Brentford vs Manchester United

ShinjiNinja26 · Dec 13, 2021

Rashford has to be dropped, he’s been poor. Bring Mason in for this one.

SonyaCross493 · Dec 13, 2021

Any updates on the covid outbreak? Nothing in the media..

United and Rangnick need to show this is a different regime to Ole and need to drop Bruno and Rashford for Donny and Cavani/Greenwood to show there is no favouritism like under Ole. They have had enough chances all season and in shite form all season or most of the season anyway.

BeforeKeanetherewasRobson · Dec 13, 2021

SonyaCross493 said:
Any updates on the covid outbreak? Nothing in the media..

United and Rangnick need to show this is a different regime to Ole and need to drop Bruno and Rashford for Donny and Cavani/Greenwood to show there is no favouritism like under Ole. They have had enough chances all season and in shite form all season or most of the season anyway.

Looking too. Some of the reports are about team news and imply all ok, but can’t see anything definitive

HBFSTR00 · Dec 13, 2021

No press conference today?

golden_blunder · Dec 13, 2021

ShinjiNinja26 said:
Rashford has to be dropped, he’s been poor. Bring Mason in for this one.

Yes he’s been awful. Mason please

R77 · Dec 13, 2021

HBFSTR00 said:
No press conference today?

It was done after the Norwich match but embargoed until today;

unplayable · Dec 13, 2021

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Sounds like it will get postponed.

SAFMUTD · Dec 13, 2021

What a mess with these covids out breaks. We may not play this week at all, Brighton just reported a break in their squad as well. We're supposed to play against them on Saturday.

Andersonson · Dec 13, 2021

The new variant will cause a lot of trouble, maybe better to just postpone the season soon.

Several countries will go into a lockdown again too.

VP89 · Dec 13, 2021

Safest to postpone.

TheReligion · Dec 13, 2021

Should be cancelled

SirAnderson · Dec 13, 2021

Man was really really looking forward to this game, such a shame.
Nothing can be done though.
Wonder what happens if more and more teams keep getting hit by this...another void thread imminent. :nervous:

McGrathsipan · Dec 13, 2021

its better for us if its called off and rescheduled for later on in the season.
They are bouncing and we are still flat - so its better for us

groovyalbert · Dec 13, 2021

unplayable said:
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Sounds like it will get postponed.

Are the terms postponed and cancelled being used interchangeably here, or does that actually mean we potentially don't play Brentford away this season?

Offside · Dec 13, 2021

Andersonson said:
The new variant will cause a lot of trouble, maybe better to just postpone the season soon.

Several countries will go into a lockdown again too.

Would make 0 sense to do that unless the country was in lockdown. The players will be just as likely to catch it if they’re not playing and head out partying etc. Best option would be to ask the players to reduce mixing until the new year and ensure those vaccinated get their boosters.

el diablorojo · Dec 13, 2021

United getting "Brentford flu" and not fancying it

I mean depending on when it gets rescheduled to it could help us out too - currently without Raya (first choice keeper), Pinnock and Ajer (two first choice centre backs), Josh Dasilva who would be a starter if he hadn't been injured, plus Toney not 100% guaranteed to be back if it goes ahead tomorrow. Also have other injuries and people just back who aren't match fit yet.

always_hoping · Dec 13, 2021

This and Brighton game off? Next game for United is probably not until December 27th away to Newcastle.

cyberman · Dec 13, 2021

always_hoping said:
This and Brighton game off? Next game for United is probably not until December 27th away to Newcastle.

I’m guessing we can sneak one in before?

SuperiorXI · Dec 13, 2021

I thought there was some rule that you had to play even if there were cases of COVID provided you had enough players?

Godfather · Dec 13, 2021

Assuming this will be postponed: Will the first team members negatively tested be able to train? Will the facilities reopen for them? Would suck otherwise

Artimities · Dec 13, 2021

Dont see how we can play if we cant train and if the training center is off limits to players, the only option it to postpone.

bosnian_red · Dec 13, 2021

SuperiorXI said:
I thought there was some rule that you had to play even if there were cases of COVID provided you had enough players?

I guess the issue is they don't know how many are ok. If they were all told to quarantine today until they're all tested, they won't be ready in time for tomorrow game. I don't see why Brighton would be an issue. Plenty of time to be able to quarantine everyone, isolate the positives/negatives and then work with a clean group.

groovyalbert · Dec 13, 2021

Needs to be a decision made. Fans could be needlessly travelling at this rate, which is just a risk and a huge expense.

Godfather · Dec 13, 2021

groovyalbert said:
Needs to be a decision made. Fans could be needlessly travelling at this rate, which is just a risk and a huge expense.

Yeah I don't get why they drag this out. At this point we should know who's positive and who's not. The decision whether to play the game on that basis surely can't take this long. Sucks for traveling fans and also for the payers.

Redlyn · Dec 13, 2021

ShinjiNinja26 said:
Rashford has to be dropped, he’s been poor. Bring Mason in for this one.

Yes, and bringing on rashford at 70 mins can be lethal.

Dan_F · Dec 13, 2021

Andersonson said:
The new variant will cause a lot of trouble, maybe better to just postpone the season soon.

Several countries will go into a lockdown again too.

No chance with a World Cup this time next year. It seems to me like they need to bring back the strict bubbles again over the Christmas period.

It makes far more sense to play the game now with limited prep than it does to have a situation where we’re playing fixtures every 48 hours for a week.

Mike Smalling · Dec 13, 2021

Redlyn said:
Yes, and bringing on rashford at 70 mins can be lethal.

Well, mostly if we already have the lead.

crossy1686 · Dec 13, 2021

unplayable said:
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Sounds like it will get postponed.

Yeah thanks FA, make them travel so they infect everyone they encounter but cancel the game at the last minute so Brentford don't get sick? Make's sense...

crossy1686 · Dec 13, 2021

groovyalbert said:
Needs to be a decision made. Fans could be needlessly travelling at this rate, which is just a risk and a huge expense.

The FA don't give a shit, they're under pressure from the broadcasters to put the game on so they'll pretend it went to the wire.

TheReligion · Dec 13, 2021

crossy1686 said:
Yeah thanks FA, make them travel so they infect everyone they encounter but cancel the game at the last minute so Brentford don't get sick? Make's sense...

The team haven't travelled yet

Leftback99 · Dec 13, 2021

Better for us if it's postponed in our current state.

Paul_Scholes18 · Dec 13, 2021

Do we get a game or not?

Ronaldo's ego · Dec 13, 2021

Just use common sense and announce the postponement. Don’t let people travel then announce it hours before kick off.

SER19 · Dec 13, 2021

crossy1686 said:
Yeah thanks FA, make them travel so they infect everyone they encounter but cancel the game at the last minute so Brentford don't get sick? Make's sense...

Respectfully, this isn’t how Covid spreads, nobody infects everyone they encounter. I know you’re exaggerating on purpose and that this is a conversation for current affairs room but as a society we need to reign in the hyperbole a bit, we seem to have lost any sense of proportionality with regards to this virus. Comments like this are abundant in person and online and it collectively amounts to hysteria.

Wing Attack Plan R · Dec 13, 2021

el diablorojo said:
We're just a bus stop in Hounslow and we own that but leave off with the Stoke 2.0 comments - I know a lot of it is born out of ignorance but Thomas Frank is no Tony Pulis for a start

Looking forward to Tuesday, it's nights like this I'd never thought I'd see supporting Brentford for 30 odd years and I am loving the ride. See you Tuesday the lucky few who got one of the few away tickets available.

If it's starting to look like a bloodbath, please heed the example set by Liverpool and show us some mercy.

Red Royal · Dec 13, 2021

R77 said:
It was done after the Norwich match but embargoed until today;

Good answer at the end about Martials agent.

Wing Attack Plan R · Dec 13, 2021

SadlerMUFC said:
I am not convinced by this 4-2-2-2 formation. Perhaps it can work, but not with the same players in midfield/attack. I want to see some change. I'd also rather see a 4-3-3 but played with proper midfielders. I don't know why we insist on playing Bruno in a #10. He's not a midfielder. Play him on the left wing

-------------------------------Henderson-----------------------------
Dalot---------------Bailly------------------Maguire--------Shaw
-----------------------------------Matic----------------------------------
------------------------VdB------------------Fred----------------------
Sancho---------------------Ronaldo-------------------Bruno

So you're going to drop DeGea, the player who had to perform heroics so we didn't lose to mighty Norwich? Why Henderson?

RUCK4444 · Dec 13, 2021

Wing Attack Plan R said:
So you're going to drop DeGea, the player who had to perform heroics so we didn't lose to mighty Norwich? Why Henderson?

Sweeper keeper, has its uses if we actually play a high pressing team (nothing like we played against Norwich.)

spiriticon · Dec 13, 2021

Soo..is this match happening in the end?

Red Royal · Dec 13, 2021

I thought after Saturday this was tricky, now looks like if it does go ahead then it is going to be very very tricky to come away with 3 points given the disrupted build up. Not looking forward to this...

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