Article by Mark Graham, Editor, Record Keeper & Official Reporter @ MUFCINFO.COM.

preview: Besiktas JK v MANCHESTER UNITED

UCL Group b, Matchday 01

BJK Inonu Stadium, Turkey, 19.45pm GMT, Tuesday 15th September 2009.

Team News

United start their European Campaign with a trip to Turkish Champions Besiktas JK.

Not having the best of starts, the defending Turkish Champions were thrashed 3-0 at the weekend by Galatasaray adding to the woe of their poor opening fixtures having only won once in five games.

Pre Match Press Conference Highlights

Ryan Giggs on the game in general

" "What you want to do is go into these games with confidence,"
"We will go into tomorrow confident and hopefully get a good win. It's always tough here because of the fans and the travelling.  "Hopefully we'll go into the derby with a win under our belt. It's always a tough test. It was a long flight and you don't really know a lot about their side.

"But we'll do our homework now we are here and I'm sure the manager will chop and change and fresh players will come in. Hopefully we'll do the job in Turkey.

"It's well-documented that we've lost Cristiano Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez but we have great players here and it gives you confidence when you go to a place like Spurs on Saturday and get a result."

Bryan Robson on the Turkish Atmosphere

“It’s always an intimidating atmosphere in Turkey. The fans are very passionate and they try to make things daunting for opposition teams, The lads will know what to expect though and I’m sure they won’t be fazed.”

Squads

Besiktas JK (from): .

Manchester United (from): Dimitar Berbatov, Wes Brown, Michael Carrick, Anderson, Jonny Evans, Patrice Evra, Rio Ferdinand, Darron Gibson, Antonio Valencia, Ben Amos, Michael Owen, Ryan Giggs, Tomasz Kuszczak, Darren Fletcher, Gary Neville, John O'Shea, Ji-sung Park, Fabio, Ben Foster, Wayne Rooney, Paul Scholes, Nemanja Vidic, Nani.

Head to Head

Milestones

The Two sides have never met.

SAF's 166th UCL fixture in charge.

Score Prediction

3-0 and a goal for Michael Owen.

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