Evening all, and welcome to Manchester United v FC Copenhagen, in the quarter-finals of the Europa League!

I should say, the winners tonight meet Wolves or Sevilla in the semis. I should also say that if i have to watch another United-Wolves game, I'll do time.

There they are, the lads.

On BT, we see some footage of Falk, Copenhagen's winger, who Robin van Persie reckons is "silky". As praise goes, you'd take it.

Solbakken also notes that for his team, this is everything, and that's not the case for United.

Solskjaer speaks very highly of Ståle Solbakken, who he says has had similar difficulties in his career - he hasn't succeeded everywhere. Solbakken says that his team are well-organised, hardworking and miserly at the back, but need to be perfect ad need United to be less than perfect. That sounds about right.

Perhaps the heat is another reason Fred is playing - Matic will play the final if United get there, I imagine, I can see why he's been left out tonight. If I were Lindelof, though, I'd be worried, because his exclusion tonight suggests that Ole isn't entirely happy with him.

Ole tells BT that he saw no reason to leave Romero out, and likewise Bailly, who he thought played well against LASK and needs gametime. He goes on to say that this is one of the biggest games in Copenhagen's history, and his players need to respect that, and that he hopes his team will have most of the ball and make their opponents do the running.

"In excess of 30 degrees throughout the game," says Reshmin Chowdhury, who's in the ground. That's difficult for the players in any even,t but double-difficult in the absence of a crowd to get things going.

It's extremely hot in Cologne.

Copenhagen's win over Istanbul Basaksehir is not be messed with. They lost the first leg 1-0, Istanbul won the Turkish league in the meantime, and then got absolutely spun, 3-0. Copenhagen might be the least good team in the draw, but United will have to turn up.

The single-leg format favours the less good teams. Over two games, home and away, quality has more time to assert itself; over one, a brilliant goal here, a mistake there, and that might be enough.

I say that because Fred has legs and also looks to pass forward and quickly, so will get United moving in a way Matic rarely does and will also be less likely to get caught in possession should Copenhagen press.

Couple of surprises in that United team: at the back, it's Bailly not Lindelof, so I'd surmise that either Lindelof has a niggle, or Copenhagen have some pace up front. And, in front of them, it's Fred, not Matic, so I'd surmise that either Matic has a niggle or Copenhagen have some pace up front, or Ole Gunar Solskjaer expects Copenhagen to sit back, or all of the above.

Let's have some teams!

This is a huge game for both sides. Of course it's a huge game, it's a European quarter-final. But sometimes these things need to be said clearly and explicitly, because in all the Jadon Sancho nonsense, you'd be forgiven for thinking there's never going to be football ever again.