Due to their participation in the later stages of the Europa League, Manchester United received one week more rest. Therefore, the start of the “red devils” in the Premier League was postponed to the second round. In this transfer window, Manchester United are unusually passive. The Mancunians bought only central midfielder Donnie van de Beck from Ajax for 39 million euros. Of the other enhancements, we can only mention Marcos Rojo, Chris Smalling and Dean Henderson who returned from leases. The latter was Sheffield United’s main goalkeeper last season. Manchester United was also not involved in sales. The loudest transfer from Manchester United was the transfer of Alexis Sanchez to Inter as a free agent. But this has been planned for a long time. Before the start of the season Manchester United played one friendly match. The Red Devils lost the least to Aston Villa (0:1). Axel Tuanzebe, Chris Smalling, Marcos Rojo and Phil Jones will definitely not play for Manchester United. Questionable is presence at the match of Paul Pogba.
During its 83-year history “N?mes” has never won gold medals in the French championship, but four times won the title of vice-champion of the country. Last year the team was saved from relegation by a miracle and a series of four victories, which resulted in the 18-th place in the League1 standings. In preparation for the new tournament, Bernard Blancard’s wards held four test matches, in which they did not win, but in the first round of the starting championship of the top division they beat Brest (4:0). In the next two stages, the “crocodiles” lost – “Nantes” (1:2) and “Rennes” (2:4), for which we made a forecast. Valerio and Despres won’t be able to play today.
