CSKA and Manchester United seeking second win
PFC CSKA Moskva and Manchester United FC will both wish to concrete their matchday one victories when they accommodate in a second turn of Group A fixtures.
• The teams were interconnected together in a organisation stages in 2009/10 and 2015/16, and on any arise United collected 4 points from a dual encounters.
Previous meetings
• It was on 21 Oct 2009 that a clubs met for a initial time in Moscow, where United’s Antonio Valencia scored a usually goal after 86 minutes.
• The line-ups during a Luzhniki Stadium were:
CSKA: Akinfeev, Semberas, Ignashevich, A Berezutski, V Berezutski, Odiah, Rahimić (Carvalho 90), Schennikov (Mamaev 62), Krasić, Dzagoev, Necid (Piliev 73).
Manchester United: Van der Sar, G Neville, Ferdinand (Brown 57), Vidić, Fábio (Carrick 88), O’Shea, Valencia, Scholes (Owen 71), Anderson, Nani, Berbatov.
• 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 on 3 Nov 2009. Vasili Berezutski and Alan Dzagoev were among a CSKA scorers.
• 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.
• The teams in Moscow on 21 Oct 2015 were:
CSKA: Akinfeev, Mário Fernandes, Ignashevich, V Berezutski (A Berezutski 41), Schennikov, Wernbloom, Tošić, Eremenko (Panchenko 84), Dzagoev (Cauņa 87), Musa, Doumbia.
Manchester United: De Gea, Valencia, Jones, Smalling, Rojo (Blind 64), Herrera, Schneiderlin, Schweinsteiger (Fellaini 46), Lingard (Depay 80), Rooney, Martial.
• Wayne Rooney strike a usually idea of United’s home diversion opposite CSKA in a 79th notation on 3 Nov 2015. However, United finished Group B in third position, one place and 4 points above CSKA.
Match background
CSKA Moskva
• The Moscow bar 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 have, however, won all 5 of their European fixtures this term, a initial 4 though surrender a goal, and triumphed 2-1 during SL Benfica on matchday one.
• CSKA were though a win in their final 5 European home games before a 1-0 second-leg success over AEK Athens FC in a third subordinate round. Having beaten BSC Young Boys 2-0 in Moscow in their indirect play-off, they have now won their final dual home fixtures.
• Their 2-0 first-leg delight during AEK finished CSKA’s run of 10 European matches though a win (D4 L6). Meanwhile, a feat during Benfica was their 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.
• Russian Premier League runners-up in 2016/17, CSKA won dual of their initial 3 home games opposite English clubs, though nothing of a final 5 (D2 L3). Their altogether record opposite Premier League visitors is W3 D5 L9.
• CSKA mislaid to Liverpool FC in a 2005 UEFA Super Cup, going down 3-1 after additional time in Monaco.
Manchester United
• 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 in 1968, 1999 and 2008 and their 1991 European Cup Winners’ Cup success.
• This is United’s third European assignment this term, including a 2-1 detriment to Real Madrid CF in a UEFA Super Cup in Skopje on 8 August. That finished United’s 11-match dominant run (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 overcame FC Basel 1893 3-0 during Old Trafford on matchday one and are now seeking to extend a five-match dominant European divided record (W3 D2) given that reversal during Fenerbahçe.
• 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 were interconnected with Russian antithesis in final season’s winning UEFA Europa League campaign, drawing 1-1 during FC Rostov in their turn of 16 initial leg – Henrikh Mkhitaryan on aim – before Juan Mata scored a usually idea of a Old Trafford return.
• That done United’s altogether record opposite Russian clubs W3 D7 L1; divided it is W1 D4 L0.
• The Red Devils’ solitary better opposite Russian opponents came opposite FC Zenit in a 2008 UEFA Super Cup, Sir Alex Ferguson’s organisation going down 2-1 during a Stade Louis II 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 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:
Pontus Wernbloom Sergio Romero (AZ Alkmaar, 2009–11)
Pontus Wernbloom Victor Lindelöf, Zlatan Ibrahimović (Sweden)