After two years away, Manchester United are getting their 2026-27 Champions League campaign under way against Azerbaijani side Sabah FK and you can follow it live with ESPN.
Michael Carrick will be hoping tonight follows a similar theme as the only other Champions League match he has overseen -- a 2-0 win away at Villarreal when he was interim head coach in 2021.
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United head into this game off the back of a dramatic 2-2 draw with Everton on Sunday which has left them with four points after three games of the new Premier League season.
The Red Devils have won just one of their last seven group stage matches, losing four, and will be hoping that the revamped format treats them a little better.
Their opponents tonight have a little more football under their belts. Sabah began the qualifying process for the league phase back in July and this is their eighth match in the competition already.
Having beaten Welsh champions The New Saints, Finland's KuPS, AGF Aarhus from Denmark and Hapoel Beer-Sheva of Israel in the qualifying rounds, tonight's match represents Sabah's first match in the Champions League proper in their history.
Manager Valdas Dambrauskas has a fully fit squad to choose from at Old Trafford.
After tonight's match, United will face Atletico Madrid, Como, AS Roma, Sporting CP, RB Leipzig, Bayern Munich and Villarreal.
United face rivals Manchester City in their next Premier League fixture this weekend.