The Manchester United head coach, Marc Skinner, has hailed OL Lyonnes as Europe’s best team but urged his side to take the game to the eight-time European champions in Leigh on Wednesday. Skinner’s team are a point behind the French club in the Women’s Champions League table after winning three of their first four matches in their debut campaign at this stage of the competition, meaning they have secured at least a knockout-phase playoff spot. Both sides hope to finish in the top four to progress automatically to the quarter-finals, and Skinner said: “We’re playing the best team in Europe. I know Barcelona are up there as well, but Lyon have the capacity to be the best team in Europe, so we’re going to need them [the fans], and what I want Lyon to feel tomorrow is the force that Manchester United are and can become.“Lyon have the ability to create something from nothing in any moment of the game. We have to concentrate and be at our very best.