How Manchester United should line up vs Porto in Europa League fixture

Manchester United will take on FC Porto in the Europa League league phase on Thursday night.

United must bounce back from their heavy 3-0 defeat to Tottenham in the Premier League at the weekend with Erik ten Hag fighting to remain at the club once again.

Ten Hag was under enormous scrutiny following the Spurs hammering and the October international break is on the horizon. Although Porto have made a strong start to their league campaign in Portugal, they lost their opening Europa League game against FK Bodø/Glimt away from home last week.

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Regarding the team news, Kobbie Mainoo and Harry Maguire have been included in the squad after overcoming injuries but Mason Mount is not available.

This is how our writers think United should line up....

Samuel Luckhurst

Maguire is better equipped to deal with Ollie Watkins on Sunday so needs some match rhythm tonight. Matthijs de Ligt has not had a convincing start to his United career and persisting with the same defence would be illogical. Diogo Dalot has to go to the right.

Mainoo should be saved for Aston Villa on Sunday and it is worth putting Bruno Fernandes into midfield in the hope he can regain form. That would allow Christian Eriksen to play as the No.10.

Amad should be recalled and it is time for Rasmus Hojlund to have a start nearly ten weeks on from sustaining his hamstring injury.

Steven Railston

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results. With that in mind, Dalot must be relocated to his natural position of right-back because he's looked a shadow of the player he was last season when starting