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90 min: Just two more minutes for CSKA to survive, which is the height of their ambition now.

88 min: It’s pretty much all United now. At least it was until they coughed up possession cheaply in midfield and Fellaini whacked Tosic to prevent the counter-attack. Another deserved yellow.

86 min: CSKA sub: Cauna replaces Dzagoev, author of an unremarkable performance. Euro 2012 seems a long time ago.

85 min: Ooooh! Memphis curls in a cross from the left. Martial stretches to poke it back across the face of goal, where Fellaini shapes to convert from close range ... but Akinfeev reacts sharply and hurls himself forward to punch it away!

83 min: CSKA sub: Panchenko on, Eremenko off.

82 min: Freekick to United after Martial is clipped from behind. It’s about 28 yards out, wide on the right. Rooney takes it, looking for Fellaini at the back stick, finding the corner flag.

80 min: Herrara booked for chopping down Musa as CSKA tried to launch a counter-attack.

79 min: United substitution: Lingard off after a decent performance. Memphis on.

78 min: Jones pounces on a breaking ball in midfield, slinks between two opponents and bounds into the box. He wins a corner.

75 min: It’s starting to look like both sides would settle for a draw here. Wolfsburg are beating PSV 2-0 in the group’s other game at the moment. Can’t quite see why CSKA would think it’s not in their best interests to go harder for the win here.

73 min: United still trying to grind forward with steady precision passing. And if they don’t make any more inroads, well, they’ve got the point that Van Gaal said he’d be happy with. Up to CSKA to try to shake the visitors up again ...

70 min: Valencia puts a Schenikov cross behind for a corner as CSKA try to regain their lead. United don’t want to play into their hands here: the home team were on the rack prior to the goal and you had the impression that if United went in for the kill, they could get it.

67 min: Another preposterous fall by Tosic, ignored again by the ref.

64 min: After an encouraging spell from United, in which they exposed clear signs of strain in the home defence, CSKA serve a reminder of their threat, but Doumbia’s attempted finish was limp, making for an easy save by De Gea.

63 min: United substitution: Rojo off, Blind on. Cup your ears and you hear Muscovite laughter.

62 min: Rooney gets in behind the defence again but his attempted cross towards Fellaini - awaiting the ball in front of goal - is too weak.

60 min: Perhaps United’s patience will bear fruit, after all? For the first time in the match they’ve just prised CSKA apart and Rooney went close to equalising, his bullet header after a ball from the right bringing a good save from Akinfeev.

58 min: Hoof update: none spotted so far. Fellaini has spent a lot of time in and around Rooney but so far United have not tried to supply him directly. I don’t know why they’re being so snobby about it, because they’re not making any inroads as it is.

56 min: Lots of lateral passing from United. CSKA just shuffling across and preventing any penetration. Basically what Van Gaal’s giving us here, when United are in possession, is an elaborate line dancing routine. And that don’t impress Moscow much.

53 min: Superb volleyed pass from Eremenko. CSKA then cross from the left and into the box. Rojo, unchallenged, rises to head it ... but misses it and the ball drops on to his hand! The Muscovites demand a penalty, the referee refuses, presumably because he felt the handball was not deliberate. Just incompetent.

51 min: United still causing no problems. Carrick, Mata and Memphis are still on the bench, getting rests that could prove crucial in an eventual Europa League campaign...

49 min: Jones strains every sinew and finally manages to poke the ball off the foot of Musa, who was threatening to race into the box. “As simple minded as I may be, why didnt MU use the hundreds of millions at their disposal to assemble a group of brilliant footballers and train them to play vividly exciting attacking football, under a manager whose natural instincts are just that?” storms Chris Kenway. “Why, ffs, why? This is like watching the water go down in the tub.”

48 min: Lingard lopes forward after taking a pass from Schneiderlin. He slips the ball through to Rooney, who has got a jump on the central defenders and tries to lift the ball over the advancing keeping. It’s saved ... and it wouldn’t have counted anyway, as Rooney was offside.

46 min: Van Gaal has made a change. Schweinsteiger has been hooked, Fellaini sent on. That could well be the forward fulcrum they’ve lacked. Let’s just see how far into Operation Hoof territory this takes us...

“No quality and no movement” reckons Paul Scholes of this United performance. Fellow pundits Owen Hargreaves (who is excellent in the role, by the way, unostentatiously insightful) and Paul Scholes also lambast United’s lack of intensity and adventure.

“Wouldn’t CSKA be better off waiting for half time and simply have Vasili and Aleksei change shirts in the dressing room, saving a substitution for later? Every other pair of identical twins I’ve known have regularly engaged in such shenanigans.” - Marcus James, slamming Russian naivete there.

Here, courtesy of Val, is a translated snippet of that Ivan Rebroff song I assume you’re all singing now.

No zephyr in the forest

Everything has fallen asleep until the morning

If you only knew how dear these Moscow nights are to me.

45 min: Lingard makes another well-timed tackle to deny CSKA a shooting chance after another swift attack. And on that note, the ref blows for half-time.

44 min: Part of United’s problem is they have no fulcrum up front. Rooney is not showing the mobility or strength needed to give them a platform up there to play off. Might Van Gaal haul him off at half-time and shift Martial up there, with Mata or Memphis coming on to go wide?

41 min: Vasili Berezutski has picked up an injury. Who better to replace him than his twin bother, Alexei Berezustki.

40 min: A hefty touch by Musa spares United, who might have been punished on another break if not for the Nigierian’s shoddy control in the box, which enabled Valencia to tidy up.

38 min: Tosic, about to lose the ball under pressure, falls to the ground as if someone has tied his bootlaces together. The referee is not amused but refrains from issuing a card for diving.

36 min: Fernandes gets ahead of himself, almost literally. In his eagerness to intercept a pass and turn defence into attack, he ran past the pass he was supposed to be intercepting, allowing the ball to run to Martial on the left. The French teenager delivered a fine cross to the near post with the outside of his foot. But Rooney was too slow to get to it and it’s cleared.

34 min: United popping the ball around in midfield but making no headway whatsoever. CSKA are going to take some breaking down. And they look capable of increasing their lead on the break. This is starting to look like another sorry European night by Premier League clubs (Man City are trailing to Sevilla too) ...

32 min: Akinfeev called upon for the first time, smothering a close-range Rooney shot at the near post after the England striker ran on to a deflected Valencia cross.

30 min: De Gea to the rescue for United for the 896th time in his young career. As per CSKA’s plan, United were building up slowly but were robbed as soon as they got within 40 yards of the opposing goal and CSKA hurtled forward with speed. Doumbia attempted to curl one into the top corer from 25 yards, forcing a backpeddling De Gea to tip it over with one hand.

28 min: This is a dilly of a conundrum for United. CSKA are now happy to let them have the ball in harmless areas and then when they win it back they rip forward.

25 min: Fernandes is torturing United. He is bombing continualy down the right and the visitors just can’t contain him. Those hacks who were mocking Rojo yesterday are probably lapping it up. Fernandes latest raid ends with a ball right across the face of goal, with United players unsure what to do about it. Fortunately for them, no home player could meet it.

23 min: Wernbloom makes a fine tackle on Martial to curb a United attack and launch a counter. When CSKA lose the ball, Musa makes a two-footed lunge towards Valencia in a bid to regain it. Freekick to United, and Musa’s lucky to escape a yellow. “Twenty-three minutes in and United could well be playing a log as their centre forward,” howls Prateeka Chadha. “Could someone please tell me whether Rooney has made even a single decent run to show for the ball, because nothing I have seen on TV suggests this has happened.”

21 min: Martial, who been stationed out on the left for most of the game so far, exchanges a snappy one-two with Rooney ... and then finds his momentum stalled by the referee, who was badly positioned and couldn’t get out of Martial’s way. It’s as if Fate is trying to see whether this exceptionally cool youngster can be ruffled...

18 min: That goal has transformed things utterly. Suddenly it’s CSKA who are playing with assurance and United who are scampering around rather forlornly in search of the ball. On an individual level, Martial is enduring the first significant setback of his nascent United career, having given away the penalty needlessly and now been booked, to boot.

13 min: Fernandes gets in behind United down the right again. He lifts it over Martial and bangs one at goal from 15 yards. Great save by De Gea! But, hello, what’s this? The ref is pointing to the spot! He noticed that Martial handled the ball as Fernandes lifted it over him!

9 min: More fine play by Lingard, who nicked the ball off Musa around half way and initiated a counter-attack by offloading to Rooney. United work it all the way into the CSKA box but Martial fails in his attempt to wriggle between two defenders.

7 min: A dainty move by CSKA just now, very similar to the one with which Wolfsburg opened the scoring at Old Trafford a few weeks back. Except that the Russians couldn’t quite see it through to a scoring conclusion, as Eremenko’s final ball was intercepted at the edge of the area by Jones.

5 min: Lingard’s first significant contribution is to chase back diligently and dispossess Shennikov near the United box. That’s a tick in the Positive column for the inexperienced winger.

4 min: Funny thing is, despite Scholes’ reservations about United not training on the pitch before this match, it’s the home players who seem most discombobulated. Several of them have slipped over already and their passing has been a mess. A comfortable start for United, then, can they take advantage?

2 min: Some early sloppiness by CSKA presents United with the ball in a promising position. But Martial, after showing the composure for which he is already earning acclaim, mislays an attempted pass towards Rooney.

1 min: United kick off. That crowd is making a brilliant din. Why is it that East European crowds always sound more intimidating? Or is that perception just a hangover from Cold War scaremongering?

The teams stride on to the pitch. CSKA appear to have bagsied the red jerseys (and blue shorts). United, inspired by the rugby World Cup, are all in black. Bet they rush out and buy tennis rackets when Wimbledon starts, too.

“What a silly time to kick off!” blurts Remo Casale. “21:45 local time with the temperature just above freezing. Who’d be a Russian TV commentator, or for that matter football fan?” Just above freezing? Apparently it’s actually just below freezing. Hasn’t stopped a bumper crowd from turning out, though.

Paul Scholes has raised an interesting question on TV. He says he’s surprised United chose not to train on CSKA’s artificial pitch last night and wonder whether that could prove to be a mistake.

Probing questions put to Wayne Rooney just now on TV. “The big 30 is coming up, how do you feel about that?” The soon-to-be 30-year-old felt enough pity to refrain from laughing in the interviewer’s face.

Van Gaal explains his team selection to Ray Stubbs on BT: “[Lingard] played a very good second half [at Everton], I have to say. But I also have to rotate. Juan Mata has played every game so he needs a bit of a rest. Same thing for Darmian.” As for this approach to tonight’s game, the Dutchman says: “I should be happy with a draw away in the Champions League but we are here to beat the opponent ... I think they have a very speedy attack and I expect them to play on the counter-attack so we have to pay attention.”

Team talk:

So the selection that jumps right out from United is Jesse Lingard, who is rewarded for a fine showing at Goodison Park last weekend with his second start. Presumably the 22-year-old will be deployed on the right. Attacking is his thing, of course, but he will also have to provide protection to Antonio Valencia, who could be given a testing time by the tricky Ahmed Musa. Interesting, too, to see who will try to subdue Alan Dzagoev, who could prove a slippery and dangerous pest between United midfield and defence.