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Fenerbahce vs Manchester United: Europa League – live | Europa League
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Fenerbahce vs Manchester United: Europa League – live | Europa League

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There's a good chance United weren't particularly pleased when this game rattled off the UEFA supercomputer. They have hosted the Istanbul giants three times and lost the last two times. Here's what happened in the Champions League in 2004…

… and that's how it went in the Europa League in 2016. Bad news for Jose Mourinho that day, but fair is fair, he led United to the cup at the end of the season. “Could Mr Mourinho want to put a nail in Erik's coffin?” asks John Potter. “I'm pretty sure he would like to do that, even if he says otherwise.”

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Manchester United are making four changes to the team that were scheduled to face Brentford last weekend. Two players are replaced: Bruno Fernandes is suspended and Jonny Evans is injured, while Casemiro and Rasmus Højlund drop to the bench. Victor Lindelöf, Noussair Mazraoui, Noussair Mazraoui and Manuel Ugarte compete.

There are some familiar faces in Fenerbahçe's starting eleven. A couple of stars from Old Trafford in Fred and Sofyan Amrabat. Çağlar Söyüncü, formerly of Leicester City, Dušan Tadić from Southampton and Newcastle trickster Allan Saint-Maximin. Meanwhile, on the bench are Edin Džeko, who died at Manchester City, and former Everton and Crystal Palace striker Cenk Tosun. Hello again, everyone.

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The teams

Fenerbahçe: Livaković, Müldür, Djiku, Söyüncü, Osayi-Samuel, Amrabat, Fred, Szymański, Tadić, En-Nesyri, Saint-Maximin.
Substitutes: Egribayat, Cetin, Akaydin, Yuksek, Yandas, Dzeko, Kahveci, Tosun, Dursun, Rodrigo Becao, Akcicek, Tograk.

Manchester United: Onana, Lindelof, de Ligt, Martinez, Mazraoui, Eriksen, Ugarte, Dalot, Garnacho, Rashford, Zirkzee.
Substitutes: Bayindir, Heaton, Hojlund, Diallo, Casemiro, Antony, Wheatley, Amass, Ogunneye.

Referee: Clement Turpin (France).

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preamble

Poor old Manchester United can't do right by doing wrong. At home they received a three-goal lesson from Tottenham Hotspur; United are in crisis and Erik ten Hag only has a few games left to save his job. They secured comfortable draws away from home at Porto and Aston Villa and followed that up with an impressive, if dry, turnaround win over Brentford. United are in crisis and Erik ten Hag only has a few games left to save his job. It doesn't seem to make much of a difference, which can't be entirely fair, and what's worse, it's starting to show its age. So should we park this for the next few hours? Yes, let's. This MBM is officially a Crisis Club Free Zone™, with Kick-off at 8pm BST (However, should United release five players in the first half, we reserve the right to perform a deafening, screaming handbrake rotation). It's on!

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