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Copenhagen boss Solbakken: These 4 Man Utd players must be stopped

FC Copenhagen boss Stale Solbakken has named four danger players in Manchester United's line-up ahead of Monday's Europa League quarter-final.

Solbakken's side are heavy underdogs for the single-leg fixture in Cologne.

And the Norwegian admits it will be tough to contain United's attacking quartet of Bruno Fernandes, Mason Greenwood, Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford.

"Obviously Ole Gunnar's main mentor as a manager is Sir Alex Ferguson and I can see he's building what you would call a more attractive way of playing or whatever you call it.

"He has more weapons in the last third of the pitch and they are still a great counter-attacking team, but they are starting to open up low defences now, with the signing of Bruno Fernandes, with the cutting inside from the right of Mason Greenwood, and obviously the speed of Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford.

"So it's going very much in the right direction and after the coronavirus break they have been very good. You can't give one player too much attention when you have four or five other matchwinners out there, so we have to defend as a team."

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