Facundo Pellistri has been denied the chance of making his Manchester United debut this weekend after testing positive for coronavirus.

The 19-year-old joined United in an £8m move from Penarol in the summer transfer window and has featured six times for the Under-23s since then.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is believed to have promoted Pellistri to his first-team squad and the youngster was tipped to feature against Watford in the FA Cup third round.

However, he has returned a positive COVID-19 test and will now self-isolate for 10 days, ruling him out of Saturday's match at Old Trafford.

United head into the game on the back of a 2-0 loss to Manchester City in the semi-finals of the EFL Cup earlier this week.

The likes of Juan Mata, Donny van de Beek and Dean Henderson are all in line to start against Watford.