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EUROPA LEAGUE FINAL, TV3, WEDNESDAY 7.30PM

If Manchester United manage to beat Ajax at Stockholm’s Friends Arena, the club will gain automatic qualification for next season’s Champions League and Jose Mourinho will breathe a sigh of relief. Because, while he undoubtedly bolstered the team defensively during his first season in charge, the Portuguese maestro’s negative tactics have not gone down well with everyone at Old Trafford who are more accustomed to open attacking football.