Manchester United's great survivor is set to start the Europa League final

Come Tuesday morning at Carrington, the expectation is that Leny Yoro and Matthijs de Ligt will be absent when the Manchester United players stroll out onto the training pitch.

Ruben Amorim is remaining coy on their potential availability but both are long shots. Yoro was crestfallen as he limped down the touchline against West Ham United last Sunday. De Ligt has played once since April 1 and did not finish the first half at Brentford.

Diogo Dalot was spotted at Carrington on Wednesday, walking back to the first team's temporary quarters after an individual session with physio Jordan Reece. While his teammates were training, a topless Dalot sat down and recuperated in the sunshine just outside the hub.

He then hot-footed it over to Old Trafford to speak in a ramshackle mixed zone. Dalot posed for his Europa League final portrait in one of the stadium's hospitality suites. The hunch is that he will be in Bilbao and his name on the teamsheet, filed among the substitutes.

Luke Shaw was a predictable removal at Chelsea on Friday night. Having gone 14 months without starting for United, he seems assured of starting the Europa League final.

Seeing out the contest in Bilbao could be beyond Shaw. That is where Dalot could come in. Shaw off, Dalot on and Noussair Mazraoui to centre back.

Mazraoui will start against Tottenham Hotspur. Amorim has picked him at centre back and right wing in the past two games, weighing up where exactly to put Mazraoui. United's starting XI at Chelsea could feasibly be the same side that lines up for the unmemorable Europa League anthem.

Amorim is pleased with United's preparations, if not their domestic results. "Yes, first of all because of the feeling, I didn’t like the feeling of the last game.

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