Manchester United vs Roma: Preview, team news, tips & H2H

Manchester United vs Roma headlines matchday four of the Champions League league phase on Tuesday, November 3rd, by 9:00 PM at Old Trafford.

Nigerian football followers track the Premier League more closely than any other foreign league, and that gives this fixture extra pull, with Manchester United walking into it in crisis and Roma flying in off the back of one of Europe’s hottest strikers, Donyell Malen.

Michael Carrick’s side have not won in nine matches across all competitions, a run that cost them again at Chelsea on Saturday, while Roma sit third in Serie A.

Match Radar: Manchester United vs Roma

Form and Context ahead of Manchester United vs Roma

Manchester United have lost four of their last five matches, including a 4-1 defeat at Como in the Champions League on October 21, a 3-0 home loss to Bournemouth on October 25, and a 2-0 defeat at Chelsea on October 31 in which Lisandro Martinez was sent off for two bookable offences.

Those five games have produced just two goals scored and 12 conceded for Carrick’s side, a slump that leaves them 17th in the Premier League with seven points from nine games.

Roma, by contrast, have scored 18 goals in their own last five matches across Serie A and the Champions League, including a 5-2 win away against Maduka Okoye’s Udinese on October 31 and a comfortable 4-0 win over Slovan Bratislava in their last European outing.

That form has carried Roma to third place in Serie A, while Manchester United sit 17th in the Premier League, and to three points from three Champions League league-phase matches.

Head-To-Head: Manchester United vs Roma History

The two clubs have met eight times, all in UEFA competitions, with Manchester United winning five, Roma winning two and one match drawn, an aggregate scoreline of 21-9 in United’s favour.

United have never lost at home to Roma in four meetings at Old Trafford, scoring 15 goals across those matches and conceding just three, while Roma have won two of the four played in Rome.

The most recent meeting came in the 2020/21 Europa League semi-final, when Roma won the first leg 3-2 in Rome before Manchester United overturned it with a 6-2 win at Old Trafford to progress 8-5 on aggregate, a result now more than five years old and better treated as history.

Team News & Predicted XI: Manchester United vs Roma

Manchester United

Harry Amass is set to deputise at left back with both Luke Shaw and Noussair Mazraoui carrying knocks, while Lisandro Martinez is available for this fixture despite his Chelsea red card, since Premier League suspensions do not carry into the Champions League.

AS Roma

Paulo Dybala and Manu Koné both picked up their issues in the same Champions League match against Real Madrid, and Roma have targeted this trip to Old Trafford as a possible return point for both.

Star Player Comparison: Bruno Fernandes vs Donyell Malen

The Managers: Michael Carrick vs Gian Piero Gasperini

Michael Carrick has been Manchester United’s permanent manager since May 2026, having first taken interim charge in January that year, and his position has become a genuine talking point after the nine-match winless run

The club confirmed after the Chelsea defeat that he will remain in charge for the Roma match and the following home game against Aston Villa before any fresh assessment at the November international break.

Gian Piero Gasperini took over at Roma in June 2025 after nine seasons at Atalanta, where he built a reputation for an aggressive, high-possession style, and he has carried a version of that approach into Roma’s three-at-the-back system this season.

Tactical Preview: Manchester United vs Roma

Carrick is expected to set up in a 4-2-3-1 with Harry Amass handling left-back duties in place of the injured Luke Shaw and Noussair Mazraoui, a makeshift pairing Roma could look to target with quick combinations out wide.

Roma’s 3-4-2-1 relies heavily on wing backs Nahuel Molina and Wesley for width, and with Lorenzo Pellegrini out and Paulo Dybala only a doubt, Gasperini may ask Matías Soulé and Rodrigo Mora to carry more creative weight through the middle than usual.

Manchester United’s double pivot of Youri Tielemans and Carlos Baleba will have to deal with Donyell Malen dropping into pockets between the lines, a role that has produced three goals and two assists in Roma’s three Champions League matches this season.

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