Manchester United 3:2 Southampton

OldPop · Mar 1, 2019

Catt said:
Boom! I'm happy to share with you that I think we'll win.

I just think I got a headache, do we do many goals too?

Sassy Colin · Mar 1, 2019

Catt said:
Boom! I'm happy to share with you that I think we'll win.

@Catt , someone is using your account!

Catt · Mar 1, 2019

OldPop said:
I just think I got a headache, do we do many goals too?

2 seems appropriate.

OldPop · Mar 1, 2019

Catt said:
2 seems appropriate.

This can develop into migraines.

Andycoleno9 · Mar 1, 2019

Lukaku scored 2, Rash is back so maybe front 3 will be Rash-Lukaku - Alexis?

willhse456 · Mar 1, 2019

De Gea

Dalot
Smalling
Lindelof
Shaw

Pereira
McTominay
Pogba

Sanchez

Rashford
Lukaku

That's what I'm hoping for, I don't really want to see Fred again, he was dreadful against Palace. Hopefully 2/3-0 up 60 minutes in so we can get Gomes on at the tip of the diamond or Greenwood on for Rashford, so he gets some rest for Wednesday.

AJ10 · Mar 1, 2019

Would like to see sanchez through the middle and rashford/ lukaku up front.

Havak · Mar 1, 2019

Pretty much what we expected.

Martial could be fit enough for the bench, but the expected 18 is the same from the Palace game. Rashford is probably quite likely to start over Dalot/Young since we're at home.

deadrevelz · Mar 1, 2019

Will Greenwood be fit for this game?

We should win this one comfortably, would be a bit of a disaster to drop points here.

DrRodo · Mar 1, 2019

Ok. We cant lose these type of games from now on. Arsenal has a much easier schedule than us till the end of the season. We still got to play against City and Chelsea.

Im confident well win tomorrow but also a bit nervous knowing we cant drop points if we want to think about CL next season

TMDaines · Mar 1, 2019

willhse456 said:
De Gea

Dalot
Smalling
Lindelof
Shaw

Pereira
McTominay
Pogba

Sanchez

Rashford
Lukaku

That's what I'm hoping for, I don't really want to see Fred again, he was dreadful against Palace. Hopefully 2/3-0 up 60 minutes in so we can get Gomes on at the tip of the diamond or Greenwood on for Rashford, so he gets some rest for Wednesday.

I don't get how someone could think Fred was dreadful at Palace, but Pereira has been acceptable in his last two games?

peridigm · Mar 1, 2019

Havak said:
Pretty much what we expected.

Martial could be fit enough for the bench, but the expected 18 is the same from the Palace game. Rashford is probably quite likely to start over Dalot/Young since we're at home.

Young LB, Dalot RB? Shaw is a yellow away from suspension and we really need him against Arsenal. If Shaw plays, it's a formality he will get a yellow because that's our luck.

edit: I guess Rojo could play LB and Young RB.

Vintagered · Mar 1, 2019

I don’t think Fred was dreadful but he wasn’t brilliant to be fair. Seemed a bit nervey and a few misplaced passes. Hopefully if he plays it will help his confidence.

Havak · Mar 1, 2019

peridigm said:
Young LB, Dalot RB? Shaw is a yellow away from suspension and we really need him against Arsenal. If Shaw plays, it's a formality he will get a yellow because that's our luck.

edit: I guess Rojo could play LB and Young RB.

Yeah, I would like to see Shaw left out so he doesn't miss the Arsenal game, but I'm not sure if Ole is going to think like that. He's very much one game at a time, but I would agree with you. It would be a sensible decision as the Yellow Cards don't reset until it's basically too late anyway. I think they are competition specific now as well, so if he picks up a booking he is likely to miss at least one important game anyway. A booking against Southampton means he misses Arsenal away and Watford home. A booking against Arsenal means he misses Watford home and Wolves away (PL fixture). Hopefully he picks up the booking against Arsenal or Watford, as we go into mid-April facing Everton away, City home, and Chelsea home before the 10-card 2-game ban isn't applicable.

It's possible Ole will just take the risk, tell Luke to be careful and then sub him off for Dalot/Young/Darmian/Rojo/Bailly after an hour. There's going to be little opportunity to rest Shaw in the coming weeks as well, so it does make sense to either rest him here or against PSG regardless of the Yellow Cards.

On that note, expecting something like this:

de Gea
Dalot Smalling Lindelof Shaw
Fred McTominay Pogba
Lukaku Rashford Sanchez
---
Romero; Young, Bailly, Rojo; Pereira, Garner; Chong

Hopefully Bailly can come on for Shaw so Young is rested (Dalot to move to Left Back). Garner can get on the pitch again and Chong another appearance for The Rash so he can be even more fresh for PSG and Arsenal. Ideal scenario and all that.

Rish Sawhney · Mar 1, 2019

Think Smalling and Young might get rested for PSG. Expect Martial to feature late on for 20 minutes or so.

Gone with:

DDG
Dalot Bailly Lindelof Shaw
Pereira McTominay Pogba
Rashford Lukaku Sanchez

I don't think Fred will feature here.

el3mel · Mar 1, 2019

DDG
Young - Smalling - Lindelof - Shaw
Fred - Scott - Pogba
Lukaku - Rashford - Sanchez

3-0. Should be a comfortable night.

Sweet Square · Mar 1, 2019

A close United win.

ash_86 · Mar 1, 2019

We need to pick up our home form if we have any chance of finishing top 4. It's not great currently

bosnian_red · Mar 1, 2019

ash_86 said:
We need to pick up our home form if we have any chance of finishing top 4. It's not great currently

Why isnt our home form great? We were on an 8 game winning streak and then had a random game where we dropped points home to Burnley (as tends to happen after big win streaks), despite vastly outplaying them and creating tons of chances (and getting the draw in the end). We drew to Liverpool but played better than them and couldve won despite a fuk ton of injuries. We lost to PSG which we'll almost definitely lose away to them as well since they're just flat out a better side and our confidence was shot in that game after going behind. It doesnt say anything about our home form since there has been plenty of reasons for the results (which have been fine anyway, 4 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss in all competitions given who those dropped points were to is fine). Performances have been good too. It's just too small of a sample size to read into.

Alemar · Mar 1, 2019

------------------de Gea------------------
Young-----Smalling----Lindelow---Dalot
------------------McTominay-------------
--------------Pereira-----Pogba----------
----Lukaku---------Rashford-----Sanchez

Shaw may be banned if a yellow card, so better to save him for Arsenal.

ash_86 · Mar 1, 2019

bosnian_red said:
Why isnt our home form great? We were on an 8 game winning streak and then had a random game where we dropped points home to Burnley (as tends to happen after big win streaks), despite vastly outplaying them and creating tons of chances (and getting the draw in the end). We drew to Liverpool but played better than them and couldve won despite a fuk ton of injuries. We lost to PSG which we'll almost definitely lose away to them as well since they're just flat out a better side and our confidence was shot in that game after going behind. It doesnt say anything about our home form since there has been plenty of reasons for the results (which have been fine anyway, 4 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss in all competitions given who those dropped points were to is fine). Performances have been good too. It's just too small of a sample size to read into.

This doesn't have to anything with stats but with how we play especially with so many injuries. Teams would be sitting so deep at OT and that worries me if we could break them down.

Havak · Mar 1, 2019

bosnian_red said:
Why isnt our home form great? We were on an 8 game winning streak and then had a random game where we dropped points home to Burnley (as tends to happen after big win streaks), despite vastly outplaying them and creating tons of chances (and getting the draw in the end). We drew to Liverpool but played better than them and couldve won despite a fuk ton of injuries. We lost to PSG which we'll almost definitely lose away to them as well since they're just flat out a better side and our confidence was shot in that game after going behind. It doesnt say anything about our home form since there has been plenty of reasons for the results (which have been fine anyway, 4 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss in all competitions given who those dropped points were to is fine). Performances have been good too. It's just too small of a sample size to read into.

I think people are just looking at the home form as a whole for the season and not since Ole took over. Under Ole it is probably just about good enough given the games. All the best teams have at least 1-2 home games a season where they draw or lose a banker. City got done by Palace, Liverpool drew with Leicester etc. We drew with Burnley, then anything can happen when a big team comes to your ground.

However, the overall home form is poor and it's still the same set of players.

Played 13: 7 Wins, 5 Draws, 1 Loss in the Premier League
Played 1: 1 Draw in the League Cup (To Derby and lost on Penalties)
Played 1: 1 Win in the FA Cup (Against Reading, only Home Tie)
Played 4: 1 Win, 1 Draw, 2 Losses in the Champion's League

Overall

Played 19: W9 D7 L3

Adcuth · Mar 1, 2019

Could Rojo come in at left back or not. He's just back from injury isn't he?

Sandikan · Mar 1, 2019

You don't rest a full back when you have so many injuries just in case they get a booking!

Sandikan · Mar 1, 2019

el3mel said:
DDG
Young - Smalling - Lindelof - Shaw
Fred - Scott - Pogba
Lukaku - Rashford - Sanchez

3-0. Should be a comfortable night.

Have you seen our last 5 home games v Southampton?
One win.

Kidders · Mar 1, 2019

Rashford in for Dalot, the rest picks itself, could be an arguement for dropping Fred but this is a chance to give him another much needed run out, with our fixture list and injuries he needs to step up.

MyOnlySolskjaer · Mar 1, 2019

De Gea
Young Smalling Lindelöf Shaw
McTominay
Fred --Pogba
Sánchez
Lukaku Rashford

Gerald G · Mar 1, 2019

De Gea
Young--Smalling--Lindelof--Shaw
Pereira--McTominay--Pogba
Sanchez
Lukaku--Rashford

-------------
subs: Romero; Bailly, Dalot; Fred, Garner; Gomes, Chong

or Rojo on the bench for Gomes

sunama · Mar 1, 2019

Bola said:
But are you happy to reduce our chances of beating PSG away? Big ask to throw those 3 together and expect to overcome a 2 goal deficit away

I understand your logic, but I don't think you quite realise just how good PSG are.
We are nowhere near them. In the first leg, when PSG increased the pace, we couldn't live with them. In the space of a few minutes, they ended us.
I'd rather we focus on winning every game in the league, than trying to to beat a team, away at their ground, who are vastly superior to us in virtually all areas on the pitch and who already leads us 2-0.

sunama · Mar 1, 2019

AJ10 said:
Would like to see sanchez through the middle and rashford/ lukaku up front.

I think Sanchez only plays on the left. Not sure why he isn't ever moved to the middle or to the right, but no matter who the manager is, he is always played on the left.

el3mel · Mar 1, 2019

Sandikan said:
Have you seen our last 5 home games v Southampton?
One win.

Don't get what does that have to do with this match. They're dogshite and we're in great form. We should defeat them easily tomorrow.

We also didn't win at the bridge for 6 years before the last cup tie. What matters is the current form.

Jacob · Mar 1, 2019

How long are Herrera and Matic out?

Alemar · Mar 1, 2019

Sandikan said:
You don't rest a full back when you have so many injuries just in case they get a booking!

You do if the next game is a must win at all costs game against Arsenal, whereas now it is a home game against Southampton.

Walters_19_MuFc · Mar 2, 2019

Dalot had a better game than Sanchez against Palace and I loved the fact he gave us true width from the right. I would play

De Gea
Young Smalling Lindelof Shaw
Pogba McTominay Fred
Dalot Lukaku Rashford

peridigm · Mar 2, 2019

Walters_19_MuFc said:
Dalot had a better game than Sanchez against Palace and I loved the fact he gave us true width from the right. I would play

De Gea
Young Smalling Lindelof Shaw
Pogba McTominay Fred
Dalot Lukaku Rashford

This is what I think we'll see. I'd prefer to see us rest Shaw and move Young to LB and play Dalot at RB.

roseguy64 · Mar 2, 2019

Confirmed United squad members

David De Gea, Lee Grant, Ashley Young, Diogo Dalot, Victor Lindelof, Eric Bailly, Chris Smalling, Marcos Rojo, Luke Shaw, Scott McTominay, Andreas Pereira, Fred, Paul Pogba, James Garner, Angel Gomes, Tahith Chong, Alexis Sanchez, Marcus Rashford, Romelu Lukaku

From The MEN

Gasolin · Mar 2, 2019

sunama said:
I understand your logic, but I don't think you quite realise just how good PSG are.
We are nowhere near them. In the first leg, when PSG increased the pace, we couldn't live with them. In the space of a few minutes, they ended us.
I'd rather we focus on winning every game in the league, than trying to to beat a team, away at their ground, who are vastly superior to us in virtually all areas on the pitch and who already leads us 2-0.

Stop being Liverpool, Spurs type of small minded team. We do our best and we go for it. If we lose, then be it. The players will want to show and this PSG is not the end of the world, 2 mistakes don't make them gods or whatever all of sudden, let United be United and go for it, even away.

Gandalf Greyhame · Mar 2, 2019

roseguy64 said:
Confirmed United squad members

David De Gea, Lee Grant, Ashley Young, Diogo Dalot, Victor Lindelof, Eric Bailly, Chris Smalling, Marcos Rojo, Luke Shaw, Scott McTominay, Andreas Pereira, Fred, Paul Pogba, James Garner, Angel Gomes, Tahith Chong, Alexis Sanchez, Marcus Rashford, Romelu Lukaku

From The MEN

Martial and Lingard not even fit enough to make the squad. Mata, Matic, Herrera, Valencia and Phil Jones also recovering. That's 7 missing.

yfoFC · Mar 2, 2019

roseguy64 said:
Confirmed United squad members

David De Gea, Lee Grant, Ashley Young, Diogo Dalot, Victor Lindelof, Eric Bailly, Chris Smalling, Marcos Rojo, Luke Shaw, Scott McTominay, Andreas Pereira, Fred, Paul Pogba, James Garner, Angel Gomes, Tahith Chong, Alexis Sanchez, Marcus Rashford, Romelu Lukaku

From The MEN

Didn't they leave out Rashford from the last squad making me remove him from my sub and costing me a whole point?

red_de_pologne · Mar 2, 2019

yfoFC said:
Didn't they leave out Rashford from the last squad making me remove him from my sub and costing me a whole point?

Ole said he will probably start..

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