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Manchester United will have to cope with the absence of several star names when they return to Champions League action against Paris St Germain.<\/p>\nManchester United will have to cope with the absence of several star names when they return to Champions League action against Paris St Germain.<\/p>\n
Harry Maguire, Mason Greenwood and new signing Edinson Cavani, who will not make his United bow against his former club, are all absent along with Eric Bailly and Jesse Lingard.<\/p>\n
The game at the Parc des Princes on Tuesday will be the Red Devils\u2019 first at Europe\u2019s top table since they bowed out in the quarter-finals against Barcelona in April 2019.<\/p>\n
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer\u2019s side made it that far thanks to a jaw-dropping comeback at PSG in the previous round, with United digging deep to secure a remarkable 3-1 triumph in the French capital without a string of first-team players.<\/p>\n
Solskjaer will hope for the same outcome, and the Norwegian said: \u201cWe\u2019re a little bit depleted but we have got more than enough players.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hope the players won\u2019t be away for too long. Edinson needs a few more days training before maybe we can think about the weekend. Hopefully Harry, Eric and Mason as well but we\u2019re not sure about that.\u201d<\/p>\n
New boy Cavani is PSG\u2019s all-time top scorer but his absence is understandable given he only trained with his new team-mates for the first time on Sunday following a period of quarantine.<\/p>\n
Maguire said he was \u201cdisappointed\u201d to be missing the Group H opener and \u201cworking hard to get back fit ASAP\u201d \u2013 with the captain\u2019s absence meaning influential January arrival Bruno Fernandes will wear the armband instead.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hope Harry will be fit for the weekend (against Chelsea in the Premier League),\u201d Solskjaer said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not sure but we hope so and the captain sits next to me \u2013 Bruno will captain the team (on Tuesday).\u201d<\/p>\n
That news came as a surprise to Fernandes, who raised his eyebrows and smiled when Solskjaer announced the news in the pre-match press conference.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was not expecting this,\u201d the Portugal midfielder said. \u201cI know the same time as you.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, it\u2019s an honor that I will be captain first of all for my team-mates and of course being captain of Manchester United is an important achievement for me.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I think the captain is everyone \u2013 everyone needs to help, everyone needs to be a leader in their way.\u201d<\/p>\n
There has been a certain amount of mystery surrounding the absence of Greenwood, but Solskjaer said: \u201cIt\u2019s just a niggle and, as young as he is, we don\u2019t want to take any chances with him so hopefully the weekend he\u2019ll be fine again.\u201d<\/p>\n