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TEAM NEWS
Burnley manager Sean Dyche will restore a host of players rested for the League Cup defeat by Sheffield Wednesday.
Aside from Sam Vokes, Dyche should have a fully fit squad available to him.
Midfielder Angel Di Maria is set to make his debut for Manchester United following his £59.7m British transfer record signing from Real Madrid.
Fellow new recruit Marcos Rojo is still awaiting clearance on a work permit so may have to wait until after the international break to make his bow.
MATCH PREVIEW
Simultaneously, both Manchester United and Burnley went out of the League Cup this week; but whilst one result hardly merited more than a paragraph in the morning papers, the other made headlines worldwide.
MK Dons 4-0 Manchester United . It still seems barely credible.
Burnley lost at home to Sheffield Wednesday on Tuesday night, making it three defeats in three games so far. After games against Chelsea, Swansea and Wednesday, there have been a few gleeful suggestions that playing against United represents Burnley's best bet yet of breaking that duck.
Burnley boss Sean Dyche“How could it be even bigger? Man Utd coming to Turf Moor. We know the challenge in front of us - never more so than when the big guns come to town.”
Of course, Argentines Angel Di Maria and Marcos Rojo have arrived at Old Trafford, taking the club's summer spending beyond £130m. Di Maria's British record fee is 40 times greater than the cost of Burnley's most expensive current player and could probably buy Sean Dyche's entire squad.
But five of United's current group of players have good reason to remember the last time they visited Turf Moor, as will anyone who was there on 19 August 2009, a nice summer's evening in Lancashire and Burnley's first home game of their first season in the top flight for over 30 years.
Manchester United were the reigning champions, Burnley the supposed whipping boys. Robbie Blake had other ideas with an early, stunning right-footed volley. Before half-time, Brian Jensen saved a penalty from Michael Carrick and Burnley, deservedly, prevailed.
I remember having rung manager Owen Coyle a few hours before the game and being struck by his confidence. Afterwards he was keeping calm amidst the celebrations of one of the Premier League's greatest upsets.
You may recall what happened as the season played out. United rallied after their shock defeat but lost the title by a single point to Chelsea, whilst an in-demand Coyle resigned from Burnley less than five months later to take up the manager's job at Bolton. That move didn't go well for anyone; Burnley were relegated, Bolton followed two years later and Coyle is currently out of work.
by BBC / www.FlagWigs.com
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