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Forward Christian Ramirez misses his first Minnesota United match all season

The leading scorer injured his hamstring in the previous match and did not recover in time to start.

By Megan Ryan

August 5, 2017 at 11:19PM

Minnesota United head coach Adrian Heath talked with Minnesota United forward Christian Ramirez (21) as they walked off the field after a 3-0 loss to the New York Red Bulls on July 22. (Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Minnesota United will be without forward Christian Ramirez for the first time this season as the Loons take on the Seattle Sounders FC on Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium. Here is the full lineup:

Bobby Shuttleworth

Jerome Thiesson, Michael Boxall, Francisco Calvo, Ish Jome

Sam Cronin, Ibson

Miguel Ibarra, Kevin Molino, Sam Nicholson

Abu Danladi

Bench: Patrick McLain, Jermaine Taylor, Brent Kallman, Johan Venegas, Collen Warner, Collin Martin, Brandon Allen

Ramirez is out with a hamstring tweak he endured last weekend late in the first half against D.C. United. This will be the first match all season Ramirez hasn't featured for the Loons, and he was the only player on the roster to have appeared in all 22 matches so far, starting all but the first match of the season. The team's leading scorer at 11 goals has the second-most minutes on the team at 1,844 to Thiesson's 1,875.

Prior to the match, midfielder Rasmus Schuller, center-back Joe Greenspan, right-back Kevin Venegas and winger Bashkim Kadrii trained for a bit on the pitch. With a week off after this match thanks to Atlanta United FC rescheduling, the Loons will likely have the services of some of those injured ranks, including Ramirez, Schuller and possibly even left-back Marc Burch heading into the Aug.20 match at Seattle.

Here is how Seattle will start:

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