Arsene Wenger is expecting to see the best of Alexandre Lacazette as the striker returns from a knee injury in time to lead the line in Arsenal’s Europa League quarter-final clash with CSKA Moscow.

Manchester United came from behind to beat CSKA Moscow and top their Champions League group as Jose Mourinho’s men took their unbeaten home run to a club record-equalling 40th match.

Jose Mourinho is treating striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic with kid gloves by keeping the striker out of tonight’s Champions League clash with CSKA Moscow as Sunday’s top-of-the-table clash against Manchester City looms large, writes Rory Dollard.

“They will have do a lot better than this at Watford and Arsenal,” I groaned last Monday, after Mourinho’s grisly week. I think it’s safe to say United achieved that, don’t you? Seven goals and six points harvested from two of the most purely enjoyable matches travelling Reds will have seen in yonks equals ‘job done’ in any book.

Jose Mourinho says Romelu Lukaku is "untouchable" and believes Manchester United fans should back him in the same way.

Romelu Lukaku is “untouchable” in Jose Mourinho’s eyes — and the Manchester United manager believes fans should see the striker in the same way.

Jose Mourinho believes it will be an "impossible mission" to end his managerial career at Manchester United.

Sad-looking southerners shuffling about in dribs and drabs were everywhere in Manchester city centre on Saturday. They already looked beaten, and shrunk under the catcalls of locals. But enough of Conservatives attending their Party conference; how were the Super Eagles?

CSKA Moscow 1 Manchester United 2: Striker Romelu Lukaku continued his remarkable scoring run with two goals as Manchester United swept aside CSKA Moscow 4-1 in Russia.

The Red Devils established an early three-point lead at the top of Group A.

Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino has challenged his players to make Wembley home and insists their poor record at the national stadium is nothing to do with the unfamiliar surroundings.

Mauricio Pochettino has revealed Tottenham defender Toby Alderweireld will return for their final Champions League group game against CSKA Moscow.

Monaco 2 Tottenham 1: Hugo Lloris’ penalty heroics could not rescue Tottenham’s Champions League campaign as Mauricio Pochettino’s men slipped to a 2-1 defeat against Monaco last night.

Tottenham will be without five first-team players for tonight’s Champions League clash against CSKA Moscow but a latest scan has revealed Harry Kane could return earlier than expected.

Dave Ludzik looks at four of City’s best wins at Turner’s Cross...

Louis van Gaal has backed Anthony Martial to end his goal drought and help Manchester United avoid an embarrassingly early Champions League exit.

Could Leo Messi do it on a cold Tuesday night in Stoke?

“No doubt as to the United fans’ hit chant of the autumn so far, then: “Attack, attack, attack!”

Manchester United 2 West Brom 0: Critics of Louis van Gaal and his Old Trafford style lament that his team might win but ‘it’s not the Manchester United of old’.

Manchester United fans are struggling to decide whether their rose-tinted glass is half empty or half full; Louis van Gaal’s team may be more snorey-snorey than glory-glory at the moment but it is well-placed in the Premier League and Champions League, defensively sound, clearly evolving and still in with a chance of silverware in 2016.

Manchesterr United 1 CSKA Moscow 0: Wayne Rooney’s flying header, which ended Manchester United’s miserable 404 minute goal drought to set up a 1-0 victory over CSKA Moscow, has not only boosted his team’s Champions League hopes but strangled a terrace revolt at Old Trafford in the process.

Louis van Gaal has hit back at his critics again, reminding them that Old Trafford “was not always the Theatre of Dreams.” United topped the table at the end of September, but their form has dipped of late.

Crystal Palace 0 Manchester United 0<br>While Louis Van Gaal continues to wrestle with the problem of how to get his Manchester United side scoring again, Alan Pardew offered a revealing perspective on the options available to the Dutchman.

CSKA Moscow 1 Manchester United 1: No-one would call it exciting or convincing but a 1-1 draw against CSKA has left Manchester United well placed in their Champions League qualifying group and in a good place ahead of Sunday’s crucial Manchester derby.

I’m not sure there’s much point in us gathering here today to celebrate what was arguably United’s most enjoyable performance of the season...

Russia’s preparation for the 2018 World Cup is lurching from crisis to crisis...

When the players of FC Haka of Finland walked off the pitch at Turner’s Cross in July 2008 following an entertaining 2-2 draw, few of the home fans could have predicted that it would be seven long years before the ground would hold another European club fixture.

The odd eye-catching European result aside, the march of Russian football has been stopped in its tracks. Paul Little investigates the reasons.

Samir Nasri hailed a miracle after inspiring Manchester City to a brilliant victory over Roma that prolonged their Champions League campaign against the odds.

Barcelona avenged their September defeat in the French capital by beating Paris St Germain 3-1 at Camp Nou to claim top spot in Champions League Group F.

Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini has denied his future at the Etihad Stadium could hinge on his side’s crunch Champions League clash against Roma.

Defender Pablo Zabaleta hopes Manchester City can feed off a hostile atmosphere in Rome this week to make a big statement in Europe.

Samir Nasri claims only Cristiano Ronaldo is better than his red-hot Manchester City team-mate Sergio Aguero.

Sergio Aguero revived Manchester City’s Champions League hopes with a sensational hat-trick against Bayern Munich.

Manchester City 3 Bayern Munich 2

Sergio Aguero has vowed to stay with Manchester City until they win the Champions League.