AS Roma 3:2 Manchester United

Dve · May 5, 2021

................. De Gea

Bissaka - Bailly - Maguire - Telles

............ Pogba - Matic

Mata ........ Donny ....... Rashford

............ Greenwood

Subs:

Mata > Amad
Pogba > McTominay
Bissaka > Tuanzebe

Samid · May 5, 2021

Our last Thursday European night ever. Enjoy it lads.

Smores · May 5, 2021

At a minimum we have to test Bruno, Cavani and Rashford. I'd imagine Telles will start too.

JoeyJoJoJrShabadoo · May 5, 2021

If Rashford plays in this game then I demand the medical team get 30 lashes

Samid · May 5, 2021

Smores said:
At a minimum we have to test Bruno, Cavani and Rashford. I'd imagine Telles will start too.

Haven't they been tested enough this season? This fanbase man.

UNITED ACADEMY · May 5, 2021

Pretty sure we will play our full back four just to be safe and probably play Bruno, James, Greenwood & Rashford. It's semi final, if Roma see half of the XI are weak ones, they will be pumped to try to score 4 goals. I think the aim is like the Sociedad game which try to make sure it's draw or winning in first leg and then make subs in half time to rest our main players.

Personally, I would start VDB, Rashford, Diallo/Mata, Telles & Bruno. Play Greenwood in the weekend.

lost7 · May 6, 2021

Considering we have 4 games in 9 days, I'd say Ole should rotate a bit today. And make subs in the first half if the game is done for the remaining key players

always_hoping · May 6, 2021

Swedish_Plumber said:
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.

Certainly has been a joke and according to some the Premier league couldn't move Villa v Liverpool forward a few days because it would be unfair.

ClaytonBlackmoorLeftPeg · May 6, 2021

lost7 said:
Considering we have 4 games in 9 days, I'd say Ole should rotate a bit today. And make subs in the first half if the game is done for the remaining key players

5 subs?

I think we will see a strong starting 11. Perhaps 8 of our strongest 11, and depending how the game goes, a couple of subs at half time, and then the other 3 throughout the 2nd half.

we have a great lead, but we won’t put out a reserve side.

Bertie Wooster · May 6, 2021

I'm just grateful this is an away game and so should be 'allowed' to go ahead. :rolleyes:

I'm sure the team has already been planned before the rescheduled games, so I can't see Ole changing his planned starting line up this late but it might effect how long he gives the starters (if things go well).

The first thing to do is make sure we don't find ourselves 2-0 down and the tie alive again, so I'm sure we'll start with a strong line up and look to keep them out until HT, or at least get an away goal or two, before making changes.

Hopefully, there'll be opportunites for the likes of Amad, Elanga, VDB to come on as subs. Although I suspect we'll see Mata used as a sub as well as I think he'll be trusted ahead of the others as a starter in some of those league games and will be given some much needed game time for match fitness.

groovyalbert · May 6, 2021

DDG

AWB
Bailly
Maguire
Telles

Matic
McTominay
VdB

Diallo
Cavani
Rashford

Chicharo · May 6, 2021

It will probably be a pretty strong starting 11, otherwise, Ole would of left some of the key players in Manchester, but I hope they will not play that much. As for being on the safe side, for Christ sake, we've won 6-2. If we lose this tie or even bring ourselves in a position to be in danger of losing it, then we should issue an official statement asking to be relegated and play in the National League.
Especially because there is no chance we won't score at least once

Pexbo · May 6, 2021

De Gea
AWB - Bailly - Maguire - Telles
McTominay -Matic
VDB
Greenwood - Cavani - James

DomesticTadpole · May 6, 2021

Pexbo said:
De Gea
AWB - Bailly - Maguire - Telles
McTominay -Matic
VDB
Greenwood - Cavani - James

James isn't there.

Pexbo · May 6, 2021

DomesticTadpole said:
James isn't there.

Shows how little interest I’m taking these days. Diallo?

always_hoping · May 6, 2021

Romas home record in the Europa league this season

P6 W4 D2 L0 F15 A3

They went through last seasons Europa league campaign without losing a home game. Against Real Madrid in the Champions league in November 2018 their last home defeat in Europe.

In the Serie A this season they lost just 2 of their home games (2-0 v Napoli, 2-1 v AC Milan) only champions Inter lost fewer games at home.

Stevondo8 · May 6, 2021

De gea
AWB Bailly Maguire telles
Fred mctominay
Amad Bruno pogba
Greenwood

sub of Bruno, Pogba, greenwood after no more than an hour

full strength against villa, rotate against Leicester, full strength against pool.

Inigo Montoya · May 6, 2021

Pogba is on a yellow isn’t he? If he gets another does he miss the next game( fingers crossed it’s the final)?

united_99 · May 6, 2021

Inigo Montoya said:
Pogba is on a yellow isn’t he? If he gets another does he miss the next game( fingers crossed it’s the final)?

No, he would need to be on 3 yellows for that from 2 semi final games (would have been sent off then anyway).

Annihilate Now! · May 6, 2021

With how much game we've got coming up, I would be resting a fair few.... Telles in for Shaw, Matic in for Fred, VDB for Bruno, Mata for Rashford, Mason for Cavani.

Inigo Montoya · May 6, 2021

united_99 said:
No, he would need to be on 3 yellows for that from 2 semi final games (would have been sent off then anyway).

Thanks. Still feel it’s a risky selection. I’m
convinced that Roma will try and target one or two of ours tonight out of spite

Inigo Montoya · May 6, 2021

Annihilate Now! said:
With how much game we've got coming up, I would be resting a fair few.... Telles in for Shaw, Matic in for Fred, VDB for Bruno, Mata for Rashford, Mason for Cavani.

Yeah, not more than 4/5 though. Starts to look very unbalanced

Jaxa · May 6, 2021

You're all mad if you think Ole will heavily rotate, they players haven't played for a week now so I fully expect to see Rashford, Pogba, Bruno , Cavani all start etc.

Team I would like to see him start:

De Gea
AWB - Bailly - Maguire - Telles
Matic
Bruno - Donny
Mata - Greenwood - Amad

Team I expect to see start:

De Gea
AWB - Lindelof - Maguire - Shaw
Fred - Scott
Bruno
Rashford - Cavani - Pogba

Red Royal · May 6, 2021

roonster09 said:
No. They give clean slate after QF. So 2 yellow cards doesn't mean suspension. IIRC it's for 3 yellow cards.

Players will miss finals only if they get red card in semi finals.

Thank you.. that is good to know. Hopefully no early yellows then and if there is, especially to a defender/midfielder perhaps take them off.

Bertie Wooster · May 6, 2021

Jaxa said:
You're all mad if you think Ole will heavily rotate, they players haven't played for a week now so I fully expect to see Rashford, Pogba, Bruno , Cavani all start etc.

Team I would like to see him start:

De Gea
AWB - Bailly - Maguire - Telles
Matic
Bruno - Donny
Mata - Greenwood - Amad

Team I expect to see start:

De Gea
AWB - Lindelof - Maguire - Shaw
Fred - Scott
Bruno
Rashford - Cavani - Pogba

Squad management is about looking ahead as well as back, and while, yeah, we've not played for a week, this is now the first of 4 games in 8 days - Thursday, Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday - so players are going to have to be rotated throughout that run and I can see why some think a game in which we 'start' with a 4 goal lead is a decent one to rotate.

That said, I agree that, with the EL the main priority, I personally think Ole will, and should, start with a strong team and then look to make changes as the game progresses. It's not 'mad' to discuss heavy rotation given the crazy schedule we've suddenly been landed with after the protests, but I don't think Ole will take any risks from the start tonight and just look to sub them off from HT onwards depending on the scoreline.

Robindinho · May 6, 2021

Ole said yesterday in his press conference that he’d make one or two changes. That was before the Liverpool game was announced and now having 4 games in 8 days. I’d expect a couple more now...

De gea
Awb Bailly Maguire Telles
Matic Fred
Greenwood VdB Pogba
Cavani

Rustyspider13 · May 6, 2021

I expect the strongest team for both Roma and Villa with the exception of Cavani and maybe Rashford. The schedule ahead only affects selection for the Leicester game imo. Maguire and AWB are the two players that worry me the most, as we have no real alternative to them. I hope Ole goes with Williams or Tuanzebe in one of the games before Liverpool.

Lemon Moon · May 6, 2021

Can we make 5 subs? If so, go full strength to see the tie out. Hopefully win the first half, make 3 changes at HT (take Rashford, Bruno, Shaw off) then make the last 2 changes halfway through the second half.

Ensure we get to the final!

Roma scored 2 past us without having stringed more than 60 passes together. It would be very sensible to not underestimate them and play a strong side. We can always hook our key players once the job is done.
There's no point going playing our B side, going 3 goals down and then defending like mad demons for the last 20 mins.

Go out, get the job done.

diarm · May 6, 2021

Samid said:
Our last Thursday European night ever. Enjoy it lads.

I feel like you said this last year.

Lemon Moon · May 6, 2021

ClaytonBlackmoorLeftPeg said:
5 subs?

I think we will see a strong starting 11. Perhaps 8 of our strongest 11, and depending how the game goes, a couple of subs at half time, and then the other 3 throughout the 2nd half.

we have a great lead, but we won’t put out a reserve side.

For sure! Some of these line ups... Jesus Christ

Green_Red · May 6, 2021

Who's going to put their money where their mouths are and not tune in tonight in protest at the Glazers?

Schmeichel's Cartwheel · May 6, 2021

DDG
AWB Bailly Maguire Telles
Van de Beek Matic
James Mata Rashford
Greenwood

Raw · May 6, 2021

Green_Red said:
Who's going to put their money where their mouths are and not tune in tonight in protest at the Glazers?

There are ways of watching without paying a penny. I condemn such disgusting acts of thievery of course.

Samid · May 6, 2021

diarm said:
I feel like you said this last year.

Possibly. But with the proposed changes to CL it will by design make it highly unlikely for us to enter the EL. I think they're scrapping the dropping down to EL from CL elimination thing. Even if we finish outside of top 4 we'd most of the times get one of the 'highest ranked non-qualified' spots because of our healthy coefficients. The teams who generally are ahead of us in the coefficients are teams that never fail to qualify through their domestic leagues.

red_de_pologne · May 6, 2021

Expect Bailly, Donny, Telles and Martial (if fit) to start.

James35 · May 6, 2021

De Gea, Telles, Maguire, Bailly, Williams, Fred, Matic, Donny, Pogba, Greenwood, Amad.

Won't happen but I'd like to see Amad get a start, hate seeing Dan James play but I'm sure he will start instead.

Relfy · May 6, 2021

You'd expect poor Donny will get a game here! This should be setup near perfectly for us. Roma have to come looking for goals which will leave space in behind. Exploit that and we should cruise this game and the tie. Kill them off before HT and get minutes into a few legs of the squad players.

Ole's screen · May 6, 2021

Expecting this:

DDG
AWB-Lindelof-Maguire-Shaw
McTominay-Fred
Greenwood-Bruno-Pogba
Cavani

Just rest Rashford for a game please. I genuinely fear for his long term career prospects at this point. The guy needs a few months off from football to recover and he's not looking like getting it til summer 2022 at the earliest.

Adcuth · May 6, 2021

Stevondo8 said:
De gea
AWB Bailly Maguire telles
Fred mctominay
Amad Bruno pogba
Greenwood

sub of Bruno, Pogba, greenwood after no more than an hour

full strength against villa, rotate against Leicester, full strength against pool.

Id be ok with that.

buckooo1978 · May 6, 2021

Please rotate

---------------------------DDG-------------------------------
AWB-------Bailly-----------Maguire------Telles
-------------------------Matic-----------------------------
------------McTominay---Van De Beek------
Mata-------------Greenwood------------James

subs: Tuanzebe for Maguire
Amad for Greenwood
Williams for AWB

all being well

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