Match Preview- Besiktas vs Manchester United

Manchester United look to get of to a winning start in their opening Champions League match as they face Turkish champions Besiktas.

United will look to get back to winning ways in the UEFA Champions League, having lost the final in Rome last year to a dominant Barcelona side. United come off a strong win against Tottenham at White Hart Lane over the weekend, coming from a goal down to win 3-1. Wayne Rooney will look to continue on his amazing goal-scoring streak.

Besiktas on the other hand return to the Champions League, having played the now revamped UEFA Cup last year. Even here they failed to make it past the group stages. Besiktas' recent form is awful, culminating in a three-goal defeat to Galatasaray at the weekend.

Besiktas Team News
Besiktas will look to Nihat Kahveci for goals following his return to the Besiktas squad after seven largely fruitful years in Spain with Real Sociedad and Villarreal.

The hosts' only injury concern is defender Ibrahim Toraman (heel).

Manchester United Team News
Paul Scholes' one match ban for the red-card received over the weekend leaves him ineligible for the Manchester Derby over the coming weekend. He will therefore probably find himself in the starting 11 for the opening match of the Champions League season.

Rio Ferdinand should keep his place in the squad after he came through the full 90 minutes at Tottenham on Saturday unscathed, while John O'Shea has shown no effects of his recent calf injury and could start also.

Michael Carrick, Nani and Park Ji-Sung are all pushing for a place in the starting line-up, but goalkeeper Edwin Van der Sar (hand), Gabriel Obertan (back), Rafael (shoulder) and Owen Hargreaves (knees) remain sidelined.