Gone for the same line up
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Manchester United 1:0 Brighton & Hove Albion
Old Trafford
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- Sat, 25 November 2017 @ 3:00pm GMT
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Yep. Game is on live here tomorrow. Superb. Will record it as I am sure the missus will want to go out!
How did you manage to misplace all those players?
Even Mata is probably on the wrong place.If we win it will be the first time we've won back to back games since September. October really killed our momentum. We were neck and neck with City before the first international break. Very important to keep the pressure on. It's a big week with tough away matches against Watford and Arsenal coming up after this. No room for error really.
Pogba usually plays left side even with MaticHow did you manage to misplace all those players? Even Mata is probably on the wrong place.
That's my preference of where they'd all play, though Martial and Rashford will switch of course.Hoping for both Rashford and Martial again. Would pick Blind for more defensive balance but Young seems to be first choice.
De Gea
Valencia Smalling Lindelof Young
Mata Matic Pogba
Rashford Lukaku MartialThis is on Irish tv as well
What a run we're on, we haven't missed a Utd game as of yet
If that's your preference, then, fair enough. But Pogba never plays left with Matić on a midfield two. Just check Newcastle's game heatmap, for instance, or the positional report: player positions, where he's the second player more to the right!Pogba usually plays left side even with Matic
That's my preference of where they'd all play, though Martial and Rashford will switch of course.I like it that Jose does not take them lightly like many on here. Still, it is obvious that United have too much quality for them. Mission impossible (not if it was last season though).Manchester Evening News is reporting that Pogba is not in the squad, well they say he is not in the squad photographed going in to the Lowery.
You're kidding, right? Especially after Wednesday!Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho has exclusively revealed to MUTV that Eric Bailly and Phil Jones will miss Saturday's Premier League match against Brighton & Hove Albion.
Speaking to Helen Evans at the Aon Training Complex, the boss said: "They are out," referring to central defensive pair Jones and Bailly. "But we are okay because we have [Chris] Smalling, [Marcos] Rojo and [Victor] Lindelof."
Mourinho also confirmed Zlatan Ibrahimovic will feature for a third successive game in all competitions after making his much-anticipated comeback from injury in last weekend's top-flight win over Newcastle United, before appearing as a late substitute again in the Champions League tie at Basel.
"I prefer him on the pitch than off the pitch," the boss told us. "On the pitch, he’s another option for us and he’s an option of quality. His physicality and his intelligence, the way he moves, the way he plays.
"But he needs time. We managed to give him 15/20 minutes in both matches, he needs more of that, so hopefully, tomorrow, we play him again."
Paul Pogba will start against Brighton in the 15:00 GMT kick-off at Old Trafford, although Mourinho has stated the France international cannot yet complete a full game.
"Paul is still on this process where he cannot reach the fatigue limit," explained the boss. "He cannot go more than 65 to 70 minutes because that’s when fatigue normally arrives and, with so many matches consecutively, we need to protect such an important player for us."
The players not involved in Basel could all return, including David De Gea, Antonio Valencia, Ashley Young, Juan Mata and Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
Meanwhile, Rojo came through his first 90 minutes since a knee operation with no ill effects.
"He was training with the team longer than Paul and Zlatan," added Mourinho. "But in a period when we had every central defender ready to play so we protected him. We gave him a better condition and, when we put him in the Champions League match, he was really ready.
"So 90 minutes, no problem, no reaction from the knee, confidence in his game, a good, solid performance. It’s very good to have him back."DDG
Valencia Smalling Rojo young
Pogba Matic
Rashford Mata Martial
Lukaku
Rested maybe? It says on the United website he will start though.De Gea
Valencia Smalling Rojo Young
Pogba Matic
Rashford Mata Martial
Lukaku
Subs: Romero, Shaw, Lindelof, Fellaini, Mkhi, Lingard, Ibra
Team pretty much picks itself, although maybe we'll see Fellaini for Pogba or Lindelof for Rojo depending on how much Jose feels they need to be eased back in.Should Jose play Mkhitaryan? We have 2 away games coming next in less than a week so we might need everyone!
Probably as good a game as any to bring him back in! If not home to Brighton to lift his confidence, then who?
I'd rather see Rashford - Mata - Martial again
He can sub on if Mata isn't doing wellNo Pogba?
Well now I won't be surprised if this is a draw.Think he will go back to rashford - mkhi - mata
Jose said Pogba will start but wont post full game.DDG
Valencia Smalling Rojo Young
Mata Matic Pogba Martial
Rashford Lukaku
Same XI like how we played in 2nd half against Newcastle last week but Rojo takes Lindelof's spot.Last edited:If it ain’t break, don’t break it.
4-2-3-1
Young
Smalling
Rojo
Valencia
Matic
Pogba
Mata—Rashford—Martial
————Lukaku————
Rashford as SS instead of RW. Sub off Pogba and one/two of our attackers asapOff to the match today, looking forward to it.
He's been out for 3 months.
He needs gamesExpecting a good albeit hard fought win today. We have 3 tough league fixtures coming up so we want to keep the momentum as we go into those games.
Have fun!
Cheers
.Poggers in the FF team againis Pogba hurt?It's a home game and the one thing I could not fault about this season is the home form; I'm finally looking forward to home games once more.
(Please don't ruin this now for me, United)
Hope he hasn't had a setbackBrighton were very poor at the Emirates. We should have enough to pin them back and score a couple.As Jose said, let the horses run !
Attack, attack, attack !
He wasn't at the hotel and McTominay's with the team, 5 midfielders to play just 2 seems suspect, so…No reason at all to not bombard them today, they don't have much going forward. 3-0 at least.
Although, if Pogba is indeed out, we'll scrape a 1-0 at best. We are shocking without him, it's concerning.Any update on why Pogba wasnt at the Lowry with the rest of the team?- Status
Man of the Match
Runners-up
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22%
Victor Lindelof
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5%
Paul Pogba
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2%
Nemanja Matic
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1%
Romelu Lukaku
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1%
David de Gea
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1%
Antonio Valencia
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1%
Chris Smalling
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1%
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Player Ratings
Total Average Rating
Highest Rated Player
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Compiled from 407 ratings.
Score Predictions
470,20,15
- Man Utd win
- Brighton win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 30% Man Utd 3:0 Brighton
- 25% Man Utd 4:0 Brighton
- 18% Man Utd 2:0 Brighton
- 10% Man Utd 5:0 Brighton
- 4% Man Utd 3:1 Brighton
- 3% Man Utd 1:0 Brighton
- 2% Man Utd 2:1 Brighton
- 2% Man Utd 0:5 Brighton
- 1% Man Utd 4:1 Brighton
- 1% Man Utd 1:1 Brighton
- 1% Man Utd 0:0 Brighton
- 1% Man Utd 0:1 Brighton
- 1% Man Utd 0:2 Brighton
- 1% Man Utd 5:1 Brighton
- 0% Man Utd 0:3 Brighton
- 0% Man Utd 2:2 Brighton
- 0% Man Utd 1:3 Brighton
- 0% Man Utd 2:4 Brighton
- 0% Man Utd 5:2 Brighton
Match Stats
- Man Utd
- Brighton
- Possession
- 58% 42%
- Shots
- 15 8
- Shots on Target
- 4 2
- Corners
- 5 0
- Fouls
- 9 9
Referee
Neil Swarbrick
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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replaced by Henrikh Mkhitaryan
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replaced by Marouane Fellaini
