Overview
Manchester United had a bad moment before the second leg against Lyon in the Europa League. They received 1-4 defeat against Newcastle over the weekend in the Premier League when the goalkeeper was still a painful problem.
The choice between Andrre Onana and Altay Bayindir in the wooden frame will cause coach Ruben Amorim to have a headache. Not only losing to the carpet, Man United also lost Joshua Zirkzee because of injury. The Dutch striker has been having a positive change in form recently.
Amorim took the initiative to Casemiro, Dorgu or Hojlund to sit in the match against Newcastle. Those are the attempts of the Dutch strategist before the upcoming second leg. With 2-2 results in the first leg, Man United will obviously have an advantage when kicking the second leg at Old Trafford.
Meanwhile, Lyon won Auxerre 3-1 right away in the context of 5 main players with Man United in the first leg did not come from the beginning. It can be seen that both Man United and Lyon have special attention for the upcoming match.
Both teams entered the second leg with the mood to lose. Man United and Lyon understand that the Europa League is the last chance for them to win the title this season.
Not counting the recent match, the last time the two teams met in an official match was in 2008. At that time, they encountered each other in the 16th round of the Champions League.
At that time, Karim Benzema led the attack for Lyon, while Man United had a trio to attack Carlos Tevez, Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney. The first leg in France ended with a score of 1-1 before Man United won 1-0 at home.
Is a similar script repeated with Man United?
Human resource situation
Zirkzee was injured in the match against Newcastle and will join Matthijs De Ligt, Amad Diato, Ayden Heaven, Jonny Evans, Toby Collyer, Lisandro Martinez.
On the other side of the battle line, Lyon is likely to enter the second leg without any change.
Expected squad:
Man United: Onana, Dalot, Mazraoui, Maguire, Yoro, Dorgu, Ugarte, Casemiro, Fernandes, Garnacho, Hojlund.
Lyon: Perri, Maitland-Niles, Mata, Niakhate, Tagliafico, Tolisso, Veryout, Akouokou, Almada, Cherk, Mikautadze.
The match between Man United and Lyon took place at 2:00 am on April 18 (Vietnam time).
