Manchester United go to Madrid without Manuel Ugarte, Matthijs de Ligt, Patrick Dorgu and Benjamin Šeško, and what is known about each of them varies a good deal. Ugarte's is the most serious and the best attested. Spor
Gary Neville's warning about Tuesday came on his own podcast and was carried by the Manchester Evening News: “Atletico Madrid on Tuesday night, if you don’t show energy or enthusiasm, you’ll get eaten alive there,” he sa
Sweden's Glenn Nyberg has Tuesday's tie, according to Marca, which published the appointment on Sunday morning. His compatriots Mahbod Beigi and Andreas Soderkvist are the assistants and Kristoffer Karlsson is fourth off
Baleba was the most talked-about United player of Sunday night by a distance, and almost entirely warmly. He came off the bench against Tottenham for his first appearance since signing, and a clip of one moment from it w
David G. Medina's piece for Marca puts it at seven of nineteen, 37 per cent, with five of the six defenders having scored: Grimaldo three, and Romero, Pubill, Llorente and Le Normand one each. Hancko is the only one of t
Sports Mole's head-to-head piece, filed in the early hours of Monday, counts four previous competitive meetings between the clubs: two Atlético wins, two draws and no United victory. It names Futre as the fixture's leadi
AFP reports that “Alvarez hit the post as a substitute as Atletico snatched a late 2-1 win at Alaves on Saturday to record a fourth consecutive victory”, and carries the manager afterwards: “I thought Julian looked good
Yoro is a centre half and he was at right back against Tottenham, with Noussair Mazraoui and Patrick Dorgu both unavailable. The fan site manutdnews argues Carrick could repeat the selection in Madrid, and credits Fotmob
Not all of Sunday night went against the manager. One long and widely read thread held that “I think Carrick has done a lot of good things. Problem is that we have a crap back 4. Crap full backs. Tielemans-Mainoo is too
The question running through the fan channels on Sunday night was not only whether Carrick should go but what would follow him. One widely shared post put it as “INEOS will get you a new shiny manager, a few weeks of new
The last word from the manager is still Saturday night's, to Match of the Day. United's most recent article about the tie is Sunday lunchtime's guide to watching it, and no press-conference article for Tuesday had been p
Kieran Horn reports for the Manchester Evening News that United believe they can outbid Ruben Amorim's AC Milan for the Real Madrid forward. The MEN credits the Spanish site Fichajes, “who have stated that United are loo