Erik ten Hag gives a squad update before facing Arsenal this weekend

Manchester United’s new manager held a press conference last night right after the match against Leicester City in which his team got their third win in a row. However, this press conference wasn’t about the game that had just ended, it was about the Arsenal fixture this Sunday that had to be done at the King Power Stadium due to logistics.

Erik ten Hag was asked about Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Luke Shaw, and Anthony Martial’s absence in last night’s match and if they will be available to play on Sunday, to which he answered: “It’s difficult to say when I talk about Luke Shaw and Aaron, but Anthony Martial will not be involved on Sunday”. He also couldn’t tell when the Frenchman could be back from his injury.

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When asked whether he will rotate the team or keep the same starting XI as the last three games, he emphasized the importance of every single player in the squad: “We’ll pick the right XI to start but as you see, it’s not only a team, we have a squad and also, today (yesterday now), the subs who came on did really well, so I’m happy with that”.

The manager also didn’t give any hints about the newest signing Antony’s possibility of playing his first minutes as a Manchester United player this summer: “Today he did his first training individually. Tomorrow we have a team session and Saturday we have another team session, so I will think about it and then we will take a decision”.

Very unlikely

Although it would be great to see Antony against Arsenal, it doesn’t seem likely that he will play on Sunday. Erik ten Hag has been very keen on match fitness and hasn’t started Casemiro in the last two matches, even though he has been training with the team for the last two weeks. Antony hasn’t trained or played a match since the middle of August, so he won’t be ready.