Rest him for whom exactly? There is no direct replacement with Mata not in the squad. The guy wants to play and United are short on options.
Not bizarre if your memory is not that short. Do you remember how was he by the end of last season? Never heard of the word 'burned out'?
If only the other posters were as logical as you Prateik
I wish we didn’t have more like that
No one said Bruno isn't fresh. Running your main player to the ground in dead rubbers will be a problem comes the end of the season. This was the perfect opportunity for us to rest everyone including Bruno who has played pretty much every game. We will probably not get another chance to rest him with the upcoming schedule.
Defending Ole has become a religion, apparently he has never made a mistake in his life.
The arrogance of declaring a decision about a player's condition 'obviously wrong'. You know absolutely nothing about how tired or in need of rest any of these players are.
along with Rashford and Shaw
If it were me I’d play Amad wide and Greenwood up front with Martial, both are used to dropping deep and receiving the ball into feet. Its not a perfect solution and there’s isn’t a direct replacement with the midfield injuries and now Mata out as well but any solution sounds better than playing Bruno into the ground in a meaningless game.
The only insightful respond is yours.Right I’m second guessing myself now
Rest him against Chelsea, they are shit.
I know enough to say playing your main player in dead rubber game is obviously wrong.
I was going to try and fight the tide for a while but think it’s better not to get caught in.
Still 90 mins to go so it's not really a dead rubber. The same lot who moan about resting players will go into panic mode if we go 2-0 down early on. Let's score one or two more to completely kill off the tie and Bruno can be brought off to rest. Think the manager is seeing this way
Mission Impossible
We can lose this 3-0 and we'll go through. Not really it's as dead rubber as it can get.
Unfortunately we've no cover at all for Bruno. None of Pogba, VDB and Mata are fit.
Do you honestly believe he’d be playing if we weren’t so short in midfield? Only a moron would think that but this is the match day thread
Good passer and close control, but he is not the tallest lad on the pitch.
This - seems an unnecessary risk when we're already 4-0 up on aggregate.
At this stage of a season it’s probably a good idea to take the chance to rest players when you can. Regardless of whether they need it or not. This game is as close to a perfect opportunity for that as you can get.
So what ? Playing a youngster instead of him in a game we can lose 3-0 and go through won't be a disaster.
Change the formation? It'll be beyond stupid if Bruno picks up an injury that causes him to miss any important game.
Have to agree with this. Could have easily rested 3-4 players for the PL. We are 4-0 up and will have them on the bench if needed.
I don't think we have any good options to play in the Bruno role. Three GK's on the bench indicates the problem.
He has not started any of our FA Cup games. He was on the bench for the EFL game against Luton.
I'd guess Hannibal is that youngster who is also injured. So we have Pogba, Van de Beek, Mata, Hannibal all injured. At that point I get it. It is what it is for Bruno. We could've played a winger as a 10 and thrown on a youth winger to start, but I can see why he wouldn't do that.
It's as dead rubber as you're ever likely to get at this stage of the season. A season that is long and taxing, even moreso given the influence of covid. Nothing to be lost by giving players like Bruno and Wan-Bissaka some time off.
Nemanja Matic
Victor Lindelof
Bruno Fernandes
Dean Henderson
Alex Telles
Axel Tuanzebe
Anthony Martial
Daniel James
Fred
Mason Greenwood
Amad Diallo
Aaron Wan-Bissaka
Shola Shoretire
Lawrence Visser
replaced by Brandon Williams
replaced by Marcus Rashford
replaced by Axel Tuanzebe
replaced by Shola Shoretire
replaced by Amad Diallo
