Realistically, Manchester United need to go to Wolfsburg and win if they want to stay in the Champions League.

Louis van Gaal's team are a point behind their German opponents and one clear of PSV Eindhoven going into the final round of group games. But PSV are at home to a CSKA Moscow side that has lost seven of its last eight away games in the competition - the only exception being a 2-1 win at nine-man Manchester City last season. United will be clinging to any positive omen they can - and Van Gaal's record against Wolfsburg certainly falls into that category. Van Gaal faced the club - then managed by Steve McClaren, among others - four times during two seasons in charge of Bayern Munich. And Bayern won three of the four, including a 3-0 victory just four games into Van Gaal's reign and a 3-1 win at the Volkswagen Arena. Coincidentally, that same period saw Wolfsburg take on Manchester United in the Champions League group stage, and like this year the final group game was a meeting between the two teams in Germany. Sir Alex Ferguson's men won on that occasion - with Michael Owen scoring a hat-trick in a 3-1 victory - to top a group which also contained CSKA.