UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2019/20 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Old Trafford - Manchester Thursday 7 November 2019 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Manchester United FC Group L - Matchday 4 FK Partizan Last updated 18/08/2020 17:29CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 6 Squad list 8 Fixtures and results 10 Match-by-match lineups 14 Match officials 16 Legend 17 1 Manchester United FC - FK Partizan Thursday 7 November 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Old Trafford, Manchester Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FK Partizan - Manchester United 24/10/2019 GS 0-1 Belgrade Martial 43 (P) FC European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Manchester United FC - FK 1-0 20/04/1966 SF Manchester Šoškić 75 (og) Partizan agg: 1-2 FK Partizan - Manchester United Hasanagić 46, 13/04/1966 SF 2-0 Belgrade FC Bečejac 58 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Manchester United FC 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 1 2 2 FK Partizan 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 2 2 Manchester United FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Super Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Manchester United FC - FK 19/11/1991 F 1-0 Manchester McClair 67 Crvena zvezda European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Kostić 46, 58, Tasić FK Crvena zvezda - Manchester 3-3 05/02/1958 QF Belgrade 50; Viollet 2, Charlton United FC agg: 4-5 30, 31 Manchester United FC - FK Charlton 65, Colman 14/01/1958 QF 2-1 Manchester Crvena zvezda 81; Tasić 35 FK Partizan - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Tottenham Hotspur - FK 27/11/2014 GS 1-0 London Stambouli 49 Partizan 18/09/2014 GS FK Partizan - Tottenham Hotspur 0-0 Belgrade UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Van Persie 30 (P), 08/12/2010 GS Arsenal FC - FK Partizan 3-1 London Walcott 73, Nasri 77; Cléo 52 Cléo 33 (P); Arshavin 28/09/2010 GS FK Partizan - Arsenal FC 1-3 Belgrade 15, Chamakh 71, Squillaci 82 2 Manchester United FC - FK Partizan Thursday 7 November 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Old Trafford, Manchester UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Németh 10, Job 22, 15/12/2004 GS Middlesbrough FC - FK Partizan 3-0 Middlesbrough Morrison 90 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-1 Newcastle United FC - FK 27/08/2003 QR3 agg: 1-1 (aet, 3- Newcastle Iliev 50 Partizan 4 pens) FK Partizan - Newcastle United 13/08/2003 QR3 0-1 Belgrade Solano 39 FC UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-0 30/09/1999 R1 Leeds United - FK Partizan Leeds Huckerby 55 agg: 4-1 Tomić 21; Bowyer 25, 14/09/1999 R1 FK Partizan - Leeds United 1-3 Heerenveen 83, Radebe 39 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FK Partizan - Newcastle United 1-0 01/10/1998 R1 Belgrade Rašović 52 FC agg: 2-2 ag Newcastle United FC - FK Shearer 11, Dabizas 17/09/1998 R1 2-1 Newcastle Partizan 71; Rašović 68 (P) UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Mance 5, Kaličanin 40 FK Partizan - Queens Park 4-0 07/11/1984 R2 Belgrade (P), Ješić 47, Živković Rangers FC agg: 6-6 ag 63 Gregory 12, Fereday 26, Stainrod 44, Neill Queens Park Rangers FC - FK 24/10/1984 R2 6-2 London 52, Bannister 57, 81; Partizan Klinčarski 13, Mance 25 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Manchester United FC 2 2 0 0 3 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 6 4 1 1 8 6 FK Partizan 8 3 1 4 8 1 0 7 0 0 0 0 16 4 1 11 14 25 3 Manchester United FC - FK Partizan Thursday 7 November 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Old Trafford, Manchester Match background Manchester United carved out a two-point lead at the top of Group L with a 1-0 win at Partizan on Matchday 3 courtesy of Anthony Martial's 43rd-minute penalty, and they will hope to strengthen their position as the Serbian Cup winners visit Old Trafford having dropped to third place in the standings. • United's seven-point tally is largely attributable to three clean sheets. They have scored just two goals, teenager Mason Greenwood finding the net in an opening 1-0 win at home to Astana before they drew 0-0 away to AZ Alkmaar. Partizan also drew against AZ, 2-2 in Belgrade on Matchday 1 thanks to a double from UEFA Europa League stalwart Bibras Natcho, before Umar Sadiq struck twice to earn a 2-1 win at Astana. Previous meetings • The clubs' Matchday 3 encounter was their first since the 1965/66 European Cup semi-final, which Partizan won 2-1 on aggregate despite a second-leg 0-1 defeat in Manchester. • Prior to the 24 October meeting Manchester United last faced Serbian opposition in the 1991 UEFA Super Cup, a one-off match played at Old Trafford and won 1-0 by the home team with a Brian McClair goal. That made it three home wins out of three for United against Serbian opposition, the first having resulted in a 2-1 victory against Crvena zvezda in the first leg of a 1957/58 European Cup quarter-final that will forever be overshadowed by tragedy as the second leg in Belgrade – which completed a 5-4 aggregate win – was the last match played by the famous Busby Babes before the Munich air crash on the return journey. • Partizan have managed just four wins in 16 games against English clubs (D1 L11), the most recent of those – 1-0 at Newcastle United in the final qualifying round of the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League – being their sole away win in eight visits (L7) and heralding a penalty shoot-out triumph that put them into the competition's group stage for the first time. Their last trip to England brought a 1-0 defeat by Tottenham Hotspur in the 2014/15 UEFA Europa League group stage. Form guide Manchester United • The three-time champions of Europe finished sixth in the 2018/19 Premier League, which meant direct access to the UEFA Europa League. They were quarter-finalists in last season's UEFA Champions League, going out to Barcelona after a remarkable round of 16 second-leg comeback against Paris Saint-Germain (0-2 h, 3-1 a). • United have appeared in three previous UEFA Europa League campaigns, but this is only their second group stage start, the previous one three seasons ago having ended in outright victory under manager José Mourinho against Ajax in Stockholm. The Manchester giants exited in the round of 16 on their other two participations. • The Red Devils are unbeaten in their last ten UEFA Europa League home games (W8 D2), registering four wins out of four at Old Trafford in the group stage. They are currently on a run of 14 matches in the competition without defeat – four shy of the all-time record set last season by domestic rivals Chelsea. Partizan • Third in the Serbian Superliga last term, Partizan won the domestic cup for the fourth year running, defeating league champions Crvena zvezda 1-0 in the final. In Europe they came through three UEFA Europa League qualifiers before losing out to Beşiktaş in the play-offs (1-1 h, 0-3 a). • This season Partizan entered the competition a round later, defeating Connah's Quay and Malatyaspor and edging past Norwegian side Molde in the play-offs (2-1 h, 1-1 a) to book a sixth group stage berth. After failing to gain further progress on their first four attempts, the Serbian side succeeded on their most recent participation, in 2017/18, before falling in the round of 32 to Viktoria Plzeň (1-1 h, 0-2 a). • Partizan have lost ten of their 16 away fixtures in the UEFA Europa League group stage, winning just three, all of them, curiously, at teams whose names begin with the letter 'A' – Augsburg (3-1) and AZ Alkmaar (2-1) in 2015/16 and Astana on Matchday 2. Links and trivia • Partizan coach Savo Milošević played in England for Aston Villa from 1995–98, joining the Birmingham side from Partizan for a then club-record fee and winning the League Cup in his debut season. He faced Manchester United on six occasions in the Premier League, the first time on his Villa debut in a famous 3-1 win, but did not score against them, three of those games featuring current United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjær in the opposition ranks. • Partizan's Zoran Tošić was a United player from January 2009 until June 2010 but only played five matches for the club. • Vladimir Stojković (Wigan, Nottingham Forest) and Lazar Marković (Liverpool) have also played in England. • United midfielder Nemanja Matić has been a Serbia national team-mate of four Partizan players – Tošić, Stojković, 4 Manchester United FC - FK Partizan Thursday 7 November 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Old Trafford, Manchester Marković and Nemanja Miletić.