Hello and welcome to Villarreal v Manchester United!

Danjuma comes short and tees up a cross from Gomes, that Maguire does well to turn away at the near post.

Ah, that's how United are defending their left: they're in a 4-4-2 out of possession, Fred moving across to help out Telles.

Villarreal are into the game now, Fred doing well to close down Trigueros, blocking his cross out of play.

El Madrigal has a look of Stamford Bridge about it, blue and boxy. That's a compliment.

And here they come now down the left, Gomez given time and space to skid a hard, low shot from 20 yards that De Gea pokes away on the dive.

I wonder how United plan to support Telles, because I doubt Ronaldo will chase back. Villarreal, on the other hand, have a winger and a full-back to send forward.

Telles swings in a terrific ball too, but Albiol does brilliantly to get up, flicking it away from Ronaldo. The ball carries on to McTominay, but instead of heading back across, he goes for goal, thunking into the side-netting.

The ground isn't full and is also really quiet apart from the away end. There's an strange feel to things so far, and United starting positively is abetting that, Martial driving forward until he's upended by Pino 30 yards out. Telles will swing one in...

Ronaldo is on the left, with Martial through the middle, and he finds Fred, who falls over then can't poke it through to the centre-forward.

And away we go. Van de Beek sends it back to Lindelof, who sends it into touch. Belter.

The United players take the knee.

Oh brilliant, here's Peter Walton with his insight. If they can't sort things, the game will still go ahead, he tells us. Great stuff.

Savage is back on about working hard, and he's still right/. If United had done the basics this season, Solskjaer would still be manager.

Er, they've still not sorted it. Fairly sure football went on for a fair old while without wired-up refs.

The teams are now knocking balls about between themselves but a lady with blue hair seems to have sorted stuff.

There's a delay as the officials' communication system isn't working.

United are huddling. What could there be to say that hasn't been said?

"Lads, think we should try hard here."

"Agreed."

Here come the players!

I don't say this often, but Robbie Savage is bang-on, wondering if United might lower themselves to putting in effort - chasing, covering, and such. That is the cause of a lot of their problems.

over the last 18 months or so, United have started games extremely slowly. For a while they got away with it, and even in this group they did - in the game at Old Trafford, Villarreal ought to have been out of sight. If they can't get going tonight, there's a decent chance they find themselves out of the competition.

My experience is that this account is reliable in terms of United information.