Difficult to say, you can look at it both ways, either as the pressure enabling us to perform better or the same pressure crippling us and making us fall apart.. Don't know which one it is for us.
This would likely be my team too.
If that team doesn't beat West Ham we may as well give up
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According to PhysioRoom Jones won't be back until the 5th Oct.
Swap for Evans/Rojo then..
Evans is defs out too - he had a cast on after his injury against Leicester. Gonna have to be Rojo, which doesn't fill me with much confidence. And if either Rojo/Smalling gets injured then we're pretty screwed.
Bench Blind...yeah lets bench our only defensively minded CM for Fletcher..right
I think we may win, but our strikers now are fairly slow and non physical so I don't see how it is a good preparation for West Ham. I also don't think our defending will be so much better, but I do think at home at Old Trafford we should be able to out play them easier since it is also a larger pitch and West Ham are also often poor away from home.
There is Tom Thorpe who is arguably at least on the same level as Keane but with less first team experience.
The biggest problem last weekend was stupid individual errors. Rojo had a made at left back and Blackett was bullied and let them through time and time again. Think it'll be a huge improvement having Shaw at fullback and rojo in the middle, but we'll see. Personally think it'll be a comfortable win, we cut through Leicester effortlessly, same with QPR.
Tomkins a physical beast?
Not much else we can do in regards to Evans and Blackett, completely agree about Mata as well. I think this is our first 3pm kick-off as well.
Probably Blind as CB with Rojo and Shaw to the left.
Who said smalling is out?
Chris Smalling has picked up a thigh injury in training & could be out for the West Ham game. [mail]
I saw it on the norwegian Manchester United site. Could be bogus, but they had an articel about it so sadly i think its the case.
Excellent post. And I hope you are right.I thought although we fell to pieces the team just hasnt had chance to gel together just yet...
I think with time we will become more of a cohesive unit. We must be patient, and the results will come
My team for West Ham:
De GeaRojo looked a bit uncomfortable with the pace of the Leicester winger but he impressed me massively against QPR. I think Shaw is more of a natural left wing back and thus, should be able to get up and down the wings supporting the attacks...
Rafael Smalling Rojo Shaw
Blind
Herrera Di Maria
Rooney
Falcao Van Persie
I think if falcaos effort had gone in and that ridiculous decision by the referee hadnt occurred we would be delighted with todays result and that we had got 2 wins on the bounce and had overtaken liverpool.
The fact is that when we concede, part of the team seems to panic and revert back to how we played under Moyes, we lack confidence.
With every win we will gain more confidence and move further away from the Moyes era.
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Ander Herrera
Paddy McNair
Wayne Rooney
Marcos Rojo
Angel Di Maria
Luke Shaw
Daley Blind
Robin Van Persie
David de Gea
Radamel Falcao
Lee Mason
replaced by Tom Thorpe
replaced by Antonio Valencia
replaced by Darren Fletcher
