The 21-year-old defender, who has featured for the Reds in the Premier League and Europa League this term, grew up in the Lancashire town and played for his school team there, before moving on to United.
Tuanzebe, who will be eager to make his mark against our League One opponents, revealed to United Review, that, while some of his classmates at school were off supporting our upcoming visitors, there was only one team for him.
“I’d say it was a tight neighbourhood, especially where I was anyway,” he told us. “It was just a big group of friends and we came together and loved to play football.