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Wayne Rooney‘s surprise return to English football as a player-coach at Derby will shift attention to his post-playing future but the former England captain insists he still has plenty to offer on the pitch first. Rooney will cut short his 18-month American adventure with DC United at the end of the MLS season to join Derby in January 2020.

Manchester United somehow progressed to the Champions League quarter-finals with Marcus Rashford’s controversial late penalty seeing them overcome Paris Saint-Germain at the Parc des Princes. The visitors got off to the perfect start – as did the tie from a neutral perspective – when Romelu Lukaku pounced on a poor Thilo Kehrer back pass to sweep United ahead. That sparked the hosts into life and Kylian Mbappe dragged them back into it when he set up Juan Bernat to tap in.

Manchester United have reasons to believe after a successful start to the Ole-era This week may be all about Champions League and Europa League games for several of Europe’s top sides but, come the weekend, normal business resumes with a exciting slate of fixtures in the continent’s top five leagues. Arsenal‘s home clash against Manchester United is the pick of the games on a weekend sure to be full of intrigue as the run-in to the end of the season gathers pace.