90 min +1: The first of two added minutes goes by without much action.

90 min: Banega is replaced by Pizarro. Lukaku probes down the right but can’t work himself any space. United have shown more attacking ambition during the closing stages of this match than at any other point.

89 min: Rashford is bundled over 30 yards from goal. He gets up and takes the free kick himself. He sends a riser towards the top right. It’s flying wide, though it’s not clear that Rico was confident of that outcome, as he dived after it in something of a panic. Goal kick though.

87 min: Rashford cuts into the Sevilla box from the right and very nearly steers a low shot into the bottom left. The Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan had its heart in its mouth there.

86 min: Some bedlam in the Sevilla box as, just for a second, it looks like Ramirez has time to shoot from the penalty spot. He can’t get it away. Jesus Navas arrives on the scene and tries to win a penalty with a comically poor dive. Nope!

85 min: Vazquez is to be replaced by Sandro Ramirez, on loan from Everton. Er, hold on, Vincenzo Montella races to the touchline and performs the international mime for no no no no no no no no no no. Ramirez will replace the generally ineffectual Muriel instead.

83 min: Pogba drifts in from the left and chips the ball into the area for Lukaku. The striker brings the ball down with his left arm, spins and batters the ball into the bottom left. The referee isn’t having that sort of carry-on, and the effort is disallowed.

81 min: McTominay loses the ball 30 yards from his own goal. Vazquez thinks about a shot but he’s blocked by Lindelof. Rashford goes up the other end but runs the ball out of play down the right.

80 min: United make their final change of the night, sending on Martial in place of Mata.

79 min: Young flicks a ball down the left in the hope of releasing Mata. Now it’s Sevilla’s turn to showcase their offside trap. This match is petering out.

77 min: Vazquez slips a pass down the inside-right channel to release Correa. Another offside. The crowd are falling a little quiet. United haven’t played particularly well tonight, but they’re well drilled, and are frustrating their hosts.

75 min: Sanchez is replaced by Rashford.

74 min: Vazquez lifts a delicious ball down the right to release Sarabia into the United box. Sarabia tries to curl low into the bottom left, but gives it too much and the ball flies wide. And he’s offside anyway.

73 min: Sevilla are making chances - well, half chances - but they’re not threatening to take one. Muriel jinks down the right and stands one up to the far post. Sarabia rises, six yards out. He tries to steer his header back past de Gea and into the top right, but gets it all wrong. The ball loops over the bar.

72 min: Sarabia again makes his way down the right. He rolls a pass inside for N’Zonzi. Had the Sevilla midfielder taken the ball, he’d have been in a world of space down the inside right. But he lets the ball roll under his foot.

71 min: Sarabia dances down the right and delivers a peach of a low cross through the corridor of uncertainty, just in front of the United six-yard box. Muriel tries to meet it with an outstretched leg, but isn’t getting anywhere near it. De Gea is a picture of studied insouciance. Then again, when is he not?

70 min: Sanchez wheechs down the left and draws four white shirts towards him. He flicks the ball inside for Lukaku, who has McTominay and Pogba to his right. He plays a pass to neither. Half a chance to cause Sevilla some heartache there, with the home side very light at the back. But it’s gone.

68 min: Lukaku’s power earns United a corner down the left. Mata loops it in. The whistle goes for some over-excited shoving, the pressure released on Sevilla.

67 min: No danger for United. Banega wafts a poor effort straight down de Gea’s throat.

66 min: Mata knocks Banega to the ground, 25 yards from goal. A slightly pointless foul, as Sevilla were going nowhere, playing over-elaborate stuff in front of a tight back line. Danger for United.

64 min: Correa dribbles from the left into the United box with purpose. Valencia sticks with him, and the eventual attempt to curl one into the top right is awful.

63 min: Correa threatens to break free down the inside-left channel. Valencia drags him back. Free kick. No booking. Other refs would have had a field day here, but not Monsieur Turpin. The ball’s lumped into the box. Lenglet heads down from the right-hand side of the six-yard box. No power, no bother for de Gea.

61 min: Lukaku flops a weak curler straight into the wall.

60 min: A cacophony of boos and whistles, which can only mean one thing. United are on the attack. Sanchez breaks down the middle and is brought down from behind by Muriel, who should be booked but escapes. It’s a free kick, though, the best part of 30 yards out, in a central position. Lukaku looks as though he fancies this.

58 min: Muriel cuts in from the right and fizzes a low shot wide of the near post. De Gea doesn’t even bother to raise an eyebrow, so sure is he of the ball going wide. That was quite wild forward play.

57 min: Correa makes good down the left, but hesitates upon reaching the United box. He checks, and within seconds the danger is over, because the away side have flooded the area with men.

55 min: Lindelof takes a handful of Vazquez’s shirt in the centre circle. It’s cheeky, and enough to earn him a booking in the crowd’s eyes, but the referee is lenient.

54 min: De Gea plucks the ball from the sky with a yawn. He is such a presence. Sevilla win another corner soon after, but that one’s a non-event too. United will be increasingly happy with the way this is panning out. The home fans are getting a little bit frustrated.

53 min: Young gives the ball away down the left. Matic misses a tackle in the midfield. And suddenly Muriel is bearing down on the United area. He shoots from the edge of the box. The ball’s deflected wide left for a corner.

51 min: Sevilla are seeing a lot of the ball again, but not doing much with it. But suddenly Vazquez performs a little trick down the right to send Lindelof and Sanchez the wrong way. He cuts inside and looks to curl one into the top left from the edge of the box. Wild, wild, wild. That would have been some goal, but you can’t fault him for ambition.

49 min: Pogba, Sanchez and Young play some crisp one-touch stuff down the left and earn a corner. The set piece is hit deep. Mata twists and turns on the right, but can’t find anyone with his chip back inside. An early sign that United may be a bit more determined in attack during the second period; that was a passage played at a much faster pace.

47 min: Correa tears down the left and nearly jets past Valencia. But the United man recovers well and ushers Correa away from danger. Then another phase of attack, as Muriel replicates the Lukaku blooter from the first half. All Sevilla in the very early stages.

And we’re off again! No half-time changes. Sevilla get the ball rolling for the second half.

Half-time reading: Not sure United fans will particularly want to read this, but it’s hot off our production line, so please don’t shoot the po’ messenger.

45 min +1: The corner’s cleared, but the ball’s soon coming back at United. Lindelof hesitates on the edge of the area, thinking nobody’s about. Muriel nearly nips in. De Gea saves the day by blootering clear. And there’s time for yet another chance, as NAvas crosses from the right. Muriel must score, the ball dropping on his head, six yards out. But he heads straight at de Gea, whose point-blank stop is nevertheless magnificent!

45 min: De Gea is finally forced into action! The corner’s hit long from the left. Sarabia sends an overhead goalwards. N’Zonzi flick-heads it further on, and De Gea tips majestically over the bar!

44 min: Mata sashays down the left, sent into the Sevilla box after some good play by Pogba. Corner. United seriously over-elaborate, and Sevilla are tearing clear on the break! If Muriel and Escudero play it correctly, shuttling the ball left to right for Sarabia, who is in acres, United are in serious bother. But Escudero’s pass isn’t much cop, and Sevilla have to settle for yet another corner.

42 min: Banega caresses a stunning pass over the United back line to release Correa into the box on the left. Correa hesitates, then tries to trick de Gea with a low curling pass into the bottom right. The keeper’s not to be tricked by that underhit and telegraphed nonsense.

41 min: Sanchez, who has been on a rolling boil for a while, is booked for a totally needless tug on Banega in the centre circle.

40 min: Jesus Navas and Escudero combine to earn Sevilla yet another corner down the left. Yet again, the set piece proves to be a total waste of time. Sevilla are dominating possession and territory, but they’ve yet to make de Gea work in any serious way.

39 min: This is nice end-to-end fun. Escudero creams one at the United goal from distance; Smalling is forced to head behind in spectacular fashion. The corner isn’t all that.

38 min: The first serious save of the night is made. McTominay rasps one goalwards from 25 yards; Rico parries it away from the top left.

37 min: The corner is hoicked in from the right. United half clear. Sarabia has the chance to release Muriel into the box but his pass down the flank is seriously overcooked.

36 min: Matic clips Vazquez’s ankles as the Sevilla man makes his way down the right. It’s a common or garden free kick, but the crowd are demanding yellow-coloured retribution. The referee isn’t of a mind to flash a card. The resulting free kick leads to another corner for Sevilla, though.

34 min: The corner comes to nothing. United got away with one there; Banega had the chance to put them in serious trouble.

33 min: Banega nips ahead of a snoozing Lindelof, 20 yards from the United goal. He’s got a chance to shoot, and men on either side. He slips the ball down the inside left for Vazquez. The pass isn’t good, though Sevilla earn a corner.

31 min: Tempers are beginning to get a bit frayed. Sanchez runs into Mercado in the middle of the park and earns a free kick, the Sevilla man in no mood to give way. The crowd’s dander rises accordingly.

29 min: Correa bundles Lukaku to the ground in the midfield. Sanchez is quite energised by the foul, and persuades the referee into having a word with the Sevilla winger. Nothing more, mind.

27 min: Correa threatens to zip clear of Valencia down the left. But he’s held up. He cuts inside instead, and makes space to shoot from the edge of the box. No real oomph in the effort, though, and the ball dribbles towards the bottom left. De Gea gathers without much fuss.

26 min: The referee has a word with Lenglet and Lukaku, who were playing silly buggers under an aimless high ball.

25 min: But here’s one! And what a chance it is for Lukaku! Sanchez, quarterbacking from deep, wedges a glorious pass down the inside-left channel. It drops onto Lukaku’s left foot, just inside the area. Lukaku leans back and hoicks it miles over the bar.

23 min: Vazquez sends a bouncing balloon down the inside-right channel. United’s defenders don’t really deal with it, but Sevilla’s attackers aren’t on their game either, and the ball eventually reaches de Gea. Clear-cut chances are at a premium right now.

21 min: Escudero earns a corner for Sevilla with a glorious crossfield pass from the left. United clear the set piece, Sanchez beating N’Zonzi as the pair high kick on the edge of the area. Sanchez is caught late by N’Zonzi, who is booked for the clip.

19 min: Pogba’s very first act is to charge down the right with some elan. He nearly breaks clear but Escudero knocks him cleanly off the ball.

17 min: Valencia slips a pass down the right for Herrera, who attempts to return it immediately with a clever backheel. The flick is hacked clear. But Herrera’s pulled a muscle with that trick. He goes down, pulls his boot off in frustration, and eventually hobbles off to be replaced by ... Paul Pogba.

15 min: This match is beginning to open up. First Lukaku powers down the inside left and very nearly bursts through three half-arsed challenges and into the box. Not quite, he’s eventually hustled out of it. Just. Then Sevilla go up the other end, Jesus Navas dragging a shot wide left from distance. Never threatening.

14 min: Sevilla triangulate in a very pretty style 25 yards from goal. Correa tries to make space to shoot, but Matic isn’t yielding an inch. Banega bangs one goalwards from 30 yards, well over the bar.

13 min: Sevilla ping the ball around some more. But then Mata steps in to nick it, and from deep slips a fine pass down the middle to release Sanchez into space. For a brief moment it appears Sanchez will tear clear on goal, but Navas is on his shoulder, and fast. He takes the ball off Sanchez just before the United man can enter the box, and clears.

11 min: A little bit more possession for United now, as the match turns into a midfield chess battle. Both sides ping it around awhile, without doing much of note.

9 min: A searching ball by Sanchez down the right earns United their first corner of the evening. Nothing much comes of it, but that’s their first serious sortie upfield so far.

8 min: Sevilla are pressing hard. United are struggling to hold onto the ball when they get it. Again the home team pounce, and Muriel rolls a pass down the right for Sarabia. For a second it looks like the Sevilla captain will tear clear down the channel, but Young sticks to him like glue and slides the ball back to de Gea. Fine defending.

6 min: Correa tries a stepover as he perambulates down the left. Mata comes a-clattering. The home fans don’t like it, demanding some sort of punishment for United’s Spanish star, but the referee gives a free kick and nothing else. And rightly so, it was all a bit pantomime.

4 min: This has suddenly turned into a lively start by Sevilla. Lukaku tries to power upfield but he’s brushed off the ball. The home team go up the other end, and Muriel has a dig from 25 yards. It’s low but not particularly hard towards the bottom left. De Gea gets down well to parry, get up and collect.

2 min: Jesus Navas drives down the right and slips the ball to Sarabia on his outside. Sarabia takes on Young and earns a corner. Banega and McTominay challenge for a high ball. It’s half cleared. Correa probes down the left. United eventually mop up.

And we’re off! United get the ball rolling on a clear night. They launch it long, and it’s out of play by the time six seconds have elapsed. Sevilla give up possession equally quickly. Then the ball’s launched forward into the arms of Rico. Give it a chance, this game will get better.

The teams are out! Sevilla play in their first-choice white with red trim. Manchester United wear second-choice black. There’s an atmosphere all right in the Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan; that Jose Mourinho knows what he’s taking about, huh? We’ll be off in a minute or two, once hands are shaken, pennants are exchanged, coins are tossed, and poor old Zadok the Priest has his soul desecrated by Uefa.

Pre-match reading. Sid Lowe gives his verdict on the home heroes welcoming United tonight.

Jose Mourinho speaks! “McTominay is working hard every day, is feeling good and strong. He played the last match for 90 minutes. Paul meanwhile last Saturday wasn’t able to play, and this is the kind of game when a player must feel 100 percent. It is not so much tactical: Paul could fill one of the roles taken today by McTominay and Herrera. But he created some doubts by not playing last Saturday, by his own decision, he was not feeling good and created some doubts.” [BT Sport’s Des Kelly asks whether Mourinho is quite happy to call on Pogba if the situation demands it.] “Three questions in three on Paul? You don’t have other questions? Another one!” [The interview peters out, a little tension crackling in the air] “This is a difficult match. I know the atmosphere very well. I know why they are considered a cup knockout team, it’s because exactly that atmosphere helps them so much to reach their objectives.”

Sevilla make three changes to the side named for their 2-1 win at Las Palmas last Saturday. Ever Banega is back from injury, while captain Sergio Escudero and striker Lusi Muriel also return to the starting line-up. Wissam Ben Yedder and Guido Pizarro drop to the bench, while Miguel Layun misses out altogether, cup-tied having played earlier in the competition for Porto.

The big news for the visitors, meanwhile, is the omission from the starting line-up of Paul Pogba. He returns from his sick bed, having missed the FA Cup win at Huddersfield Town, but only makes the bench. Scott McTominay retains his place in the midfield, alongside the returning Ander Herrera. Also back: captain Antonio Valencia and goalkeeper David de Gea. Sergio Romero drops to the bench, while Luke Shaw and Michael Carrick miss out.