Good evening and welcome to Sports Mole's live text coverage of the Champions League Group H clash between Manchester United and Valencia at Old Trafford.
The hosts come into this match looking to get their season back on track after a poor spell of form which has been coupled with growing tensions off the field.
Valencia, meanwhile, picked up their first win of the season at the weekend but were beaten by Juventus in their Champions League opener last month.
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The hosts are in desperate need of a win here tonight, with everything seemingly going wrong for them at the moment, but Valencia arrive at Old Trafford off the back of their first win of the season and so could be a team on the up now.
We will have a look through everything you need to know about the two teams in a short while, but first let's check out the team news...
De Gea's inclusion is one of a number of interesting factors about that starting lineup, including a return to the 4-3-3 system as expected, after another experiment with 3-5-2 backfired against West Ham at the weekend.
Sanchez in particular was a surprise exclusion against the Hammers having travelled to London but then been left out of the matchday squad altogether, and the Chilean will get the chance to renew his search for a first goal of the season tonight.
Pogba actually made headlines for the right reason in this competition last month, scoring two and assisting another in a man-of-the-match performance against Young Boys, with his brace in that game being as many as he had scored in his previous 37 Champions League outings combined.
Pogba has now been directly involved in four of United's last six goals in this competition, including all three this season, but he was hooked with 20 minutes remaining at the weekend.
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The Belgian had netted seven goals in six matches for club and country before the start of United's Champions League campaign, but he has since failed to score in his last four outings.
Valencia, Bailly and Sanchez also come into the team for tonight's match as McTominay, Lindelof, Young and Martial make way. Young is the only one of those players to be absent from the squad entirely, having picked up an injury against the Hammers.
That is one of three changes in defence alone for Los Che, who also welcome Piccini and Garay into the team as Vezo, Diakhaby and Lato drop out.
It is one of six changes overall from the win over Real Sociedad at the weekend, with Goncalo Guedes also coming into the side in place of Denis Cheryshev and Rodrigo Moreno replacing Gameiro.
Rodrigo Moreno does have an Old Trafford goal to his name already, though, albeit only in a pre-season match when Valencia lost 2-1 here in August 2014.
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The matter which has been the subject of most debate is the fallout between Mourinho and Pogba, but Mourinho's future has also been increasingly called into question and, as I alluded to earlier, more and more reports of unrest amongst the players keep cropping up.
It has been an utterly miserable 10-day period for the club, drawing at home to newly-promoted Wolves, losing on penalties at home to Championship side Derby County in the EFL Cup and then losing 3-1 to West Ham United at the weekend.
However, a lot more has gone wrong since then and United have now lost as many games as they have won this season, leaving themselves 10th in the Premier League table and already nine points adrift of Manchester City and Liverpool.
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Even United's home form is woeful, with Old Trafford a shadow of the fortress it used to be at the moment. The Red Devils have not won here since the opening day of the season against Leicester, almost two months ago.
Defeat tonight would make it back-to-back home losses for the first time since January 2014, while it would also see them lose successive Champions League games at Old Trafford for the first time since March 2013.
Well, it may not feel like it right now but there are plenty of reasons for United fans to feel confident about tonight's game, having lost just one of their last 22 European matches here at Old Trafford - although that did come in their most recent one as they crashed out of this competition to Sevilla last season.
United have also lost just one of their last 18 Champions League group games here at Old Trafford, and have won eight of their last nine such outings with one draw in that time too.
Last season United won all three of their home group games on their way to topping the section, but then came that defeat to Sevilla in the last 16, when they drew 0-0 in Spain but then lost 2-1 here at Old Trafford.
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Los Che have had some up-and-down times of their own in recent years, after all, and are returning to the Champions League after a two-year absence this season, during which time they were managed by United legend Gary Neville.
However, they have begun the current campaign very slowly and come into this match just 14th in La Liga, already seven points worse off than they were at the same stage of last season.
Valencia had begun the campaign with a seven-match winless streak before that, including five draws from their opening six La Liga outings. Victories have been hard to come by, then, but they have also established themselves as a difficult team to beat.
Juve had 10 men for more than an hour - and it was their best player Cristiano Ronaldo who was sent off too - but despite Valencia being at home they conceded two penalties and missed one of their own to lose 2-0, leaving them third in the group as things stand.
Los Che have, however, won three of their last seven Champions League away games including qualifiers, which is a very respectable record in this competition.
If Valencia are to get a draw or better tonight then they will likely need to improve their attacking form too, having scored just two goals in their last five outings across all competitions.
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This is their 11th Champions League group stage campaign in general, and they reached the final in back-to-back years in 1999-2000 and 2000-01. However, they have not made it past the group stages since 2012-13.
United have the quality and the home advantage to win this game relatively comfortably, but there is such a cloud hanging over the club at the moment that nothing can be taken for granted. It is unlikely that all the problems will suddenly be solved tonight, so I am going to go for a score draw.
SPORTS MOLE SAYS: Man Utd 1-1 Valencia
United have never been beaten by Valencia in the Champions League, then, although four of their six meetings in this competition have ended as draws.
Pablo Hernandez gave Valencia the lead on that occasion before Anderson levelled things up for United, who were on their way to a third Champions League final in the space of four years. How times change!
Valencia, meanwhile, have only won once in 10 Champions League visits to England - a 1-0 win over Liverpool in October 2002 - and have won just three of 17 away games against Premier League opposition in all European competitions, although that does include their last two courtesy of wins over Swansea and Stoke.
Kick-off in tonight's #UCL match at Old Trafford has been delayed until 20:05 BST due to significant traffic congestion in the Manchester area. #MUFC
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) October 2, 2018
MAN UTD STARTING XI: De Gea; Valencia, Smalling, Bailly, Shaw; Fellaini, Matic, Pogba; Rashford, Lukaku, Sanchez
VALENCIA STARTING XI: Neto; Piccini, Garay, Gabriel, Gaya; Coquelin, Parejo, Kondogbia, Guedes; Rodrigo, Batshuayi
It has been another laboured display from Jose Mourinho's side, with inspiration in very short supply so far. Surely things can only get better in the second half!
The youngster is the only one who has tried to take the game to Valencia on a consistent basis, though, and he also forced a routine stop from Neto on the half-hour mark before seeing a headed chance blocked by the defender before it could test the keeper.
The onus is very much on United to go out and get the win - particularly considering what has happened over the past 10 days - but they have just not looked like a team who feel they are in desperate need of a victory.
This is a team with lots of talent and plenty of big names, but this was another lacklustre and uninspiring performance which will only invite more questions regarding their form. Four games without a win now - and four home games too - and United did not deserve anything more than that tonight.
Thank you very much for joining Sports Mole for tonight's match as Manchester United once again fail to shine in a goalless draw with Valencia at Old Trafford. I will leave you with our match report, and be sure to stick around for reaction too.
From me, though, it is goodbye for now!