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Paul Pogba could make a first Manchester United appearance since his world-record transfer when they host Southampton at Old Trafford on Friday night.The game is the first Friday night match of a new television era in the Premier League, and Pogbas possible debut makes the fixture a fitting introduction for the leagues new feature.France international Pogba completed his ￡89 million return to Manchester earlier this month, rejoining the club he left in 2012 for a nominal fee. But the four-time Serie A winner and European Championship finalist was suspended for the opening game of the Premier League campaign due to a ban carried over from the Coppa Italia. Pogba was watching on from the stands as Jose Mourinhos United beat Bournemouth 3-1 on Sunday, but he is in contention to start against Southampton. New teammate David de Gea is thrilled at the prospect of playing alongside him.I think he is something special, De Gea told Manchester Uniteds official television station. He feels like this is his home and we are all really, really happy to have him again in Manchester. Hes now with all his friends again in Manchester, with everyone here, and he looks like he never left the club. Hes really good for the team.De Gea added.I think its good to have a mix of young players and experienced players. Thats what we have in the team now and I think its really good for the young players. They have done really well, they train very hard and its really good to see.Mourinho wasnt the only new manager to take charge of their first game for a new club at the weekend. Southamptons Claude Puel was another of the eight bosses to make their bows, with the Saints picking up a point against Watford on Saturday. Puel arrived on the English south coast with a reputation for developing young talent during his time with Nice, Lyon and Lille in Ligue 1, but was disappointed with the first half of competitive football that his new squad served up.The first half against Watford was not good, Puel said. But I liked the second half, with a good reaction of the players. This is very important, and we could see in the second half all the possibilities of my team, of my players … and I would like to see this against United.We know we can make good football. Its important to keep the ball and good acquaintance between the players, to defend together -- all the details of our play and our game, and this is most important for me. Its important to keep good concentration with this.Southampton remain without defenders Ryan Bertrand and Florin Gardos, but could introduce Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg from the start after the former Bayern Munich youngsters impressive impact off the bench against Watford.Manchester Uniteds only injury worry is over Jesse Lingard, who has an ankle problem. However, there are concerns that summer signing Henrikh Mkhitaryan may be limited to a substitute role due to a lack of match fitness.Mourinho will be looking to put a stop to a poor recent run for United against Southampton. His new club have not won any of their last three home matches against the Saints and failed to score in 1-0 defeats in the last two meetings. Southampton, meanwhile, have never won three straight league games at Old Trafford in their history.Nathan Redmond is looking to score in consecutive matches at the start of a season for the second straight campaign, after also achieving the feat with Norwich City in 2015-16.Zlatan Ibrahimovic also scored on his club debut at the weekend and will be hoping to continue an impressive record of 16 goals in his last nine domestic league games (for United and previous club Paris Saint-Germain). Wholesale Lakers Jerseys . -- Aldon Smith believes he is on the path to being sober for good. Fake Lakers Jerseys . Those lessons were more than enough to overwhelm the Utah Jazz. Lou Williams scored 25 points and the Hawks continued their offensive upswing as they rolled to an easy 118-85 victory over the Jazz on Friday night, winning their third straight and for the fourth time in five games. https://www.lakersjerseycheap.com/ . Meanwhile, there were huge victories for Sunderland and West Ham over fellow relegation rivals, leaving the battle to avoid the drop up for grabs with the bottom 11 teams separated by just six points. Eden Hazard and Fernando Torres scored second-half goals to seal a fourth straight victory for Chelsea, which climbed above Arsenal and Manchester City in the standings ahead of their games on Monday and Sunday respectively. Los Angeles Lakers Store . -- The plastic that was taped across the lockers in Oaklands clubhouse came down and the champagne that was on ice went back into the cooler. Lakers Jerseys 2020 . - NASCAR announced a 33-race schedule for the 2014 Nationwide Series with virtually no changes from this years slate.Scotland assistant manager Mark McGhee says he would be amazed if Gordon Strachan quit as national coach. The Motherwell manager gave an impassioned defence of their performance as a Scotland management team amid debate over Strachans future following last weeks 3-0 defeat by England.Speaking ahead of Saturdays visit of Partick Thistle, the former Millwall and Wolves boss said: In the week leading up to the game I know his appetite was full. It showed in the performance, that he got his message across and the boys responded and played very, very well. He is entitled to go into the next games and see if we can improve on the results and Id be amazed if he doesnt. Action from Englands 3-0 win over Scotland at Wembley McGhee has deliberately avoided media reaction to the Wembley defeat, which left Scotland fifth in their World Cup qualifying section with four points from four matches, and has not spoken at length to Strachan since the match.But he reiterated he felt the teams attitude and approach was spot-on and described their start to the game as excellent, enough to convince him that they can revive results next year, which starts with the visit of Slovenia on March 26.We have our views and everyone is entitled to their opinion, of course they are, thats the business we are in, McGhee said. Scotland began the campaign with a 5-1 victory in Malta But, as far as I am concerned, I am looking forward to the next games, in particular I cannot wait for the game in June. I want to get the other games, of course I do, and I want to do well but I want to be here when we play England at Hampden. Highlights of Englands clash with Scotland at Wembley in their 2018 World Cup qualifier Whatever else anyone says, we will just keep doing it until someone else takes the keys off us and we cant do it.ddddddddddddScotland took seven points from their first four matches in their Euro 2016 campaign from arguably a tougher run of fixtures, against Germany, Georgia, Poland and the Republic of Ireland. But McGhee bristled at the suggestion that there were no signs of progress. Shaun Maloney scores the only goal of game as Scotland beat Republic of Ireland at Celtic Park In some ways our results and overall performance in the last campaign is better than it is in this campaign, he said.However, you have to be honest, you have to look at the players we have available, look at the opposition. Dont judge it as the same thing, things evolve. Circumstances in each game are different.You cant be blind where you dont take account of any other circumstance other than the result. Thats not fair. Last time we had a great result and performance against Ireland. Six months half price Upgrade to Sky Sports to watch Man Utd v Arsenal on Saturday and get the first six months half price We have not had one of those big results and performances yet. But thats what we are working towards. We were close to it at Wembley in some ways and thats what we will take into the next game, that we want that big performance.I feel if we go into that game and it was to be abject then there are clearly questions that need to be asked. But I feel so far that Gordon has done just about as well as we could be expected to do. And McGhees sentiments were echoed by Scotland captain Darren Fletcher who insists the players are keen for the former Celtic and Middlesbrough boss to remain in charge of the national side. Darren Fletcher (R) says players right behind Strachan He said: Friday was one of the most frustrating games I ever played in. We took the game to England at Wembley and were so unlucky.Gordon Strachan takes all the flak and deflects it from the players which is the sign of a great manager. The players want him to remain as manager. Upgrade to Sky Sports now to watch Ireland v New Zealand and Man Utd v Arsenal this Saturday and get the first six months half price! Also See: Scotland latest Scotland fixtures Scotland stats Table Live on Sky ' ' '