With the injury problems, doubt we can play many first team players today, we need them all ready for game vs West Ham.
Lingard is showing a lot of promise in training and hopefully he can mature into a top class senior player for us, in the next 3-5 years.
Yes a European trophy, the UEFA Cup would be an enormous endorsement for Solskjaer, and would hand us automatic CL qualification too.
Yep.
I'd like to see how Ole manages his workload. Our players seem to have fitness problems as is.
“Trying to make ends meet, you’re a slave to the money then you die”
We'll not be writing off the europa league by playing a team of kids. I think we'll see 3 tops. Likely tuanzebe, greenwood and maybe gomes or chong. Can't see anyone else starting though.
I'm not saying it's a write off or we will play team full of kids. I said we should be playing more than 2 players as we have many injuries.
I'd say that team is close enough to what we'll see but I'm very doubtful he'll start Gomes. He didn't even give him a start in pre-season and when he brought him on it was on the wing.
Yeah, don't think he played as 10 for first team, so it might be Lingard with Gomes starting or coming on as LW.
I know you didn't mean that, what i meant was to play half a team of youngsters would be crazy if we're not chucking this competition in the bin. I hope gomes starts just to see him, but thats it greenwood and tuanzebe aside.
Why can’t we play a bunch of youngsters and win comfortably?
ah.. if only I was welll paid.. it's more like the slave part
That's insane, have you far to travel or is it that the traffic is horrific?
both! about 90 miles and a fight to get through the stupid Dartford Crossing (fortunately I don't have to make the trip every day of every week). I once worked out I could get from London to Wolverhampton quicker!
AWB rested?
Looks like it. Although M.E.N. are notorious for letting players slip into the hotel unnoticed. We need him desperately for Sunday and the other players need minutes.
But with Greenwood up top, we need 3 players for LW, RW and AM. Lingard will play but will only take one slot, there are 2 more (hopefully for Chong AND Gomes).I'm not one to slag this fella off but you just fecking know it'll be Lingard over Gomes tonight
If we’re 2-3 goals to the good by 60 mins, he surely has to bring two youngsters on.I'm not one to slag this fella off but you just fecking know it'll be Lingard over Gomes tonight
Is this a post from 10 years back?
It's not December yet, mate.
would be perfectly happy with that and just can't see how anyone could think that wouldn't be enough to beat freaking Astana at OT. Then hopefully get garner on for matic or fred somewhere around the 60 minute mark with us a couple goals ahead. We have 2 Argentine internationals, 2 English internationals, a Brazilian international player, and a Serbian international in that lineup and yet people still are acting like we can't play more than 2 freaking youngsters or they will be overwhelmed.
Got to admit that I was thinking that same thing. Is he not 26 already.
Mata will start ahead of Gomes, but that's pretty much spot on.
The other thread is the Europa League general thread, it's just that someone put our fixture in the title which confused everyone.
It was a sarcastic comment. Hopefully by the time he is 55 he'll be ready for the first team, preferably someone else's first team.
Marcos Rojo
Fred
Axel Tuanzebe
Angel Gomes
Diogo Dalot
Nemanja Matic
Marcus Rashford
Phil Jones
Francois Letexier
replaced by Ashley Young
replaced by Juan Mata
replaced by Jesse Lingard
