The Fiver | Bad tidings for Manchester United

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After 189 games, including preliminary rounds, qualifying rounds, the play-offs and group stages, Big Cup is finally down to the last 16 clubs. And on Monday morning, in the dormant volcano Uefa calls its lair, those teams were paired for the first of the knockout stages to take place in February next year. While any outcome was likely to spell bad tidings for Manchester United, the news they’ll be playing PSG may have prompted a handful involved with the club – their manager, all their players and every single one of their fans – to wish they hadn’t actually over-achieved by getting out of their group. It’s usually customary to say these are the games “you dream of playing in”; after the shellacking they suffered at the hands of Liverpool, this is the stuff of nightmares for United.

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