Amad Diallo was the standout star as Manchester United defeated PAOK in the Europa League on Thursday night.
The Ivorian winger scored the only goals of the game to earn United their first European win of the season. Ruud van Nistelrooy made three changes to the side for his penultimate game in interim charge with Amad, Victor Lindelof and Jonny Evans selected ahead of Marcus Rashford, Matthijs de Ligt and Lisandro Martinez.
The Ivorian winger scored the only goals of the game to earn United their first European win of the season. Ruud van Nistelrooy made three changes to the side for his penultimate game in interim charge with Amad, Victor Lindelof and Jonny Evans selected ahead of Marcus Rashford, Matthijs de Ligt and Lisandro Martinez.
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00:00Rich Fair here from Manchester World Experience, Manchester United 2-0 in the Europa League.
00:08It was the Ahmad show here at Old Trafford, the Ivorian, one of three changes for interim head coach Ruud van Nistelrooy, isn't that it?
00:16Got their first European win in, well, over a year and United finally kick-started their Europa League campaign.
00:24They are now up to the heady heights of 15th in the group stage. It was a very boring and uneventful first half really.
00:31As we said, Ruud van Nistelrooy made three changes from the side that are drawn with Chelsea in the weekend.
00:37Ahmad, Victor Lindelof and Jonny Evans came into the line-up in place of Mark Scratchford in the tackle lift and Lissandro Martinez.
00:45The first half was rather uneventful, Garnaccio and Rasmus Hollingwood both took headers at the pout goal.
00:52After the break though, United burst into life. Ahmad with a looping header at the back post after a great ball by Bruno Fernandes gave his side a deserved lead.
01:01They should have had a second swell and Bruno Fernandes played it through once again but he fired straight at the keeper.
01:07Pauk had a couple of openings themselves. It was evidence once again that Manchester United simply conceded too many chances in their own half.
01:14But thankfully for Manchester United, those chances were wasted by Pauk and they would get a second man of the match.
01:21Ahmad wrestled the ball off Baba Rahman at full-back, cut inside and his deflected effort went into the back of the net.
01:28I say Ahmad with a standout tonight, well so are they. The Pauk fans made themselves heard.
01:33They sold out away end with plenty of them as well, causing a bit of chaos because they were in the home end here.
01:39Old Trafford, it all kicked off to a degree when that second goal went in.
01:43But for Manchester United, well we didn't really learn too much about Jurgen Isturov's side in his third and penultimate match as interim manager.
01:51Ahmad is a star, Garnaccio and Dalot both struggled quite poorly tonight.
01:56They both just looked in need of a rest, there wasn't really too much to worry about other than that.
02:03For United, this is an encouraging win in the fact that they've not won in Europe for a long time.
02:09It's the type of routine win that has been forgotten of in recent years.
02:15For United, the first win in the Europa League this season, they are up to 15th.
02:20Ruben Isturov will have one final game in charge as interim head coach, that is at home to Leicester City this weekend.
02:26You can follow the build-up to all that game with us on Manchester World.