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Last updated : 13 April 2004 By editor

Ruud still has a knee injury but is expected to play at the weekend. Keane looks set to start, but Ronaldo will probably be left on the bench.

Probables:

Carroll, Howard, G Neville, Brown, Silvestre, O'Shea, Fletcher, Scholes, Keane, Giggs, Saha, Solskjaer, P Neville, Djemba-Djemba, Bellion, Forlan, Ronaldo, Butt.

Leicester have only managed one win at Old Trafford in 30 years, but Ferguson is aware that Micky Adams' side are more than bottom-of-the-table scrappers and may prove a tough test on a cut-up pitch he wanted to relay earlier in the season.

"Attacking-wise, Leicester are a real handful," he said. "They are the third top scorers away from home in the entire League, so our defence has a job to do. Also, the pitches are starting to get a bit livelier now, so games are becoming more unpredictable and the flow is not too good.”