Manchester United 4:1 Real Betis

Bastian · Mar 5, 2023

---------------------------de Gea
AWB----------Lindelof-------Martinez------Malacia
----------------Casemiro------Sabitzer
Antony----------------Sancho------------Garnacho
--------------------------Rashford

Hoping to see Martial come on for Rashford at HT and McTominay for Casemiro.

I think I'd rest Bruno against Southampton as well.

Leftback99 · Mar 5, 2023

Next Sunday against Southampton is a more important game now.

Northstand · Mar 5, 2023

Can’t decide whether boos of derision will be cascading down from the stands when the players emerge for this game, or whether the mood will be to get behind the team more so than ever.

I also can’t decide which I’d prefer.

next_number_seven · Mar 5, 2023

Frosty said:
How much of a break is the international break? I presume loads of players will be involved?

I think it's about 2 weeks or 10 days or something.
Im not saying it's a great rest, most of our squad are involved with lots of traveling.

We just need to dig in and get 4 wins, which sets us up nicely for end of season.

Frosty said:
How much of a break is the international break? I presume loads of players will be involved?

next_number_seven · Mar 5, 2023

quadrant said:
In all honesty, we should be beating Betis. They're a very ordinary team that I'd rate behind the likes of Fulham and Brighton, nevermind the big 6 clubs in England. A 2-0 win to take into the second leg should not be beyond us. Main worry will be the combination of fatigue and low morale from today's game. But in terms of ability, we're a way ahead of them and should be able to show it.

They're very tricky with a wily old fox of a manager.

They drew with Real and Barca.
I expect us to bounce back.

We'll be well rested by Thursday and no travelling either which helps

FlawlessThaw · Mar 5, 2023

Big Ben Foster said:
Remember when we'd get a humiliating result under SAF, then would come out fired up in the next match and win 5-0 while playing scintillating football?

Yeah, that's probably not gonna happen.

Didn’t always happen under Fergie either. After we got beat 5-0 by Newcastle we lost to Southampton 6-3 and then Chelsea at home.

Siorac · Mar 5, 2023

FlawlessThaw said:
Didn’t always happen under Fergie either. After we got beat 5-0 by Newcastle we lost to Southampton 6-3 and then Chelsea at home.

Or when we lost 4-1 to Liverpool at Old Trafford then a week later went and got beat 2-0 by Fulham in a thoroughly miserable game, finishing with 9 men.

SirScholes · Mar 5, 2023

RonaldoVII said:
Heaton
AWB Maguire Lindelof Malacia
Mainoo Sabitzer
Sancho Pellistri Garnacho
Elanga

Others don’t deserve to play

No need for the fans to suffer more

Lay · Mar 5, 2023

They draw 0-0 with Real Madrid on the same day we lose 7-0.

Slevs · Mar 5, 2023

rajds89 said:
Don’t care.

After tonight? Yeah...

VanHaal'sRedArmy · Mar 5, 2023

A draw would be nice...

Tom Van Persie · Mar 5, 2023

Northstand said:
Can’t decide whether boos of derision will be cascading down from the stands when the players emerge for this game, or whether the mood will be to get behind the team more so than ever.

I also can’t decide which I’d prefer.

That would be very disappointing. We still have a decent chance of winning two more trophies. Today was a disaster but it isn't season over for us. We have plenty to play for.

Sassy Colin · Mar 5, 2023

Moving swiftly on.

Nou_Camp99 · Mar 5, 2023

It can only happen to us this. The one season in the history of English football where there is a world cup interrupted season and we challenge on four fronts. Hahahaha.

The squad is nowhere near good enough to cope with all these games. We are going to limp over the line in the league now I fear. We will still get there just but we will make very hard work of it I'm sure.

The FA cup you'd think is between us and City with maybe Brighton as dark horse.

Europa is a lottery. You just can't predict it. We could knock out Barca and then get knocked out by Betis. It's the kind of thing that tends to happen in this competition.

YouOnlyLiveTwice · Mar 5, 2023

Hope Old Trafford will support the players even more this match. They've already gotten the embarrassment, time to move on and finish the season strongly.

tentan · Mar 6, 2023

Must win after todays awful performance

Desert Eagle · Mar 6, 2023

This game can't come soon enough.

wangyu · Mar 6, 2023

Northstand said:
Can’t decide whether boos of derision will be cascading down from the stands when the players emerge for this game, or whether the mood will be to get behind the team more so than ever.

I also can’t decide which I’d prefer.

Does this actually ever happen at Old Trafford? I can’t watch games live but on tv I only ever hear either silence or support coming from the fans.

Member 125288 · Mar 6, 2023

Lay said:
They draw 0-0 with Real Madrid on the same day we lose 7-0.

That means nothing though; we just beat Barca, who beat Madrid, who thrashed Liverpool, who then thrashed us.

hobbers · Mar 6, 2023

De gea
Awb varane Lisandro malacia
Sabitzer casemiro Fred
sancho Weghorst rashford

Team picks itself almost. Drop the worst offenders. And demand a response.

Charlie Foley · Mar 6, 2023

BluesJr said:
The Liverpool games are everything. Losing 7-0 is unforgivable.

How did you feel in 2009 when we won the league but got dicked by them at home?

Get In Scholesy · Mar 6, 2023

Nothing rinses away defeat like winning. Go for it, do our best to put the tie out of reach in the first leg.

AFC NimbleThumb · Mar 6, 2023

Northstand said:
Can’t decide whether boos of derision will be cascading down from the stands when the players emerge for this game, or whether the mood will be to get behind the team more so than ever.

I also can’t decide which I’d prefer.

Matchgoers won’t boo the team. They do a great job of supporting them regardless.

We’ll win the game by the odd goal & the players will run to their social media to act like that makes up for the absolute shambles we were subjected to.

These players have been on the end of 6 at the Etihad & 7 at Anfield, they sprinkle in the odd 3 against West Ham then think they’re ok to produce historically bad performances year on year.

I actually like a number of this squad individually but the scars of big defeats lay so close to the surface I think we need to get rid of most of them still.

Malone_Post · Mar 6, 2023

I would genuinely drop the whole team from Sunday and change the entire starting 11 as a statement to the players that the level of performance against Liverpool was unacceptable and will not be tolerated.

As it is I have absolutely no desire to watch these players for a while. Any goodwill they’ve built up this season has been well and truly thrown down the drain. Maybe by Thursday I will have calmed down a bit.

Drizzle · Mar 6, 2023

Malone_Post said:
I would genuinely drop the whole team from Sunday and change the entire starting 11 as a statement to the players that the level of performance against Liverpool was unacceptable and will not be tolerated.

And what message will that have sent when Elanga, Maguire, Mctominay & co lose to Betis and the panic sets in about the season sliding into disaster.

Maybe bench 3 or 4 players for fitness reasons but we have to go reasonably strong. We can't afford not to win this game and our full second team is simply not good enough.

Slevs · Mar 6, 2023

Malone_Post said:
I would genuinely drop the whole team from Sunday and change the entire starting 11 as a statement to the players that the level of performance against Liverpool was unacceptable and will not be tolerated.

As it is I have absolutely no desire to watch these players for a while. Any goodwill they’ve built up this season has been well and truly thrown down the drain. Maybe by Thursday I will have calmed down a bit.

Betis isn't some 3rd division team who we will trounce 4-0

fergiewherearethou · Mar 6, 2023

Malone_Post said:
I would genuinely drop the whole team from Sunday and change the entire starting 11 as a statement to the players that the level of performance against Liverpool was unacceptable and will not be tolerated.

As it is I have absolutely no desire to watch these players for a while. Any goodwill they’ve built up this season has been well and truly thrown down the drain. Maybe by Thursday I will have calmed down a bit.

So in other words you want us to lose.

Abhinav · Mar 6, 2023

Bastian said:
---------------------------de Gea
AWB----------Lindelof-------Martinez------Malacia
----------------Casemiro------Sabitzer
Antony----------------Sancho------------Garnacho
--------------------------Rashford

Hoping to see Martial come on for Rashford at HT and McTominay for Casemiro.

I think I'd rest Bruno against Southampton as well.

Like this team and Bruno needs a bit of a rest. However, I am sure Erik picks Bruno in place of Sancho/ Garnacho.

Samid · Mar 6, 2023

As if the prawn sandwich eaters will ever boo anyone at Old Trafford. A very small section once booed Fellaini in a pre season game and the poor souls were widely ridiculed by the top reds.

Wilt · Mar 6, 2023

hobbers said:
De gea
Awb varane Lisandro malacia
Sabitzer casemiro Fred
sancho Weghorst rashford

Team picks itself almost. Drop the worst offenders. And demand a response.

Other than De Gea, I’d go with this.

Drizzle · Mar 6, 2023

Samid said:
As if the prawn sandwich eaters will ever boo anyone at Old Trafford. A very small section once booed Fellaini in a pre season game and the poor souls were widely ridiculed by the top reds.

They literally won a trophy 8 days ago. And yes, lost one terrible game. It takes more than one game to turn our crowd, sunshine. Maybe the matchgoers you clearly disdain have a broader view of the situation. Their emotional investment is different. When you've spent a lot of time and money to support your team, year after year, creating a toxic environment is not as attractive a proposition as it is to an internet fan.

BootsyCollins · Mar 6, 2023

DDG
AWB-Varane-Martinez-Malacia
Casemiro-Sabitzer
Sancho-Fred-Garnacho
Rashford

AjaxCunian · Mar 6, 2023

I pity EtH, it must be so hard to even look at his squad the same way after such a performance. I'd just think they are all a bunch of losers.

kouroux · Mar 6, 2023

Honestly, I don't have much interest in this game.

Lyng · Mar 6, 2023

Heaton
AwB - Lindelöf - Maguire - Malacia
McT - Sabitzer
Pellistri - Sancho - Garnacho
I dont know...

AFC NimbleThumb · Mar 6, 2023

kouroux said:
Honestly, I don't have much interest in this game.

This./

Personally until genuine wholesale changes are made it’s pretty hard to support this lot. Multiple players have let us down terribly time & again. How many 5s, 6s & now 7s do we have to be on the end of for the likes of Shaw & Bruno to say never again.

doomy20 · Mar 6, 2023

Drop Bruno is a must. If not, Eric will loose a lot more credits for me.
Drop both Shaw and Dalot as well and 1-2 others.
Play for a 3-0

James35 · Mar 6, 2023

Must win if we want to progress. Don’t see us beating them in Spain at all.

A strong team must be picked but Bruno rested. I’d like to see Sabitzer, Fred, Casemiro, with Garnacho, Rashford, Sancho ahead of them. Lindelof for Varane, AWB for Dalot also with Antony, Weghorst coming on from the bench.

Lose again and our season really might go tits up as 80% of this team is still the brittle, spineless lot of years gone by and I’m not confident they would cope with the scrutiny and pressure.

Slevs · Mar 6, 2023

DDG
Awb Varane Martinez Malacia
Fred Casemiro
Garnacho Sabitzer Rashford
WW

He'll play Bruno though and move Sabitzer in Fred's place. I love Bruno but he deserves dropping after last night.

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