Manchester United will play to win their second trophy of the season and qualify for the Champions League when they take on Ajax in the Europa League final on Wednesday.                                                                                        The Red Devils travel to Stockholm to meet a side significantly less experienced but not short of talent in their second final of the 2016-17 campaign.
Jose Mourinho's men triumphed in the EFL Cup back in March and the Portuguese's record in fixtures such as this is second to none, but he has the pressure of his entire first season at Old Trafford being judged a success or failure based on this result. Mourinho will hope to only have to make one change to the team he selected for both legs of the semi-final tie against Celta Vigo, with Chris Smalling or Phil Jones replacing the suspended Eric Bailly at centre-back.
That looks most likely to be Smalling after he trained with the main group on Tuesday while Jones and Marouane Fellaini, who has been carrying a hamstring injury but is expected to play, worked out in a smaller side session that also involved Wayne Rooney.                                                                                                                                                                Manchester United may not be used to playing in the final of Europe's secondary competition, but this is an enormous match that will define their first season under Jose Mourinho.

A return to the Champions League would seem to be a necessity in order to convince a star like Antoine Griezmann to join Mourinho's rebuilding efforts this summer and create a genuine feeling, as a consequence, that progress is being made in returning the Red Devils to the summit of world football.

Another season in the Europa League on the back of a sixth-place Premier League finish, on the other hand, would leave the EFL Cup seeming like an entirely underwhelming return.