Man United head coach Michael Carrick delivers crucial Kobbie Mainoo fitness update ahead of Chelsea contest

Manchester United caput manager Michael Carrick has revealed that Kobbie Mainoo could instrumentality for Saturday's Premier League clash against Chelsea astatine Stamford Bridge.

Mainoo was a astonishment absentee erstwhile the starting broadside and substitutes were confirmed for Man United's past crippled against Leeds United connected Monday night.

It was aboriginal revealed that the midfielder had suffered a insignificant wounded and was not risked for what looked similar a straightforward location occurrence for the 20-time English champions.

However, Leeds came up with an fantabulous show to grounds a 2-1 win, with Man United inactive having enactment to bash erstwhile it comes to securing Champions League shot for adjacent season.

Mainoo has been backmost successful grooming up of the Chelsea contention and is successful contention to marque his instrumentality against Liam Rosenior's side, but Patrick Dorgu is inactive retired with a hamstring issue.

Mainoo could instrumentality for Man United's travel to Chelsea

Dorgu is backmost connected the writer undergoing idiosyncratic work, but the Denmark planetary is yet to instrumentality to squad grooming and truthful cannot beryllium considered.

"Patrick’s not [ready] no,” Carrick told reporters during his pre-match property conference. “He’s going well, he's rehabbing well, he's benignant of connected track, but he’s not with america successful presumption of grooming yet.

"But he's backmost connected the pitch, arsenic I've already said, truthful that's positive, that he's doing truly well.

“Kobbie, [is doing] small bits yeah, we're moving towards it. He's done small bits, truthful there's a determination to beryllium made there.”

Man United volition besides again beryllium missing semipermanent absentee Matthijs de Ligt owed to a backmost injury, portion Lisandro Martinez and Harry Maguire are out of the lucifer done suspension.

Man United volition purpose to fortify grip connected top-five spot with triumph astatine Stamford Bridge

Man United are 3rd successful the Premier League table, 7 points up of sixth-placed Chelsea, who person not won astatine location successful England's apical formation since the extremity of January.

"It's an important game, we're successful a bully presumption but we request to support gathering connected that. It's a pugnacious spot to spell and we ever person pugnacious games down there," said Carrick erstwhile asked astir the travel to Chelsea.

"Most of the clip they person been bully games successful presumption of the product, truthful we'll beryllium acceptable for that and we instrumentality the assurance from what we've built.

"We didn't get the effect against Leeds, but certainly, the mode we finished the crippled and the quality we showed, we request to instrumentality that into this game."

Man United bushed Chelsea 2-1 astatine Old Trafford successful September and are looking to implicit a Premier League treble implicit the Blues for conscionable the 2nd time.