Marouane Fellaini will be suspended for the last three games of the Premier League season after the FA found him guilty of violent conduct in the game against Leicester City last weekend.
The Belgian midfielder and Leicester defender Robert Huth were involved in an off-the-ball incident during the sides’ 1-1 draw at Old Trafford, and both men have been handed three-match bans for the part in the skirmish.
Otherwise, there are no fresh worries for United manager Louis van Gaal, who is looking at rotating his squad ahead of United’s game against relegation-threatened Norwich City on Saturday.
The Dutchman said he would assess the fitness of his charges ahead of Saturday’s visit to Carrow Road in his weekly interview with MUTV:
We have to assess the tiredness of the players because there’s an overload of matches, so maybe I have to rotate.
Fellaini is suspended so I will have to change my line-up. Every week you have something that you don’t like, but I think we can manage.
Van Gaal admitted that he would like to stick with the same squad that played last week, but the intensity of the Premier League means that he is likely to make changes:
When I can, I shall do it always, in every club I have done that.
In the Premier League it is more difficult because of the overload of the matches, we have to play more matches than in Spain or Germany, so I have to rotate sometimes, but also because of injuries or suspensions.
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