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Your support makes all the difference.Welcome to our live coverage of Manchester United's Champions League Group B trip to CSKA Moscow.
- Kick-off: 7.45pm
- Manchester United currently sit second in Group B, having bounced back from their opening defeat to PSV Eindhoven with a hard-fought 2-1 victory over Wolfsburg.
- They will be hoping to pick up their first away win in the competition against CSKA Moscow, a side who currently sit top of the Russian Football Premier League, having not lost a domestic league game this season.
- Louis van Gaal, United's manager, has claimed his side's Champions League travel commitments mean they have disadvantage ahead of this weekend's Manchester derby
- "Every club at the top of the league has the same problems. But now Manchester City has a benefit because they are playing at home and that is a difference," the United manager said. "You have the benefit of the recuperation. Manchester City don't have the travel we have so they have more rest. There is nothing you can do. They have the benefit.
- Match preview: It's a big night for Memphis Depay in Moscow
- The Red Devils have the worst record against teams from Russia than any other European country – their win ratio against sides from the nation is just 14 per cent.
Team news
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Manchester United: De Gea, Valencia, Smalling, Jones, Rojo, Schweinsteiger, Schneiderlin, Lingard, Herrera, Martial, Rooney
Substitutes: Romero, Blind, Darmian, Carrick, Mata, Fellaini, Memphis -
CSKA Moscow: Akinfeev, Mário Fernandes, Ignashevich, Berezutski, Schennikov, Wernbloom, Tošić, Dzagoev, Eremenko, Musa, Doumbia
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