You might not be too enthralled when you first hear that the eighth and ninth place teams in the Premier League table will be clashing on Saturday afternoon, but it’s a match-up which is actually much more relevant and exciting than that designation makes it out to be.

That’s because it’s a classic David vs Goliath kind of tussle, with the richest club in England hosting a newly promoted side. Yes, Manchester United will welcome Wolverhampton Wanderers to Old Trafford this weekend. Here is all the vital information you need as the Red Devils welcome Wolves to the theatre of dreams.

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Manchester United have won their last three across all competitions, with all three of those contests taking place away from the friendly confines of Old Trafford. Now they return to the theatre of dreams to face a newly promoted, but surprisingly formidable Wolverhampton Wanderers side.

Wolves have only lost once in six matches across all competitions this season, and already have an impressive draw against reigning league champions Manchester City on their resume. Since that result against the Sky Blues, they have won three in a row and kept three clean sheets against Sheffield Wednesday in the League Cup, West Ham and Burnley in the league.

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Manchester United are coming off a very dominant and uplifting 3-0 victory at Young Boys in their UEFA Champions League opener. On Saturday they host Wolverhampton Wolves in Premier League competition.

Yes, the matches are coming fast and furious so let’s take a spin through the latest United related news and notes items, starting with manager Jose Mourinho.

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Cristiano Ronaldo, world superstar of footballing superstars, saw his first UEFA Champions League match in a Juventus shirt end early tonight due to his getting sent off. Ronaldo, who drew a red card in the 29′ on a very questionable call against Valencia, will now miss Juve’s next European clash, and could possibly miss the next two after that.

If UEFA does suspend him for the next three European games, he would miss both contests against his former club, Manchester United. Juventus play at Old Trafford on October 23rd, and if Ronaldo is able to feature in that contest, it would be just the second time he’s been on the visitor’s side since leaving the club in 2009.

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Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho met the media in Switzerland minutes ago to preview his side’s UEFA Champions League opener at Young Boys tomorrow night. The group stage clash in Bern will kick off United’s European campaign for 2018-19.

A whole host of topics were covered in this one, including the team’s form, previewing the match and player selection. Audio of the session is below with a press conference photo of Mourinho as the place holder:

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Manchester United begin their 2018-19 Euro campaign with a trip to Bern, Switzerland to face Young Boys, the Swiss champions. It’s a match that could see summer signing Diogo Dalot make his long awaited senior team debut in a Red Devils shirt. Dalot has previously played twice for the club’s U23s.

Meanwhile, defender Marcos Rojo and back-up goalkeeper Sergio Romero, who has seen some playing time in United’s European competitions the past couple years, won’t be fit in time to participate in this one.

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Some early team news for Manchester United’s UEFA Champions League opener, in the group stages at Swiss side Young Boys, emerged from Jose Mourinho’s post Watford press conference (the video of which is below).

Left back Luke Shaw, who suffered a concussion while on international duty with England and missed the win at Watford, will be back in action and he’s in line to start.

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Manchester United commence their European campaign tomorrow night with a trip to Bern, Switzerland where they’ll face Young Boys. United are heavily favored in this one, but as we learned in the knockout round last season, don’t ever take anybody in the UEFA Champions League for granted.

The Red Devils have a unique opportunity here to rotate their squad at a couple positions, given a pair of players that are suspended by the FA for Premier League play, but eligible to participate in this one.

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Paul Pogba took to his Instagram account to congratulate Zlatan Ibrahimovic on scoring his 500th career goal yesterday. Dressed in an almost full L.A. Galaxy kit, the Frenchman posted an IG story that featured him performing some martial arts moves, having a good laugh and passing along this message to his former teammate:

“I tell you to play football and you watch too much Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Bruce Lee.”

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It wasn’t the prettiest victory, but Manchester United will take it. In a 2-1 road win, the Red Devils did just enough to give Watford their first blemish of the young season. Romelu Lukaku opened the scoring, with central defender Chris Smalling providing the game winner.

Manager Jose Mourinho praised the efforts of his much maligned centre back, but also jokingly took a swipe at his appearance.

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Manchester United head to Watford tomorrow, where they will face a Hornets side that is yet to drop points this season. It’s a match that’s looming larger now than anyone expected it would back in the preseason.

Let’s take a spin through the latest Manchester United news and notes items circulating on the internet today. Also, here’s the link to our MUFC starting XI prediction, and to the match preview/injury report.

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