<h3>Manchester United Recent Form and Tactics<\/h3>\n<p>The Red Devils won two and drew one of their Premier League Summer Series fixtures before being held to a draw in last weekend&#8217;s friendly against Fiorentina. Amorim is almost guaranteed to continue with his 3-4-2-1 formation going into the next season.<\/p>\n<h3>Manchester United Injuries to Consider<\/h3>\n<p>Lisandro Martinez (Knee) and Noussair Mazraoui (Thigh) are <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/martinez-onana-zirkzee-man-united-32281719\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">definitely<\/a> ruled out for the Arsenal game, but Joshua Zirkzee and Andr\u00e9 Onana are in contention to start having recovered from injury.<\/p>\n<h3>Manchester United Predicted Lineup<\/h3>\n<p>GK: Andr\u00e9 Onana<\/p>\n<p>RCB: Matthijs de Ligt<\/p>\n<p>CB: Harry Maguire<\/p>\n<p>LCB: L\u00e9ny Yoro<\/p>\n<p>RWB: Amad Diallo<\/p>\n<p>LWB: Patrick Dorgu<\/p>\n<p>CM: Casemiro<\/p>\n<p>CM: Bruno Fernandes<\/p>\n<p>RAM: Bryan Mbeumo<\/p>\n<p>LAM: Matheus Cunha<\/p>\n<p>ST: Benjamin Sesko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United get their Premier League campaign underway this Sunday at Old Trafford (with kick-off at 4:30 PM) against old foes Arsenal. Here is the Manchester United predicted lineup for the clash in which the Red Devils will be looking to start their season on a winning note. Manchester United Predicted Lineup In Opening Day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5004,"featured_media":648394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-658287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-manchester-united","tag-manchester-united"],"modified_by":"Henry Chung, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658287"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658296,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658287\/revisions\/658296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}