Leicester City 0:1 Manchester United

LawCharltonBest · Feb 3, 2019

Havak said:
Hearing Sanchez starts on the left and Martial on the bench.

That would be a bad move in my view. Martial is our biggest threat right now and I’d keep our best front 6 in toe

It's B Rubble · Feb 3, 2019

3 - 0 with Lindelof clubbing Vardy on multiple occasions (but within the rules of the game) .. and Vardy sent off for retaliation.

Ban · Feb 3, 2019

LawCharltonBest said:
That would be a bad move in my view. Martial is our biggest threat right now and I’d keep our best front 6 in toe

He hasn't trained much so better not to push it.

King7Eric · Feb 3, 2019

LawCharltonBest said:
That would be a bad move in my view. Martial is our biggest threat right now and I’d keep our best front 6 in toe

He might not be fully fit yet. And I'd much prefer Sanchez starting on the left and Rashford through the middle rather than what we saw on Tuesday.

Gandalf Greyhame · Feb 3, 2019

They are a shit team who raise their game against top 6 opposition.

Their last few results:

Drew 1-1 away at Liverpool.
Lost 4-3 away at Wolves.
Lost 1-2 at home to 10-man Southampton.
Lost 2-1 away to League Two Newport County.
Won 1-0 away at Everton.
Lost 0-1 at home to Cardiff City.
Won 2-1 at home to Manchester City.
Lost 0-1 away to Chelsea.

The key is to get an early goal or two; they'll start thinking about next weekend's game with Spurs by half-time.

Kapardin · Feb 3, 2019

What's with all the gloom and doom? OK, it's true that Leicester can always get a result against us irrespective of the manager's competency as they are massive game-raisers against top sides. So I don't consider this a test of Ole's credentials as it is quite possible to lose even if we get our tactics right.

But luck has to play a huge part in beating such teams and I hope we have that in spades tonight. Going with 2-1 United.

Adisa · Feb 3, 2019

It makes sinse.
If you told me two years ago that we'd have Sanchez I'm the starting eleven and it weakens us, I'd have told you to have your head checked.

C'est Moi Cantona · Feb 3, 2019

Happy enough with any front three combination from Rashford, Lingard, Martial, or Sanchez, please no Mata or Lukaku starting.

izec · Feb 3, 2019

Chilwell, Maguire and Ndidi will be on it, they know United and other big clubs have them on the radar for potential summer recruits.

PoTMS · Feb 3, 2019

Team as expected except Sanchez in for Martial.

Catt · Feb 3, 2019

Hopefully Maguire has a bloody nightmare.

Jacob · Feb 3, 2019

Havak said:
Hearing Sanchez starts on the left and Martial on the bench.

This is the equivalent of "Sky sources understand...<theory>"

Samid · Feb 3, 2019

If we treat this is a European away day under Fergie (sit back, let them have the ball, counter), we win.

If we go all out attack, we play it into their hands because that's the only game they know. I know there's an emphasis from everyone regarding playing 'the United way' but a significant part of the United way was to not go gung-ho in banana skin away games.

DRM · Feb 3, 2019

Is this on sky sports?

PoTMS · Feb 3, 2019

Samid said:
If we treat this is a European away day under Fergie (sit back, let them have the ball, counter), we win.

If we go all out attack, we play it into their hands because that's the only game they know. I know there's an emphasis from everyone regarding playing 'the United way' but a significant part of the United way was to not go gung-ho in banana skin away games.

Yep, need to play them like Arsenal. After all, they've got the English Aubameyang up front.

izec · Feb 3, 2019

DRM said:
Is this on sky sports?

yes, Super Sunday with City-Arsenal later too

Trophy Room · Feb 3, 2019

I think Leicester's defence is underrated. This will be very difficult, we will have to be at our best.

Giant Midget · Feb 3, 2019

DDG

Young Lindelof Jones Shaw

Herrera Matic Pogba

Lingard Rashford Alexis/Martial

Important three points ahead, win this and we’ll be in the top 4 after the Fulham game.

Fracture90 · Feb 3, 2019

Hopefully we won't get to see Lindelof - Jones partnership at work today. Vardy gonna feast on their lack of pace/speed considering the high CB line we play with.

DRM · Feb 3, 2019

izec said:
yes, Super Sunday with City-Arsenal later too

Perfect, thanks!

Kostov · Feb 3, 2019

Buster15 said:
Manchester United are not about a single player.
Wether he is fit or not we should have a team capable of being Leicester if we really are capable of a top four finish.

We are not. But Martial is one of our best players and very important for our attack.

And you are making it look like Leicester are some push over. We have a team capable of beating them, they also have a team capable of beating anyone. I hope we have our best attacker available for this, that’s all.

unplayable · Feb 3, 2019

Trophy Room said:
I think Leicester's defence is underrated. This will be very difficult, we will have to be at our best.

Underrated? Chilwell, Maguire and Pereira seem to be rated quite highly from what I have seen. All three of them would probably even start for us tbh.

Devil may care · Feb 3, 2019

Mr Smith said:
This is the last game to bring Smalling back for. On his day he's probably better than Jones, but he's lacking match sharpness and Vardy will do him. Jones may not be our best defender, but he's performed reasonably well over the last 8 or so games, I'd keep him in for this one and then bring Smalling or Bailly in at Fulham which is a much more forgiving game after several matches out of the team.

Smalling hasn't been out that long though and Maguire is a big threat at set pieces with neither Jones or Lindelof being great in the air. On the flipside if not Smalling I'd play Bailly who was better against Arsenal than Jones has been in any of the games he's played and he was very poor against Burnley.

Cloud7 · Feb 3, 2019

izec said:
Chilwell, Maguire and Ndidi will be on it, they know United and other big clubs have them on the radar for potential summer recruits.

Ndidi wouldn’t be a bad successor to Matic in our DM role to be honest. He’s a useful player with plenty of room to grow.

KM · Feb 3, 2019

Makes sense if Martial is on the bench and Alexis is staring this one. Martial has been just back from injury.

Drawfull · Feb 3, 2019

I thought McGuire had been having a bad season? Probably means he'll put in a worldie today.

Still think we have far too much for them. Went with 1-3. Vardy for them, Rash brace and Pogba for us.

Buster15 · Feb 3, 2019

Kostov said:
We are not. But Martial is one of our best players and very important for our attack.

And you are making it look like Leicester are some push over. We have a team capable of beating them, they also have a team capable of beating anyone. I hope we have our best attacker available for this, that’s all.

On the contrary. I certainly don't see Leicester as a pushover.

My point is simply that if we are going to finish in the top four, we should be able to beat a mid table side.
Agree with you that Martial is one of our best players.

RedDevilRoshi · Feb 3, 2019

It will be a tough game no doubt as Leicester ain’t no pushovers.

Then again, these are the games we need to win and I am confident we will.

J_XO · Feb 3, 2019

The main worries are set pieces with Maguire and the counters with Vardy. They can cause us problems I just hope the Burnley game has us ready from minute 1

DomesticTadpole · Feb 3, 2019

J_XO said:
The main worries are set pieces with Maguire and the counters with Vardy. They can cause us problems I just hope the Burnley game has us ready from minute 1

I'd be worrying about Vardy's liking for falling flat on his face in the box as well?

Kostov · Feb 3, 2019

Buster15 said:
On the contrary. I certainly don't see Leicester as a pushover.

My point is simply that if we are going to finish in the top four, we should be able to beat a mid table side.
Agree with you that Martial is one of our best players.

We are able to beat a midtable side and we are able to beat Leicester, but as we both agree it’s a combination of factors. For our best chance let’s hope our best players play.

Cockney Phil · Feb 3, 2019

This will be more than a battle, I don’t expect them to lie down at home. I’ve gone for a 3-3 draw because both sides can score goals but have ‘under performing defences’. We don’t need Jones having brain farts in this match. I hope Lindelhof can do a good job on channeling Vardy who always seems to lift his game against us. Son of Schmeics can have his moments, hope our forwards give him a hard match.

fen4e · Feb 3, 2019

Wont be able to watch it. Still no info on lineups, though?

tenpoless · Feb 3, 2019

Tell our defenders not to chat shit in front of Vardy and We'll be fine.

Dante · Feb 3, 2019

J_XO said:
The main worries are set pieces with Maguire and the counters with Vardy. They can cause us problems I just hope the Burnley game has us ready from minute 1

It poses a tricky problem.

We have decent headers of the ball to counter Maguire. And fast enough defenders to handle Vardy. But not enough of either to form a coherent combination.

Ole seems very good at coming up with weird formations to deal with a specific team's strengths. I think we could be in for another one.

royboy16 · Feb 3, 2019

Be grand,Leicester will score but we will score more.

2 man midfield · Feb 3, 2019

Martial or we riot

antohan · Feb 3, 2019

Samid said:
If we treat this is a European away day under Fergie (sit back, let them have the ball, counter), we win.

If we go all out attack, we play it into their hands because that's the only game they know. I know there's an emphasis from everyone regarding playing 'the United way' but a significant part of the United way was to not go gung-ho in banana skin away games.

Agreed. They aren't game-raisers against top teams, they are simply a counter-attacking team and if we just go in looking at exchanging blows and relying on better quality we would be ignoring they have been perfecting that a lot longer.

Marcelinho87 · Feb 3, 2019

2 man midfield said:
Martial or we riot

Just had an injury I would rather he came off the bench.

AndyJ1985 · Feb 3, 2019

We'll smash 'em 5-1

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