Manchester United 1:1 Middlesbrough

Sparky_Hughes · Jan 31, 2022

jamesjimmybyrondean said:
Only thing that would excite me about this machine is if Greenwood starts as a striker

Doh, first time Ive laughed since the news broke, thank you.

Offsideagain · Jan 31, 2022

Well recent events make selection a little easier up front. Sancho on the right, Rashford on the left and Ronaldo down the middle. We need to start the match quickly and dominate them for as long as possible or it could get difficult.

bosnian_red · Jan 31, 2022

So... Football eh. What a change in atmosphere from last weekend where some of the feel good factor was creeping back in the club, some optimism... Only for this weekend's news combined with no effort to bring in any reinforcements other than sending players out on loan at the close of the transfer window to bring us right back down to negativity. Important for us to put in a good performance so everyone can forget about the issues and move on with optimism.

De Gea
Dalot Varane Maguire Shaw
Matic
Bruno McTominay
Sancho Ronaldo Rashford

Cavani, Fred, Telles coming back from international duty... Not sure who else is available. Maybe Elanga to start on the wing, but other than that.. a bit bare on depth.

Red For Ever · Jan 31, 2022

Shouldn't Dallio and anyone else no longer part of the squad be removed from the list, although with some it will be clearer by midnight I guess.

Beans · Jan 31, 2022

fishfingers15 said:
That's life I suppose.

Greenwood is still on the lineup predictor. Will be surreal this match

I hope we remove all the images of him, including that one. I don’t wanna see his face.

sunama · Jan 31, 2022

Beans said:
I hope we remove all the images of him, including that one. I don’t wanna see his face.

Easy there buddy. We don't know for sure what happened.
Innocent until proven guilty.

Beans · Jan 31, 2022

sunama said:
Easy there buddy. We don't know for sure what happened.
Innocent until proven guilty.

I don't think we're supposed to talk about it anymore, that issue has been covered.

Red Royal · Jan 31, 2022

Has anybody watched much of Shoretire this season? Any chance of him making the step up or is Hanibal ahead of him.

Samid · Jan 31, 2022

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Fair play.

SonyaCross493 · Jan 31, 2022

I think Cavani and Ronny will actually be glad The Scumbag can't play.. they might get actual service and chances created with Sancho playing regularly instead to build up that connection over a run of games. Sancho coming in and out of the team every other match does nobody any good you can't get a rhythm.. so it'll be nice to see Sancho now get a good run of games and I think we will see the best of him - it's what he needs

so for Sancho, it could turn into a blessing in disguise. And if he stars showing his Dortmund form it'll be like a new signing anyway.

I also think we could see Pogba play off the left

something like:

De Gea

Telles
Varane
Lindelof
Dalot

Mcfred
Bruno

Pogba
Cavani/Ronny
Sancho

Rashford, Lingard and Elanga to come off the bench to run at tired defenders with the pace they have. Matic to come on to shore up the midfielder when we need to defend a lead.

that is our best side IMO and with Pogba on the left and Sancho on the right it's really creative and we will create loads more chances

Ollie Derbyshire · Jan 31, 2022

I’d go with…
…………………..De Gea
Dalot…..Varane…..Maguire….Telles
………………….…Fred
………..Bruno………….McT
Sancho…….Ronaldo…..Rashford

With little cover in the front six bar Cavani, Elanga & Lingard realistically, I hope this 11 stays fit and gets a good run of games, using Cavani & Elanga as first rotation when needed.

Only one I’m never sure on is Telles over Shaw, Shaw is the better player but there’s just something not right with him and Telles hasn’t done anything wrong to drop him.

Samid · Jan 31, 2022

Ollie Derbyshire said:
I’d go with…
…………………..De Gea
Dalot…..Varane…..Maguire….Telles
………………….…Fred
………..Bruno………….McT
Sancho…….Ronaldo…..Rashford

With little cover in the front six bar Cavani, Elanga & Lingard realistically, I hope this 11 stays fit and gets a good run of games, using Cavani & Elanga as first rotation when needed.

Only one I’m never sure on is Telles over Shaw, Shaw is the better player but there’s just something not right with him and Telles hasn’t done anything wrong to drop him.

Pogba?

Florida Man · Jan 31, 2022

sunama said:
Easy there buddy. We don't know for sure what happened.
Innocent until proven guilty.

Don’t spoil the good nature of the matchday thread :nono:

Ollie Derbyshire · Jan 31, 2022

Samid said:
Pogba?

I’ll count him in when he returns, hopefully he’ll come back and play well but I’ll not be surprised if it takes him half the remaining games to get back to some sort of form/match fitness.

Giant Midget · Jan 31, 2022

DDG

AwB Lindelof Varane Shaw

McTom Fred Bruno

Sancho Ronaldo Lingard

Bertie Wooster · Feb 1, 2022

Some positions are real 50-50 calls. Other than that, I hope we go very strong with the line up. I always want us to take cups serious anyway, but even less of a justification to rest players coming back from a lengthy break. We also need a morale boost after the recent events - so definitely need to avoid an unnecessary upset at home to a team from a lower division.

I wouldn't be surprised if we give Lingard a start as a 'sweetener' for denying him his loan. But I'd probably use him from the bench.

De Gea

Dalot
Maguire
Varane
Shaw

McTominay
Fred
Fernandes

Sancho
Ronaldo
Rashford

With, hopefully, the likes of Lingard, Elanga and Cavani to come off the bench. I assume the game comes too early for Hannibal after his international commitments. But I'd have only had him on the bench anyway.

pauldyson1uk · Feb 1, 2022

Normally Iam quite excited for an FA Cup tie, but right now,I have no interest in the game hopefully by Friday this will change

AngeloHenriquez · Feb 1, 2022

Does it make sense to give some our fringe players or players who haven't seen as much time a run out here to get their match fitness up? I don't think we are arrogant enough we can rotate fully but we can't just play first XI like Ole did and run the players into the ground, perhaps something like:

DDG
AWB Jones Lindelof Shaw
Hannibal Matic Bruno
Sancho Ronaldo Lingard

EDIT:

The burnley game would see us be able to use:

DDG
Dalot Maguire Varane Telles
Fred Mctom Bruno
Sancho Ronaldo Elanga

M16Red · Feb 1, 2022

Mellor makes the bench and gets on the pitch.

Remember the geese · Feb 1, 2022

AngeloHenriquez said:
Does it make sense to give some our fringe players or players who haven't seen as much time a run out here to get their match fitness up? I don't think we are arrogant enough we can rotate fully but we can't just play first XI like Ole did and run the players into the ground, perhaps something like:

DDG
AWB Jones Lindelof Shaw
Hannibal Matic Bruno
Sancho Ronaldo Lingard

EDIT:

The burnley game would see us be able to use:

DDG
Dalot Maguire Varane Telles
Fred Mctom Bruno
Sancho Ronaldo Elanga

Rashford.

AngeloHenriquez · Feb 1, 2022

Remember the geese said:
Rashford.

Fair point, I suppose he has to play, change him for Elanga who is still young and can come on sub

Superden · Feb 1, 2022

Samid said:
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Fair play.

Thats quite a disturbing take on football chants, when you consider many of the other topics of chants that are presumably ok by the fans...

macheda14 · Feb 1, 2022

Superden said:
Thats quite a disturbing take on football chants, when you consider many of the other topics of chants that are presumably ok by the fans...

Most of the ones that aren't 'ok' are being routinely called out by clubs nowadays

Longlivekeano · Feb 1, 2022

——————-—-Henderson—————

-AwB——Maguire——Lindelof—Telles

————————-Matic—————————

———-McTominay—-Fred——————-

—Sancho————Cavani——-Lingard—

RonaldoVII · Feb 1, 2022

Everything in this points to playing our strongest team and getting the job done. Make subs early if the tie is wrapped up.

Reynoldo · Feb 1, 2022

Waaa...just made the rookie mistake of booking a night out on Friday without checking when we were playing!

Plant0x84 · Feb 1, 2022

DDG

Dalot
Varane
Maguire
Shaw

McTominay
Bruno
JLingz

Sancho
Ronaldo
Rashford

Pogback off the bench. Hannibal and Elanga too after an hour.

Coops73 · Feb 1, 2022

Reynoldo said:
Waaa...just made the rookie mistake of booking a night out on Friday without checking when we were playing!

I did that too but I explained to the wife we’re going to have to cancel our night out, she’s left me and taken the kids, the dog and the tortoise which is a shame but really looking forward to the game on Friday.

Red Royal · Feb 1, 2022

After the week we have had, really need to go with our strongest possible line up. Hopefully show some unity on the pitch, perform well and try to win the last realistic silverware on offer for us this season.

suheilsworld · Feb 1, 2022

Don’t think Fred and Telles will start this game. Brazil play tonight. They’ll be ready for the burnley game. Think it’ll be

henderson

Dalot Varane Maguire Shaw

Matic McT
Bruno
Rashford Ronaldo Sancho

SonyaCross493 · Feb 1, 2022

If Lingard is staying we might as well make him earn his keep. Start him in this game.

DomesticTadpole · Feb 1, 2022

To be fair we have so called strikers and have only scored three more goals in the league and they still have a game in hand. If they are in a bad way, what are we with the money spent?

Lynty · Feb 1, 2022

Samid said:
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Fair play.

Since when do fans miss an oppurtunity to take digs at United.

Rossa · Feb 1, 2022

Reynoldo said:
Waaa...just made the rookie mistake of booking a night out on Friday without checking when we were playing!

Be clever and find a venue with live football and be all surprised when they realize it.

yamo123x · Feb 1, 2022

no point resting players, boro wont be a walk over.

Offside · Feb 1, 2022

Can see a horrible upset here. Boro love a cup upset. Won at City in 2015. Won at OT later the same year. They hate Ronaldo for extra motivation. They’re improving under Wilder, the same manager who caused a huge upset at OT last season. No doubt rather than the squad pulling together in the wake of the Greenwood stuff it will instead just leave a bad taste in everyone’s mouth.

2-1 Boro.

suheilsworld · Feb 1, 2022

Pogba, Chong and Hannibal spotted in training. Chong might be a good option

Okey · Feb 1, 2022

Fred and Cavani are unlikely to play here I guess. Seeing as they won't be back till tomorrow. Makes the selection a bit more straightforward. We should be seeing Boro off even with some youngsters included.

Smithy89 · Feb 1, 2022

Lynty said:
Since when do fans miss an oppurtunity to take digs at United.

Our fans would be doing the exact same thing.

Okey · Feb 1, 2022

suheilsworld said:
Pogba, Chong and Hannibal spotted in training. Chong might be a good option

Chong is still on loan to Birmingham. Only here to regain full fitness from injury.

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