PREM: Manchester United v West Ham preview


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Zlatan Ibrahimovic will return from his domestic ban when Manchester United host West Ham on Sunday.


The 35-year-old missed the 1-1 draw with Arsenal having been booked five times but played in the Europa League against Feyenoord on Thursday, when the likes of Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Wayne Rooney may have impressed Jose Mourinho sufficiently to keep their spots in the Premier League.

Mourinho, who is expected to recall goalkeeper David de Gea but remains without Eric Bailly (knee) and Chris Smalling (toe), must determine whether Michael Carrick can make a third start in nine days.

West Ham captain Mark Noble returns from suspension but defender Winston Reid serves a one-match ban.

Midfielder Pedro Obiang is expected to be available despite missing training earlier this week due to an ankle injury.

Long-term absentee Andy Carroll has resumed training after his ankle injury but Reece Oxford, Sam Byram, Gokhan Tore and Arthur Masuaku are still sidelined.

United boss Jose Mourinho says "Henrikh Mkhitaryan just needs now to try to replicate this kind of performance in the Premier League. The Premier League is different. He needs one more step. Obviously now confidence levels are higher.

"This performance gives him the right to believe that he can play the next match again and he needs to replicate this kind of performance in the Premier League, with more physicality, more aggression. We know that we were buying a player with a high level of technical quality, very intelligent, very bright, the way he reads the game."

West Ham boss Slaven Bilic says "About my future there is not much to say, I am doing my job.

"I speak to the owners, mostly Mr Sullivan, regularly after every game and in between if something needs talking about.

"I feel supported and as I have said so many times I concentrate on my job and our next game, and that's basically it.

"I'm not fearful. I feel pressure, of course, because we are not producing, we're not delivering and we don't have enough points to feel happy and to feel safe.

"But I see the improvement. Against Spurs I saw a team hungry and alive, the points were there for us in a difficult away game, so that's what I'm confident about.

"I take my job in good times and bad times. How I look at my job, or any manager's job, is that the next few games can change everything from good times to bad times, and bad times to good.

Teams

Manchester United (from): De Gea, Romero, Blind, Jones, Darmian, Fosu-Mensah, Rojo, Shaw, Valencia, Carrick, Fellaini, Herrera, Mkhitaryan, Lingard, Mata, Pogba, Schneiderlin, Young, Depay, Martial, Rashford, Rooney, Ibrahimovic

West Ham (from): Adrian, Randolph, Collins, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Kouyate, Noble, Obiang, Fernandes, Nordtveit, Payet, Lanzini, Antonio, Feghouli, Ayew, Sakho, Zaza, Fletcher, Calleri.


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