No Smalling? Sheeeeet the midgets are coming for us.
Europa League Round of 32 2nd Leg
Manchester United 5:1 Midtjylland
Old Trafford
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- Thu, 25 February 2016 @ 8:05pm GMT
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We beat them with McNair and Blackett in defence last season
Let's just hope that isn't the backline against Arsenal.
I think we're in for a thrashing against them anyway.
Smalling and CBJ are not in the squad for tonight.Oh dear God, we might genuinely get knocked out by this lot. Should be a fun night on the caf at least.No Smalling? Maybe Carrick next to Blind then? We can't have McNair again, we simply can't.
If you lose because of a very inexperienced backline, what can you do? It was only a matter of time before Smalling was out. We are running out of players. There will need to be a big assessment in the summer of who is actually injury prone. It should be the manager not stocking the squad fully that takes the blame. I am more worried that we will get hammered on Sunday than today.
wow. To put this into perspective... i'd say only 10 of those are part of the senior squad.
We're one injury away from putting the groundskeeper in defense.
It's absolutely terrifying. People want to see the kids, but not this many and only the best ones. A couple of bad results and it could wreck these kids confidence. You bring kids gradually into a winning side, not chuck them in willy nilly and hope for the best.wow. To put this into perspective... i'd say only 10 of those are part of the senior squad.
Can't be helped given the amount of injuries we have but we really are down to the bare bones.
I agree that the injuries are horrendous, but even then the cupboard shouldn't be that bare.
Thats the problem after a spring clean, all the out of date stock gets thrown in the bin.Updated after squad announcement:
Romero
Varela Carrick McNair Blind
Schneiderlin Herrera
Lingard Mata Memphis
Martial
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J.Pereira; Love, Poole, Rojo; Riley, A.Pereira; Rashford
Seems the most likely. Surprised to see no CBJ or Smalling.. If the first 11 can't do it, then we're probably going out. Rojo will likely replace McNair at some point, but odds are it's like for like and doesn't change much offensively.
LvG may actually try the back three again at this rate, maybe something like:
Romero
McNair Carrick Blind
Lingard Herrera Schneiderlin Memphis
Mata Pereira
MartialHopefully we finish the season without any further embarrassments (as unlikely as it is) and then get rid of Van Gaal and all the unreliable, injury prone players like Jones.We better get Litt Up for this.
On manutd.com said CBJ was not available
Where I'm from lit means the same thing as pissed or baked.
What's wrong with Smalling? It's odd that there was nothing about him being injured and Lingard was, yet Lingard is in the squad.
Suits fan?Could be something like this:
RomeroCarrick to step up in midfield when in possession
McNair - Carrick - Blind
Varela - Herrera - Morgan - Lingard
Mata
Martial - Memphis
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Smalliing hurt himself crashing into the advertising hoardings at Shrewsbury.Regardless of inexperience, we should not be losing to some random danish FC. Our u21s should be able to hold their own against them.
IOt was a nasty bump but I didn't know it had caused an injury, hope it's not a concussion or neck problem.I'm trying to be positive about this match and thinking that even if the worst happens and that we go out, that it must mean the end for Van Gaal.
I like the phrase "willy nilly", it should be used whenever possible. However this isn't such an occasion. Unprecedented injuries focused on one area have caused this. Nothing anybody could have done.
Neither is Smalling.On manutd.com said CBJ was not available
Why are we getting these injuries? Maybe Jose would change our luck.
Didn't someone barge him into them?Romero
Varela
McNair
Blind
Riley
Herrera
Schneiderlin
Mata
Lingard
Memphis
Martial You can name Midtjylland inferior, small, tiny, lacking history, new kids on the block, whatever. But if you call them random, it seems you haven't followed football for a while. With their strict analytics approach they are actually the quite opposite: Unique, and that reaches far beyond the Danish league.
Good luck to United tonight, you seem to have been cursed with injuries and might need it.Think :
----------Romero-----------
Love--McNair--Blind--Varela
-----Carrick--Morgan--------
Lindgard---Mata---Memphis
----------Martial------------
but would rather see :
----------Romero------------
Love--Carrick--Blind--Varela
----------Morgan------------
----Herrera-----Pereira------
Lindgard------------Memphis
----------Martial-------------
Unlikely. He rotates even less than Van Gaal which is saying something. He'll get a surprise after being at Chelsea where injuries were scarce.
Yeah, defensively we're missing the following:
CB
Smalling
Jones
Rojo
RB
Darmian
Valencia
LB
Shaw
Young
Borthwick-Jackson
Any Prem team missing 8 players in one area would be at the bare bones there.
We're Manchester United - regardless of who the manager is, we'll always get a fecking ridiculous injury list every single damn season, and almost always focused on the same position or area of the squad. We're just cursed, we have to accept it and plan accordingly.
We need to approach every transfer window from now on as a challenge to sign as many defenders as we can in a single window, and then try to break that record in the next window when all the previous window's signings are out injured. Even so, we'll likely see Carrick playing centre-back at some stage during the season alongside a kid from the under-16s.
Don't think the training is as intensive, so that might be why they don't pick as many injuries. We seem to get mysterious injuries during training sesssions at times.
Maybe we need exorcising?You'd hope an injury list like this would be unprecedented, but it has been the theme regardless of manager, methods and staff the last few years.
Something is obviously wrong but three regimes haven't been able to fix it. Cursed indeed.
Yep, compare this to say, Man City. It means they'd be without: Sagna, Zabaleta, Kompany, Mangala, Demichelis, Clichy, and Kolarov (along with one youth player also injured). I'd compare Otamendi to Blind as their/our only fit player who'd be starting regardless of who else was fit. I can't even name who City would have next in line, but they'd be fecked for sure as well.
Something does need to be done about this though, it seems like we've probably had the most total injuries every season in the Premier League for the last 10 years or so.Sincerely hope it's Carrick at CB, McNair gives me the willies every time I've seen him....Is this gonna be worth going out in the cold for or?
Our injury problems go as far back as under Sir Alex. We famously had a defensive injury crisis around every Christmas.
We need to do something about it but no idea what. We brought in the Southampton physio Matt Radcliffe but sacked him after a season when things weren't getting better.- Status
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Score Predictions
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- Man Utd win
- Midtjylland win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 26% Man Utd 2:0 Midtjylland
- 17% Man Utd 3:0 Midtjylland
- 12% Man Utd 1:0 Midtjylland
- 11% Man Utd 3:1 Midtjylland
- 6% Man Utd 1:1 Midtjylland
- 5% Man Utd 2:1 Midtjylland
- 5% Man Utd 0:0 Midtjylland
- 5% Man Utd 0:5 Midtjylland
- 4% Man Utd 4:0 Midtjylland
- 2% Man Utd 5:0 Midtjylland
- 2% Man Utd 0:1 Midtjylland
- 2% Man Utd 4:1 Midtjylland
- 1% Man Utd 0:2 Midtjylland
- 1% Man Utd 2:2 Midtjylland
- 1% Man Utd 1:2 Midtjylland
- 1% Man Utd 1:3 Midtjylland
- 1% Man Utd 0:3 Midtjylland
- 0% Man Utd 5:1 Midtjylland
- 0% Man Utd 3:2 Midtjylland
- 0% Man Utd 4:2 Midtjylland
- 0% Man Utd 4:5 Midtjylland
Match Stats
- Man Utd
- Midtjylland
- Possession
- 71% 29%
- Shots
- 25 2
- Shots on Target
- 9 1
- Corners
- 14 1
- Fouls
- 10 16
Referee
Istvan Vad
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Andreas Pereira
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replaced by Regan Poole
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replaced by Marcos Rojo
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