AS Roma 3:2 Manchester United

MyOnlySolskjaer · May 5, 2021

Both teams are going to have some awkward press conferences.

mitchmouse · May 5, 2021

My maths is awful but to my shock I find it's better than some people here... lose 4-0 and we're out! Four

mitchmouse · May 5, 2021

Anyone think Roma will get a "new manager" bump?

VP89 · May 5, 2021

mitchmouse said:
Anyone think Roma will get a "new manager" bump?

Jose only joins from next season onwards

mitchmouse · May 5, 2021

VP89 said:
Jose only joins from next season onwards

I was joking!

Grande · May 5, 2021

mitchmouse said:
Anyone think Roma will get a "new manager" bump?

The double irony of fate is that Ole took down Mourinho’s team thorougly and next thing he was fired. Then Ole dismantles another team so heavily that they go on hiring Mourinho. Ole is certainly a guy with a conscience!

theklr · May 5, 2021

Full strength first half to preserve match fitness, then 3 or 4 subs for 2nd half

A-man · May 5, 2021

This would be a good game to give minutes to some of Telles, Bailly, Tuanzebe, Williams, Donny, Diallo,... but not too many of them as they need to play with starting xi players.

Champ · May 5, 2021

theklr said:
Full strength first half to preserve match fitness, then 3 or 4 subs for 2nd half

Yup, exactly this.
No need to rest players after the enforced week long period without a game, start strong, make 5 changes and we are good to go.

Sunny Jim · May 5, 2021

Samid said:
6 - 2(*2) = United 6 - 4 Roma
2 - 0(*2) = Roma 2 - 0 United

6-6 on aggregate. They progress on 2vs0 away goals.

Your logic is sound.

Pexbo · May 5, 2021

mitchmouse said:
My maths is awful but to my shock I find it's better than some people here... lose 4-0 and we're out! Four

No your maths is absolutely correct, of course we would be out when it’s 6-10 on aggregate.

DWelbz19 · May 5, 2021

Garethw said:
The Liverpool game being postponed probably means that this will be an almost full strength lineup.

Probably, yeah. Would love to see Amad get some lengthy game time today though.

Speedicut75 · May 5, 2021

VP89 said:
Jose only joins from next season onwards

Bet Chris Smalling must be delighted.

JakeC · May 5, 2021

What I'd like: DDG, Williams, Axel, Bailly, Telles, Matic, VDB, Amad, Mata, James, Greenwood

What it will be: DDG, AWB, Bailly, Maguire, Shaw, McTominay, Fred, Pogba, Bruno, James, Cavani

Hughes35 · May 5, 2021

Rest players ahead of Sunday please. The below should be more than enough to still win the game.

-----------------------------------------De Gea--------------------------
Axel------------------Lindelof---------------Bailly---------------Telles
----------------------------Matic-------------DVB----------------------
Diallo-----------------------------Mata-----------------------------James
---------------------------------Greenwood------------------------

Get Greenwood off after an hour for Rashford. If the game is still dead then would be good to see Shoretire get a few minutes.

I expect we will go much too strong tomorrow and then be sluggish Sunday.

van Persie · May 5, 2021

If we can't trust our bench to defend a 6-2 lead we have some work on our hands

Greenwood
James Mata Diallo
Matic van de Beek
Telles Bailly Tuanzebe Williams
De Gea

Good combination of youth and experience

AngeloHenriquez · May 5, 2021

van Persie said:
If we can't trust our bench to defend a 6-2 lead we have some work on our hands

Greenwood
James Mata Diallo
Matic van de Beek
Telles Bailly Tuanzebe Williams
De Gea

Good combination of youth and experience

This all day long but I think the semi final record is playing on his mind in truth. There is experience there with DDG, Mata, Matic, VDB, Bailly, Telles, all have played European football at a high level and none of the others are so awful we would expect to lose 4 nil.

kafta · May 5, 2021

DDG
Williams Bailly Maguire Telles
Matic VDB
James Fernandes Pogba
Greenwood

With 5 subs, we should be able to take off the more senior players on the 60th min mark.

Gator Nate · May 5, 2021

kafta said:
DDG
Williams Bailly Maguire Telles
Matic VDB
James Fernandes Pogba
Greenwood

With 5 subs, we should be able to take off the more senior players on the 60th min mark.

This was pretty close my first thought at a starting XI, but Ole's not going to do that. I do think he'll start a bit stronger, probably with Greenwood on the right, Cavani in the middle, and Fred instead of VDB. AWB will probably be in RB, as well. But he will use all five subs, probably two or three at the half if we're up.

Havak · May 5, 2021

Goalkeepers: David De Gea, Dean Henderson, Lee Grant, Nathan Bishop.

Defenders: Victor Lindelof, Eric Bailly, Harry Maguire, Luke Shaw, Alex Telles, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Brandon Williams, Axel Tuanzebe.

Midfielders: Paul Pogba, Juan Mata, Fred, Bruno Fernandes, Amad, Nemanja Matic, Donny van de Beek, Scott McTominay.

Forwards: Edinson Cavani, Marcus Rashford, Mason Greenwood, Anthony Elanga.

Don't expect a massively weakened side despite the scoreline. I moreso expect a strong side in the first half, but more substitutions than usual (and earlier).

lysglimt · May 5, 2021

Journalist:; Paulo - how many matches have you left ?
Paulo: ZRI...ZRI...sticking 3 fingers up

Buster15 · May 5, 2021

A-man said:
This would be a good game to give minutes to some of Telles, Bailly, Tuanzebe, Williams, Donny, Diallo,... but not too many of them as they need to play with starting xi players.

Brandon Williams seems to have been forgotten about. And yet, I was quite impressed with him when he broke into the team last year.
Ok. He is not as good yet as Luke Shaw, but I thought he showed a lot of promise.

11101 · May 5, 2021

Top 4 secure and nothing else to play for but this. Might as well put a good team out and ensure we keep sharp and the momentum going for Villa and the remaining games. 2nd and a Europa League trophy would be a reasonable season.

united_99 · May 5, 2021

We have had a week rest so will probably play a strong side with possibly only 1 or 2 starters on the bench.

A-man · May 5, 2021

Buster15 said:
Brandon Williams seems to have been forgotten about. And yet, I was quite impressed with him when he broke into the team last year.
Ok. He is not as good yet as Luke Shaw, but I thought he showed a lot of promise.

Yes he has totally disappeared. Was one of the positive surprises and now... nothing.

BorisManUtd · May 5, 2021

De Gea, AWB, Lindelof, Maguire, Telles, Fred, McTominay, Mata, van de Beek, James, Greenwood.

No need for Shaw, Bruno, Pogba, Cavani to start, neither for both of Maguire/Lindelof and Fred/McTominay but don't think Ole will rest all of starting players even if we're going into it with 6-2 lead. 5 changes available are great thing as we can see Amad Diallo get some minutes hopefully. If van de Beek doesn't start this one then he never will I'm afraid :lol:

bsCallout · May 5, 2021

Some of you are mad heads wanting changes all through the team. The only players rested should be those with niggles.

Gandalf · May 5, 2021

With the news on the rearranged fixture with Liverpool I think Ole might rotate more than originaly planned;

DDG
AWB Bailly Maguire Telles
Matic Fred
Greenwood Bruno DVB
Cavani

Something like this and then provided the wheels don't come off in the first half get Mata, Amad, Shoretire, Williams etc. on early

always_hoping · May 5, 2021

bsCallout said:
Some of you are mad heads wanting changes all through the team. The only players rested should be those with niggles.

With this busy schedule ahead I think it's clear a number of players will be rested tomorrow. And at this stage in the season most will have niggles.

May 6th Roma (A)
May 9th Villa (A)
May 11th Leicester (H)
May 13th Liverpool (H)
May 18th Fulham (H)
May 23rd Wolves (A)
May 26th Possible EL final

Bwuk · May 5, 2021

With a view to Aston Villa next, I'd rotate some players and look to make changes early. Bruno/AWB/McTominay/Greenwood all subbed off.

De Gea
AWB - Bailly - Maguire - Telles
Matic - McTominay
James - Bruno - Van de Beek
Greenwood

[/CENTER]

Swedish_Plumber · May 5, 2021

Got to be resting some players here. Get a win against Villa on Sunday before the ridiculous 72 hours after that.
Player welfare this season has been an utter joke.

032Devil · May 5, 2021

My team:

De Gea
AWB - Bailly - Maguire - Telles
McTominay - Fred
Greenwood - Fernandes - Pogba
Cavani

If we score a couple of goal then:

De Gea
AWB - Bailly - Maguire - Telles
McTominay - Fred
Mata - Van de Beek - James or Diallo
Greenwood

JoeyJoJoJrShabadoo · May 5, 2021

Get half the reserves on ffs next week gonna be murder

tidraKS · May 5, 2021

Can we just not go there at all and lose 3:0

032Devil · May 5, 2021

JoeyJoJoJrShabadoo said:
Get half the reserves on ffs next week gonna be murder

We don't want a repeat of what happened in Turkey.

Mihai · May 5, 2021

tidraKS said:
Can we just not go there at all and lose 3:0

We'd be out, 6-7

DomesticTadpole · May 5, 2021

Mihai said:
We'd be out, 6-7

Wouldn't we go through 6-5?

Gandalf · May 5, 2021

Bwuk said:
With a view to Aston Villa next, I'd rotate some players and look to make changes early. Bruno/AWB/McTominay/Greenwood all subbed off.

De Gea
AWB - Bailly - Maguire - Telles
Matic - McTominay
James - Bruno - Van de Beek
Greenwood
[/CENTER]

Something like that but James is injured and probably out for another week or two.

jderbyshire · May 5, 2021

Don't think we'll be resting a lot. I imagine it will be more or less full strength, and then use the 5 subs to get Rashford, Bruno etc off and ready for Villa.

De Gea
AWB Lindelof Maguire Shaw
McTominay Matic
Rashford Bruno Pogba
Greenwood

Samid · May 5, 2021

DomesticTadpole said:
Wouldn't we go through 6-5?

They have 2 away goals.

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