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Manchester United will be without midfielder Marouane Fellaini after his red card in the Manchester derby.
Defender Tim Fosu-Mensah suffered a shoulder problem in that game and joins a lengthy injury list, which includes midfielders Paul Pogba and Juan Mata.
Swansea midfielder Jack Cork and defender Martin Olsson are expected to return after recovering from respective ankle and hamstring injuries.
Wayne Routledge is ruled out after having a hernia operation on Tuesday.
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
- Manchester United have won their last two league meetings with Swansea, who had won the previous three in a row.
- After failing to win any of their first 10 visits to Old Trafford in all competitions (D2, L8), the Swans have won on two of their last four.
Manchester United
- United can set a new club record of 25 matches unbeaten in a single top-flight season.
- They have kept eight clean sheets in their last 11 league games.
- The Red Devils have drawn five of their eight matches at Old Trafford against sides currently in the bottom half of the table – compared to nine wins from 10 meetings away from home.
- No ground has staged more draws in the Premier League this season than the nine at Old Trafford. United have only once drawn more often at home in a campaign: 11 times in 1980-81.
Swansea City
- Swansea’s win over Stoke ended a run of six games without a victory (D1, L5).
- The Swans have picked up just seven points from their last 48 available on the road in the Premier League and have failed to score in each of their last three away games.
- Paul Clement has won six of his 15 Premier League games in charge of the Swans, giving him the best win ratio of any manager for the Welsh side in the competition (40%).
- Gylfi Sigurdsson could become the first player to score in three consecutive Premier League away appearances at Old Trafford since Sergio Aguero in April 2015.
With thanks to BBC Sport
