They’re certainly coming into this with poor form with only 1 win in their last 7 league games. However, there defensive resilience is what worries me. Only conceded 15 this season. Best in the league and annoying as feck to play against. Especially in a final.
League Cup Final
Manchester United 2:0 Newcastle United
Wembley
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- Sun, 26 February 2023 @ 4:30pm 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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The Bangkok cup is what broke Nunez with his absolute sitter miss against us.
I just think we'd blow there defenders away with our quick movement especially the big 3 at centre half and left back. They wouldn't like Garnacho in behind.
We will get a chance to score early I feel and we need to take advantage. That should open them up a bit and make it much easier. Going down or having it scoreless in the 2nd half will work in their favor
An early goal for us will make it a comfortable win I think. I just hope we remain patient and don’t get frustrated with their tactics. No doubt they’ll try to slow the game down at every opportunity.
It’s no surprise Leeds and Newcastle are the 2 teams who have had the ball in play the least in the league. Only 51%. Crazy their games are only 45 mins of “football”!
I'll watch 30 minutes of football if it means we win haha. In the end time wasting only helps if you win. If we score late and they've screwed themselves on time I don't see how it's a good tactic
I just hope St Maximim has a quiet game. He always becomes prime Ginola against us.just hope we win. everything can happen in such games but we should have it in us. will be a big blow if rashy cant startI bet their tactics will involve time wasting till it gets to penalty and hope for a 50:50 chance to win it as opposed to 70:30 without penalty shootout.An early goal will get the match going...finals don't come around very often so lets all just enjoy the match!
C'mon United!
It’s a Cup Final. Form really doesn’t matter a whole lot. They will be trying to keep it tight I would imagine and we will be looking to score early. The longer it stays at 0-0 the more they will believe.Emphatic United win followed by an announcement that the Glazers aren’t selling, so the backlash is watered down by a trophy and their attendance to an actual match
Also look out for Alexander Isak who is a player I rate. Deceptively fast.I’m getting more and more nervous about this.Can’t think of a worse team for us to be up against in the cup final. It’s gonna be a slog of an evening tomorrow. Let’s hope it’s an ETH masterclassFeeling some nerves is unavoidable, but looking at it logically I just can't see how we lose. We have far more experience and quality in the team. We're in great form. Newcastles keeper situation.
The only concern I have is that the Geordie fanbase will be absolutely rocking, and that will lift the team.
aka the only trophy too big to fit on a plane haha
Barcelona have only conceded 7 this season - but we put 4 past them.
squeaky bum time?
I have little doubt that ETH is focussed and committed
but does everyone really believe these are actual sources from these random Twitter accounts or simply what gullible fans want to hear?
Yes he’s looked great every time I’ve seen him play. He’s just been crocked most of the season though.Bizarrely I'm less amped up about this game than our barca clash , I'd guess the high on that one is hard to top but nevertheless it's always nice to see United play in a final even if it's a Mikey mouse one and besides it's a wonderful jumping point to instil that winning mentality.I don’t want hear ‘plucky underdog‘ Newcastle from the media tomorrow and how money doesn‘t guarantee success being aimed at us as a slight. Let’s not forget they spent around £250m themselves in the past year. They are absolutely not some pauper going up against the prince.
Same. Have a feeling it will be a difficult game. Out of 23 games in the PL they’ve only lost two. Also only conceded 15 goals, think it’s the lowest in the PL.Tweet
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Ah yes the good old Spirit Bomb trick
They will be slightly leggy so usually, they tend to start slower in the 1st half but start to kick on in the 2nd.
Barcodes with a week's prep will start off fast & furious unless the nerves/occasion kicks in. Then jittery, sideways passing.
After the 2005 United v Arsenal FA Cup final, where we pummelled them and yet lost on pens, you just cant take anything for granted.A little over 12 hours to go and the nerves are already kicking in. Brain is going through every worst case scenario imaginable-tired players, conceding a dodgy penalty/deflected goal/out of nowhere worldie, going to penalties etc. etc. But then I think how utterly amazing it would be if we score early and then demolish them to a cruising victory. I wouldn't trade this for the world, cup finals are incredible.
Come on United! Just win. Our season won't be defined by this, but a win is what our players and the coaching staff deserve for bringing us back from where we were.Rumour has it the leeches may be there. Great opportunity to let them know how we want them gone.Nerves definitely kicking in.
hopefully Rashford is ok to start. Garnacho is much better off the bench I think.
I’m sure the boss is prepared either way. Can’t wait!
Yeah sounds like Avram is flying in
They didn't put my comment up about it being a mickey mouse cup and how no one cares.
bastards.It's so mad, the players had a huge game against Barcelona on Thursday night, wouldn't have gone to bed until long after midnight with the adrenaline, then get one day of rest, then next day travel down to Wembley, then the match on Sunday. I'm crossfaded but that just seems like such a toll on the body and mind. If we had 2 days more between the games, I'd be feeling super confident about this. As it is, I am a bit worried about Newcastle's energy levels compared to ours but not worried about them on a football level.
Might sound crazy but I wasn't worry about them like I'm now against Newcastle. Barca barely have any pace and we had Rashford. If Rashford can play even if he can't start I'd be much more confident.
Imo if Rashford can't start we should start a bit slow, focus on keeping the ball and see how things go rather than going all out gung ho at kick off. Newcastle have a lot of pace and might hit us on the break if we push our line too high. If they score they'll sit very deep and it'd be much more difficult for us to break them down in that case. If we can score great if not try to keep it at least 0-0 by half time, bring Rashford on and finish them off in the second half like we usually do in the last matches.
Anyway I'm confident ETH would win us this.
Yea, its mad. I was wondering if we needed to prioritise one or the other (Europa or League cup) but perhaps I have been conditioned to our semi mediocrity the past few years to be in that mindset. In the Fergie era we just rolled on with it, and perhaps we can ride on the momentum to steamroll Newcastle even with the physical toll. Would have been more ideal to have the likes of Eriksen and Martial available to really have depth, but I am sure our mentality and quality will get us through - back to elite standards hopefullyBig day today.Oh boy, nerves are already shot
Feeling it now! Much like Barca, if we can avoid their antics I think we’ll have too much for them.
Hoping Howe reacts to ETH’s ‘annoying’ remark and tries to play on the front foot. That’d give us the advantage.
Come on United!
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Man of the Match
Runners-up
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15%
Lisandro Martinez
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6%
Aaron Wan-Bissaka
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2%
Luke Shaw
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2%
Raphael Varane
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2%
David de Gea
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Wout Weghorst
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1%
Fred
Player Ratings
Total Average Rating
Highest Rated Player
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Compiled from 365 ratings.
Score Predictions
208,14,8
- Man Utd win
- Newcastle win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 30% Man Utd 2:0 Newcastle
- 24% Man Utd 2:1 Newcastle
- 10% Man Utd 3:1 Newcastle
- 10% Man Utd 1:0 Newcastle
- 10% Man Utd 3:0 Newcastle
- 3% Man Utd 1:1 Newcastle
- 2% Man Utd 1:2 Newcastle
- 1% Man Utd 0:2 Newcastle
- 1% Man Utd 3:2 Newcastle
- 1% Man Utd 1:3 Newcastle
- 1% Man Utd 0:1 Newcastle
- 1% Man Utd 4:0 Newcastle
- 1% Man Utd 4:1 Newcastle
- 1% Man Utd 5:0 Newcastle
- 0% Man Utd 9:0 Newcastle
- 0% Man Utd 9:8 Newcastle
- 0% Man Utd 0:5 Newcastle
- 0% Man Utd 4:2 Newcastle
- 0% Man Utd 2:2 Newcastle
- 0% Man Utd 4:3 Newcastle
- 0% Man Utd 6:0 Newcastle
Match Stats
- Man Utd
- Newcastle
- Possession
- 39% 61%
- Shots
- 14 15
- Shots on Target
- 9 2
- Corners
- 6 6
- Fouls
- 12 8
Referee
David Coote
Man Utd Lineup
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