Barcelona defender Gerard Pique expects Romelu Lukaku to start for Manchester United in tomorrow's Champions League quarterfinal first-leg.

Pique has considered the physical aspect of English football and United's threat from set-pieces.

"I expect a game where we have the ball," Pique said. "They will try and hit us on the counter-attack with fast strong players like Rashford and Lukaku and we have to be on our guard and look out for set-pieces from corners into the box, they are an English side and they will try to take advantage of these opportunities. If we are focused we can try and stop them.

"I think the PSG tie is a great example. I watched both games and here PSG was better first-half and second-half they scored and they could have scored some more goals.

"But you cannot leave Manchester United alive. If you can beat them scoring a lot of goals you have to do it they have a great team, great history and have shown in the second leg in Paris, even though they played with a lot of young lads from the academy, they qualified in the last minute.

"It's a great example for us, we have to be very concentrated from first minute to last minute of the tie and we have to play at our best to qualify."