How Manchester United should line up vs Leicester City in Ruud van Nistelrooy's first game in charge

Ruud van Nistelrooy will be hoping to make a winning start to life as caretaker manager when Manchester United take on Leicester City in the Carabao Cup fourth round at Old Trafford tonight.

The former striker was installed as the club's interim boss on Monday following the exit of Erik ten Hag. The latter was sacked less than 24 hours after Sunday's 2-1 defeat to West Ham United at the London Stadium.

Until a permanent successor, which is looking increasingly likely to be Sporting Lisbon boss Ruben Amorim, is appointed, Van Nistelrooy will be tasked with trying to improve the club's fortunes, starting with tonight's visit of the Foxes.

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Regarding the team news, United are not expected to welcome back anybody back that missed the defeat in the capital three days ago, meaning Van Nistelrooy is poised to select from the same pool of players that were available at the weekend.

Below, our United writers have had their say on how they think United should line up this evening.

Diogo Dalot has looked a shadow of the player that he was last season and should benefit from a rest here. Providing that Noussair Mazraoui is passed fit enough to start after appearing to sustain a knock on Sunday, he should play at right-back and Harry Amass should be given his debut.

Van Nistelrooy will pick a strong team - United must progress to the next round and he'll want to win what could be his only game in charge - but Amass should still get a chance.

Manuel Ugarte had his best game for United yet against Fenerbahce and should return to the starting line-up, while it's also