Manager
Michael Carrick
Old Trafford hosts the first Manchester derby of the season, with Michael Carrick's side (a home defeat, a 5-2 romp and a 2-2 scramble at Everton across the first three rounds) looking to find some consistency against a Manchester City side that has won all three of its own games. The team news is dominated by Marcus Rashford, withdrawn after 70 minutes of the Everton draw with what Carrick called "feeling a bit of something" — no firm diagnosis has been given, and Carrick's own line was that Rashford would be assessed for the Champions League opener against Sabah on 10 September before this derby three days later. Genuinely uncertain either way, he is pencilled in here on the balance of his last two starts and no confirmed setback, with Joshua Zirkzee or Mason Mount the likeliest direct replacement on the left of the front three if he doesn't recover in time. Everywhere else, Carrick keeps faith with the XI that has started the last two matchweeks unchanged.