Manchester United 2:2 Burnley

Inigo Montoya · Dec 26, 2017

Gbenger said:
That’s nonsense though. Jose hardly rest his attackers by taking off the squad completely. They’ll always be on the bench at least. If Martial is not seriously injured and is out of the squad, it’s definitely not because he’s being rested. That’s just some invented tripe to justify Jose’s action.

He has done it before with Martial last season but people here have very short memories. Mikhitaryan too has suffered this too, though deservedly most of the times. Those players are just more prone to being used as scapegoats when things go wrong or are more likely to be punished.

There are some players who can do no wrong though, and can never get left of the squad unless they’re seriously injured.
Rashford probably is the one who needs rest given he has played more minutes, and has been in disgusting form the last few games but that’s never gonna happen. In fact this season Rashford is the one player who has somehow managed to get an appearance in all our games.

Disgusting form? :lol:

What a hilarious rant

Mciahel Goodman · Dec 26, 2017

Feed Me said:
Lukaku wide right, seriously?

Yeah, playing off the right. He's drifted centrally from that position a few times and looked good. Ibra could play second striker with Lukaku up top, but wouldn't surprise me to see Ibra up top, Mata in the middle, Rashford left and Lukaku right.

Gbenger · Dec 26, 2017

Inigo Montoya said:
Disgusting form?
What a hilarious rant

I expected you to bite

madzo2007 · Dec 26, 2017

Bit of Martial news

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Inigo Montoya · Dec 26, 2017

Hed Zitin said:
Not the quickest attack I've seen to break a good defensive team down.

We haven’t had a quick attack in years . Not hard to see why we Labour to beat some teams

gavdim2002 · Dec 26, 2017

el3mel said:
Only thing I'm afraid about is the combination of Mata and Zlatan in creating the attack can be very slow.

Quick thinking is key to creating chances

Feed Me · Dec 26, 2017

Devil may care said:
That's one of the strange things about the team under him, individually I think the defenders have been good, but his insistence in trying to play Pogba and a #10 is always going to leave huge spaces to put our back 4 under threat, we can't strangle teams with control.

De Gea has made a high number of saves - the idea that we have been defensively solid under Jose is rubbish. Worrying that City look close to VVD and we are persisting with the likes of Smalling.

Inigo Montoya · Dec 26, 2017

Gbenger said:
I expected you to bite

I haven’t bitten, I found it absurd. Two different things

Feed Me · Dec 26, 2017

Mciahel Goodman said:
Yeah, playing off the right. He's drifted centrally from that position a few times and looked good. Ibra could play second striker with Lukaku up top, but wouldn't surprise me to see Ibra up top, Mata in the middle, Rashford left and Lukaku right.

Interested to see how it works out. Anything to get him going.

Inigo Montoya · Dec 26, 2017

gavdim2002 said:
Quick thinking is key to creating chances

Dalgleish: the first yard was in his head :lol:

Red_toad · Dec 26, 2017

De Gea
Young, Jones, Rojo, Shaw
Matic
Mata Pogba Rashford
Ibra
Lukaku

Could be an interesting line up. Looking forward to the game.

SER19 · Dec 26, 2017

It's a 4231. Young and shaw quick enough full backs to compensate for mata lack of pace. Once they have license to go forward

Inigo Montoya · Dec 26, 2017

Feed Me said:
De Gea has made a high number of saves - the idea that we have been defensively solid under Jose is rubbish. Worrying that City look close to VVD and we are persisting with the likes of Smalling.

They were also looking at Jonny Evans doesn’t mean anything

Adisa · Dec 26, 2017

Would be just like us just to have the two biggest forwards in the league and not deliver any crosses.

Paul_Scholes18 · Dec 26, 2017

Interesting that Ibra starts. Didn't expect that cause he didn't look that good against Bristol. If Burnley park the buss having two strikers can help a lot though. Hopefully the link up between our attackers can be good.

Devil may care · Dec 26, 2017

Feed Me said:
De Gea has made a high number of saves - the idea that we have been defensively solid under Jose is rubbish. Worrying that City look close to VVD and we are persisting with the likes of Smalling.

The protection centrally is definitely lacking, Matic has too much to do in a lot of games I feel, the problem today though is likely to come from the lack of mobility up the top end though.

Feed Me · Dec 26, 2017

Inigo Montoya said:
They were also looking at Jonny Evans doesn’t mean anything

It means they’re looking for a certain profile of player that suits the style of football they’re looking to develop.

United’s policy is scattergun in comparison, with no obvious style.

Red_toad · Dec 26, 2017

madzo2007 said:
Bit of Martial news

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What did it say?

Inigo Montoya · Dec 26, 2017

madzo2007 said:
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Nonsense! He’s dropped because Rashford’s Jose’s love child, and he doesn’t like Frenchmen who don’t smile

Bastian · Dec 26, 2017

madzo2007 said:
Bit of Martial news

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What did it say?

Android1974 · Dec 26, 2017

Anyone understands Rojo ahead of Lindelöf in this? Wouldn't we need a centerback who can play from the back? Besides, he's in better form.

Canagel · Dec 26, 2017

I'm guessing the only reason Rashford is in team is put crosses in for Lukaku and Zlatan. That's one thing he has over Martial. No other reason for him to be playing over Lingard or Martial.

el3mel · Dec 26, 2017

Feed Me said:
It means they’re looking for a certain profile of player that suits the style of football they’re looking to develop.

United’s policy is scattergun in comparison, with no obvious style.

We signed Lindelof to do the same job.

Signing another CB will be total pointless to us. City need another one because Kompany gets injured a lot. Just because they want to sign VVD doesn't mean anything regarding us.

We need transfers in attack.

madzo2007 · Dec 26, 2017

Red_toad said:
What did it say?

He has a knock on the knee...

Adisa · Dec 26, 2017

abdo99 said:
I'm guessing the only reason Rashford is in team is put crosses in for Lukaku and Zlatan. That's one thing he has over Martial. No other reason for him to be playing over Lingard or Martial.

He's injured.

Dobba · Dec 26, 2017

Has this 11 been drawn out of a hat?

vidic blood & sand · Dec 26, 2017

Well this has 1:0 written all over it. The queen could bet all her houses on it, including the one in Westminster.

Red_toad · Dec 26, 2017

' However, Martial picked up a slight knee injury in the draw against the Foxes and was left out today as a precaution, according to SFR Sport. The French publication describes Martial’s injury as ‘small’ and says he will be in the stands to watch his team-mates take on the Clarets.'

SFR saying Martial has a small injury. So can the Jose' conspiracy theorists please give it a rest.

SirAF · Dec 26, 2017

Bastian said:
What did it say?

"Martial has a knock on the knee from the Leicester game, you guys can stop the panic"

breakout67 · Dec 26, 2017

Feed Me said:
It means they’re looking for a certain profile of player that suits the style of football they’re looking to develop.

United’s policy is scattergun in comparison, with no obvious style.

Matic, Pogba, Bailly, Lukaku, Ibrahimovic

All of them are physical beasts with good levels of technical play. Looks to me that the manager has a clear idea of what team he wants to build.

In fact ask opposition managers what they fear in this team; and it is two things; physicality and efficient counter attacking.

Android1974 · Dec 26, 2017

haram said:
Some rest for Lingard I guess. Is Martial injured?

Don't think it's rest, he's been dropped.

Flying_Heckfish · Dec 26, 2017

We shouldn't be playing Mata, Rom and Ibra (as well as Matic) at the same time really, IMO. It will slow us down quite a bit. Hopefully there is a plan to get around the lack of mobility.

Lukaku has a good top speed but we haven't seen him run much so far. He seems to be told to stay put.. maybe we'll see some of his diagonal movement today

haram · Dec 26, 2017

Android1974 said:
Don't think it's rest, he's been dropped.

He was good against Leicester though?

Feed Me · Dec 26, 2017

el3mel said:
We signed Lindelof to do the same job.

Signing another CB will be total pointless to us. City need another one because Kompany gets injured a lot. Just because they want to sign VVD doesn't mean anything regarding us.

We need transfers in attack.

We’ve spent 60-70m on two new centre halves since JM joined and are still no closer to knowing what our first choice combination is. We also play a failed winger at left back.

Android1974 · Dec 26, 2017

The optimists can think Blind is on the bench as midfielder, instead of us featuring 3 centerback on the bench.

Inigo Montoya · Dec 26, 2017

Feed Me said:
It means they’re looking for a certain profile of player that suits the style of football they’re looking to develop.

United’s policy is scattergun in comparison, with no obvious style.

Not true. You’re implying that Jose buys players without a thought. Given that 2 of our defenders were SAfs signings, 2 were LVGs and 2 are Jose’s, it’s always likely to look a mish mash of styles. He can’t just get rid of all his squad.

Inigo Montoya · Dec 26, 2017

Feed Me said:
We’ve spent 60-70m on two new centre halves since JM joined and are still no closer to knowing what our first choice combination is. We also play a failed winger at left back.

Who happens to be very good

Bastian · Dec 26, 2017

We'll presumably be attacking predominantly down the left side with Shaw providing overlap. Expecting a pretty solid performance, not least from those players who have underwhelmed recently.

Also don't think it's a coincidence that Jose gives a start to Ibra just after slagging off the team for immaturity.

diplomat · Dec 26, 2017

Mciahel Goodman said:
Yeah, playing off the right. He's drifted centrally from that position a few times and looked good. Ibra could play second striker with Lukaku up top, but wouldn't surprise me to see Ibra up top, Mata in the middle, Rashford left and Lukaku right.

It also allows us to play the long-ball tactic to more attacking positions if we are forced to go that way.

Android1974 · Dec 26, 2017

Member 5225 said:
So err what’s the formation then?

Seems like the common 4-2-3-1, where's the doubt?

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