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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Nathan Ridley

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's young Man Utd XI in Europa League has had disastrous success rate

In November 2019, Kazakhstani side Astana pulled off the biggest result in their history by beating the mighty Manchester United 2-1.

Except, it wasn't quite the famous Red Devils who football fans around the world knew of. Instead, it was a highly experimental XI selected by manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who at that time was nearing one year in the job and still constructing his slow and steady rebuild.

When United had already secured safe passage through to the Europa League knockout stage in the 2019-20 season, their legendary player-turned-manager decided to hand out a whopping seven debuts - six of them teenagers - in a bid to see how they'd fare in the big time. Unfortunately, squandering a 1-0 lead wasn't the fairytale night which many of the fledglings dream of - nor were their subsequent Old Trafford careers.

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