I'd play Maguire to be honest, message from ETH should always be if you fall from the standards we set you risk your place. Play an entirely new XI.
... But this is a concern for me too. Over recent years (admittedly not this season yet) we haven't reacted well to humblings and seem to start playing like a bag of nerves.
certainly need a reaction but i fear the tank is running on empty on a lot of the starting players, hectic fixture schedule has taken it's toll and how damaging is that defeat yesterday to the mindsets will be seen on Thursday night.
Losing 4-0 would definitely be an improvement on losing 7-0 but I'd be hopeful we can go to 2-0 at least.
Would rather lose out on the FA Cup… this is atleast European competition and better practice for the champions league. Also a win guarantees us champions league
I sense this will be different. EtH has spoken about the mentality and comradery of this team for months. Yesterday was a freak result. Wrong tactics, a few players injured, not up to complete fitness, and overall squad being tired from playing so many games. It's shame EtH did not make a change at HT, The outcome would have most likely been different. I doubt Betis are relishing the thought of playing us right now. We've been on great form which I expect will continue Thursday. I also expect Liverpool will go back to their mediocre selves.
A reaction from this team? This isn't a fergie team. In the last 8 years whenever we suffered a huge loss we then needed a couple of games to snap out of it. So this will probably be another feck up
Fortunately the crowd at OT will be 100% behind the team.
Quite well, fighting for the CL spot.
I’ll be there Thursday and as much as they’ve all pissed me off yesterday I’ll be right behind them. Pretty sure Old Trafford will respond well.
5th in La Liga and just drew 0-0 with Real Madrid at home. Not going to be an easy game i think.
Our record against Spanish teams is terrible so this will be a slog.
Wow didn’t know they were doing so well
This season after our previous 3 defeats we then went on great runs of around 10 game in all competitions winning 80% of them, after each defeat. After the Brentford defeat we also went on a very good run.
Did you imagine that up because I don't remember many instances like that? SAF's worst defeat at Old Trafford to Liverpool was 1-4 and we followed that with a 2-0 loss to Fulham. After the 1-6 to City, it was a string of 1-0s wins after. In 96 we followed a 5-0 thrashing by Newcastle with a 6-3 loss (the grey kit saga) to Southampton. The positive I can say of SAF's terrible defeats is that it's easy to remember them cause there's only that few of it.
There’s no change of booing
Betis has injured its 2 best players : Fekir broke his knee a few days ago and will be out for 7 months ; Canales has a muscle injury, and he no longer played against Madrid, we will see if he arrives in time for the game.
I doubt they’ll be booing. We’ve lost 1 game in like 12 games. The fans are massively behind ETH. This is just a little blip. We’ll get back to winning ways.
Is that the Fekir we were linked with a few years back?
Yep.
Real madrid has been poor at times this season in La Liga. It was still a good result for Betis but Real actually lost to Villareal, Rayo Vallecano and Mallorca away already. Betis was much better earlier in the season but since the world Cup they have been a bit of a hit and a miss.
5th in La Liga just 3 points off 4th
Of course there won’t be any booing, there wasn’t any booing consistently in the last 10 years either when things were far worse for us.
Antony
Wout Weghorst
Lisandro Martinez
Facundo Pellistri
Casemiro
Aaron Wan-Bissaka
Marcus Rashford
Fred
Daniel Siebert
replaced by Aaron Wan-Bissaka
replaced by Tyrell Malacia
replaced by Scott McTominay
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