United without Becks, Arsenal missing Seaman

England skipper David Beckham starts on the bench for Manchester United in their crunch Premiership clash with Arsenal at Highbury tonight.

Meanwhile, Arsenal start without goalkeeper David Seaman, who has failed to recover from injury.

Arsenal v Man Utd

Arsenal: Taylor, Lauren, Keown, Campbell, Cole, Ljungberg, Silva, Vieira, Pires, Bergkamp, Henry.

Subs: Wiltord, Edu, Warmuz, Luzhny, Kanu.

Man Utd: Barthez, Brown, Ferdinand, Silvestre, O’Shea, Solskjaer, Butt, Keane, Giggs, Scholes, van Nistelrooy.

Subs: Gary Neville, Phil Neville, Beckham, Ricardo, Fortune.

Referee: M Halsey (Lancashire)