With Harry Maguire suspended for the second leg at Old Trafford and Eric Bailly still out after recently testing positive for COVID-19, that leaves the boss with just two available centre-backs: Victor Lindelof and Tuanzebe.
The latter hasn’t played a huge amount of football since the turn of the year, but Axel’s quality means Ole has no qualms about chucking him into such a high-pressure environment at Old Trafford, as he explained in Wednesday’s pre-match press conference.
“Axel has always been a very positive boy and hardworking,”
Solskjaer told reporters via video link.