Harry Kane must thank his lucky stars on a daily basis he was never given the opportunity to join dysfunctional .
The captain will be centre stage at Old Trafford as the group stages reach their conclusion and he will show the increasingly frustrated home supporters just what they have missed when United failed to buy him from in the summer.
Sure, it would have cost an inflated fee, with Spurs chairman Daniel Levy reluctant to sell to a Premier League rival, but Kane has scored 22 goals in 19 games for Bayern Munich.
He may have struggled to match that impressive tally if Erik ten Hag had persuaded his board to stump up the cash him as the supporting cast at United lacks Bayern’s quality, but he would have made a huge difference.
Crunch time in Europe has come early for United, they must win and hope the result in Copenhagen goes their way to have any chance of reaching the knockout stages. The omens are ominous as Bayern appear to be sending a strong side to Manchester seeking to eliminate a potential banana skin down the road even though they have already qualified as group winners.
There’s also pride at stake as they will not want to suffer successive defeats after falling to a shock 5-1 thumping at Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga at the weekend.
The odds are not stacking up well for Ten Hag who must rally the troops after the crushing 3-0 defeat at home to Bournemouth and Bayern stick out like a sore thumb at 6/4 with BetUK to send United to a costly exit.
Kane is 4/1 with the same firm to celebrate the opening goal and BetUK also offer 6/5 the Londoner scores at any time.
The reverse fixture ended up 4-3 to Bayern with United scoring a couple of late goals in what the Americans would call ‘garbage time’ as they gave the result a flattering appearance. Over 3.5 goals this time is 27/20 with Unibet.
• Arsenal need a striker to tuck away the numerous chances they create if their season isn’t going to fade away once again after an exciting start. Meanwhile, Leandro Trossard is 7/2 to score in the dead rubber when the Gunners travel to PSV Eindhoven for the final match of a successful Group B campaign.
• Blackburn, West Brom, Ipswich, Oxford and Crewe form Tuesday’s Football League and FA Cup acca.
