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Your support makes all the difference.Manchester United can relegate Aston Villa with a draw or better to effectively end what has been a miserable year for Villa. Follow the latest here.
- Wayne Rooney starts after returning from injury on Wednesday
- Ander Herrera absent with foot injury
- Bastian Schweinsteiger to miss rest of the season with knee injury
- United can close gap to rivals City to just a point with victory
- Gabriel Agbonlahor to miss game due to undergoing two-week fitness programme
- Alan Hutton returns from ban
Teams:
Manchester United: De Gea, Valencia, Smalling, Blind, Rojo, Schneiderlin, Fellaini, Mata, Rooney, Memphis, Rashford.
Subs: Romero, Darmian, Fosi-Mensah, McNair, Young, Lingard, Martial.
Aston Villa: Guzan; Hutton, Clark, Lescott, Cissokho; Bacuna, Westwood, Gana, Richardson; Sinclair; Ayew.
Subs: Bunn, Richards, Sanchez, Gilm Lyden, Gestede, Grealish.
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Today’s fixtures:
Norwich City vs Sunderland – 12.45pm
Everton vs Southampton – 3pm
Manchester United vs Aston Villa – 3pm
Newcastle United vs Swansea City – 3pm
West Bromwich Albion vs Watford – 3pm
Chelsea vs Manchester City – 3pm
Sunday’s fixtures:
Bournemouth vs Liverpool – 1.30pm
Leicester City vs West Ham – 1.30pm
Arsenal vs Crystal Palace – 4pm
Monday’s fixture:
Stoke City vs Tottenham Hotspur – 8pm
Norwich 0 Sunderland 0: Fight! Handbags on the touchline and even Big Sam gets involved in a bit of pushing and shoving in a rather ineffective melee on the touchline.
Norwich 0 Sunderland 0: Norwich all over Sunderland at the moment, Jonny Howson gets th ball totally unmarked from a corner, but his long range shot is blocked.
Naismith's touch today so far has been dreadful.
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Norwich 0 Sunderland 0: Still only Norwich doing anything, Brady picking out Mbokani with a great cross from the left, but the header doesn't have much power and is easily saved. Sunderland living dangerously.
Norwich 0 Sunderland 0: Khazri picks up a yellow card for a tackle on O'Neill.
Borini's effort goes wide Norwich 0 Sunderland 0: Jarvis is played in behind Sunderland's defence, but Cattermole does brilliantly to get back and make a tackle to snuff out the danger.
PENALTY TO SUNDERLAND! Wisdom clatters Borini and the referee points to the spot. Yellow card for the defender.
GOAL! Norwich 0 Sunderland 1 - Fabio BoriniHe makes no mistake!
Fabio Borini scores his 4th Premier League goal of the season from Sunderland's first shot on target. Huge goal.https://t.co/TCYhwpeMza
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