Manchester United vs Fenerbahce Prediction 20 October 2016
On October 20 2016 at 20:05 in the third round game of the Europa League group stage at the Old Trafford Stadium Manchester United play against Fenerbahce.
The results of Manchester United are pretty ambiguous this season. Of course a lot has significantly changed since the previous season. They started to show more interesting performance in defense and look just as reliable as they used to in defense. Yet, a series of mistakes made in the starting games of the season don’t let the Red Devils get closer to the leaders of the EPL. Manchester United also look a bit unstable in the Europa League where they unpredictably lost to Feyenoord 1:0 in the first round and after that hardly won against Zorya from Luhansk 1:0.
Fenerbahce, in their turn, show even more unstable results in the national championship. In the 7 starting games they lost twice, drew three times and won twice. Such results let Fenerbahce take the 9th place in the standings of the Turkish Championship with 12:9 goal difference. Nevertheless, their results in the Europa League are definitely much better. Fenerbahce are the leaders of their group with 4 points gained as they drew Zorya 1:1 and outplayed Feyenoord 1:0.
The teams met four times before. Manchester United won two of these games and Fenerbahce won the rest of them. The last match between these teams was played 12 years ago. A lot has changed. Even though Manchester United are not the leaders of the national championship, they are still a team of the higher class than Fenerbahce. That is why we think that the hosts are the favorites of the forthcoming game and are very likely to win, probably with more than one goal advantage.
Prediction for the match: Manchester to win with -1 handicap.
