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Manchester United will welcome back at least three players for their decisive Champions League quarter-final second leg with Barcelona on Tuesday.

United fortuitously beat West Ham at the weekend amid a number of absentees but Ashley Young is available again having served a one-match domestic suspension. Alexis Sanchez trained again on Saturday and is fit enough to face his former club and Nemanja Matic will also be included in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's travelling squad.

However, Solskjaer suggested Ander Herrera could be sidelined with a thigh injury for longer than anticipated. Solskjaer initially indicated Herrera, who is understood to have agreed a pre-contract agreement with Paris Saint-Germain, could return against Manchester City on Wednesday week.

"Nemanja will travel with us definitely," Solskjaer said. "Ander won’t, he is out for a little while." Sanchez has not appeared since the March 1 win over Southampton but could come into the squad at the expense of 17-year-old Mason Greenwood, who made his Old Trafford debut against West Ham.

Paul Pogba leapfrogged Romelu Lukaku to become United's highest scorer of the season with 16 goals - eight of them from the penalty spot - by placing two spotkicks past West Ham. Lukaku has not scored since the remarkable recovery at Paris Saint-Germain over a month ago and United have had to manage Marcus Rashford in recent weeks amid a troublesome ankle injury.

Jesse Lingard and Anthony Martial were recalled for West Ham's visit but both struggled to regain rhythm two months on from suffering muscle injuries. Martial has only managed one goal in the last two months and Lingard is without a goal in nearly three months, having tallied 13 at this stage last term. Lingard has scored just five times in a fitful season and Lukaku has 11 fewer goals than he had a year ago. United did not muster an effort on target against Barcelona at Old Trafford but Solskjaer is confident they have the quality to win in Catalonia.

"You look at the quality of those players and that gives us a threat," Solskjaer said. "We carry a goal threat but, of course, what we did against PSG as a team must give everyone a huge confidence boost, because that experience was probably the best they have had for many years, those players. And they are probably dreaming about another one of them again at the Camp Nou."

Solskjaer returns to Barcelona with United for the first time since he sealed maybe the most dramatic European Cup final win against Bayern Munich at Camp Nou 20 years ago. United will commemorate the Treble anniversary with a reunion match next month and Solskjaer has repeatedly referenced that squad's heroics in press conferences during his time as manager.

The West Ham performance was another stark reminder of the chasm between the squad Solskjaer was a part of and the current one he has inherited. The Norwegian spoke about the parallels between United's FA Cup campaign in 1999 in the build-up to their FA Cup quarter-final last month at Wolves, where United produced their 'worst performance' of his reign and were eliminated. That experience has perhaps convinced Solskjaer to downplay the '99 parallels amid nostalgia for Barcelona.

"We didn’t play against Barcelona," Solskjaer said of the '99-themed coverage. "I won’t [talk about '99 to the players] because it was against Bayern Munich, it was a final, it was different. We will use the PSG, we will use the Juventus away.

"We have beaten some good teams away from home this year, and played against some great players and we know that if we are at our best and if we make Barcelona… because we had them flustered at times here as well. Yes, they controlled the game towards the end, they had the possession but they never really bothered us in our own half."

Provisional United squad vs Barcelona:

De Gea, Romero, Grant, Young, Darmian, Smalling, Lindelof, Jones, Rojo, Young, Matic, Pereira, McTominay, Fred, Pogba, Mata, Lingard, Sanchez, Martial, Lukaku, Rashford