Manchester United lapse with Basel visit
Manchester United FC make their lapse to a UEFA Champions League opposite FC Basel 1893, who have caused them problems in a past.
• United competent for this season’s foe by winning a 2016/17 UEFA Europa League, with final deteriorate usually a second time in 22 years they had missed out on a UEFA Champions League.
• The three-time European champions will be looking to start Group A with a home feat opposite a Basel side dominant on their dual prior vjisits to Old Trafford.
Previous meetings
• The teams initial met in a 2002/03 second organisation stage, United winning a initial diversion in Switzerland 3-1 with Ruud outpost Nistelrooy scoring twice. Ole Gunnar Solskjær got United’s clinching third idea after Christian Giménez had given Basel a first-minute lead.
• Giménez was also on aim in Manchester on 12 Mar 2003, his 14th-minute strike assisting Basel to a 1-1 draw with Gary Neville claiming United’s equaliser.
• Basel warranted another, essential indicate during Old Trafford in a 2011/12 organisation stage. Two goals from Danny Welbeck (16, 17) put United in assign usually for Fabian Frei (58) and an Alexander Frei double (61, 76pen) to leave Basel on a verge of a famous win; however Ashley Young salvaged a pull for United in a 90th minute.
• The teams during Old Trafford on 27 Sep 2011 were:
United: De Gea, Fabio (Nani 69), Jones, Ferdinand, Evra, Valencia, Anderson (Berbatov 82), Carrick, Giggs (Park 61), Young, Welbeck.
Basel: Sommer, Park, Dragović, Cabral, Steinhöfer, Zoua, G Xhaka, Abraham, F Frei (Chipperfield 77), Streller (Pak 81), A Frei (T Xhaka 89).
• There would be no shun for United in Switzerland on matchday six though. Needing a indicate to bind second place in a section, United fell behind to Marco Streller’s ninth-minute opener and their predestine was effectively hermetic when Alexander Frei done it 2-0 with 6 mins to go, notwithstanding Phil Jones pulling one behind in a 89th minute. The outcome left Basel second in Group C and United third.
Match background
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.
• United have already played in Europe this term, losing 2-1 to Real Madrid CF in a UEFA Super Cup in Skopje on 8 August.
• That better by Madrid 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 detriment in Istanbul had been their fifth in 9 European matches.
• This is United’s 21st coming in a UEFA Champions League organisation stage, and usually 4 times have they unsuccessful to make a subsequent round. Two of those eliminations have come in their final 4 participations however; a English bar finished third in their territory in both 2011/12 and on their final coming in 2015/16.
• United are dominant in 18 European home games (W14 D4), going behind to a 2-1 home detriment to Real Madrid 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-match winning home run.
• Their 4 games with Basel are United’s usually fixtures opposite Swiss clubs.
Basel
• Basel competent by winning an eighth unbroken Swiss pretension in 2016/17.
• This is their eighth organisation theatre campaign, and their fourth in 5 years. Last tenure they came fourth in Group A, collecting usually dual points from their 6 outings.
• The Swiss organisation are but a feat in their final 8 European matches, home and divided (D3 L5), given a 2-1 home success opposite AS Saint-Étienne on 25 Feb 2016.
• Basel were separated from Europe final deteriorate following a 4-1 home better by Arsenal FC on 6 Dec 2016 – just their fifth detriment in 22 European home games given a start of 2013/14.
• The Swiss side also went down 2-0 during Arsenal in final autumn’s organisation stage, finale a four-game dominant strain opposite Premier League clubs.
• Basel’s record opposite English teams is W6 D8 L12; divided it is W1 D5 L7.
• Last season’s retreat in north London was Basel’s initial UEFA Champions League divided better in England, on their sixth revisit (W1 D4).
• Basel have not won in 5 European divided matches (D1 L4) carrying won 4 of their prior five. The 0-0 pull during PFC Ludogorets 1945 on matchday 5 final season halted a four-game losing method on a road.
Coach and actor links
• José Mourinho was Chelsea manager when they played Basel in a 2013/14 organisation stage, a Swiss outfit winning 2-1 in London on matchday one and 1-0 during home. Juan Mata played in both fixtures.
• Ricky outpost Wolfswinkel scored Sporting Clube de Portugal’s chastisement leader in a 1-0 feat over Nemanja Matić’s SL Benfica on 9 Apr 2012, and was also on aim in a 3-1 Sporting detriment on 10 Dec that year.
• Mata struck twice in United’s 4-0 home win opposite a Norwich City FC side including Van Wolfswinkel on 26 Apr 2014. Van Wolfswinkel was a surrogate when Norwich fell 1-0 during home to United on 28 Dec 2013.
• Have played together:
Eric Bailly Geoffroy Serey Dié (Ivory Coast)
Zlatan Ibrahimović, Victor Lindelöf Alexander Fransson (Sweden)