[Ban]

Excitement for tomorrow just took a little bit of a hit finding out that Jose will be in the studio for it. You just know his negativity will sink it’s way down to the players.

Yeah I bet all they'll think about is that Jose is in Sky studio..

I cant phantom why do people still think so much about him.

 

[flappyjay]

Very excited for the season to start for us now.

Looking forward to seeing people rating jones higher than maguire if we lose.

Would rather start with lingard than greenwood or james. Midfield is anyones guess, depends where we play pogba, if its further forward then mctominay and matic i would guess. Gomes at 10 if we play pogba in a two. Back 4 picks itself really.

Gomes was playing for the u23s if he was a full time senior he wouldn't be getting involved. He will play in the cups is my guess. The sad reality is if Paul plays deep the number 10 spot is Mata/lingard.

 

[Damien]

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No Matic, McTominay or Fred pictured.

 

[Redcy]

If that’s true I am guessing

Pereira-Pogba
Mata

Lingard-Martial-Rashford

 

[Cee90]

We'll probably get tonked 4:0.

No way.

I’m confident of a win here. Seems like the majority of other United fans are too.

I’ll go 3-1 United.

 

[flappyjay]

De gea

Victor Smalling Maguire

Bissaka...........................shaw

Pogba.........Pereira

Jesse

Martial........ Rashy

 

[Ban]

De gea

Victor Smalling Maguire

Bissaka...........................shaw

Pogba.........Pereira

Jesse

Martial........ Rashy

Strong 4-2-1-2 formation?

 

[Adisa]

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No Matic, McTominay or Fred pictured.

Imagine they were injured for a minute. Negligent not to bring at least one midfielder in.

 

[Teja]

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No Matic, McTominay or Fred pictured.

Any idea why? CM is going to be woefully light. Maybe we'll play one of our CBs (Rojo?) at DM.

EDIT: Nevermind - just re-read and noticed that Matic and McTominay are expected to be in the squad.

 

[flappyjay]

Strong 4-2-1-2 formation?

Thats a back three. I don't trust our midfield defensively without McTominay and even Matic.

 

[BusbyMalone]

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No Matic, McTominay or Fred pictured.

They can't all be injured surely.

 

[Damien]

Imagine they were injured for a minute. Negligent not to bring at least one midfielder in.

Any idea why? CM is going to be woefully light. Maybe we'll play one of our CBs (Rojo?) at DM.

EDIT: Nevermind - just re-read and noticed that Matic and McTominay are expected to be in the squad.

Someone replied to the tweet with a picture of McTominay which I assume was taken today (fits with the other pictures of players coming off the bus). Don't know why the United photographers missed him.

Fred and Matic not accounted for but I'd be very surprised if Matic wasn't in the squad.

 

[ArjenIsM3]

They can't all be injured surely.

That would be hilarious

 

[Cee90]

Who do we expect to play on the right?

Greenwood, James, Lingard?

 

[Damien]

Someone replied to the tweet with a picture of McTominay which I assume was taken today (fits with the other pictures of players coming off the bus). Don't know why the United photographers missed him.

Fred and Matic not accounted for but I'd be very surprised if Matic wasn't in the squad.

They replied again saying they've not seen either. Honestly, under Ole it has pretty much always been that the squad at the hotel is the squad who will be at Old Trafford for the match with no new additions so I'm going to assume there is no Matic.

I'd guess team would be something like:

De Gea

Wan-Bissaka Lindelof Maguire Shaw
McTominay Pogba
Lingard Mata Rashford
Martial​

Subs:
1. Romero
2. Dalot or Young (we know it'll be Young)
3. Jones, Smalling or Tuanzebe
4. Andreas
5. Chong or Gomes
6. James
7. Greenwood

Would love it if it was Greenwood instead of Lingard or Mata.

 

[Random Task]

DDG
​

AWB - Lindelof - Maguire - Shaw

McT - Pogba - Fred

Rash - Martial - James
​

Could easily replace Fred with one of Periera or Gomes. Disappointing not getting a new midfielder in but thems the breaks.

3-1 United.

The 'you win nothing with kids brigade' will be in a minor state of shock come the end of the game.

 

[No Idea For Nickname]

Someone else is missing on that list.
Rojo. Alexis.
Maybe they are leaving.

 

[Seven Seas Sardines]

I don't understand how people can put Mata in there. It's obvious it's going to be fast-paced and lots of pressing from both sides, and Mata would completely ruin it all by himself. Ole knows that he needs runners in this game, and he'd probably prefer to play Mata against parked buses. At least I hope so.

 

[Random Task]

Someone else is missing on that list.
Rojo. Alexis.
Maybe they are leaving.

Good spot.

Good riddance if that's the case.

 

[Damien]

Someone else is missing on that list.
Rojo. Alexis.
Maybe they are leaving.

Alexis came back not that long ago.

Rojo and Darmian are definitely on the way out if we can find a buyer though.

 

[No Idea For Nickname]

Good spot.

Good riddance if that's the case.

Darmian missing too.

 

[BlueHaze]

Midfield and attack is still an issue for me. Who will the three main men in the midfield be and with Rashford and Martial both most comfortable in the striker position how do we get the best out of the two playing a front 3. I'm assuming Martial on the left but where does that leave James?


De Gea
Wan-Bissaka Lindelöf Maguire Shaw
McTominay Pogba Fred
James Rashford Martial

Not sure about this lineup but I'll go with that.

 

[Random Task]

Alexis came back not that long ago.

Rojo and Darmian are definitely on the way out if we can find a buyer though.

No truth to the Lazio rumours then?

 

[Hernandez - BFA]

I’ll take a scrappy 1-0 if we have to. Facing Chelsea this early is great for us as I have no doubt they’ll get better as season goes on.

All our rivals have come away with 3 points. Even at this early stage, we can’t let that gap get big.

A 2-3 point gap between us and City/Liverpool/Spurs can turn into 6 quite easily given we face our bogie team next.

 

[Damien]

No truth to the Lazio rumours then?

Thought Alexis was linked with Roma? Can't see us offloading him.

I don't understand how people can put Mata in there. It's obvious it's going to be fast-paced and lots of pressing from both sides, and Mata would completely ruin it all by himself. Ole knows that he needs runners in this game, and he'd probably prefer to play Mata against parked buses. At least I hope so.

I'd prefer not to see Mata but I'm used to seeing him in these kinds of games when I think we'd be better off without.

 

[No Idea For Nickname]

What Lazio rumours..
Hear about Roma rumours.
Someone leaving for city of Rome?
Send them all, and as a bonus give them Jones.

 

[Random Task]

Yeah I meant Roma.

Brainfarts eh. What you gonna do.

 

[HJ12]

Our newfound defensive solidity will be on display keeping a clean sheet, whilst Martial proves he's the man to wear the no.9 putting in a super performance. 2-0 to United.

 

[ash_86]

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[TheRedDevil'sAdvocate]

DDG/AWB-Lindelof-Maguire-Shaw/McT-Pogba/James-Lingard-Rashford/Martial.

 

[BusbyMalone]

Be pretty catastrophic if it's true that all those midfielders are missing

 

[Annihilate Now!]

I don't understand how people can put Mata in there. It's obvious it's going to be fast-paced and lots of pressing from both sides, and Mata would completely ruin it all by himself. Ole knows that he needs runners in this game, and he'd probably prefer to play Mata against parked buses. At least I hope so.

Probably because Mata was literally one of our best players in our last game against Chelsea, which was 3 competitive games ago.

 

[Lennon7]

I believe Lingard has more all-around to his game, even if that doesn't really include goals and assists. I imagine James will be the last 15 minutes of the match if the play has become stretched.

Lingard is shit though. I’d rather get James or Greenwood up to scratch through game time

 

[Ban]

Thats a back three. I don't trust our midfield defensively without McTominay and even Matic.

Don't think we'll play with 3 at the back.

 

[sunama]

What?

Neither would play in this game either.

We are better than Chelsea and should win.

We were better than Huddersfield in our penultimate game last season. We drew. They got relegated.
We were better than Cardiff in our final game of last season. We lose. They got relegated.
You get my drift?

 

[sunama]

I don't understand how people can put Mata in there. It's obvious it's going to be fast-paced and lots of pressing from both sides, and Mata would completely ruin it all by himself. Ole knows that he needs runners in this game, and he'd probably prefer to play Mata against parked buses. At least I hope so.

Don't use logic on this forum.

So basically, spend £50m on a fullback to just play with no fullbacks at all?

Again....too much logic is being used and this forum is not the place for logic.

 

[Snafu17]

A bit on the cheesy side but gets me hyped for tomorrow nonetheless

He used to be a lot better. I feel like these days he pretty much just overlays Avengers trailer audio with United video and that's about it.

 

[Catt]

We were better than Huddersfield in our penultimate game last season. We drew. They got relegated.
We were better than Cardiff in our final game of last season. We lose. They got relegated.
You get my drift?

Are you going to watch? Get the feeling you won't look forward to it.

 

[pseudo_canadian]

Who do we expect to play on the right?

Greenwood, James, Lingard?

Anyone but Lingard and I’d be thrilled. Hoping for Greenwood, though.

 

[Revaulx]

De gea

Victor Smalling Maguire

Bissaka...........................shaw

Pogba.........Pereira

Jesse

Martial........ Rashy

I quite like this.