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Wayne Rooney joins Manchester United squad for Zorya Luhansk trip

Wayne Rooney opens the scoring for Man Utd against Feyenoord
Image: Wayne Rooney's goal against Feyenoord left him one short of Bobby Charlton's Manchester United record

Wayne Rooney and Eric Bailly are in a 19-strong Manchester United squad to face Zorya Luhansk on Thursday, but Michael Carrick stays at home.

Carrick is one of three absent players who started Sunday's Premier League draw at Everton, with Antonio Valencia and Matteo Darmian also left out ahead of this weekend's Super Sunday game against Tottenham.

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Luke Shaw and Chris Smalling are still injured, leaving Tim Fosu-Mensah, Ashley Young, Daley Blind and Phil Jones as Jose Mourinho's main options to fill the full-back positions for United's last Europa League group game.

A point will be good enough for a place in the last 32 while Rooney, suspended at the weekend, needs one goal to equal Sir Bobby Charlton's club record.

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Centre-half Bailly will hope to feature for the first time since October 23, meanwhile, after he was fit enough to make the bench at Goodison Park.

Memphis Depay and Morgan Schneiderlin again fail to make the squad for a game likely to be played in freezing conditions in Ukraine.

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Anthony Martial does travel, and he told MUTV: "It's down to us to come to terms with that, adapt to the environment we find ourselves in and get the victory we need.

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"You prepare as well as you can and rest on the plane, but a lot of it can be in your head. It's how you approach things mentally. It's about what happens on the pitch; if you do your stuff out there, that's what counts."

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