#4 What is United’s best central defensive pairing?
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Even with Eric Bailly back from the African Cup of Nations, Jose Mourinho stuck with the pairing of Jones and Rojo at the centre of defence and as usual had his faith repaid with solid performances. However, with Jones having to be substituted due to a suspected hamstring issue, the Portuguese has plenty to ponder over what his best combination is at the heart of defence.
The clean sheets have been vital to United’s hopes of still sneaking into a top four spot, especially with the attackers failing to fire on all cylinders in the league.
United have scored the least number of goals of the top seven in the table – Everton climbing above them on that count tonight – and will be counting on getting the answer to this question right in order to keep up their pursuit.
