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7.13pm GMT

Manchester United: De Gea; Wan-Bissaka, Lindelof, Maguire, Telles; Fred, The Scottish Player; Rashford, Fernandes, Martial; Cavani. Subs: Henderson, Bailly, Fosu-Mensah, Williams, James, Lingard, Mata, Matic, Pogba, van de Beek, Greenwood, Ighalo.

PSG: Navas; Florenzi, Kimpembe, Marquinhos, Diallo; Verratti, Danilo, Paredes; Kean, Neymar, Mbappe. Subs: Rico, Letellier, Kehrer, Di Maria, Rafinha, Kurzawa, Herrera, Bakker, Gueye, Dagba, Pembele, Fadiga.

5.59pm GMT

Manchester United are, you could say, on the early stages of a roll. They’ve won four in a row and it’s their best run since the eight-game streak in December 2019/January 2019 that directly coincided with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s arrival at the helm. Ole’s at the wheel and, while there’ve still been a few notable bumps in the road, United feel fairly upwardly-mobile now.

Could Paris Saint-Germain stick a spanner in the works? Well, of course they could, because they’re PSG and if everyone’s at it they can rip you apart. When they’re not, they might as well be a team of strangers. But this looks like being a tough, tense contest: PSG sit three points behind United, who won 2-1 at Parc des Princes in October, and level with RB Leipzig. The German side are facing Istanbul Basaksehir, themselves not out of it, as we speak. United will go through if they get a draw in either of the next two games, but wouldn’t really want to travel to Leipzig next week in need of it.

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