{"id":319146,"date":"2026-04-15T19:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=319146"},"modified":"2026-04-15T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:00:11","slug":"how-man-utd-can-line-up-against-chelsea-after-fresh-blow-sparks-defensive-crisis-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/how-man-utd-can-line-up-against-chelsea-after-fresh-blow-sparks-defensive-crisis-football\/","title":{"rendered":"How Man Utd can line up against Chelsea after fresh blow sparks defensive crisis | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Carrick may have to tweak his team on Saturday (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Manchester United are facing a defensive crisis ahead of their Premier League clash with Chelsea this weekend with Harry set to miss out.<\/p>\n

Maguire was shown a straight red card in United\u2019s 2-2 draw with Bournemouth on 20 March for the denial of a goal scoring opportunity, deemed to have hauled back Evanilson as he broke through on goal.<\/p>\n

Because of this of that sending off, the England international was suspended for United\u2019s 2-1 defeat to Leeds United on Monday.<\/p>\n

However the 33-year-old will now serve a further ban with a misconduct charge upheld by the FA.<\/p>\n

Maguire will miss out of the visit to Stamford Bridge on Saturday after thew FA ruled he swore at fourth official Matt Donahue following his red card at Bournemouth.<\/p>\n

It leaved United short on the back with Lisandro Martinez also serving a suspension this weekend. <\/p>\n

The trip to Chelsea is the primary of three games the Argentina international will miss after he was sent off against Leeds for violent conduct when he was judged to have pulled Dominic Calvert-Lewin\u2019s hair because the two battled for the ball.<\/p>\n

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United might be without Maguire and Martinez this weekend (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Martinez will even miss the upcoming home games against Brentford and Liverpool.<\/p>\n

How Man Utd can line up against Chelsea this weekend<\/h2>\n

With Matthijs de Ligt still out with a back injury that has sidelined him because the end of November, United are in need of three senior options at centre-half.<\/p>\n

It leaves them with the youthful pair of Leny Yoro and Ayden Heaven to possibly start in west London.<\/p>\n

Yoro, 20, has began the last six games while Martinez has been out injured, featuring again within the place of the suspended Maguire on Monday.<\/p>\n

Heaven, 19, is United\u2019s only other available centre-half, still to start out a game under Michael Carrick. The previous Arsenal teen last began a game during Darren Fletcher\u2019s temporary reign in charge as interim boss within the 2-2 draw with Burnley in January.<\/p>\n

Carrick will even have the choice of deploying Luke Shaw at centre-half, a task he usually played under Ruben Amorim, albeit in a 3-4-3 formation.<\/p>\n

Moving Shaw inside would depart a void to be filled at left-back. <\/p>\n

Patrick Dorgu remains to be working his way back from a hamstring injury with the Chelsea game prone to come too soon for the Denmark international.<\/p>\n

Nossair Mazraoui, who began on the correct against Leeds, is an choice to slot in again with Diogo Dalot moving over to cover Shaw on the left. <\/p>\n

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Carrick may have to tweak his team on Saturday (Picture: Getty) Manchester United are facing a defensive crisis ahead of their Premier League clash with Chelsea this weekend with Harry set to miss out. Maguire was shown a straight red card in United\u2019s 2-2 draw with Bournemouth on 20 March for the denial of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":319147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20686],"tags":[5251,1289,1886,8665,5479,1181,1028,1054,3022,20687],"class_list":["post-319146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-blow","tag-chelsea","tag-crisis","tag-defensive","tag-football","tag-fresh","tag-line","tag-man","tag-sparks","tag-utd"],"aioseo_notices":[{"message":"The permalink for this post just changed! This could result in 404 errors for your site visitors.","status":"warning","options":{"id":"0a2ae5f84bc2c0423042ed7ec22d2e40","isDismissible":true,"actions":[{"url":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/wp-admin\/admin.php?page=aioseo-redirects","label":"Add Redirect to improve SEO","class":"aioseo-redirects-slug-changed"}]},"allowedContexts":["posts"]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319149,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319146\/revisions\/319149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}