Chelsea 1:1 Manchester United

Beans · Nov 28, 2021

paulscholes18 said:
Won't it be a diamond?
Matic
McTom Fred
Bruno
Sancho Rashford

Yes.

Bebestation · Nov 28, 2021

Seems like this is because of Bailly on for Maguire against the most in form team in the league.

MetoTTT · Nov 28, 2021

Breathtaking line up.

SirReginald · Nov 28, 2021

UTD_Since_1978 said:
I know Rashy has missed a lot of the season so far, but when playing, what the heck has he done compared to what Ronaldo has been doing for UTD this season that means Ronaldo must be benched to accommodate Rashy in to our starting line-up???

Still hope we win especially as Chelsea are missing most of their best players.

Rashfords record against us is 1000x better than Ronaldo’s, like Hernandez and Tevez, he likes to score against us. Ronaldo has 1 in15 or something equally piss poor. But I can understand the pessimism.

Im not really sure why you say we are missing our best players for? Chalobah has been decent and so has Loftus-Cheek. Only hit/miss player is Ziyech but if he turns up he is capable of cutting anyone open.

Random Task · Nov 28, 2021

TheGame said:
Jones on the bench

Yeah, it's great seeing him among the squad again.

It's less great seeing that pic of him trying to remove a small building from his anus. Just embarrassing really.

Longshanks · Nov 28, 2021

Hoof The Ball said:
Nah, that'd make Sancho play CF. Why would anyone do that? Makes much more sense to imitate Klopp and have Bruno playing Firmino and Rashford and Sancho as Mane and Salah, respectively.

Sancho and rashford will be playing as wide forwards to get in behind Chelsea wingbacks and stretch there back three. I would imagine anyway.

Orange Tree · Nov 28, 2021

I'd have played VDB over McT, otherwise I like the lineup.

OnlyTwoDaSilvas · Nov 28, 2021

Donny came on Vs Watford and showed he can do everything McT can't, but McT keeps his place. Someone who can actually pass the ball and do something with it would be beneficial next to Fred's running and pressing.

Chelsea XI doesn't look too special either, but they're a much better unit than us.

Red00012 · Nov 28, 2021

People get very worked up on here because of a line up where no ball is to be kicked for another 45-60mins. Do they not like the way they step off the bus or what’s going on?

Red Royal · Nov 28, 2021

Not optimistic but I am hopeful. Really hope the desire is there and we see the boys trying to impress Ralf R.

hurricane thunderclap · Nov 28, 2021

Longshanks said:
Sancho and rashford will be playing as wide forwards to get in behind Chelsea wingbacks and stretch there back three. I would imagine anyway.

Or wandering around aimlessly wondering what to do with the ball?

MayosNoun · Nov 28, 2021

I’m a bit miffed with Pulisic and Mount not playing. Very surprised by Mount as his pressing would cause significant problems.

I’m not as confident although that Man Utd midfield looks very defensive. It’s clearly set up for Fred and McT to combat our wingbacks without sacrificing the midfield which is where Matic will cover. It’s a tactic I haven’t seen against us yet in fairness.

Dante · Nov 28, 2021

I think there's a decent chance it'll be a 5-3-2. That's been our go-to formation for the big teams.

Rashford--Sancho

Bruno
Fred------------Matic

Telles-----------------------------------------------AWB
Bailly--Lindelof--McTominay
DDG

RedDevilRoshi · Nov 28, 2021

francobaresi said:
All you lot who claim Solskjaer has left us in a far better state than when he came need to take a long hard look at that starting 11. Deary me

So would you rather have Ashley Young, Phil Jones, Andreas Pereira, Juan Mata, Anthony Martial starting today?

Random Task · Nov 28, 2021

So we basically have 3 defensive midfielders, a CAM and two strikers?

That's... interesting.

The Original · Nov 28, 2021

James35 said:
Carrick parking the biggest bus ever. That's a shocker of a line up, at least put Donny in for the useless McTominay. Easy day at the back from set pieces for Cheslea. Let's hope Ragnick will be in for Arsenal game as Carrick is just an Ole mk2 and should have gone with him.

Just thankful Chelsea are missing Kante.

Can't believe we are 10th going into this difficult game. Good news though, we may see Jones play again.

Cue McTominay scoring then

thegregster · Nov 28, 2021

4 -0 to Chelsea by HT.

Then we will bring Ronaldo on.

What an idiotic lineup.

Siezard · Nov 28, 2021

Pyroblazer said:
But if he wants that then why not put at least Donny in instead of Scott. I think the midfield will probably struggle a lot to keep the ball against Chelsea's players.

Donny is highly error prone.

Cloud7 · Nov 28, 2021

Is it a diamond or Bruno as false 9? Either way, at least it’s something different

MayosNoun · Nov 28, 2021

I’m glad VDB isn’t starting today. With Kante out, Ruben won’t track back as well and VDB’s forward runs would have caused us problems today.

dannyrhinos89 · Nov 28, 2021

Not too sure about that lineup.

Very defensive. Would've played Donny over Mctominay.

mitchmouse · Nov 28, 2021

The state of the club, as I see it, is summed up by the bench: Martial and Jones. wow

KeanoMagicHat · Nov 28, 2021

A good brave line-up. If there was ever a game to drop Ronaldo it was Chelsea away. Ronaldo was lost for most of Liverpool and City games anyway, that went well. Need numbers in midfield. Give Bruno the runners out wide.

One Night Only · Nov 28, 2021

Siezard said:
Donny is highly error prone.

Eh? I thought he was some kind of God according to this place? Could do no wrong?

Dan_F · Nov 28, 2021

No way. Why aren’t we playing that other really good midfielder we have.

*checks bench*

The Firestarter · Nov 28, 2021

That Chelsea bench though...

12OunceEpilogue · Nov 28, 2021

Red Royal said:
Not optimistic but I am hopeful. Really hope the desire is there and we see the boys trying to impress Ralf R.

Aren't they the same thing? :lol:

I somewhat agree in that I really don't know what to expect. I don't think we'll get battered, I'm hoping we'll at least be solid with that bolstered midfield but you never know, if we have one of those (all too often) matches where we literally can't pass the ball without losing it we have no chance whatsoever.

Ollie Derbyshire · Nov 28, 2021

Not sure dropping Ronaldo is the right thing to do here unless he’s worked hard on getting Rashford, Sancho & Bruno to press as a unit. Someone’s going to have to step up with a goal or two.

No Donny as well, pretty shocking that one leaving McT in the team, he needs to up his game significantly, cause he’s been so poor this year.

tomaldinho1 · Nov 28, 2021

MayosNoun said:
I’m a bit miffed with Pulisic and Mount not playing. Very surprised by Mount as his pressing would cause significant problems.

I’m not as confident although that Man Utd midfield looks very defensive. It’s clearly set up for Fred and McT to combat our wingbacks without sacrificing the midfield which is where Matic will cover. It’s a tactic I haven’t seen against us yet in fairness.

RLC will just ghost past Matic, no way he’ll be left as sole DM. I think Fred will sit on Jorginho with McT and Matic behind.

Freak · Nov 28, 2021

People moaning about Ronaldo being on the bench obviously are ignorant to the fact that the guy is 37, just played a midweek game and would most likely start against Arsenal in 3 days time. It’s a squad game. He needs a rest.

arnie_ni · Nov 28, 2021

Only his 4th time on the bench in 9 years. Mental

united for life · Nov 28, 2021

Not sure how we’ll play. Is it a diamond? I’m not optimistic. Again we seem to be planning to park the bus. I also can’t see, again, who will link the lines together. It seems it’s going to be “pass the ball forward and let’s see of we can outpace them on a counter attack”. I don’t like that. Games like this are won in midfield where we have no creativity. VDB would’ve given that (maybe).

Random Task · Nov 28, 2021

Dante said:
I think there's a decent chance it'll be a 5-3-2. That's been our go-to formation for the big teams.

Rashford--Sancho

Bruno
Fred------------Matic

Telles-----------------------------------------------AWB
Maguire--Lindelof--McTominay
DDG

Maybe.

It might also be a 433:

DDG

AWB Lindelof Maguire Telles

Mctominay Fred Matic

Rashford Bruno Sancho

Eplel · Nov 28, 2021

Freak said:
People moaning about Ronaldo being on the bench obviously are ignorant to the fact that the guy is 37, just played a midweek game and would most likely start against Arsenal in 3 days time. It’s a squad game. He needs a rest.

You'd think the important players would get a rest in games against weaker opponents.

MayosNoun · Nov 28, 2021

tomaldinho1 said:
RLC will just ghost past Matic, no way he’ll be left as sole DM. I think Fred will sit on Jorginho with McT and Matic behind.

McT will be covering Alonso and Fred covering James. Matic will be central supporting the defence and McT and Fred will tuck in when the ball pis opposite side. I actually think this could be a clever tactic and our forwards will have to win us the game. James and Alonso won’t have as much space of this is the tactics.

Red Dreams · Nov 28, 2021

You can see Rangnick's hand in this line up.
Dropping Ronaldo is huge.

As for those writing off our chance's of the title.
Remember we are only 13 games after this match.
Lots of football to play.

Siezard · Nov 28, 2021

arnie_ni said:
Only his 4th time on the bench in 9 years. Mental

Indirectly, man utd is telling CR7 to retire as he can't play a false 9 anymore.

captaincantona · Nov 28, 2021

Whatever are the Ronaldo fans going to say if we get a result with this lineup?...get your excuses in now...my favorite will be “Chelsea we’re there for the taking...with Ronaldo we would have smashed them”...

expect a high energy performance across the team and hopefully show we have a squad capable of performing and not just feeding the goat. a bit worried aboutTelles but anyway

DWelbz19 · Nov 28, 2021

Just hope we aren’t too narrow. It will really play into James’ hands who is basically Chelsea’s best player this season

jasT1981 · Nov 28, 2021

Where's Cavani? Has he had an injury again?

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