Amad back and key role change - Trying to predict Ruben Amorim's next Manchester United plan

What next for Ruben Amorim and his Manchester United team then? After three consecutive games of six alterations to the starting XI, will he shuffle the deck again for the visit of Nottingham Forest?

Amorim's rotation has been a key theme of his early weeks at Old Trafford. It serves a few purposes and is at least partly conditioned by the players' condition. The 39-year-old is asking them to do more running than before, and at the moment, not all of them have the fitness levels to carry out the game plan, either for 90 minutes or twice in four days. There are also players returning from injury on a time limit.

But the rotation also tells every player they are close to the starting XI. In four games, Amorim has picked 21 different starters. Leny Yoro is pushing to make that 22. It tells players that they must always be ready to play, that there is no such thing as favourites, and that changes and chances will come regularly.

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Andre Onana and Bruno Fernandes are the only players to start all four games under Amorim, and that pattern will surely continue on Saturday, but predicting the rest of the team is proving impossible.

One quirk of the Amorim era will at least be paused. So far, every goalscorer has been dropped for the following game, but United's failure to score at the Emirates means nobody is at risk this time.

There could be another change in attack, however. Amorim has swapped his forwards regularly, and after Rasmus Hojlund toiled in north London, Marcus Rashford and Joshua Zirkzee will be pushing for a return. Rashford will surely come back into the