It's a miracle Mike Smalling has played as many minutes as he has done so far. Think it's finally caught up with him though because his form's been mixed since the start of the year.
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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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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This team against Arsenal ffs
Just keep that 8-2 in mind....
That team is absolutely farcical. Seriously, that's the sort of team we used to put out in the league cup against some crowd of shitbags. Injuries or not, that is ridiculous
Aah, gotcha. But if those ties end badly, you know exactly how the media and the caf will react. For the sake of my own sanity, I wouldn't want that. Give me a straightforward fixture anyday.
But I do like the prospect of playing Valencia especially, if it happens.
what other options do we have?
Alas, no. But those wigs can't be too expensive. I'll buy 1000 a week with the wages I make as his replacement.Does van Gaal not rate TFM at all ? Why is he not even getting a shout ? Atleast Tuanzebe got on the subs once.
You do realise we have 14 or 15 players unavailable? There's probably not a team in the world that wouldn't be delving deep into their reserves with that level of absence.
I just think we are taking a risk against their pacey counter that gave us problems in the first leg. It certainly should be fun to see the young attacking players on a European night at Old Trafford, even in the Europa League.
Maureen would have this squad in the title picture apparently.Injured XI
DDG
Darmian
Smalling
Jones
Shaw
Bastian
Fellaini
Valencia
Januzaj
Young
Rooney
None, and that's the point.
We'd have plenty of options if he/they hadn't decided to cut the squad to absolute bare minimum.
Obviously not having a go at you but, it's ridiculous this
Thing is, i'd say they only need 30% of the ball to cause us enough problems.
Still think we'll win though, going for 3-2 ...
That is mental.
Yeah, Valencia is not a winger!
I don't know whats worse... that all those players are injured, or that that really isn't a very good side at all...
To be fair , nobody could've foreseen the mass injuries we have, without them the squad would've been more or less OK.
BUT I can see you point.Yep. But still think we will win. I'm just worried on what they could do to us on the counter. Inexperience on the flanks and two slow moving centre backs who usually are not tight enough to the players. This will be an entertaining match, that's for sure.
and fyi, I wasn't moaning
Just insane... Let's stay positive, we should win this match! Even with this squad.
Even taking injuries into account, you still consider it ridiculous?
Rightback:
Darmian
Valencia
Young
Varela ✓
Centreback:
Smalling
Jones
Rojo
Blind ✓
McNair (Dropped to bench)
Leftback:
Shaw(At CB)
Rojo
Darmian
Young
Borthwick Jackson
Blind
Riley
4 positions, 12 players, 9 of which are injured....I'd like to think otherwise but unfortunately I can't see us getting through with all the injuries we have.
Literally about to say thatpositive - Rojo back in the fold.
negative - that bench, the fullbacks, Carrick at centre back, Memphis starting through no act of his own!
Penny for McNair's thoughts! We won't even start you son when we have Valencia, Shaw, Young, Smalling, Jones, Rojo, BJ, and Darmian not starting!
If we can sneak through tonight, please let at least De Gea and Smalling be back for Sunday, as a minimum.
Is anyone else remotely close?
This is the 2nd season in a row where we've had a serious injury situation. More to the point, you can exclude Rojo and Jones from that list. I'm waiting to see when their next injury is such is their situations.
Plus, Blind is not a centre back and the likes of McNair is not good enough. Jury is also still out on Darmian
What i was thinking
Yeah you have to laugh with what we're capable of putting out for a crucial European home tie, and it is ridiculous, regardless of injuries.
Ah, but 4 of those 12 are youngsters, 3 of which were nowhere near the First XI when the season started. so that's 9 players (including McNair, who really, isn't good enough to be an option for us, so 8). One of those 8 is Ashley Young, who's makeshift at best... so that's 7 players for 4 positions. Of those 7 players, one of them is Phil Jones, who I think we all could have predicted would spend this season injured, so that's 6 players. Of those 6 players, one of them is Dailey Blind... who's a midfielder who's meant to cover FB but has been turned into a CB to mixed results...
So that's 6/7 players (minus a Blind or a McNair) for 4 positions.I'm personally thrilled at the fact that even if we lose, old man van Gaal will still somehow keep his job.
Can't wait!
Can't wait to see what fun the mods will be up to!
I am beginning to think that , no matter how bad it gets he will not be sacked.
I even have this nightmare thought of him being still in charge next season.When was the last time we had a team / subs as bad as this (apart from when we've deliberately played a weakened team)?
1980's sometime?
I personally think the back five is very good in that side...Quite ridiculous that a club of our size is fielding that side, absolute madness.
How could he ever think it was a good idea to trim the squad to this extent?
It's easily the best part, though you would have question marks over the right back... and whether one of the centre backs could get through the game without a) injuring himself b) injuring a teammate c) exploding.That defense is poor. Of course not much we can do in the circumstances, but still... Wow...what station is the game on ?
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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 Regan Poole
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replaced by Marcos Rojo
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