Manchester United will experience far stiffer tests of their Champions League credentials than Sabah FK gave them at Old Trafford.

In fact, it would be no surprise if the Azerbaijan champions were by some distance the weakest of the eight league stage opponents Michael Carrick’s side will come up against.

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However, there were some important lessons for Carrick to absorb.

The biggest of them is United are a much more effective unit when Benjamin Sesko starts.

This was the first time the Slovenian had done that since the Liverpool game last March, when he finally accepted he could no longer play through the shin issue that had been…

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