Nottingham Forest will seek their first Premier League points under Sean Dyche when Manchester United visit the City Ground on Saturday.
Forest won 2-0 at home to Porto in the league phase of the Europa League on October 23 in their first match under Dyche, but lost by the same scoreline at Bournemouth in the top flight three days later.
Sixth-placed United are 12 positions and 11 points above their opponents after a three-match winning run, beating Sunderland and Brighton & Hove Albion at home either side of victory at Liverpool.
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Nottingham Forest starting line-up vs Man United
Goalkeeper Angus Gunn, full-backs Oleksandr Zinchenko and Ola Aina, winger Dilane Bakwa and forward Chris Wood are out injured for Forest.
Dyche acknowledged that the absence of Wood, who scored 20 goals in 36 league appearances last season, presents a “different challenge”.
“Myself and my staff are very experienced in the Premier League, but we haven’t got magic dust and you can’t just suddenly make players score lots of goals,” Dyche told Forest TV.
“What you are doing is forming a style of play that creates more chances, which will then come down to someone putting the ball in the net.
“We have to look at that but, equally, we have to look at the talent we have in there and think ‘How can we create more chances, and how can we create a better quality of chance?’.
“[That’s] while keeping the back door locked, which was done so well last season.”
Nottingham Forest starting XI: Sels, Williams, Murillo, Hudson-Odoi, Anderson, Gibbs-White, Luiz, Ndoye, Jesus, Milenkovic, Savona
Forest substitutes: John, Morata, Sangare, Awoniyi, Kalimuendo, Hutchinson, Yates, Cunha, McAtee
Man United starting line-up vs Burnley
Defender Lisandro Martinez remains out for United despite returning to first-team training after almost nine months out with a knee injury.
“He is going to take time,” said manager Ruben Amorim. “He started training with us but we had to change some things in the exercise for him. Slowly, he is going to get better.
“He is really good. He gives us that edge in every training session and that is also really good for us.
Centre-back Harry Maguire was a doubt, while midfielder Mason Mount was an unused substitute in the 4-2 win over Brighton on October 25, having struggled with a knock.
Man United starting XI: Lammens, Dalot, De Ligt, Fernandes, Cunha, Yoro, Amad, Casemiro, Mbeumo, Shaw, Sesko
United substitutes: Bayindir, Dorgu, Heaven, Maguire, Mazraoui, Mainoo, Mount, Ugarte, Zirkzee
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