{"id":233082,"date":"2026-03-13T20:40:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/sesko-leads-attack-for-unchanged-team-predicted-manchester-united-xi-vs-aston-villa\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T20:40:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:40:54","slug":"sesko-leads-attack-for-unchanged-team-predicted-manchester-united-xi-vs-aston-villa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/sesko-leads-attack-for-unchanged-team-predicted-manchester-united-xi-vs-aston-villa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sesko leads attack for unchanged team: Predicted Manchester United XI vs Aston Villa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/topics\/manchester-united\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Man Utd news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manchester United<\/a> were beaten by <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/tag\/newcastle-united\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"27\" title=\"Newcastle United news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newcastle United<\/a> in their last <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/tag\/premier-league\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"21\" title=\"Premier League\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League<\/a> outing nearly a fortnight ago but have the opportunity to pick up some vital points this weekend as they host <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/tag\/aston-villa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"24\" title=\"Aston Villa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aston Villa<\/a> at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>Unai Emery\u2019s men are their next opponents on matchday 30 of the English top division and as the Red Devils look to get back to winning ways in front of their home supporters on Sunday, March 15th, at 14:00 local time, here is how they may line-up.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dbcxc69b4765873f43\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rememore.com\/hair-transplant-in-turkey#utm_source=footbal-talk&amp;utm_id=footbal-talk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-225247\" src=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FootballTalk_New_Chapter-rememore.png\" alt=\"Rememore new hair\" width=\"400\" height=\"333\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>Goalkeeper<\/strong> \u2013 Senne Lammens is expected to be the goalkeeper for the home side again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defenders<\/strong> \u2013 Noussair Mazraoui is expected to preferred over Diogo Dalot at right back, while Luke Shaw is also in contention to remain at left back. Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/tag\/harry-maguire\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"41\" title=\"harry maguire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harry Maguire<\/a> and Leny Yoro could round up the back four for United.<\/p>\n<h2>Casemiro and Sesko start<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Midfielders<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/tag\/casemiro\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"40\" title=\"casemiro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Casemiro<\/a> and Kobbie Mainoo have formed a formidable partnership in midfield, and the duo are expected to be in the double pivot once again, whereas Bruno Fernandes may also return his spot as the attacking midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Mbeumo may be employed down the right flank, and Matheus Cunha, as expected, is likely to play on the left side.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forward<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c39dx8mjd39o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a374 million summer signing<\/a> Benjamin Sesko is expected to lead the line for an unchanged Manchester United side.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how Michael Carrick\u2019s team may look on paper.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fotmob.com\/api\/data\/lineup-builder\/team?players=1178602:Lammens,775539:Mazraoui,1358581:Yoro,255610:Maguire,362694:Shaw,208494:Casemiro,1292810:Mainoo,923312:Mbeumo,422685:Fernandes,863098:Cunha,1073977:Sesko&amp;formation=4-2-3-1&amp;teamId=10260&amp;showTeamBadges=false&amp;showCountryBadges=false&amp;lang=en&amp;currency=EUR&amp;measurementSystem=metric\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--mvp-post-tags--><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--posts-nav-link--><\/p>\n<div class=\"mvp-org-wrap\" itemprop=\"publisher\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\">\n<div class=\"mvp-org-logo\" itemprop=\"logo\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/new-logo.png\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/new-logo.png\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!--mvp-org-logo--><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Football Talk | Premier League News\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!--mvp-org-wrap-->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/230168\/sesko-leads-attack-for-unchanged-team-predicted-manchester-united-xi-vs-aston-villa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United were beaten by Newcastle United in their last Premier League outing nearly a fortnight ago but have the opportunity to pick up some vital points this weekend as they host Aston Villa at Old Trafford. Unai Emery\u2019s men are their next opponents on matchday 30 of the English top division and as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6807],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-233082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leagues-cups"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}