Manchester United have a huge second half of the season ahead of them.
They remain in both the FA Cup and Champions League, while a battle to qualify for next season's premier European competition looks likely to rage on until the final weeks of the campaign.
It is no secret that a squad turnover is likely at Old Trafford in the summer with arguably only a handful of positions safe for the 2022/23 season.
But the two men with the biggest point to prove at United are the ones who are most likely not to be at the club next year.
When Paul Pogba signed for United in a dramatic 2016 return, it felt as though he had come back to right the wrongs of the past. His huge £89m fee would be justified, it was hoped, as he signified a new era in which the club would again challenge for the biggest accolades.
Instead, a League Cup and Europa League is all he has to show since his return to Manchester.
Pogba is now widely expected to leave and has barely featured this season due to a thigh injury.
At present, his high wages, inconsistent form and injury issues don't make him such an attractive proposition to new clubs in the summer — despite the fact he'll be available on a free.
But in the second half of the season, Pogba can show his worth and hark back to the player of old, not just for the sake of his own future career, but to protect his own United legacy.
Whereas the Frenchman has often riled sections of the United fanbase, Jesse Lingard has usually had the sympathy of the fanbase. There's been a general agreement that he ought to have featured more this season.
The academy graduate has played crucial roles for United down the years, scoring plenty of big goals, but he has often been overlooked in favour of 'bigger names'.
The club's decision to block his move away from United on deadline day had the air of a spouse clinging onto a relationship that is destined to fail.
Lingard has been treated poorly this season and being denied a move that would have kickstarted his career seemed a little cruel on him.
But now he is staying — if only for a few more months — the 29-year-old must prove why it will be a mistake to let him go on a free at the end of the season.
Whether he gets his chance to do this on the pitch at Old Trafford remains to be seen, but Rangnick cannot afford to ignore a fit and firing Lingard in the all important closing stages of the campaign.
Like Pogba, he could have a big point to prove.
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