Solskjaer press conference transcript before Crystal Palace v Man Utd

The manager sat down to speak with reporters on Wednesday morning – digitally, of course – ahead of the squad travelling south for Selhurst Park, where kick-off is scheduled for 20:15 BST on Thursday night. 

As you will read below, Solskjaer began by reacting to Marcus Rashford’s latest honour before providing an injury update on our two left-backs, Luke Shaw and Brandon Williams.

There is also plenty of chat about Anthony Martial, the team’s form and Palace manager Roy Hodgson, as well as a big announcement this week from UEFA. Get stuck in now…

We’ve had this news about Marcus Rashford, getting a doctorate from The University of Manchester. What’s your view of that?

“I get the gist of your question, you were breaking up there, but you know, we’re so proud of Marcus and I’ve said it a few times, what a great person he is, a great human being. He cares about so much more than himself and the work he’s done it just shows that he cares so much about others than himself. So I’m very proud of him and hopefully he’ll keep his personality for the rest of his life, just keep on being yourself.”

On the pitch, what’s the situation at left back? What’s the problem with Luke Shaw and Brandon Williams and will either of them be fit for tomorrow?

“Luke has got a swollen ankle, so hopefully I’ll give him as much time as possible to recover – it was a twist on his ankle. Brandon’s eye, he cut up his eye there, so I don’t really know. We’ve not trained this morning, none of them trained yesterday, so they were both swollen and I’ll give them as much time as possible to get ready.”