The Devil's Den

Diogo Dalot has found himself on the fringes for large parts of the 19/20 campaign and has been able to accumulate a meagre 577' in all competitions for Manchester United, less than half of what he achieved in the 18/19 season. With Aaron Wan-Bissaka instantly becoming the first-choice RB since joining and the Braga-born player's injury issues, Dalot seems increasingly likely to be on the move this summer in order to secure more first-team football. Let's have a closer look at the player... Club Career Porto Jose Diogo Dalot Teixeira, widely known as Diogo Dalot joined Porto's youth system in 2008, aged nine. He made his senior debut in January 2017 for Porto's B side, while he played his first game for the first-team in October 2017. Dalot's Primeira Liga debut came in February 2018. Being a young, exciting talent, Dalot started attracting attention from Europe's Elite Clubs, with Jose Mourinho keeping tabs on the attacking fullback. His link-up play with B...

-By Varun Sangwan Manchester United finished as the best out of the rest in the Premier League and reached three semifinals in the Carabao Cup where they were beaten by Man City 3 - 2 on aggregate, beaten by Chelsea 3 - 1 in the FA Cup and by eventual Europa League Champions Sevilla 2 - 1 in Cologne. We take a look at what we achieved , what went wrong and where do we aim from here... 1. A SEASON OF GOOD CHEER In my opinion this is the best Solskjaer could have gotten out of this squad and I'd count this season as a win as we accomplished our main objective - getting back into the Champions League again. It is where we belong and frankly, a club of our stature doesn't deserve to play Thursday night football. Not winning a trophy was a disappointing end to the season especially as we really could have won at least one of the FA Cup or the Europa League if luck had gone our way. Regardless, we Manchester United fans can count this season as one of our better ones considering the ...

  -By Varun Sangwan and Hitanshu Samantray MATCH STATS TALKING POINTS Manchester United started the match strongly with them toying with the Sevilla defense and picking line breaking passes. Through one such pass Martial picked out Marcus Rashford who was taken down and United won a penalty which Bruno Fernandes duly converted as he always does. After that Sevilla started to kick on and created chances. Again individual errors in defense cost united dearly as Brandon Williams failed to mark Suso who scored from a delicious cross from Reguilon. The goal was debatable as just before the goal, United should have had a throw-in which was given to Sevilla. United ended the half strongly and everybody could sense that a goal was coming. Bruno Fernandes and Rashford were denied by the keeper Bono and it was all square at half-time. United showed real purpose in the second half and were the better team by far. Martial, Greenwood , Bruno and Rashford all tried but it wasn't supposed to be t...

   -By Varun Sangwan TRIVIA Venue - RheinEnergie Stadion , Cologne Kick Off - Monday, August 16 - 20:00 GMT                   Tuesday, August 17 - 00:30 IST Manchester United come into the game having beaten Copenhagen 1 - 0 courtesy of a Bruno Fernandes penalty in extra-time and are will be looking to get their hands on silverware this season, their first since the 2017 Europa League triumph. They have already secured a place in the Champions League group stages next season via a top four finish and finally are playing fast-attacking football which manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer describes as being the 'United Way' as he said in the Press conference that to beat them, we'll score more goals than them.. Ole Will be looking for his fiftieth win as a Manchester United manager making him the third fastest manager in the Red Devils' history to reach the landmark.. Sevilla are the most successful team in the European second tier having...

 - By Varun Sangwan and Hitanshu Samantray MATCH STATS TALKING POINTS It was a bright start to the half for Manchester United but it slowly faded away as United looked a bit rusty in passing which led to two - three Copenhagen chances who really grew into the game.. United has the most of the possession but were'nt able to make much of it and Copenhagen asked a few questions of the Manchester United defence mainly through Darame. Towards the end of the half however, Manchester Started to kick on creating chances , some of which should have been converted. A fierce shot shot from Marcus Rashford from outside the box was probably the best opportunity the Red Devils were afforded. Just before half time United thought they had the lead when Mason Greenwood converted coolly after a good ball from Marcus Rashford but VAR intervened and it was ruled out for Offside. The second half was purely dominated by Manchester United with them lining up attempt after attempt but to no avail. Keeper ...

  -By Varun Sangwan TRIVIA Venue - RheinEnergie Stadion , Cologne Kick Off - Monday, August 10 - 20:00 GMT                   Tuesday, August 11 - 00:30 IST                                                    Title favourites Manchester United face off against FC Copenhagen  in the last-8 knockout stage of the Europa League. The Red Devils come into the game in fine form after fully finishing off LASK with a 2 - 1 win courtesy of goals from Jesse Lingard and Anthony Martial shortly after LASK took the lead , winning the tie 7 - 1 on aggregate. United got the chance to rest key players with only Harry Maguire and Brandon Williams retained from the side that beat Leicester to secure Champions League qualification. The Red Devils will be looking to get to only their second European semi-final in the post-...

- By Varun Sangwan THE TITLE RACE The title race was effectively over by December when Liverpool held a 13 point lead with a game in hand over then defending champions Manchester City. At the time it looked like Liverpool were going to finish the season unbeaten until March 1 when Liverpool were beaten 3-0 by Watford driven by Ismaila Sarr. It turned out to be a bad week for Liverpool supporters as they were also knocked out of the Champions League by Athletico Madrid 4 - 2 on aggregate.. After Corona-virus hit the UK, football came to a halt and it looked like Liverpool would be robbed of their first League title in 30 years if the season was declared null and void.. However football resumed in June and Liverpool won the title courtesy of Chelsea defeating Manchester City. They lifted the title following a dramatic match against Chelsea which ended 5 - 3 in their favour.. THE RACE FOR TOP 4 Even though the title race was a bit boring this year with one team running riot, the race for ...

- By Varun Sangwan and Hitanshu Samantray MATCH STATS TALKING POINTS It was a feisty half from a neutral point of view with both sides looking like going for the kill and secure their fate in Europe's elitest competition. Both created a number of chances with Marcus Rashford trying numerous good long balls to set up Martial and Bruno. We lacked defensively on the other hand with them making some errors notably Harry Maguire and David De Gea who mishandled a ball following a break form Leicester City via Ilhenacho which was their best chance of the first half, and was lucky the offside flag was up against Jamie Vardy just before the drinks break. Liecester were heavily reliant on the counter attack with Manchester United focussing primarily on breaking the lines with Pogba and Bruno threading in good passes. United launched a late onslaught on the Leicester Goal with Kasper Schmiechel parrying away a fierce shot from Marcus Rashford following a corner. The second half began with Lei...