Manchester United vs Brentford - prediction, team news, lineups

Manchester United volition beryllium bidding to instrumentality different immense measurement towards securing Champions League shot for adjacent play erstwhile they invited Brentford to Old Trafford connected Monday night.

The Red Devils are 3rd successful the Premier League table, 8 points up of sixth-placed Brighton & Hove Albion with a crippled successful hand, portion Brentford are ninth, 1 constituent down seventh-placed Bournemouth heading towards the last straight.

Match preview

It is hard to ideate Man United passing up the accidental to unafraid Champions League shot for adjacent play from specified a commanding position, with the Red Devils 3rd successful the Premier League table, 8 points up of sixth-placed Brighton with a crippled successful hand.

The 20-time English champions picked up a immense 3 points distant to Chelsea past clip out, with Matheus Cunha's first-half extremity securing a 1-0 victory, and the squad person present been victorious successful 8 of their 12 matches since Michael Carrick's accomplishment arsenic caput coach.

Man United volition look Liverpool, Sunderland, Nottingham Forest and Brighton successful their last 4 league games of the season, and it is past a large summertime ahead, with arsenic galore arsenic 5 first-team players perchance arriving to boost the squad for 2026-27.

The Red Devils person really mislaid their past 2 matches against Brentford, though they recorded a 2-1 triumph implicit the Bees successful the corresponding lucifer past term.

Another triumph connected Monday nighttime would fortify Carrick's lawsuit of securing the occupation connected a semipermanent basis, but a decision would permission the squad looking implicit their enarthrosis up of a immense conflict with the reigning champions Liverpool adjacent weekend.

Brentford person drawn each of their past 5 Premier League matches, with 48 points from 33 games leaving them successful ninth spot successful the table, 1 constituent down seventh-placed Bournemouth and 2 points down sixth-placed Brighton successful the conflict for Europe.

Many tipped Keith Andrews' broadside to conflict this season, but Brentford person performed supra expectations successful 2025-26, and it would beryllium immoderate communicative if they could unafraid European shot for the 2026-27 campaign.

The Bees person a grounds of six wins, 2 draws and 8 defeats from their 16 distant Premier League matches this season, picking up 20 points successful the process.

Brentford person immoderate precise absorbing matches to extremity the campaign, facing West Ham United, Manchester City, Crystal Palace and Liverpool successful their last 4 games, truthful they could person a large accidental astatine some ends of the Premier League table.

The Bees volition besides beryllium chasing immoderate past connected Monday night, arsenic they purpose to bushed Man United distant from location successful the Premier League for the archetypal time.

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Team News

Man United could invited Leny Yoro backmost into their squad connected Monday night, arsenic the wounded that kept the Frenchman retired of the Chelsea lucifer was lone a insignificant one.

Matthijs de Ligt remains a semipermanent absentee with a backmost issue, portion Patrick Dorgu is inactive not acceptable to return, though the Denmark planetary is successful the second stages of his betterment process from a hamstring issue.

Lisandro Martinez is inactive suspended, but Harry Maguire has present served his two-game ban, and the anticipation is that the Englishman volition commencement connected Monday.

Ayden Heaven could support his spot successful the broadside disconnected the backmost of his beardown show against Chelsea, but determination could beryllium a alteration successful the last 3rd of the field, with Amad Diallo perchance replacing Benjamin Sesko successful the starting side.

As for Brentford, Fabio Carvalho (knee), Antoni Milambo (knee), Vitaly Janelt (ankle), Rico Henry (thigh), Joshua DaSilva (knee), Jordan Henderson (unspecified), Kaye Furo (groin) are retired of the Premier League lucifer astatine Old Trafford.

Igor Thiago has had an unthinkable campaign, scoring 21 Premier League goals, and the Brazil planetary volition erstwhile again pb the Brentford line.

Head manager Andrews could sanction the aforesaid broadside that took to the tract for the archetypal whistle against Fulham past clip out, including a spot astatine right-back for Michael Kayode, who has had an oustanding play for the Bees.

Manchester United imaginable starting lineup:

Lammens; Dalot, Heaven, Maguire, Shaw; Mainoo, Casemiro; Amad, Fernandes, Cunha; Mbeumo

Brentford imaginable starting lineup:

Kelleher; Kayode, Van den Berg, Collins, Lewis-Potter; Jensen, Yarmolyuk; Ouattara, Damsgaard, Schade; Thiago

We say: Manchester United 2-1 Brentford

Brentford are much than susceptible of picking up a affirmative effect connected Monday night, and we are expecting it to beryllium adjacent successful presumption of the scoreline, but Man United's prime successful the last 3rd of the tract should spot them borderline retired a triumph successful Manchester.

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