MANCHESTER UNITED arrived for training on Friday sweating over the fitness of Harry Maguire.
The club captain sat out the previous night’s 3-0 win over Derby that earned a place in the FA Cup quarter-finals.
With Maguire in the side, United have kept an impressive six clean sheets in his last eight appearances – a run that will be tested to the full against Manchester City on Sunday.
Already missing for when Pep Guardiola’s side travel across town are Marcus Rashford and Paul Pogba.
Following the win at Pride Park, coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer remarked that it was “touch and go” as to whether Maguire would make the derby after he picked up an ankle knock.
The Norwegian noted: “It is touch and go because he rolled his ankle and twisted his ankle.
“But hopefully he will recover quickly.
“I wasn’t going to rest him [versus Derby]. I didn’t give him the day off birthday wise. So I hope he will be fit.”
Daniel James and Aaron Wan-Bissaka were also missing for the Derby victory and Solskjaer will assess the pair in training on Saturday.
He added: “I hope [they will be fit] but none of them have been training yet since the last game, so we’ve got to look at them on Saturday probably.”
United host City hoping to jump fourth-place Chelsea having closed to gap to just three points.
Solskjaer has engineered a nine-game unbeaten run across all competitions although their neighbours are on a streak of five straight wins of their own.
