As our league form deteriorates further expect to see greater importance placed on the Europa! Much easier route to Champions League qualification so why not?
Europa League Group L
AZ Alkmaar 0:0 Manchester United
Cars Jeans Stadium
- Kick-off
- Thu, 3 October 2019 @ 5:55pm BST
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Discussion Your Lineup Prediction
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The competition in this will be a lot stronger than when we won it under Jose and we have a weaker squad I would say, or in number at least.Greenwood
James Gomes Pereira
Matic Fred
Williams Rojo Tuanzabe Dalot
Romero
It's delusional to think we can win this. We would need to play our first team in every knockout game and pray for good luck.Make no mistake, this is going to be a tough game. AZ are in the form of their life. They're only 1 point off Ajax and PSV in the league and have recently trashed Feyenoord 0-3 away from home. They've played some very good footy this season. We on the other hand are in poor form with half our first eleven out injured and others just coming back from injuries. Hopefully Gomes is fit enough to get a chance here though he too is just coming back from injury so I'm not sure he is ready to start just yet.It'll be easy. RelaxThe match day thread only starting today a sign of the times?
Alkmaar are in good form, 3rd in the Dutch league table just 1 point off table toppers Ajax. Their only defeat was to Vitesse 2-1 who won with a 96th minute penalty. They recently beat a decent side in Feyenoord 3-0 away and in their opening Europa league game they did really well to earn a draw away to Partizan with 10 men for 60 minutes.
Ole has said the starting line up with have a mixture of youth and experience. I think that will mean starts for Tuanzebe,Greenwood (youth) and Mata,Matic (experience) the latter starting only makes any United line up even weaker.
In United's current form i'll be surprised and pleased with a win but i'll be also happy with a draw.Hehe were so fecked
Oh Jesus Christ we'll go from struggling against Rochdale to CL contenders in a year will we? Just disregard the carnage of the last 6 years will we ?
Things will change but not that much.
Have a day off mate.
Were not ready for the CL.
Cant see why there is so much Clamour for it until we vastly improve.
Get the foundation built and do it right.Happy for Romero to be able to return there. Hope he shows em he left for the better club
Correct.Romero
Dalot--Tuanzebe--Lindelof--Rojo
Matic--Fred
Lingard--Mata--Gomes
Greenwood
subs: De Gea; Williams, Maguire; McTominay, Pereira; James, ChongSome miserable and thoroughly boring cnuts on the Caf at the moment. If literally all you can be is negative why post? At least don't make every single one so unashamedly shite. Things are far from rosy but just give it a rest. Please.
A draw will be enough and a good result as well I think. I haven't watched them this season but only read good things about them. I hope we go in full throttle in this game and don't understimate them.
Okay dear. If that helps you feel better.Oh Jesus Christ we'll go from struggling against Rochdale to CL contenders in a year will we? Just disregard the carnage of the last 6 years will we ?
Things will change but not that much.
Have a day off mate.
2-1 loss.What I want:
Romero
Dalot Tuanzebe Rojo Williams
McTominay Garner
Chong Gomes Lingard
GreenwoodI wish we'd start with a fairly solid back four (based on what is available) so the attacking players can try to get a clue.
Romero
Young Tuanzebe Maguire Rojo
Fred
McT Gomes
Mata Greenwood James
1-0 United
Dont call me dear. Im not as old as you
Three pages for a match must be some sort of record low...
Possibly but it only got created less than 12 hours agoThis is no guarantee with our current form but the optimist in me hopes we can go and find some goals here, god knows we need to get some sort of positive run going. C'mon United!
I tell you what I want, what I really really want.
That team looks about as terrible as the band what coined that phrase.The big question is, will Rojo play for United again?
Romeo
Dalot Tuanzebe Maguire Rojo
Fred Matic
Lingard Mata Chong
Greenwood
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Isn't Jones injured?
I'd love to see Gomes out wide, but I'm certainly not gonna predict it until we see it!
Is that a default to typing his name here?
I thought Spice Girls were fantastic actually.
Well you didn’t have the misfortune of working retail in a tv shop when that came out and it was virtually on loop for 9 hours a day for weeks and weeksI thought Spice Girls were fantastic actually.
Well you didn’t have the misfortune of working retail in a tv shop when that came out and it was virtually on loop for 9 hours a day for weeks and weeks
I'm with @Walters_19_MuFc in that I loved the Spice Girls and that song, but I feel for you there
Here's the traveling squad, if it hadn't been posted:
Our travelling squad: David De Gea, Sergio Romero, Lee Grant; Diogo Dalot, Victor Lindelof, Harry Maguire, Axel Tuanzebe, Marcos Rojo, Brandon Williams; Scott McTominay, Nemanja Matic, Fred, James Garner, Andreas Pereira, Juan Mata, Jesse Lingard, Angel Gomes, Daniel James; Tahith Chong, Marcus Rashford, Mason Greenwood.
https://www.manutd.com/en/news/detail/man-united-announce-travelling-squad-for-az-alkmaar-trip
Decent team except for shitty spice on the left there and red hot chilli pepper next to Tuanzebe.I'd go with:
Romero
Dalot Tuanzebe Lindelof Rojo
Matic Fred
Chong Mata Gomes
Greenwood
A mix of experience and youth plus giving more game time to the ones that need it. If things go well i'd expect Garner and maybe even that Brandon guy seeing some minutes; if it doesn't go well, then Lingard and Rashford to come on.
Having CL football would help to attract the likes of Sancho and other good players. Not having it is a hindrance to the rebuilding process.
People were saying this before the Arsenal game. Plus Ole has already been complaining about their pitch.
Oh come on. We dont have to over rate 2nd tier opposition.
We dont have enough goal scorers.. the ones we do have are not fit.. I dont expect us to score 5.. but we'll be fine.
After two or 3 seasons maybe. Right now it's a fallacy to think CL football is whats needed. Long run yes but for now it's back to basics
Build the solid core. Go from there
I'm guessing his point is having CL football would accelerate the building of the solid core..
From reading above looks like we might be in for quite a game. Hoping to score a few here but
considering our form am not very confident.
Think we will play:
-------------Romero-------------
Dalot--Tuanzebe--Maguire--Rojo
--------McTominay--Fred--------
----Lingard--Gomes--James----
---------Greenwood--------------Last edited:Yeah, after seeing how good AZ look, I've gone with more experience. It will be a very tricky line up to guess. Hardest away game in the group.
Romeo
Dalot Tuanzebe Maguire Rojo
Matic Fred
Greenwood Lingard James
Rashford- Status
Man of the Match
Runners-up
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31%
Brandon Williams
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8%
Victor Lindelof
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6%
Diogo Dalot
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5%
Scott McTominay
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5%
Marcos Rojo
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2%
Daniel James
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1%
Fred
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1%
Angel Gomes
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1%
Mason Greenwood
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1%
Nemanja Matic
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1%
Jesse Lingard
Player Ratings
Total Average Rating
Highest Rated Player
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Compiled from 288 ratings.
Score Predictions
196,99,104
- Man Utd win
- AZ Alkmaar win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 21% AZ Alkmaar 1:1 Man Utd
- 15% AZ Alkmaar 0:2 Man Utd
- 15% AZ Alkmaar 1:2 Man Utd
- 10% AZ Alkmaar 2:1 Man Utd
- 9% AZ Alkmaar 0:1 Man Utd
- 5% AZ Alkmaar 1:0 Man Utd
- 5% AZ Alkmaar 2:0 Man Utd
- 4% AZ Alkmaar 1:3 Man Utd
- 4% AZ Alkmaar 0:3 Man Utd
- 3% AZ Alkmaar 0:0 Man Utd
- 2% AZ Alkmaar 5:0 Man Utd
- 2% AZ Alkmaar 2:2 Man Utd
- 2% AZ Alkmaar 3:0 Man Utd
- 2% AZ Alkmaar 3:1 Man Utd
- 1% AZ Alkmaar 0:4 Man Utd
- 1% AZ Alkmaar 0:5 Man Utd
- 1% AZ Alkmaar 4:0 Man Utd
- 1% AZ Alkmaar 2:3 Man Utd
- 1% AZ Alkmaar 1:4 Man Utd
- 0% AZ Alkmaar 5:5 Man Utd
- 0% AZ Alkmaar 3:2 Man Utd
Match Stats
- AZ Alkmaar
- Man Utd
- Possession
- 52% 48%
- Shots
- 12 6
- Shots on Target
- 4 0
- Corners
- 10 1
- Fouls
- 8 8
Referee
Gediminas Mazeika
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Scott McTominay
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replaced by Jesse Lingard
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replaced by Marcus Rashford
