Match report – Player ratings – By the numbers – Video There's never anything to enjoy losing to Manchester United, and the fact it was a Jose Mourinho managed Manchester United and a Marouane Fellaini winner made it an almost perfect trifecta of cuntery, but in the grand scheme of things there's not much point in getting bent out of shape about it. The manager picked a team with Thursday in mind, which was absolutely the right thing to do. Only Granit Xhaka and Hector Bellerin are likely to be involved from the start in Madrid, and the returning Henrikh Mkhitaryan got some minutes under his belt (let's hope the knee problem he reportedly sustained doesn't rule him out)....
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