FIXTURES AND THIS WEEK’S TV GUIDE
Champions League quarter-final Barcelona v Bayern Munich (8pm)
SATURDAY (3.0 unless stated) Premiership Celtic v Aberdeen, Hamilton v St Mirren, Kilmarnock v St Johnstone, Ross County v Dundee Utd, Hibs v Motherwell (5.30pm) Champions League quarter-final Man City v Lyon (8pm) Premiership Livingston v Rangers (4.30)
TODAY: Europa League quarter-finals - Inter Milan v Bayer Leverkusen (BT Sport 2, 8pm), Man Utd v Copenhagen (Bt Sport 1, 8pm) TOMORROW: Premiership - Dundee Utd v Hibs (Sky Sports Football 6pm) Europa League quarter-finals
COPENHAGEN coach Stale Solbakken has written off his side’s chances tonight by saying: “You shouldn’t put your house on us!”
The veteran boss was in charge of the Danes in 2006 when his side beat Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United 1-0 in the group stage of the Champions League.
But Solbakken, 52, admitted his side will need to play a “perfect” game in Cologne tonight if they are to upset the tournament favourites – and warned fans against backing his underdogs.
He said: “In order to do that we have to play perfectly on the night. We need a bit of luck and we need United not to fire on all cylinders.
“We need to be perfect defensively and we need to take those one, two or three chances we get during a game like this.
“So the chances for us are not great but it’s an advantage for us that the tie is being played over 90 minutes and not 180 minutes.
“We have a good feeling, after managing to get a week’s break after the season ended, and we have managed to get a couple of players ready to play, who have been vital to us before.
“So we have a good feeling after our 3-0 victory in the last round, but you shouldn’t put your house on us tomorrow! But we will give everything.
“After the coronavirus break, United are looking more of an attacking threat, based on what you’re used to seeing from United teams of the past, if you go from the early
Shakhtar Donetsk v Basel (BT Sport 2, 8pm), Wolves v Sevilla (Bt Sport 1, 8pm) WEDNESDAY: Premiership St Mirren v Celtic (Sky Sports Football 6pm) Champions League quarter-final Atalanta v PSG ( BT Sport 1, 8pm) THURSDAY: Champions League quarter-final RB Leipzig v Atletico Madrid (BT Sport 1, 8pm) FRIDAY: Champions League quarterSUNDAY
ROAD TO LISBON Quarter-finals Tonight Man Utd v Copenhagen, 8pm, Cologne Inter v Bayer Leverkusen, 8pm, Dusseldorf Tomorrow Wolves v Sevilla, 8pm, Duisburg Shakhtar Donetsk v Basel, 8pm, Gelsenkirchen Semi-finals August 16 & 17 Wolves or Sevilla v Man Utd or Copenhagen, 8pm, Cologne Inter or Bayer Leverkusen v Shakhtar Donetsk or Basel, 8pm, Dusseldorf Final August 21, 8pm, Cologne days of Ferguson right through to the late days.
“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 like call it.
“He has more weapons in the last third of the pitch and they are still a great counter-attacking team.
“But they’re starting to open up low defences now, with the signing of Bruno Fernandes, 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.”
Asked if playmaker Fernandes is the biggest threat to shut down, Solbakken said: “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.” final Barcelona v Bayern Munich (BT Sport 1, 8pm) SATURDAY: Premiership - Hibs v Motherwell (Sky Sports Football 5.30pm) Champions League quarter-final Man City v Lyon (Bt Sport 1, 8pm) SUNDAY: Premiership Livingston v Rangers (Sky Sports Football 4.30 pm) Europa League semi-final (BT Sport 1, 8pm)