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Axel Tuanzebe and RoShaun Williams trained with the Manchester United first-team on Friday morning ahead of Sunday's Premier League visit of Stoke.

United's starters against Zorya Luhansk last night are understood to have undergone a light recovery session, while the substitutes and other unused squad members underwent a full session at Carrington.

Teenagers Tuanzebe and Williams struck up a superb central defensive partnership during the Under-21s' title-winning campaign last term and were promoted to the first-team by Louis van Gaal.

Tuanzebe, 18, was the first academy graduate to make the step up last season when he was included in the squad at Crystal Palace in October. He made the bench again at Bournemouth two months later.

Williams, also 18, was on the bench for the home cup games against West Ham and Liverpool in March. Although both of them are yet to make their debuts they are considered two of the finest homegrown defenders in the country.

Tuanzebe made his senior bow in Jose Mourinho's first game in charge at Wigan in July and the United manager spoke effusively about the Rochdale-bred centre-back.

Asked about young players taking their chances, Mourinho said: "You can play 90 minutes or one minute. Sometimes one minute is enough. With Axel, 10 minutes is enough! The potential is there, you see it immediately.

"You know him better than me because you know him for a few years but if anyone sees him for the first time, ten minutes is enough to see the potential."

Williams suffered an injury in the summer and only recently returned to the Reserves. The Whalley Range lad started in the academy's recent defeat at City as he continued his recovery.

Centre-back Williams was spotted by United at Fletcher Moss - where Cameron Borthwick-Jackson and Marcus Rashford played - and has been likened to Paul Pogba by the club's chairman.

"Marcus Rashford and Ro-Shaun Williams were the two stars from that age group, not Cameron," Mr. Jamieson told M.E.N. Sport earlier this year.

"Cameron was not an obviously outstanding talent. Marcus was tricky and I thought he would have had more chances in the first-team.

"He [Williams] was a year younger than the others when he came to us," Jamieson added. "He was a big lad even then. He performed very well and was very powerful and scary, too. He never shirked a tackle.

"Who needs Pogba when you've got RoShaun?"

UPDATE: Under-23 midfielder Matty Willock also trained with United today.