Team news - Zlatan Ibrahimovic on Manchester United bench, Jose Mourinho names Ashley Young captain
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Updated 16/04/2017 at 16:35 GMT
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has rested Zlatan Ibrahimovic for the game against Chelsea, with Ashley Young the captain in place of Wayne Rooney and Michael Carrick.
Manchester United have been reliant on Zlatan Ibrahimovic's goals this season
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Despite having said that he wouldn't make changes for this match, United's team sees four changes from the midweek draw against Anderlecht, with David De Gea, Marouane Fellaini, Ander Herrera and Young all coming in.
Carrick and Henrikh Mkhitaryan join Ibrahimovic in dropping to the bench, which also contains Luke Shaw.
United captain Rooney isn't even in the squad and nor is Anthony Martial.
As for Chelsea, they named their first choice line-up except for in goal where Asmir Begovic comes in to replace the injured Thibaut Courtois.
It was rumoured earlier that Courtois would miss the match having suffered an ankle injury in training and that has proven to be the case.
Full-back Marcos Alonso was injured in the warm-up, with Kurt Zouma starting in his place.
Teams in full:
Manchester United - De Gea, Valencia, Bailly, Rojo, Darmian, Fellaini, Herrera, Young (c), Pogba, Lingard, Rashford.
Chelsea - Begovic; Azpilicueta, David Luiz, Cahill (c); Moses, Kante, Matic, Alonso; Pedro, Diego Costa, Hazard.
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