Manchester United acquire CSKA Moskva for Group A showdown
Manchester United FC acquire PFC CSKA Moskva to Old Trafford looking for a indicate that would pledge initial place in Group A, nonetheless a Russian bar have their possess gift aspirations.
• José Mourinho’s side have 12 points, a lead of three, and would validate in initial place with a indicate – and they can means to remove by 6 goals and still go through. If they remove to CSKA and FC Basel 1893 do not win divided to point-less SL Benfica, United and CSKA will go by with initial place dynamic by head-to-head formula between a two; United won 4-1 in Russia and would have a higher altogether idea disproportion if they remove 4-1. If CSKA and Basel win, a tip dual will be motionless in a three-way conduct to head; United would be by in this conditions unless they mislaid by 7 goals, and would be tip unless they mislaid by 5 goals.
• CSKA contingency collect adult some-more points than Basel to safeguard second place. If both win, CSKA contingency win by a domain of 3 goals to go by in a three-way head-to-head and by a domain of 5 goals to finish top.
Previous meetings
• It was on 21 Oct 2009 that a clubs met for a initial time, United’s Antonio Valencia scoring a usually idea in Moscow after 86 minutes.
• Valencia afterwards got a 92nd-minute equaliser as United came from 3-1 down to draw 3-3 in a second complement during Old Trafford. Vasili Berezutski and Alan Dzagoev were among a CSKA scorers.
• The teams in Manchester on 3 Nov 2009 were:
Manchester United: Van der Sar, Neville, Brown, Evans, Fabio (Evra 59), Valencia, Fletcher, Scholes, Nani (Rooney 58), Macheda (Obertan 82), Owen.
CSKA: Akinfeev, Šemberas, Ignashevich, A Berezutski, V Berezutski, Schennikov, Mamaev (Rahimić 70), Krasić, Dzagoev (Daniel Carvalho 72), Aldonin, Necid (Piliev 85).
• Seydou Doumbia gave Leonid Slutski’s CSKA a 15th-minute lead during home to United in Oct 2015, converting a miscarry after David de Gea had saved Roman Eremenko’s penalty, though Anthony Martial’s 65th-minute respond gave Louis outpost Gaal’s visitors a point.
• Wayne Rooney strike a usually idea of United’s home diversion opposite CSKA in a 79th minute. However, United finished Group B in third position, one place and 4 points above CSKA.
• The line-ups during Old Trafford on 3 Nov 2015 were:
Manchester United: De Gea, Smalling, Blind, Rojo, Carrick, Schweinsteiger (Herrera 89), Mata (Depay 74), Martial (Fellaini 66), Young, Lingard, Rooney.
CSKA: Akinfeev, Mario Fernandes, Ignashevich, A Berezutski, Schennikov, Wernbloom, Milanov, Tošić (Golovin 76), Dzagoev (Panchenko 85), Natcho (Doumbia 55), Musa.
Match background
Manchester United
• United are dominant during home to Russian clubs (W2 D3); their altogether record in 12 meetings with Russian sides is W4 D7 L1. The solitary better was a 2-1 detriment to Zenit in a 2008 UEFA Super Cup, played on neutral domain in Monaco.
• In final season’s UEFA Europa League turn of 16, United drew 1-1 during FC Rostov with Henrikh Mkhitaryan removing a goal, winning a Manchester lapse 1-0 interjection to a Juan Mata strike.
• The Red Devils are dominant in 20 European home matches (W16 D4), going behind to a 2-1 home detriment to Real Madrid CF in a 2012/13 UEFA Champions League turn of 16 second leg. The 1-1 pull with RC Celta de Vigo in final season’s UEFA Europa League semi-final second leg (2-1 aggregate) halted a six-game winning home run; they have won all 3 since.
• This is United’s seventh European tie this term, that started with the 2-1 detriment to Real Madrid in a UEFA Super Cup in Skopje on 8 August. That finished United’s 11-match dominant strain (W8 D3) given a 2-1 annulment during Fenerbahçe SK on matchday 4 of final season’s UEFA Europa League. The better in Istanbul had been their fifth in 9 European games.
• United were, however, beaten 1-0 during Basel on matchday five, usually their second detriment in their final 17 European matches, home and divided (W12 D3).
• This is United’s 21st debate in a UEFA Champions League organisation stage, and usually 4 times have they unsuccessful to make a subsequent round. Two of those eliminations came in their final 4 participations; a English bar finished third in their territory in both 2011/12 and 2015/16, their final appearance.
• United finished a clean brush of European trophies with feat in final season’s UEFA Europa League. The win opposite AFC Ajax in Stockholm combined to their European Cup triumphs of 1968, 1999 and 2008 and their 1991 European Cup Winners’ Cup success.
CSKA Moskva
• The Russian club, who final reached a turn of 16 in 2011/12, have won all 4 European divided games this season, triumphing 2-1 during both Benfica and Basel in Group A.Â
• The feat during Benfica was CSKA’s initial in a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre given a 3-2 home win opposite PSV Eindhoven on 30 Sep 2015; subsequently their record had been D4 L6. It was also their initial divided win in a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre given a 2-1 success during Manchester City FC on 5 Nov 2014. Their divided record given had been D1 L6.
• Their 2-0 first-leg feat during AEK Athens FC in a third subordinate turn finished CSKA’s run of 10 European matches but a win (D4 L6). They had also mislaid 6 of their prior 7 European divided games, sketch a other.
• Russian Premier League runners-up in 2016/17, CSKA are in a organisation theatre for an 11th time, and a fifth true season.
• CSKA have come bottom of their organisation in their final 4 UEFA Champions League campaigns. In 2016/17, carrying competent automatically for a organisation phase, they finished behind AS Monaco FC, Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Tottenham Hotspur FC in their section.
• CSKA lost 3-1 during Tottenham Hotspur FC on matchday 6 final season, giving them a record W1 D3 L4 divided to English clubs. Their solitary success came in Manchester, however, a 2-1 delight during Manchester City FC in a 2014/15 organisation stage.
• CSKA mislaid to Liverpool FC in a 2005 UEFA Super Cup, going down 3-1 after additional time in Monaco.
Coach and actor links
• Marcos Rojo played for FC Spartak Moskva between 2010 and 2012, scoring opposite CSKA in a 2-2 pull in an Under-21 Premier League match.
• Romelu Lukaku struck both goals in Belgium’s 2-0 accessible win divided to Russia on 17 Nov 2010, with Marouane Fellaini also in a team; Igor Akinfeev, Sergei Ignashevich, Vasili Berezutski, Alan Dzagoyev and surrogate Viktor Vasin, who was creation his debut, featured for Russia.
• Akinfeev, Ignashevich, Vasili Berezutski and Dzagoev were also in a Russia organisation beaten 1-0 by Fellaini and Lukaku’s Belgium in a 2014 FIFA World Cup organisation stage.
• Zlatan Ibrahimović scored in Sweden’s 1-1 accessible pull in Moscow in 2002.
• Matteo Darmian was in a US Città di Palermo side beaten 3-0 during home and 3-1 away by CSKA in a 2010/11 UEFA Europa League organisation stage.
• Ashley Young was in a Aston Villa FC organisation that drew 1-1 during home to CSKA in a 2008/09 UEFA Cup turn of 32 initial leg, a English bar going on to remove 3-1 on aggregate.
• Have played together:
Sergio Romero Pontus Wernbloom (AZ Alkmaar, 2009–11)
Victor Lindelöf, Zlatan Ibrahimović Pontus Wernbloom (Sweden)