Wolves wing-back Marcal tries a half-volley from 25 yards but it lacks power and David de Gea can catch it. Not sure if it took a nick off Phil Jones.

Rob Green
Former England goalkeeper on BBC Radio 5 Live

Wolves are showing real confidence on the ball. They did it in the first half of their last game against Chelsea. They have these wing-backs who become midfielders and it gives them such width.

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United counter from the corner as Mason Greenwood sprays a wonderful ball out to Jadon Sancho. He runs at Wolves' defence and then has a shot blocked. He had options, should he have passed?

A first corner to Wolves as Raul Jimenez steps inside Luke Shaw and the ball rolls behind.

I just had to remind myself what shirt number Phil Jones wore to see where he was.

Four.

United are doing all the defending so far.

Richard: That header wraps up man of the match for Phil Jones, I think.

Tayub Hussain: As happy as I am for jones, the fact that he’s been picked tonight shows a lack of CBs at the club

Simon Stone
BBC Sport at Old Trafford

Applause from the Man Utd fans for Phil Jones' first touch, a clearing header from Francisco Trincao's right-wing cross.

There is a lot of goodwill for Jones at Old Trafford tonight.

Wolves have started well. Francisco Trincao runs down the right and finds Joao Moutinho but his cross is blocked by Scott McTominay.

Now Marcal's cross evades everyone in the centre.

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Rob Green
Former England goalkeeper on BBC Radio 5 Live

He'll be delighted. It was a cross in from deep and one he saw all the way. He needed the header but Wolves having a good bit of possession.

If the football narrative gods have their way tonight, Phil Jones will score in one net or the other, concede a penalty, be sent off or get injured.

Jones gets his head onto an early Wolves cross and gets it to safety. Solid start.

We are under way in Wolves' first game since 19 December.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Conor Coady lead the teams out. It's a noisy Old Trafford.

Manchester United are unbeaten in five league and cup games under Ralf Rangnick, taking 10 points from a possible 12 in the league.

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Wolves duo Adama Traore and Trincao have both attempted 21 shots without scoring in the Premier League this season, the joint-highest figure in the division (level with Norwich's Kenny McLean).

Rob Green
Former England goalkeeper on BBC Radio 5 Live

Huge for him. I don't think he will have expected it. He came out recently and spoke about his frustrations. He is a confident boy, I played with him for England a long time ago. He has that self-belief.

Looking at it, he has played only two and a half games for the second team this season. So he is coming in undercooked. He will need the support from the crowds.

This is the first step in the next part of his career because it has been a really strange one in the last few years.

Mason Greenwood's contentious late winner earned United all three points at Molineux in late August.

Greenwood fired home 10 minutes from time but Wolves felt Ruben Neves was fouled by Paul Pogba in the build-up to the goal.

That Wolves were by far the better side only added to their sense of injustice, with the hosts wasting a series of chances as well as being denied by a handful of wonderful saves from David de Gea.

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Wolves are winless in 10 league games away to Manchester United since beating them at Old Trafford in February 1980 (D3, L7). They have scored a total of three goals during this run.

United could register a fourth successive top-flight win against Wolves for the first time since a sequence of five victories between 1964 and 1968.

Wolves' total of 13 top-flight goals is the club's lowest figure at the turn of the year since the 1981-82 season.

They have only scored in eight of their 18 games.

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BBC WM

Wolves, whose season on the field having been inadvertently paused over Christmas, like an office block or factory closing for the holidays, now move onwards to Old Trafford still somewhat depleted.

Their inability to field an adequate side against Arsenal was prompted by a Covid outbreak, but not entirely caused by it, as the list of injuries updated by Wolves last weekend explained.

Despite all the obvious problems, and the at times grinding inability to score a goal, Bruno Lage has made a good start at Wolves. He has overseen the restoration of their defensive stability, and settled what could have been a jittery situation after the uncomfortable departure of Nuno.

They have been remarkably resilient even against the strongest sides, and very rarely overwhelmed.

However, he has not hidden his desire to develop the squad and it is clear that managing with minimal resources is not sustainable in the long term if Wolves are to achieve their stated ambitions.

For all their issues, so long as Covid allows them to field something close to a normal first 11, Wolves will have no fears of Manchester United.

In the summer they tore at the team then managed by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer but somehow came up short, and enough of the United players have been stretched by Wolves since they came into the league to know they’ll be credible contenders, even at such a difficult time.

This is the battle between seventh and ninth. Manchester United could go sixth with a win (or fifth with a very big win).

Wolves would go eighth with a win... but will drop to 10th if they lose.

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