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Buzzing for that 6am alarm to go off on Saturday!
Buzzing for that 6am alarm to go off on Saturday!
FA Premier League
Manchester United 5:1 Leeds United
Old Trafford
- Kick-off
- Sat, 14 August 2021 @ 12:30pm BST
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
Discussion Your Lineup Prediction
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Wan Bissaka forgets his a right back and drifts too much into the center and lets the Leeds winger make a shoddy cross which from Lindelöf gets bullied away easily and the opposite flank Leeds winger taps it in off De Gea.What type of Leeds will show up? If it is the high intensive, risk taking Leeds, then we smashed them easily. We look good in preseason, while Leeds looked poor. I feel like we are ready to reach the 80 point mark this season. Can only see a win at the moment. And not a win with Var, sketchy decision, or penalties, but a proper win.I deffo wouldn't start matic against Leeds. High energy teams will leave him standing still. Fred and Donny would be better as they'll be prone to the counterDan James will start and I think it would be the correct decision tooThank God the EL matchday thread is no longer on the front page of the website.
There is only so many times a day a football fan should be reminded that his team scored 10 penalties in succession and still lost the game.
I was considering asking the mods to make some sort of buffer thread 'till next season's first game would be up. Half the Caf must've had that forum on ignore
Didn't even think of the pens, just that we ended the season trophyless. On every visit
Asking the mods for anything will get you two things: ignored or herpes. Or both if you're especially luckyI was considering asking the mods to make some sort of buffer thread 'till next season's first game would be up. Half the Caf must've had that forum on ignore
Didn't even think of the pens, just that we ended the season trophyless. On every visit
How? He's only been back for one game (Everton), and was arguably our best player when he came on in the second half.Please dont start Dan James.Why is Pogba on the left of attack now seen to be a good thing? It is clearly a bit shite.------------------------De Gea---------------------
AWB------Linda---------Maguire-----Shaw
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Greenwood------Martial-----------ElangaThe positive about playing Leeds is they attack and are always open no matter what which suits us down to the ground. The negative is you know damn well they are up to speed and fit already so our players energy levels have to be high early.Will there be a full house for this?
They weren't open or attacking the last time we played them.De Gea
AWB Maguire Lindelof Shaw
Fred McT
Bruno
Greenwood Martial Sancho
Hope to see Varane off the bench but doubtful. I reckon 3-1 United.I hope we don't see a McT midfield.
Pogba will most likely play with Martial, Greenwood and Sancho upfront (I can see Martial on the left and Greenwood as a striker)
It's his default position against any decent opposition. He doesn't start in midfield unless we're facing bottom half team.Could think of easier games to start with.
No Cavani or Rashford, we’re toothless up front ….a bit ominous
Dalot not shown on squad on here.. I’m sure he will figure this season
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Need to hit the ground running, a win is an absolute must. I would take the W over performance on this one as that will come the more games and wins we start to accumulate. Come On
Yet our best game versus the top 6 was arguably against Liverpool in the cup when Pogba played CM.
Well I'm not sure about that:
McFred played centrally. Although Pogba did roam around (as he usually does), he played mostly on LW:
Similar to Bruno, but at least you can see he stayed centrally (probably when defending):
DDG
AWB
Varane
Maguire
Shaw
Fred
VDB
Bruno
Sancho
Greenwood
PogbaBeen looking forward to this all year, but now that we're just a couple of days away, I've decided not to go to the game on Saturday.
Gutted, but despite being double jabbed I'm just too scared of Covid to get on the coach and then go into a stadium with 75,000 people.
Hope those brave enough to go make it a rocking opening game.
0-2 City.De Gea, Shaw, Maguire, Lindelof, AWB, Matic, Fred, Pogba, Bruno, Greenwood, Martial.
Will be too early for Sancho and Varane of course, Sancho at least should come on for his debut. Without Cavani, Rashford and having a very rusty Martial I think this might be a bit of a struggle.
2-2
He had Covid and we had 10 men.
It's personal preference but the McFred Midfield for me is way too limited.
Also I predict a Donny Fred Midfield will have similar problems to a Pogba Fred Midfield.
We just don't have Midfielders that suit eachotherLast edited:
I edited my post after using my brain.
Ah that’s sad mate. Hopefully you feel safe enough to go soon.Been looking forward to this all year, but now that we're just a couple of days away, I've decided not to go to the game on Saturday.
Gutted, but despite being double jabbed I'm just too scared of Covid to get on the coach and then go into a stadium with 75,000 people.
Hope those brave enough to go make it a rocking opening game.
https://www.skysports.com/football/man-utd-vs-liverpool/teams/440599
Not that game. In the FA cup game.
https://www.skysports.com/football/man-utd-vs-liverpool/teams/440599
Also up until that point we hadn't bet one of the big 6 and had only scored 1 goal from a penalty.
The McFred Midfield couldn't make us chances in those games.
It was found out last season especially in the second half of the season where they got worse and worse and started gifting the opposition goals.Starting XI:
De Gea
Wan-Bissaka - Lindelof - Maguire - Shaw
Van De Beek - Matic
Greenwood - Fernandes - James
Martial
We need James Enegry in this; Fred or Mctominay to come on and replace either one of Donny or matic, Pogba and Sancho to replace James and Greenwood later on.
3-1 United.
We drew a bunch of games when Pogba got injured against weaker teams where McFred wouldn't have been the primary pairing if Pogba was available. When he got back we had a goalless draw against Leeds and at the end of the season we played a B team against Leicester and lost to Liverpool.
Our start to the season wasn't exactly flying with Pogba in CM.
You are being sensible.Been looking forward to this all year, but now that we're just a couple of days away, I've decided not to go to the game on Saturday.
Gutted, but despite being double jabbed I'm just too scared of Covid to get on the coach and then go into a stadium with 75,000 people.
Hope those brave enough to go make it a rocking opening game.
Yeah that might be it. I just watched Pogba performance, it took him just to be disciplined and focused, without any firework, to have a very good game.
Funny thing is he wasn't anything spectacular in that game, just good all-round midfielder. If he was so focused all the time he'd displace one of Fred or McTominay easily.
You're hard pressed to see a fan wearing a mask inside a stadium based on the friendly footage in pre season. You made the right call.Been looking forward to this all year, but now that we're just a couple of days away, I've decided not to go to the game on Saturday.
Gutted, but despite being double jabbed I'm just too scared of Covid to get on the coach and then go into a stadium with 75,000 people.
Hope those brave enough to go make it a rocking opening game.Pretty sure we will go with something akin to the team we opened with against Everton:
DDG
AWB Lindelof Maguire Shaw
DVB Matic
Greenwood Fernandes James
Martial
The only considerations for me are whether Matic is the right pick for this profile of opponent and whether Martial is sharp enough for a league game, but other than that, I’d be content with that line up.
I expect to see Pogba and Sancho off the bench in the 2nd half, not sure on Varane.
Going for 3-1 to Man United.
Fred got 45, McT only a 15 or so, since then they worked pretty hard as well, both are very fit especially Fred who can play 80 games per season without stopping running. I think we will personally go with him and McTominay who albeit underwhelming player, proved to be in Ole's books 6/10 player, so there is less risk for him. But will perhaps Matic and Fred as a double pivot in the end.. with Pogba in contention too, to make things more creative, and McT to add a bit more steel and legs replacing Matic.
I hope Pogba gets time from LAM though, so we don't have to see DJ anywhere near the pitch.I'd play McTominay after his performance in this fixture last season:
De Gea
AWB Lindelof Maguire Shaw
Fred McTom
Sancho Bruno Martial
Greenwood
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Score Predictions
282,10,34
- Man Utd win
- Leeds United win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 21% Man Utd 2:1 Leeds United
- 20% Man Utd 2:0 Leeds United
- 19% Man Utd 3:1 Leeds United
- 15% Man Utd 3:0 Leeds United
- 6% Man Utd 1:1 Leeds United
- 3% Man Utd 4:0 Leeds United
- 3% Man Utd 2:2 Leeds United
- 2% Man Utd 4:1 Leeds United
- 2% Man Utd 0:0 Leeds United
- 2% Man Utd 4:2 Leeds United
- 2% Man Utd 3:2 Leeds United
- 2% Man Utd 1:0 Leeds United
- 2% Man Utd 1:2 Leeds United
- 1% Man Utd 0:2 Leeds United
- 1% Man Utd 5:0 Leeds United
- 0% Man Utd 0:5 Leeds United
- 0% Man Utd 5:1 Leeds United
- 0% Man Utd 1:3 Leeds United
Match Stats
- Man Utd
- Leeds United
- Possession
- 49% 51%
- Shots
- 16 10
- Shots on Target
- 8 3
- Corners
- 5 4
- Fouls
- 11 9
Referee
Paul Tierney
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Anthony Martial
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replaced by Nemanja Matic
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replaced by Jadon Sancho
