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Your support makes all the difference.Follow live updates as Roma take a slender 2-1 lead to the Estadio Dragao, where they face Porto in the Champions League last-16 second leg.
The first leg at the Stadio Olimpico was a tense affair, until the game burst into life in the last 20 minutes when Italian teenager Nicolo Zaniolo scored a brace before Adrian Lopez pulled one back for Porto.
Both sides suffered weekend defeats domestically and could do with the boost of booking their place in the Champions League quarter-finals. Follow it live:
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Good evening! After Ajax’s stunning victory in the Bernabeu last night, can Manchester United produce a famous fightback of their own to overturn PSG’s lead in their Champions League tie? Probably not, realistically, given Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s exhaustive injury list and the two away goals United must score as a minimum in Paris, but as the manager vowed yesterday, if United are knocked out they will go down swinging. Here’s a look at the potential line-ups:
Team news
Manchester United XI: De Gea, Young, Bailly, Smalling, Lindelof, Shaw, McTominay, Fred, Pereira, Rashford, Lukaku
Bench: Romero, Dalot, Rojo, Garner, Gomes, Chong, Greenwood
Tactical switch!!!
What a time for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to make his first tactical switch! Three at the back for Manchester United for the first time under the caretaker manager.
Young bench
It's worth mentioning that two of Manchester United's substitutes are too young to buy a pint in England...unless, of course, it's with a meal in a tidy cuntry pub. Think The Inbetweeners...
PSG team!
Here's how the hosts start: Buffon, Kehrer, Silva, Kimpembe, Bernat, Marquinhos, Verratti, Alves, Draxler, Di Maria, Mbappe.
Et le bench: Areola, Paredes, Cavani, Meunier, Choupo-Moting, Kurzawa, Dagba.
Is anyone else still coming to terms that Cavani and Choupo-Moting are sharing a bench? As if 2019 was not weird enough.
Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-changes...
So, what's changed in personal since these two met three weeks ago?
First things first, Paul Pogba is suspended after that somewhat daft red card late in the 2-0 defeat at Old Trafford. He's replaced by Fred, remember him?
Herrera and Matic, who were the other two in central midfield, are out of the picture with injuries, so McTominay and Pereira carry the torch in the middle tonight.
Smalling slots in to make a back five while Rashford and Lukaku lead the line.
As for PSG, don't fix what ain't broke, right?
Thomas Tuchel names an unchanged side from their win in Manchester but welcomes to the bench Cavani and Meunier, who were injured for the first leg.
The preview
Miguel Delaney said it might take a tactical masterplan for Manchester United to overturn their 2-0 deficit from the first leg. So, is a five-man defence the answer?
Porto vs Roma
PSG vs Manchester United is not the only show in town, there's another finely poised Champions League tie several hundred miles south-west.
Roma won at their gaff thanks to Italian teenager Nicolo Zaniolo's double, but Adrian Lopez scored that all-important away goal for Porto to give them a good chance of going through if they can get a positive result at home tonight.
Porto XI: Casillas; Felipe, Eder Militao, Pepe, Alex Telles; Danilo, Herrera; Otavio, Corona, Tiquinho; Marega
Bench: Vaná, Maxi, Hernâni, Brahimi, Adrián, Fernando Andrade, Óliver Torres
AS Roma XI: Olsen; Juan Jesus, Manolas, Marcano; Karsdorp, Nzonzi, De Rossi, Kolarov; Zaniolo, Dzeko, Perotti
Bench: Fuzato, Mirante, Santon, Florenzi, Cristante, Pellegrini, Schick, El Shaarawy
Mission improbable
While it is not an impossible task overturning a first leg defeat at home in the Champions League, just look at Ajax's achievement last night against Real Madrid, it is a rare occurance.
Solskjaer calls on side to make history
Manchester United face a tough task tonight given the previous 106 teams that won 2-0 away in the first leg of the premier European competition have gone through.
"Of course, everyone knows that we can do it, we have done it - and the results in Champions League in the last few years," Solskjaer said in his pre-match press conference.
"I don't want to call it strange, but last year Juventus lost 3-0 at home against Real Madrid and suddenly they were 3-0 up after 90 minutes against Madrid away.
"The year before that, PSG against Barcelona. We all remember those results. So, there are so many examples of teams who can change results like this.
"Also, as a club, we've done it so many times. The players have been fantastic away from home, beaten Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham, which has given us the belief we can do this as well."
"It's a difficult task but we can do it," Solskjaer added.
"Obviously we need the first goal and we need to stay in the game. If there's half an hour left and there's one goal in it, anything can happen. But we need a good plan, it needs to be put in place and we need to perform on the night because they are a team full of quality."
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