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Diego Rico knows the importance of Real Sociedad topping the group as they face Man United

Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 14 times in his career against Real Sociedad but never a goal in the Spanish club’s stadium – former Bournemouth defender Diego Rico plans to keep it that way tonight.

The visit of Manchester United is being called the biggest European game in the club’s recent history and if Real Sociedad avoid a two-goal defeat they will top the group and go straight into the last-16.

‘I think he’s the same Ronaldo as always,’ says Rico when it’s put it to him that marking the 37-year-old is not the task it once was.