Manchester United 1:3 Crystal Palace

el3mel · Sep 17, 2020

Feels like I didn't have enough time to miss football really. Last season ended about 1 month ago or so I believe.

2-0 for us.

De Gea
AWB - Maguire - Lindelof - Williams
Matic
VDB - Bruno
Greenwood - Martial - Rashford

Tony247 · Sep 17, 2020

Godfather said:
Is Pogba fit?

Doubtful for season opener as per the reports.

Schmeichel's Cartwheel · Sep 17, 2020

flappyjay said:
Possibly could have won it that year had it not been for injuries.

I know, but I’m talking about the summer of 2006. Nobody expected us to be as good as we were that season. I remember the pre season previews predicting it may be the season United dropped to 4th (which was unthinkable under Fergie)

“Carrick isn’t good enough” “they’ve not replaced Van Nistelrooy” “Rooney & Ronaldo hate each other” “has Fergie lost his touch”

All of the above was a taking point going into 06-07. Nobody expected us to win or even challenge for the league.

Class of 63 · Sep 17, 2020

Class of 63 said:
Why does the line-up prediction thingy close tomorrow?

Please don't tell me we play on Friday.

ghagua · Sep 17, 2020

Class of 63 said:
.....and we'll be 2 points behind the Leaders and our Title challenge will be over for the season in September!

Yea, most probably.....Idiot!

Class of 63 · Sep 17, 2020

ghagua said:
Yea, most probably.....Idiot!

Yeah because the knee-jerkers won't be out in force

Returned.

ghagua · Sep 17, 2020

Class of 63 said:
Yeah because the knee-jerkers won't be out in force

Returned.

I just gave my thoughts on what the results may be. There were no comments about how the season would be played out. Who gives a feck about what the knee jerkers think. This was my thoughts on the possible first game. Your comment is a classic example of a keyboard warrior. An example of a classic idiot!

flappyjay · Sep 17, 2020

Schmeichel's Cartwheel said:
I know, but I’m talking about the summer of 2006. Nobody expected us to be as good as we were that season. I remember the pre season previews predicting it may be the season United dropped to 4th (which was unthinkable under Fergie)

“Carrick isn’t good enough” “they’ve not replaced Van Nistelrooy” “Rooney & Ronaldo hate each other” “has Fergie lost his touch”

All of the above was a taking point going into 06-07. Nobody expected us to win or even challenge for the league.

I also talking about that season, we went in to it being seen as just good enough for 2nd. Besides the Chelsea signings we had also sold Rvn which increased the media scrutiny. I think it's one of my favorite seasons because of how they underestimated us.

Class of 63 · Sep 17, 2020

ghagua said:
I just gave my thoughts on what the results may be. There were no comments about how the season would be played out. Who gives a feck about what the knee jerkers think. This was my thoughts on the possible first game. Your comment is a classic example of a keyboard warrior. An example of a classic idiot!

Keyboard warrior!? Feck me sideways.

ghagua · Sep 17, 2020

Class of 63 said:
Keyboard warrior!? Feck me sideways.

Looks like I found the perfect idiot to have some fun with. If you wear a nice mini skirt, I just might. What's next?

Class of 63 · Sep 17, 2020

ghagua said:
Looks like I found the perfect idiot to have some fun with. If you wear a nice mini skirt, I just might. What's next?

Hopefully the Men in White coats catch up with you :lol:

ghagua · Sep 17, 2020

Class of 63 said:
Hopefully the Men in White coats catch up with you

I am a man in a white coat....Lol. Do you like men in white coats?

Adcuth · Sep 17, 2020

ghagua said:
I am a man in a white coat....Lol. Do you like men in white coats?

The feck is going on?

Class of 63 · Sep 17, 2020

ghagua said:
I am a man in a white coat....Lol. Do you like men in white coats?

So you think we'll draw with Palace eh, loving the optimism, hope it catches on.

USREDEVIL · Sep 17, 2020

drdoityourself said:
I'm most looking forward to seeing our goalnets at the start of a new season. We had some beauties over the years. My personal favorite are the soft nets, which hugged the ball when it hit:

Now the nets are too stiff. A worrying trend in the English football.

Anyways, hope the front three are all fit. We have no one to replace them and that would massively impact the shape if a non threatening RW enters the fray, like Mata or Lingard.

Net fetish eh? Takes all kinds i guess.

PitTon · Sep 17, 2020

Nou_Camp99 said:
You want to play a diamond with our fullbacks? Do you actually know how that formation works?

TBH I'm not expert when talking about formations, but I watch teams playing formations without wingers (that's why I said diamond or other formations (4222 which I like too)). Iirc I watched the match when Sir Alex play diamond vs Newcastle (?). The FBs don't need to be that Alves, Alba, Davies... they just need to be at a good attacking positions to receive the ball to begin with.

Forevergiggs1 · Sep 17, 2020

Class of 63 said:
We need more Captains this year ....

Cpt. Calamity

Cpt. Web(Spider, no, okay)
Cpt. Horizontal
Cpt. Convict
Cpt. Chunky

Cpt. Duracell
Cpt. V D
Cpt. Showboat

Cpt. Prodigy
Cpt. Happy
Cpt. Geldof

Well played sir

ghagua · Sep 18, 2020

Adcuth said:
The feck is going on?

You should read the reply to my original post. It was an innocent prediction, nothing really negative. Guess the guy got riled up for no reason. Love having fun with these sort of people. But yes, I do wear a white coat....Lol

roseguy64 · Sep 18, 2020

USREDEVIL said:
Think we'll be up for this. First game of the season, we had a bit more rest than other teams so we have no excuses not to go at Palace with everything. Hopefully Pogba starts and we can bring on VDB during the late stages.

No we haven't. That's exactly why we're starting later. Because we have had less rest.

Class of 63 · Sep 18, 2020

Forevergiggs1 said:
Well played sir

Oops, forgot the subs:

Cpt. Reliable
Cpt. Fragile
Cpt. Reckless
Cpt. Static
Cpt. Glitz
Cpt. Shifter
Cpt. Freebie

WeePat · Sep 18, 2020

This is a tricky one to predict, because Palace have already played a full competitive game and are likely further ahead in the race back to match sharpness, but United have match winners all over the 3 plus Bruno and Pogba. I'm going with a 1-1 draw, but fully aware that United could really blow Palace away if the attack clicks.

Nou_Camp99 · Sep 18, 2020

WeePat said:
This is a tricky one to predict, because Palace have already played a full competitive game and are likely further ahead in the race back to match sharpness, but United have match winners all over the 3 plus Bruno and Pogba. I'm going with a 1-1 draw, but fully aware that United could really blow Palace away if the attack clicks.

They've played 2 actually. They were in league cup action mid week weren't they?

Fitness levels are going to really show I feel. If we're chasing the game going into the last 20mins I will be very worried.

United n City have both been royally shafted going into this new season.

DWelbz19 · Sep 18, 2020

Nou_Camp99 said:
They've played 2 actually. They were in league cup action mid week weren't they?

Fitness levels are going to really show I feel. If we're chasing the game going into the last 20mins I will be very worried.

United n City have both been royally shafted going into this new season.

Isn’t there another international break in October? We’ll pick up momentum and it’ll just break it up again.

Tom Cato · Sep 18, 2020

I think we're stomping this. 5-0 Manchester United.

Pogba leads the way.

bosnian_red · Sep 18, 2020

Looking forward to this. Its obvious our squad isn't ready to handle the season in terms of personnel, but the starting 11 is good so I have high expectations while we are fit and fresh. Only really when injuries start coming in is when I'd expect it to be derailed.

Guessed Greenwood to be left on the bench at first but maybe Ole backs him by putting him in the starting 11 so that he can just get back to business. Either way, we have the Carabao cup right away midweek so they'll all play from the start.

United58 · Sep 18, 2020

Any word on Shaw?

Also, do people really think Pogba will start? He's had the flu a couple of weeks so wouldn't have trained, and we're still in pre-season; I can see him coming on as a sub for VDB (who looked good vs Villa)

Berbasbullet · Sep 18, 2020

United58 said:
Any word on Shaw?

Also, do people really think Pogba will start? He's had the flu a couple of weeks so wouldn't have trained, and we're still in pre-season; I can see him coming on as a sub for VDB (who looked good vs Villa)

He didn’t have the flu....

JohnZSmith27 · Sep 18, 2020

United58 said:
Any word on Shaw?

Also, do people really think Pogba will start? He's had the flu a couple of weeks so wouldn't have trained, and we're still in pre-season; I can see him coming on as a sub for VDB (who looked good vs Villa)

Didn't Shaw play last weekend against Villa?

Edit. Sorry I read that as Shaw having the flu

WeePat · Sep 18, 2020

Nou_Camp99 said:
They've played 2 actually. They were in league cup action mid week weren't they?

Fitness levels are going to really show I feel. If we're chasing the game going into the last 20mins I will be very worried.

United n City have both been royally shafted going into this new season.

Yeah, that's spot on actually. They've played 2 competitive games on top of 4 preseason games.

On reflection, I think Palace might actually have a really good chance of winning this game.

USREDEVIL · Sep 18, 2020

roseguy64 said:
No we haven't. That's exactly why we're starting later. Because we have had less rest.

I'm talking about recently (like the last couple of weeks) since we did not play our first game.

For example, Crystal have already played two competitive matches on 9/12 and 9/15 and our last competitive match was Sevilla.

Dve · Sep 18, 2020

I suspect

...................... De Gea

Bissaka - Lindeløf - Maguire - Shaw

............. VDB - McTominay

................. Fernandes

Greenwood - Martial - Rashford

Subs:
Pogba
Matic
James

horsechoker · Sep 18, 2020

Dve said:
I suspect

...................... De Gea

Bissaka - Lindeløf - Maguire - Shaw

............. VDB - McTominay

................. Fernandes

Greenwood - Martial - Rashford

Subs:
Pogba
Matic
James

He's not Danish/Norwegian :nono:

Dve · Sep 18, 2020

horsechoker said:
He's not Danish/Norwegian

Alright, alright, Lindelöf then. Pedant

Strelok · Sep 18, 2020

Tbh I don't get the negativity about this match. We should be able to win this comfortably. CP is a decent team but we're much stronger than them and we play at home.

My only worry is our players haven't played for a while so their match fitness may suffer a bit. Imo the first 20-25' would be a bit rusty but once we get the rythme back things gonna roll nicely.

3-0 for us. Martial and Bruno will score. Rashford should get one, he'd really need that. Greenwood may get one if he plays I think, the lad is a natural killer.

Art · Sep 18, 2020

Can see Zaha play out of his mind as a final audition for bigger clubs interested in him. Not too confident about this fixture.

Offsideagain · Sep 18, 2020

If Zaha doesn’t get a penalty, we will win 4-0.

Inigo Montoya · Sep 18, 2020

Art said:
Can see Zaha play out of his mind as a final audition for bigger clubs interested in him. Not too confident about this fixture.

Like he has each time we've played Palace?

It's always the same on here come match day. The oppo has one player we should be quivering in our boots to face. Of course we haven't got a single match winner they should be concerned about

Alemar · Sep 18, 2020

We need to trash them by 4 or 5 goals, strong start to the season is important.

Art · Sep 18, 2020

Inigo Montoya said:
Like he has each time we've played Palace?

It's always the same on here come match day. The oppo has one player we should be quivering in our boots to face. Of course we haven't got a single match winner they should be concerned about

Ofcourse we're favorites. They did well to beat Southampton last week.

Berbasbullet · Sep 18, 2020

Ddg

AWB
Lindelof
Maguire
Shaw

Matic
VDB

Rashford
Bruno
Greenwood

Martial

Prediction: 1–1

Come on you reds!

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