Manchester United Vs Real Sociedad Preview - Moyes' side aiming to reside pinnacle in Group A

The Premier League champions have secured only two wins in their last six matches in all competitions however a triumph over the Spanish club is prone to keep them top of Group A. Manchester United will hope to ease the growing pressure on manager David Moyes when they face Real Sociedad at Old Trafford on Wednesday.
Moyes’ side have won only two of their last six matches in all competition and have made their most exceedingly bad begin to a league season since 1989.

Regardless of their conflicting structure in the Premier League, United have performed well in the Champions League, having emulated a 4-2 home win over Bayer Leverkusen with a 1-1 draw at Shakhtar Donetsk in October.

Wayne Rooney’s strike against Leverkusen implies he is presently Britain’s unequaled heading scorer in the Champions League with 29 goals.

United have lost their last two home fixtures against Spanish sides – to Real Madrid in the round of 16 in last season’s Champions League and to Athletic Bilbao at the same stage of the 2011-12 Europa League.

Tom Cleverley (calf) and Rio Ferdinand (crotch) missed Saturday’s draw against Southampton and are in mistrust for Wednesday’s match.

Real Sociedad enrolled a tremendously required win on Saturday, a 2-1 triumph at Valencia finished a winless run of eight matches in all competition.That result lifted them to 11th in La Liga and highly-rated French attacker Antoine Griezmann – who scored in the victory – hopes it inspires them to an Old Trafford upset.

"We’re not going (to Manchester) merely as tourists. We are going as a quality side who will be trying to win three points that will help us to continue in the tournament," Griezmann said.

"We will analyse what we did well last Saturday and look to repeat that."

Real Sociedad have lost both of their Champions League matches, with a 2-1 defeat at Leverkusen earlier this month particularly heart-breaking, as Jens Hegeler scored a stunning free kick in stoppage time for the winners.

They need a victory and will be thankful midfielder Xabi Prieto returned from a thigh injury on Saturday.

Midfielder Esteban Granero – who is on loan from QPR – is a long-term absentee with a knee injury.