Lyon recently defeated table-topping PSG in Ligue 1 and the 28-year-old reckons this should give extra confidence to United, and generate a hope that Thomas Tuchel’s team of superstars can be beaten.

“We won against them 2-1 the other week, and you can do it,” he explains in the interview for United Review. “If United play their football, they can win the tie, definitely. I missed the game against PSG because I had an operation, and I have been out for two months, but I hope to be back very soon.

”I watched and you could see that PSG can be beaten. In France, you cannot speak bad things about PSG because they are a fantastic team. But, to be honest, they are not in a good moment. They had a problem with [Adrien] Rabiot because he is maybe going to leave in the summer and he is a good player for them.