Fulham vs. Man United: Will Red Devils duo Carlos Baleba, Luke Shaw be fit for Premier League showdown?

By Matt Law | 18 Sep 2026 14:37, Last updated: 18 Sep 2026 14:57

Manchester United caput manager Michael Carrick has revealed that Carlos Baleba could marque his debut for the Red Devils successful Sunday's Premier League clash with Fulham.

Baleba has been sidelined since his accomplishment astatine Old Trafford owed to an ankle wounded that helium sustained portion representing Brighton & Hove Albion during pre-season.

However, the Cameroon planetary has been backmost successful grooming up of Sunday's crippled astatine Craven Cottage, and Carrick has said that the midfielder could diagnostic successful London.

Luke Shaw, meanwhile, besides has "a chance" of being fit; the left-back has been absent from the team's 3 games successful each competitions owed to a fittingness issue.

"A accidental connected some of them. Not wholly 100% connected either. It is truly abbreviated word [with Shaw] but it is conscionable moving towards the game," Carrick told reporters connected Friday.

Baleba, Shaw could beryllium acceptable for Man United vs. Fulham

Patrick Dorgu, Harry Amass and Noussair Mazraoui person each had minutes astatine left-back successful Shaw's absence, and the erstwhile would beryllium the astir apt to commencement successful that country of the tract astatine Craven Cottage if Shaw is incapable to beryllium his fitness.

A commencement for Baleba is incredibly improbable fixed the magnitude of clip that helium has been absent.

Kobbie Mainoo and Youri Tielemans are acceptable to commencement successful the mediate of the midfield against Fulham, but Baleba could perchance diagnostic disconnected the bench.

Carrick has slammed the speculation surrounding his future up of the travel to London, but determination is nary question that Sunday's fixture is simply a immense game.

Man United are nether unit to bounce backmost astatine Fulham

When asked what helium had learnt astir the squad disconnected the backmost of successive defeats to Manchester City and Brighton & Hove Albion, Carrick said: "Always learning arsenic a group, individually. It is not ever going to beryllium cleanable oregon to plan. History tells you that you person to enactment done it.

"We person had a tiny play wherever it hasn't been what we privation it to be. I was expecting it astatine immoderate point. There is going to beryllium a clip wherever you don't get everything retired of it. It is astir staying focused and doing the close things.

"It is simply a week oregon 2 of results not going our way. Tiny margins. It tin consciousness a batch bigger than it really is. Winning games is the answer. Yeah [I'm assured we tin get done this].

"We’ve got to enactment things successful perspective, it’s not a catastrophe oregon a disaster, it's not the extremity of the world, we’ve mislaid a mates of games recently.

"We consciousness we’ve started and been successful each the games we’ve played, if not being the amended squad astatine the commencement of games, we’re not having a existent conflict each the time.

"We’ve done a batch of bully things, the content comes from that. The bully things we’ve done get suffer successful the surrounding feeling but they don’t get mislaid by us."

Man United presently beryllium 13th successful the Premier League table, 3 points up of 18th-placed Fulham.