Simon Stone
BBC Sport Manchester United reporter

There are so many reasons why Manchester United need to beat Serie A outfit Roma at Old Trafford tomorrow night.

Clearly they need to end that horrendous sequence of nine games without a win - the last time they went 10 was across two seasons in 1983-84 and 1984-85, in one season it was 1977-78.

But they also need to win to ease pressure on their Champions League campaign.

United probably need at least nine points to secure a top-24 berth and book a play-off.

Currently they have three. After tomorrow, they have four games left, which include a meeting with Bayern Munich at Old Trafford in January.

Their other home game is against RB Leipzig next month, whilst there is a trip to Sporting in three weeks time and a final day visit to Villarreal.

This was always a tough set of fixtures. It looks even harder to plot a path through it right now.

According to Opta's supercomputer, Manchester United certainly aren't too good to go down.

They are by no means the favourites to face the drop, but the supercomputer has given them a 22.96% chance of playing in the Championship next season.

The current bottom three are all given a higher percentage probability than Michael Carrick's side while Hull City (29.5%), Coventry City (37.2%), Ipswich Town (24.52%) and Fulham (23.56%) - all of whom currently sit above the Red Devils in the table, have all been given a greater chance of relegation.