Do you think this will be a statement game from Mourinho after a few weeks of stewing from the fans and players, or do you think this will be another ground out game with moments of brilliance followed by 10 minutes of nail-biting at the end?
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Manchester United 2:0 Swansea City
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Only 4 more sleeps.Apparently Rojo is back, fit to play. He played for Argentina in recent friendly game.
Scott is injured? Pogba-Matic should be fine for this one.Pogba, De Gea, Lingard, Young, and Lukaku seemed to be doing well recent international friendlies.
Hoping they'll carry the good form for this game, fingers crossed.
The latter, I'm afraid. But I've pretty much lost faith in Jose and the current team under Jose...Hope to see :
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Valencia--Bailly--Smalling--Young
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Alexis-------Lukaku--------Martial
Maybe Lindgard instead of Alexis.De GeaMartial, Herrera and Lingard to come on as subs. Should be a comfortable win and a good performance, we need it to end the season strongly after an international break giving some time off the previous disappointment.
Valencia Bailly Smalling Young
Matic Pogba
Mata Sanchez Rashford
Lukaku
Herrera & Rojo should be back for this one. Not sure what Philistine is upto.
deGea
Valencia Bailly Rojo Young
Matic
Mata Herrera Pogba Sanchez
Lukaku
Is what we expected for Brighton after the Sevilla loss, but we got the same tumescent shite despite the win, which even got Jose pissed off. Well, hope for something different.Lukaku
Marcus Jesse J.Mata
Matic Fella
Young Mike Bailly Anton
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Herrera back? not sure about that mate, wasn't he to miss 6 weeks from the Sevilla game? Are you being optimistic or you can back up your comment with something. I'd love you to be right
I saw a mutv interview last week when he said he's ready to go.I can't see Rojo playing and if Herrera appears I expect it to be as a substitute.
If McTominay is out, it'll be a Matic/Fellaini 'cking double pivot. Sigh.
It was funny. Even Jose was thinking to himself, "WTF!"
He later commented that some of our players are afraid to put in a big performance.
I think that our players are scared to make a mistake, so don't take any risks. Sanchez is probably our only player who is prepared to make risky passes...and he got benched!I've actually enjoyed this international break, there were some good games to watch and really put me in the mood for the WC. Also, made me forget about the doom and gloom after sevilla, the whole pogba nonsense etc.
Back to the league, don't really have much of an appetite for this game and the rest of the season actually. Anyway, this is the wrong thread to moan, I think we'll win 3-0.Last edited:Was there a presser?
Tomorrow at 12:30.
Here's the Carvalhal presser from today. Talks a lot about Jose. Enjoy his pressers.
de Gea
Valencia Bailly Smalling Young
Pogba Matic
Lingard Sanchez Rashford
Lukaku
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Romero; Lindelof, Rojo; Carrick, Herrera, Mata; Martial
Pretty sure it'll be this. Young, Pogba, and Lingard in particular have done well during international matches, along with Sanchez who might gain a bit of confidence. Rashford & Martial is a toss-up, but I think Martial as a sub will be better for this game. Darmian & Blind are basically on a 'needs must' basis if they're involved in the squad as they're off. I think Rojo is likely to be used on the bench as the next choice for CB and Left Back cover, as Young could switch to the Right if it's Valencia who is replaced, for example. Shaw is probably done here, unfortunately. I don't see how he can return to the first-team squad at this stage of the season when we don't have any 'throwaway' games left. Only a must-win semi-final and games to try and stay 2nd in the League. Assuming Jones is out unless we get an update tomorrow, but I can't see Jose fiddling too much with Bailly + Smalling for the rest of the season if he sticks with it for Saturday.
Swansea are much improved of late and I expect them to stay up. They'll be difficult to break down, so I hope we get a first half goal and manage to nick another early in the second half.DDG
Valencia
Bailly
Smalling
Young
Matic
Herrera/McTominay/Pogba(in that order depending on who's fit)
Lingard
Sanchez
Rashford
Lukaku
This is just sad tbh, where does this mentality come from, what is football without risks?? its crazy some of our players have this ingrained in their thinking.
Can't be playing Swansea without posting this. What a day this was. A part of United died that day. Since then it's been a tough ride but I have hope that we can return to these days again and live these kind of moments soon.Any pictures been released from today’s training session yet?Big day for Sanchez on Saturday !
Another poor-ish performance and the knives will be out for him as well.....
Don't expect him to turn it around suddenly. And after an international break
Things can only get better for him. I hope he starts firing for us soon because we'll need him on form for this last stretch of the season. Same with Pogba. Those two need to step it up big time. They are the two big names and both haven't delivered what we expected.It seems more likely than not that we'll turn in a positive performance against Swansea. We've beaten much bigger clubs recently and the pressure from the media/fans has to have sent a message that it's just not good enough to win games, but to do so with more offensive urgency.
Two deficiencies need to get sorted out: set piece defending and finishing. Do both and we should be in for at least a 3-0 win.Stupid international break. Seems like months since United played a match.Awful innit.
Two apiece for Big Rommers and Rashers.Press conference...
Well, a month off from boring football would do no harm
Shiii, have to share this.
Valencia to finally attacks overlapping in this game?Tweet
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Valencia/Young low cross to Matic/Mata quick pass to Lingard/Rashford cocky scholes-style goal.Could be Lukaku's 100th EPL goal.Wow, we have an almost everyone is fit squad for this game.
Only Romero and Blind are out.Tweet
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Ashley Young a doubt too.Boom.
1-0 demolition.Better watch your language tomorrow folks. Email from the club today:
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It isn't language as such is it. More about racism etc. Which is fair enough.
This isn't new though is it, it's just a different number? There's always been a number to report to.
Yep, they're using a new number and promoting it.- Status
Man of the Match
Runners-up
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21%
Romelu Lukaku
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19%
Jesse Lingard
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8%
David de Gea
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5%
Victor Lindelof
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4%
Nemanja Matic
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4%
Paul Pogba
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3%
Juan Mata
Player Ratings
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Compiled from 330 ratings.
Score Predictions
463,13,19
- Man Utd win
- Swansea win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 35% Man Utd 2:0 Swansea
- 26% Man Utd 3:0 Swansea
- 10% Man Utd 4:0 Swansea
- 6% Man Utd 1:0 Swansea
- 6% Man Utd 2:1 Swansea
- 5% Man Utd 3:1 Swansea
- 4% Man Utd 5:0 Swansea
- 3% Man Utd 1:1 Swansea
- 1% Man Utd 4:1 Swansea
- 1% Man Utd 0:5 Swansea
- 1% Man Utd 5:1 Swansea
- 1% Man Utd 0:0 Swansea
- 0% Man Utd 1:2 Swansea
- 0% Man Utd 0:1 Swansea
- 0% Man Utd 0:2 Swansea
- 0% Man Utd 1:3 Swansea
- 0% Man Utd 0:3 Swansea
- 0% Man Utd 4:4 Swansea
- 0% Man Utd 2:2 Swansea
Match Stats
- Man Utd
- Swansea
- Possession
- 67% 33%
- Shots
- 11 3
- Shots on Target
- 5 2
- Corners
- 3 3
- Fouls
- 5 13
Referee
Robert Madley
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Marcus Rashford
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