Red revolution: All change for United as Fergie returns to Moscow

21 October 2009 08:19
Manchester United return to the scene of their greatest recent triumph when they face CSKA Moscow in the Luzhniki Stadium. But much has changed since United lifted the Champions League trophy here in May 2008. The stadium, for example, has a different pitch and on Wednesday United will field a substantially different team. A combination of injuries and the prospect of a tough Barclays Premier League game at Liverpool on Sunday will shape Sir Alex Ferguson's thinking as he prepares to send a side out on to Moscow's peculiar, plastic surface. It could be a very strange looking United line-up indeed. But it is hard to escape the fact that United have been a rather different prospect this season anyway, especially when compared to the team that swept them all before them to triumph at home and in Europe in 2008.

Source: Daily_Mail