I'm expecting something weird like:
De Gea
Darmian Bailly Blind
Valencia Pogba Herrera Young
Fellaini
Rashford Lingard
Darmian Bailly Blind
Valencia Pogba Herrera Young
Fellaini
Rashford Lingard
FA Premier League
Burnley 0:2 Manchester United
Turf Moor
- Kick-off
- Sun, 23 April 2017 @ 2:15pm BST
- Status
-
Closed
Discussion Your Lineup Prediction
-
- Status
I'm sure we could, and it's a possible scenario for sure, don't get me wrong. I just think that as Blind might not be trusted as a CB by José and Young being much, much better as a wing back than full back, we'll go with 3-4-3
I'd be happy with that, tbh. Looks like Valencia isn't a part of the squad, though.
Yeah to be fair I've not really bothered keeping up to date after the Rojo and Zlatan news. We're down to the bare bonesThe hard question is should we rest Bailly tomorrow and give Tuanzebe a game to save Bailly for City and Europe league ? An injury to him and we're done and I think we can do tomorrow without him.So far as I can tell, most people are expecting a similar lineup/formation to the Chelsea game, except for Herrera's position. And with Blind in Rojo's place and Fosu-Mensah in Valencia's. But will Rashford be available to start? Are we leaving two fresh players like Rooney and Martial on the bench?
If we lose tomorrow, the City game will be for what, honor?
I don't think we can rest Bailly (unless he seems really knackered in training) at the moment, as the PL match we'd save him for might end up being a dead rubber game, partly due to our defense conceding by not playing our best CB.
I find Mourinho's suspicion of Blind as center-back exaggerated. He didn't enter the Anderlecht game well, was at fault for their goal (like Shaw), but had a very good game afterwards, in my opinion. But Blind did play for 98' and doesn't seem that well physically, so you could be right.
Can't see Burnely defeating us whoever we play with tbh.
Even if we did, by beating City we'd be 1 point behind. Still, I agree that we need to win tomorrow. Our schedule is much tougher than City's or Pool's so can't drop points against Burnley. Won't be easy though, they'll have a huge motivation to secure their PL status tomorrow. Hopefully Vokes is out.
I don't see playing Bailly or not making much difference on the result imo whether we win or draw as he's not an attacking player who will change the game. We can do without him.
Burnely will probably defend deep and try to get a draw.
Yeah I'm not saying I wouldn't trust Blind at the centre.
Doubt it. The confidence they have due to our injuries and the possibility to practically secure their PL spot - I can see them approaching the fixture as a hungry team.
To me the comfort and trust to each other is key to our defense performing well, which we truly need as we can't rely on our forwards scoring. And taking out our only constant figure at the heart of our defense would be a dumb decision in my humble opinion. Oh and defenders are just as important in terms of 'changing the game' as attacking players. Otherwise teams would win titles with weak defenses just by having enough 'game winners' up front.
They have an excellent home record, I think not many teams won there.
If Burnley play deep, what use to use the Chelsea formation and leave Lingard-Rashford type attacking line isolated?
Yep, 6th in "Home league", 15th in total.
I'm not saying defenders aren't important, but in a game where you'll be the one attacking and pressing the opponent, you can have a chance for resting one of your defenders for the more important games coming. If we didn't rest against Burnely when will we be able to rest him ?
We are good in the "Away league" though.
I know but can't see them playing for a win. They'll defend deep most of the game and try to nick from a mistake or a counter. If we didn't win , it'll be a draw imo.
I don't want to play with this formation actually.
I'll prefer Herrera, Fellaini and Pogba in midfield with Lingard, Rashford and Mikhi upfront.
End of the season, or if/when we're out of Top 4 mathematically. That's kind of what happens when 3 of your 4 CBs are out for the season. Burnley is the 6th best home team in the league, so Swansea home next weekend would be more fitting to resting him, if that's a must.
That's where we could tinker with it a little and give Pogba more license to roam forward, as he had to be more defensively disciplined against Chelsea. As Herrera wouldn't be doing a man-marking job, he and either Fellaini or Carrick would provide defensive cover. We would potentially sacrifice width on one side, but having Shaw back is a bonus. I don't think we will set up as such, and expect to see something similar to what we have been doing for the majority of the season against this sort of opposition. Never know though!
That is true. What a crazy season it's been in terms of home results.
Yeah, me too, but I very much doubt Mkhitaryan is going to start, just having played 120'.
We'll be risking him getting injured with this and joining our other injured CBs, but well I can your opinion.
I have no problem with him playing as long as he remains fit and that's my biggest fear.
Martial can start then. He should get more game time now since Rashford will be moving to the center leaving Mikhi, Martial and Lingard , 2 or even all 3 will play behind him now. Martial really need to step up.
There's Rooney, but let's forget about him...
Mourinho has been talking a lot about Rooney lately, and there's no signs of improvement from Martial, so…
Zlatan slows the pace down, Rooney goes backwards.. Burnley will no doubt play defensively tomorrow, the pace of Martial, Mhki and Rashford could suit us well.
Him favoring Martial - despite all problems Jose has with him - on Rooney when we were needing a goal against Anderlecht tell the whole story. Rooney will be used as a sub definitely but Jose's not really trusting him anymore.Valencia needs a break, so fair enough. Otherwise, just play Fellaini so he can negate Burnley's inevitable (and perfectly sensible) bus-parking by getting in the box at every opportunity. If necessary, just get the whole team to ping the ball at him from everywhere on the pitch: crosses from the fullbacks, long balls from Pogba, little chips from Miki and Lingard. Either they'll be offering us 90 minutes of that - surely worth a goal or two - or Burnley'll be forced to try and push out a bit to defend themselves, leaving gaps for Rashford, Lingard and Miki to exploit.
Rashford Lingard
------Fellaini Miki
Pogba Herrera
Shaw Blind Bailly Darmian
DDG
EDIT: I might consider swapping Herrera and Pogba from their usual sides of the pitch so Herrera can give extra defensive cover to Shaw and Blind, who are both potentially a little shaky/ring rusty.
Yeah I can totally understand what you mean. Unfortunately at the very business end of the season in our current state, we can't approach things from an injury prevention point of view. I know we'd be even more fecked if Bailly got injured, but one could've said that last Thursday about Rojo, too. That we shouldn't risk our two last CBs, so rest the other.
But we needed a win (or 0-0), so we went with more or less our best possible lineup (bar Herrera). When you really need to win, you have to accept the risks and go for it. Hope for the best and fear for the worst. Oh and Bailly could get injured in training anyway.
Let's hope everything goes alright for us then.
You just know it won't. United, centre halves and injuries - the stuff dreams are made of
It won't be a United season if an injury crisis didn't happen for whatever reason. I'm getting used to having most of the team injured anyway.You just know it won't. United, centre halves and injuries - the stuff dreams are made of
I have gone with a 2-0 win, The no league goal at Turf Moor record since 1976 has to be destroyed.Looking forward to seeing the formidable center back pairing of Eric Bailly and Edna the tea lady.
Can't see it. He played 120 minutes on Thursday.
Only 1 win in their last 10 games, 5 defeats in that run, but they are hard to break down at home.Last edited:
Yeah I think he'll go with Darmian in a back 3 before trusting someone like Fosu Mensah. Jose likes Darmian.- Status
Man of the Match
Runners-up
-
29%
Eric Bailly
-
12%
Paul Pogba
-
2%
Ander Herrera
-
2%
Marouane Fellaini
-
1%
Wayne Rooney
-
1%
Marcus Rashford
-
1%
Daley Blind
Player Ratings
Total Average Rating
Highest Rated Player
Lowest Rated Player
Compiled from 521 ratings.
Score Predictions
376,32,99
- Man Utd win
- Burnley win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 23% Burnley 0:2 Man Utd
- 20% Burnley 1:2 Man Utd
- 16% Burnley 0:1 Man Utd
- 13% Burnley 1:1 Man Utd
- 8% Burnley 0:3 Man Utd
- 6% Burnley 0:0 Man Utd
- 5% Burnley 1:3 Man Utd
- 3% Burnley 1:0 Man Utd
- 2% Burnley 2:1 Man Utd
- 2% Burnley 0:5 Man Utd
- 1% Burnley 3:1 Man Utd
- 1% Burnley 0:4 Man Utd
- 1% Burnley 5:0 Man Utd
- 1% Burnley 2:0 Man Utd
- 0% Burnley 2:2 Man Utd
- 0% Burnley 2:3 Man Utd
- 0% Burnley 5:5 Man Utd
Match Stats
- Burnley
- Man Utd
- Possession
- 46% 54%
- Shots
- 8 12
- Shots on Target
- 0 6
- Corners
- 3 3
- Fouls
- 17 16
Referee
Anthony Taylor
Man Utd Lineup
-
-
-
-
-
-
replaced by Michael Carrick
-
replaced by Marcus Rashford
-
-
-
replaced by Henrikh Mkhitaryan
-
