The home side, this marks the perfect chance for them to boost their own standings in the top flight. They sit just three points.

Behind their visitors and come into this game off the back of a 3-1 win over Ipswich in the Carabao Cup.

The Cottagers have lost just one of their last five competitive home games and have won three of those in regulation time.

While their downtrodden visitors’ only wins away from home this term have come against the bottom two clubs in the league – Burnley and Sheffield United.

Manchester United’s crisis deepened in midweek as their defence of the Carabao Cup came to an abrupt end courtesy of a 3-0 thrashing.

At home to last year’s beaten finalists Newcastle and they could be in for yet more disappointment when they meet Fulham on Saturday.