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Manchester United host Bournemouth in the Premier League tonight and have both Bryan Mbeumo and Amad Diallo available to start before they depart for the Africa Cup of Nations.

Ruben Amorim admitted he he been “frustrated” to not know if he could call upon both players, with United’s home match against Bournemouth falling on the same day that Premier League teams must release their players to countries participating in Afcon later this month.

United will be looking to back up last week’s 4-1 win over Wolves and would go level on points with fourth-placed Chelsea with a win. After an excellent start to this season Bournemouth are winless in six but they have both of their last two trips to Old Trafford 3-0 under Andoni Iraola.

Ruben Amorim hints at formation change over the next few weeks

Ruben Amorim’s line-up suggests Manchester United will be playing 3-4-3 tonight, unless Leny Yoro and Ayden Heaven are centre-back partners and Diogo Dalot and Luke Shaw complete the back four as full-backs.

But Amorim has suggested United will “need to adapt” once Bryan Mbeumo and Diallo leave for Afcon, and didn’t rule out a formation change over the next few weeks while speaking to Sky Sports.

He said: “It's always the same thing. The formation is not the most important thing, it's the way you set up the team and try to take advantage of your opponent.

"We have to think about the future, and we need to have more variability in our game. We're going to lose two wingers, so we need to adapt to the players we have.

“We need to learn from some mistakes we did in the past, so we will try just to improve the team.”

Is Ruben Amorim about to move away from 3-4-3?

There has been some suggestion that Ruben Amorim is considering freshening up his tactical system over the next few weeks and while key players will be at the Africa Cup of Nations.

United will be without Amad Diallo, Noussair Mazraoui and Bryan Mbeumo after tonight’s match with Bournemouth and the Athletic reported earlier today that Amorim has warned his players to expect something different.

The Portuguese has infamously been committed to his 3-4-3 system since arriving at Old Trafford and has refused to move away from it. Even two weeks ago, when United trailed 10-man Everton, Amorim refused to budge from 3-4-3.

We’ll see if Amorim has any different up his sleeve when team news is confirmed in the next 15 minutes or so.

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