Europa League Semi-finals 2nd Leg

Manchester United 4:1 Athletic Club

Old Trafford

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Thu, 8 May 2025 @ 8:00pm BST
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    Which minute will Lindelof's first mistake trying to play out from the back in? 3rd?
     
    The Lindelof comments :lol: . We’re one centre back injury away from a real crisis, it was pretty obvious he was going to start. I don’t like it much either but De Ligt, Heaven and Dalot have to get fit again and Shaw has to play a hell of a lot better to start more often.
     
    Bilbao are coming to Old Trafford to take their medicine after their social media posts and acting like fools last week.

    Early Utd goal will kill the tie and then we may be generous enough to just make it a professional job rather than tearing them to shreds at will again.
     
    I fancy Spurs to cock it up tonight and not go through. Bodo looked a decent side against us and they're bound to be stronger at home.

    In other news, it's almost inevitable that we'll conceed a goal inside the first five minutes and the whole thing will become stressful :lol:
     
    The Lindelof comments :lol: . We’re one centre back injury away from a real crisis, it was pretty obvious he was going to start. I don’t like it much either but De Ligt, Heaven and Dalot have to get fit again and Shaw has to play a hell of a lot better to start more often.

    We could have played Bayindir, Heaton, Mount, Eriksen, Kobbie or Amad at CB instead
     
    Lindelöf had a few shaky minutes last week like the whole team, but he's been totally fine when called up the last weeks otherwise
     
    Not impossible but very unlikely. I mean didn’t Bournemouth beat us 3-0 here this season? But I’d like to think we’ve turned a corner or at least in Europe we’ve been pretty decent
    We’re still unbeaten in Europa this season.
     
    Scholes and Hargreaves trying to change the subject when Nani says they used to call them Ferraro Roche!
     
    Which minute will Lindelof's first mistake trying to play out from the back in? 3rd?

    He’s not great, but in his defence he’s not had a lot of game time. I feel like he’s had a chance to get his eye in in the last few weeks, and will probably just be mildly shit tonight, rather than horrifically so.

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    An early red card feels like our likeliest Achilles heel tonight. I just hope nobody loses their head or does anything stupid.
     
    Ugarte better be all over Berenguer like a bad rash. He looked really dangerous in that hairy first 20 minutes in the first leg, floating around in the half space and receiving the ball under no real pressure over and over again.
     
    Nani. :drool: Good to see him on the TNT coverage. One of my favourite United players from the last 20 years.
     
    Will be curious to see how many of Spurs' various crocks survive 90+ mins of a potentially high intensity game on the plastic pitch, even if they do get through.
     
    Hope we're in a good enough position to bring some kids on for the last 10 minutes (hopefully up by 2 on the night, 5 on aggregate).

    I wish I had your confidence, my gut feeling is that this is going to overtime..

    I am an incurable pessimist when it comes to predicting our games though, I also thought we'd be down by 2 goals going into tonight's game so hopefully my gut is wrong again.
     
    The weather looks fecking miserable at the Spurs game.

    I've got a good feeling about this evening.
     
    Maddison and Bergval out for the season. Not watched Tottenham much this season, so not sure, but is that a big miss for them, going into a potential final?
    They’ve outclassed us 3 times this season. Including the best performance of any team at Old Trafford. I’m scared.
     
    Whatever we do, we cannot concede in the first 20 minutes. They will come out like a house on fire and we need to be ready for that. If we get through their initial phase unscathed, we should be fine.
     
    They’ve outclassed us 3 times this season. Including the best performance of any team at Old Trafford. I’m scared.

    They did not outclass us in the league cup. Amorim made a bad call in rotating the side when they were there for the taking and they looked scared as f in the final stages of that match.
     
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Man of the Match

Mason Mount image Mason Mount 62% of 233 votes

Runners-up

Player Ratings

6.2 Total Average Rating

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Compiled from 221 ratings.

Score Predictions

70,26,42
  • Man Utd win
  • Athletic Club win
  • Draw

Detailed Results

  • 28% Man Utd 2:1 Athletic Club
  • 21% Man Utd 1:1 Athletic Club
  • 10% Man Utd 2:0 Athletic Club
  • 7% Man Utd 1:2 Athletic Club
  • 7% Man Utd 3:1 Athletic Club
  • 7% Man Utd 2:2 Athletic Club
  • 5% Man Utd 1:0 Athletic Club
  • 4% Man Utd 0:3 Athletic Club
  • 3% Man Utd 0:0 Athletic Club
  • 2% Man Utd 1:3 Athletic Club
  • 1% Man Utd 2:4 Athletic Club
  • 1% Man Utd 0:1 Athletic Club
  • 1% Man Utd 0:4 Athletic Club
  • 1% Man Utd 0:2 Athletic Club
  • 1% Man Utd 4:1 Athletic Club
  • 1% Man Utd 1:5 Athletic Club
  • 1% Man Utd 4:3 Athletic Club
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