Key occasions
Learn Jonathan Wilson on Man Utd
The character of the fashionable United is that they can’t be trusted. They are going to inexplicably fail to do the fundamentals of defending. They are going to contrive comical methods to have objectives dominated out for offside. They are going to waste alternatives. Partially it’s high quality, partially it’s mentality, partially it’s the world the place the 2 meet, and partially it’s confidence.
Final week we scored seven towards Barnsley, we’re able to scoring many objectives, however it’s part of the sport we now have to enhance.
Staff information: Ugarte begins
The Uruguay midfielder Manuel Ugarte will make his full debut for United. Marcus Rashford and Harry Maguire additionally return to the beginning XI, with Kobbie Mainoo, Alejandro Garnacho and Matthijs de Ligt moved to the rotation seats within the dugout.
FC Twente make a few adjustments to the crew that received 5-0 away to Almere on Sunday. The captain Ricky van Wolfswinkel, as soon as of Norwich Metropolis, and Michel Vlap exchange Daan Rots and Carel Eiting.
Man Utd (4-2-3-1) Onana; Mazraoui, Maguire, Martinez, Dalot; Ugarte, Eriksen; Amad, Fernandes, Rashford; Zirkzee.
Substitutes: Bayindir, Heaton, De Ligt, Mount, Hojlund, Garnacho, Casemiro, Antony, Evans, Mainoo, Collyer.
FC Twente (attainable 4-2-3-1) Unnerstall; Van Rooij, Hilgers, Bruns, Salah-Eddine; Regeer, Vlap; Van Wolfswinkel, Steijn, Van Bergen; Lammers.
Substitutes: El Maach, Tyton, Lagerbielke, Kjolo, Kuipers, Eiting, D Rots, Van Hoorenbeeck, Mesbahi, Ltaief, M Rots, Besselink.
Preamble
Hi there there. The unhealthy information for Manchester United is that they’re again within the Europa League; the excellent news is that they’ve an opportunity of successful it. That hasn’t been the case within the Champions League since Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement; they haven’t reached a semi-final since 2011 and final season they completed backside of their group.
In the interim, the Europa League is United’s stage. They received it in 2017, have been runners-up in 2021 and reached the quarter-final in Erik ten Hag’s first season. The brand new format means no Champions League groups will gatecrash the knockout rounds, so the winner will come from the 36 groups within the league stage. The contenders embrace Spurs, Lazio, Roma, Athletic Bilbao, Porto, Actual Sociedad, Eintracht Frankfurt, Galatasaray and Jose Mourinho.
United begin at dwelling to FC Twente, who completed third in final season’s Eredivisie after Ajax went awol. Three is the operative quantity: that’s what number of spells Ten Hag had at Twente throughout his enjoying profession, so this match will imply so much to him. It received’t be straightforward, however United can’t afford a false begin: their subsequent two Europa League video games are away to Porto and Mourinho.
Kick off 8pm.
