"Joelinton's back in the squad so that's a great boost for us. He's such an important player, such a big presence within our squad, such a real leader.
"He trained yesterday and trained well, and felt really good. No one else from the missing list, I think, has travelled from the last game so we're missing quite a few players, quite a few real quality players as well. They're big misses for us, but we come in here good spirits from our last two games.
"We will play our strongest team in the sense that we will try and win the game. There'll be no thinking of the schedule ahead; this game, in isolation, is hugely important."
On Lewis Miley, who remains sidelined...
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"Lewy's made good progress in the last few days. We're quite happy with with his progress. He's had a number of scans; it came from a knock, which seems quite strange, but just a really bad dead leg gave some muscle disruption. So as soon as that muscle is healed, which we think it is, now we can push him on."
On Bruno Guimarães, who will miss the next few weeks...
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"We've spoken with, and he spoke with our medical team, and we've been in consultation with the Brazilian national team. He's going this week with the Brazilian national team, and then comes back to us for the last four weeks.
"I think it's a good mix for Bruno; initial stages of not doing too much, he gets a sort of mental refresh while doing some good work, and then comes back to finish off his final part."
On Emil Krafth, who has been withdrawn from United's Champions League squad and replaced by John Ruddy...
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"Emil's had an operation on his knee so I think in all likelihood, it looks like the season is over, which is a real blow for us.
"He first had the problem on international duty. We hoped that he could come back and be okay, but it became apparent in training recently that he wasn't going to get to the level needed, and there needed to be a surgical intervention."
On the long flight to Azerbaijan...
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"We try and take that in our stride. The flight was actually very good, smooth - sometimes that's not the case, and hasn't been the case this year for us. But today was good. We'll train in a second, hopefully the lads will get the plane journey out their legs, and we'll be fine tomorrow."
**_More to follow._**