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Erik ten Hag is about to discover if his Manchester United players really have changed

The Copenhagen coach Jacob Neestrup bristled at the memory. “I was a little bit surprised about some of the questions I got after the game from English journalists in terms of that we were quite tough to break down.

“The talk we had at half-time in our dressing room was that we thought it was tough to break the opponent down."

Manchester United were late for their pre-match press conference in Copenhagen, as they were in Munich in September. A Uefa official blamed it on passport control measures imposed by Brexit. United's own status in Europe is precarious.

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Copenhagen were a penalty kick away from a draw at Old Trafford a fortnight ago and Erik ten Hag was compelled to make a change at the interval. Christian Eriksen's impact was transformative and it was his cross that was converted by the renascent Harry Maguire.

Eriksen will know better than most what lies in store for United in Denmark. He first played at the Parken Stadion aged only 17 against England in a friendly back in February 2011 and it is the ground where Eriksen was resuscitated in June 2021. The pulsating Parken generates one of the most underrated atmospheres on the continent.

“What can they expect?" Neestrup asked rhetorically. "I would say with all the respect I felt when I stepped into Old Trafford, then I felt the historical atmosphere.

“But you can’t compare Old Trafford with Parken because the intensity is times 100 in terms of what we played in two weeks ago. This is a standard (that), for me, is way above Premier League, to be honest.”

"I've never played against Copenhagen in here," Eriksen

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