Manchester United have not won any serious trophies for a long time. The times of Alex Fergusson have passed and with the resignation of the Scotsman the flow of trophies to the club’s museum stopped. The current mentor of the Mankunians, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, cannot balance the team’s play in any way. He only has to think about stability. The team was seriously stormy in the last championship, but in the end it still took third place and also reached the quarterfinals in last year’s Champions League. It was the success in the prestigious tournament that became the starting point for the Norwegian specialist as a mentor for Manchester United. Let us remind you that after the victory in the match with PSG, which the Red Devils won in Paris with a score of 3:1 and Solskjaer was officially appointed head coach. It seems that beating PSG away is becoming a good tradition for the English club. It was the victory over the champion of France that Manchester United started in the current Champions League. It should be noted that in their two previous campaigns, the Mancunians won the first match and then left the group. In the home arena Solskjaer’s wards have shown weak play in the last Champions League matches. In six previous matches they managed to lose to Sevilla, Barcelona, ??PSG, Juventus, having achieved success only in a duel with Young Boys. The team showed weak play at Old Trafford this season as well. With difficulty passed in the qualification “Copenhagen”, putting the squeeze on the Danes only in extra time. Then there was a defeat to Crystal Palace (1:3), Tottenham (1:6) and a draw with Chelsea (0:0). Jesse Lingard, Marcos Rojo, Sergio Romero, Phil Jones and Eric Bailly settled in the club’s infirmary.
Salzburg started the season very strongly. Jesse Marsh’s team is the leader of the Austrian Bundesliga after five rounds. In none of the matches did the bulls lose points and have 15 points out of 15 possible, but the second Rapid is also trying to keep up, having only two points less. Traditionally, the club plays strongly in attack, which is the best in the championship, having gained 19 goals in five rounds. In the Champions League, Salzburg also focused on the attack in the first round, which in the end did not pay off. Lokomotiv defended quite skillfully, but at the same time they also carried out their own counterattacks, two of which ended effectively. A 2:2 draw at home hardly pleased Salzburg, which now have three games in a row with Atl?tico and Bayern Munich.
