{"id":665733,"date":"2026-03-01T04:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=665733"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:33:28","slug":"manchester-united-team-news-predicted-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/03\/01\/manchester-united-team-news-predicted-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United Team News and Predicted Lineup vs Crystal Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United got back to winning ways on Monday night with a 1-0 win over Everton in a below-par performance. The Red Devils return to Old Trafford and welcome Crystal Palace for a Sunday afternoon fixture. The Eagles edged past Wolves in their most recent Premier League outing and won 2-0 in the Europa Conference League on Thursday night to progress.<\/p>\n<p>Last Word on Football brings you the latest Manchester United team news and their predicted lineup for\u00a0the Premier League clash with Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/02\/25\/inside-manchester-uniteds-goalkeeper-situation\/\" target=\"_self\">\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/02\/25\/inside-manchester-uniteds-goalkeeper-situation\/\" target=\"_self\">Inside the Battle to Be Manchester United\u2019s Goalkeeper Next Season<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Manchester United Team News &amp; Predicted Lineup for Important Crystal Palace Meeting<\/h2>\n<h3>How Manchester United Have Lined Up Recently<\/h3>\n<p>Since Michael Carrick took control at Manchester United, his starting XI has been consistent. Carrick commented on this, saying, &#8220;<span>Even though it\u2019s the same players, game to game we have tweaked things, some of the front players have changed in different positions.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Senne Lammens has cemented his place in goal, and after a man-of-the-match performance against Everton, he will be full of confidence heading into this one.<\/p>\n<p>Monday night\u2019s fixture saw a change to the back line for the first time since Carrick took charge, with Lenny Yoro coming in to replace the injured Lisandro Martinez. This change shifted Harry Maguire to left centre back, next to Luke Shaw. Diogo Dalot kept his place at right back.<\/p>\n<p>Carrick remained loyal to his midfield two of Casemiro and Kobbie Mainoo, with Bruno Fernandes operating in the number 10 position.<\/p>\n<p>Amad Diallo, Matheus Cunha, and Bryan Mbuemo make up the attacking positions for United; however, with Benjamin Sesko coming off the bench again to come in clutch and score another vital goal against Everton, he\u2019s knocking on the door of the starting XI.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/02\/25\/wonderkids-you-havent-heard-of-yet-jj-gabriel-manchester-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Wonderkids you haven&#8217;t heard of yet: JJ Gabriel<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Manchester United Team News<\/h3>\n<p>On Friday, Michael Carrick provided us with the all-important Manchester United <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.manutd.com\/en\/news\/detail\/team-news-for-man-utd-v-crystal-palace-1-march-2026\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">team news<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For Sunday\u2019s game against Palace, Mason Mount will again be unavailable. Carrick said, &#8220;Mason&#8217;s getting closer, he&#8217;s on the grass. Just have to be patient, really, make sure he&#8217;s ready for a big end to the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The news concerning Matthijs de Ligt is largely the same as it has been for several weeks. When discussing the Dutchman, Carrick stated: \u201cHe&#8217;s had a back issue that&#8217;s been slow to progress. We&#8217;re getting there, it&#8217;s in the right direction, but just further behind.&#8221; He went on to say, &#8220;It\u2019s part of football, unfortunately, so we\u2019ll get him back when we can. It&#8217;s just the nature of the issue, really. It\u2019s a difficult one to pin down a timeline. He\u2019s definitely improving, so we&#8217;re just working towards that really. I can\u2019t give you more at this stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carrick gave a brief update on the injury that kept Lisandro Martinez out of the Everton match. He said, <span>&#8220;Licha (Martinez) is a lot closer than Patrick [Dorgu]. It will be a matter of days hopefully, it won&#8217;t be too long. We&#8217;ll assess him over the next day or two and see where he is.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Patrick Dorgu remains out of action after suffering an injury in January.<\/p>\n<h3>Manchester United Predicted Lineup vs Crystal Palace<\/h3>\n<p>GK -Lammens<\/p>\n<p>RB &#8211; Dalot<\/p>\n<p>CB &#8211; Yoro<\/p>\n<p>CB &#8211; Maguire<\/p>\n<p>LB &#8211; Shaw<\/p>\n<p>DM &#8211; Casemiro<\/p>\n<p>CM &#8211; Mainoo<\/p>\n<p>W &#8211; Mbuemo<\/p>\n<p>AM &#8211; Fernandes (C)<\/p>\n<p>W- Cunha<\/p>\n<p>ST &#8211; Sesko<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image courtesy of SmartFrame \/ Pro Sports Images\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United got back to winning ways on Monday night with a 1-0 win over Everton in a below-par performance. The Red Devils return to Old Trafford and welcome Crystal Palace for a Sunday afternoon fixture. The Eagles edged past Wolves in their most recent Premier League outing and won 2-0 in the Europa Conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5755,"featured_media":665756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":true,"sfio_embed_code":"<smartframe-embed customer-id=\"1ffbae35d432d0d71911ca2a0b209fbb\" image-id=\"prsiD9YdRwsF\" style=\"width: 100%;aspect-ratio: 1.4998109640831758;max-width: 3967px\"><\/smartframe-embed><!-- https:\/\/smartframe.io\/embedding-support -->","_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":[1828,12,18,30,9367,3],"tags":[5686,9381,8281],"class_list":["post-665733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fixtures","category-crystal-palace","category-manchester-united","category-news","category-predictions","category-premier-league","tag-manchester-united-fixtures","tag-manchester-united-predicted-lineup","tag-manchester-united-team-news"],"modified_by":"Barry Dixon, LWOF Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665733","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\/5755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665733"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665779,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665733\/revisions\/665779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}