Manchester United v Ajax: live 19.20 Phil Jones will captain United tonight. Phil Jones is only 20. Those two facts, taken in tandem, really are rather stunning. Not even Duncan Edwards captained United that young. Then again, Duncan Edwards never played in a Europa League dead rubber. 19.15 Here, then, are your real teams. Man Utd (4-4-2): De Gea; Rafael, Jones, Smalling, Fabio; Nani, Park, Cleverley, Young; Hernandez, Berbatov. Subs: Amos, Evra, Evans, Giggs, Carrick, Scholes, Welbeck. Ajax (4-3-3): Vermeer; Van Rhijn, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Koppers; De Jong, Anita, Eriksen; Ozbiliz, Lodeiro, Sulejmani. Subs: Cillessen, Ebecilio, Ooijer, Blind, Serero, Aissati, Klaassen. Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia) 19.05 The current Ajax team, as we saw on their home turf last week, is such a painfully poor shadow of Ajax's former self that it almost seems fraudulent, like when The Doors decided to carry on without Jim Morrison and hoped nobody would notice. Their chances of overturning a 2-0 deficit at Old Trafford tonight and thus qualifying for the last-16 of the Europa League ('Because UEFA Cares, Even If You Don't') would appear to be roughly equivalent to the chances of putting a potato and a tomato into a blender and hoping it'll pour out a Bloody Mary: not physically impossible, but certainly too unlikely to put money on. United, meanwhile, are still quite good, but still nowhere near becoming a 'great' United side. Although I have to say Jonny Evans really is growing on me. As a defender, and as a man. So tonight we slosh in the still warm pool of yesteryear. Let's remember the greatness. The Ajax side that beat AC Milan in the 1995 Champions League final. The 2008 United team that set a new high watermark for English football in Moscow. But let's not only remember them, let's play them off against each other. Let's create a fixture between the two sides using nothing but our imaginations, on a pristine pitch, with both teams supernaturally in their prime. This does mean the 24-year-old Edwin van der Sar coming face-to-face with the 37-year-old Edwin van der Sar, and presumably being thoroughly baffled by the experience. First of all, the two teams. We'll go with the teams that played in the final: Ajax 1995 (3-3-1-3): Van der Sar; Reiziger, Blind, F de Boer; Seedorf, Rijkaard, Davids; Litmanen; George, R de Boer, Overmars. Subs: Grim, Bogarde, Kluivert, Van Vossen, Kanu. Manchester United 2008 (4-4-1-1): Van der Sar; Brown, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra; Hargreaves, Scholes, Carrick, Ronaldo; Rooney; Tevez. Subs: Kuszczak, O'Shea, Silvestre, Anderson, Fletcher, Giggs, Nani. Referee: Pierluigi Collina You'll note that United have two extra subs. But that evens itself out, because they also have Wes Brown. Now, to reacquaint yourself with the two teams: Right. Get emailing! If there's enough interest, we'll definitely simulate the game at half-time. If not, we'll forget this whole thing ever happened. Real, current-day teams and team news to follow.