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Manchester United 1:0 Wolverhampton Wanderers

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    Lucky McLuckerson

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    Date - Tuesday, 29 December 2020

    Kickoff Time - 2000 Hrs GMT
    Venue - Old Trafford, Manchester



    League form guide

    Manchester United: WDWWD
    Wolverhampton Wanderers: LLWL


    Previous Meetings in the League

    Manchester United 0—0 Wolverhampton Wanderers

    Wolverhampton Wanderers 1—1 Manchester United

    Wolverhampton Wanderers 2—1 Manchester United

    Manchester United 1—1 Wolverhampton Wanderers

    Wolverhampton Wanderers 0—5 Manchester United


    All-Time League Record

    Manchester United wins: 42
    Wolverhampton Wanderers wins: 33
    Draws: 17


    Pre-Match Pressers

    Ole Gunnar Solskjær



    Nuno Espírito Santo



    Team News

    Manchester United

    Marcos Rojo and Phil Jones ruled out. Victor Lindelöf doubtful.


    Wolverhampton Wanderers

    Raul Jimenez and Jonny Otto ruled out. Leander Dendoncker doubtful.


    Know the opposition



    Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club, commonly known as Wolves or The Wanderers, is an English professional football club based in the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands. The club were founded as St. Luke's in 1877 by John Baynton and John Brodie, after a group of pupils at St Luke's Church school in Blakenhall had been presented with a football by their headmaster Harry Barcroft. Two years later, they merged with local cricket and football club The Wanderers, to form Wolverhampton Wanderers. The club then became one of the twelve founders of the English Football League in 1888 and finished the inaugural season in a creditable third place, as well as reaching their first ever FA Cup Final, losing 3–0 to the first Double winners, Preston North End.

    The club spent 33 years in the top flight from 1932 to 1965, their longest continuous period at that level (albeit league football was in hiatus from 1939 to 1946 due to World War II). During the 1950s, the club was English league champions three times (1953–54, 1957–58 & 1958–59), whilst under the management of Stan Cullis. Wolves has also finished runners-up in the league on five occasions (most recently in 1959–60) and in third place on a further six occasions (most recently in 1960–61). On the domestic cup front, they have won the FA Cup four times, most recently in 1960, and has finished runners-up on a further four occasions, and the Football League Cup twice, in 1974 and 1980.

    Wolves have long-standing rivalries with other West Midlands clubs; the main one is with West Bromwich Albion, against whom they contest the Black Country derby and with whom Wolves has played more league fixtures (146) than any other football opponent, even though the two clubs have not met in a league fixture since 2011–12 (the last season they competed in the same division as each other). Wolves also share rivalries with the two Birmingham clubs, Aston Villa and Birmingham City, though they are much further away than West Bromwich. They play their homes games at the Molineux Stadium, the first stadium ever built for use by a Football League club and one of the first British grounds to have floodlights installed and it hosted some of the earliest European club games in the 1950s.


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    stubie

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    They will be knackered after tomorrow’s game so we should be looking to take full advantage.

    Need a convincing performance and clean sheet here, no excuses
     

    charlenefan

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    Team should be...

    --------------------De Gea--------------------
    Tuanzebe--Bailly-- Maguire--Shaw
    ------------Pogba--------Matic------------
    Greenwood--Bruno--Rashford
    --------------------Cavani--------------------

    Subs: Henderson, Telles, Fred, McTominay, VDB, Lingard, Martial, Ighalo, James
     

    PoTMS

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    Fancy us to lose this one and all our momentum will be gone. Wolves will shithouse their way to a win.
     

    SuperiorXI

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    Another must win. If we draw/lose here we're undoing all the good work so far.

    Cavani has to come in, we're missing that clinical edge up front.
     

    Shane88

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    Hopefully a high-intensity game against Spurs and an extra day for us will help.

    Or Wolves will roll over and save themselves for us.
     

    glazed

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    Bruno will run out of gas fairly soon and then we will see what's left without him.
     

    Offside

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    Just the kind of team we struggle against but I’m optimistic.
     

    PoTMS

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    We simply have to win. A loss/draw here and it's classic story of one step forward, two steps back. No one will be talking about the massive achievement of being in third place.
     

    bosnian_red

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    De Gea
    Wan Bissaka Bailly Maguire Telles
    Matic Pogba
    Mata/VdB Bruno
    Greenwood Cavani
    Something like this. Rotate a bit, leave Martial and Rashford to be impact subs. Bruno probably should be rested either here or against Villa, and then again in the Watford game.

    Less worried about Wolves without Raul Jimenez.
     

    Ollie Derbyshire

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    The Leicester game was disappointing in the end but a draw isn’t the worst result in the world as long as we bounce back and beat Wolves and Villa. Need to win this one so I’d go for this team in this one with the Villa game in mind as well;

    ......................De Gea
    AWB.....Lindelof....Maguire....Shaw
    .............Fred............VdB
    Rashford.....Bruno......Pogba
    ....................Cavani

    Then against Villa;
    ....................De Gea
    AWB.....Lindelof....Maguire....Shaw
    ............Fred...........McT
    Mason.......Bruno.....Martial
    ..................Cavani
     

    always_hoping

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    United record against Nunos Wolves is poor

    P7 W1 D4 L2. The only win was 1-0 at home in a FA Cup.

    Will be no surprise if United drop points in this fixture again.
     

    AshRK

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    After the Leicester draw, this and Villa game have become a must win.
     

    FrankDrebin

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    They will likely control the game to a point. Again, we'll be relying on our quick breaks.
     

    MikeKing

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    McTominay-Bailly-Maguire
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    Cavani-Greenwood-Martial​
     

    BluesJr

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    Cavani please. Understands the need for urgency. Feel like him and Bruno realise that’s what you need to win games against opponents like this. Martial far too passive.
     

    Dve

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    ................ De Gea

    Bissaka - Tuanzebe - Maguire - Telles

    ............. Pogba - Fred

    .............. Fernandes

    Rashford - Cavani - Martial

    Subs: Greenwood - Matic - Donny
     

    Mcking

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    Hope AWB is good.

    De Gea
    AWB Bailly Maguire Shaw
    Pogba Fred
    Rashford Bruno Martial
    Cavani​
     

    SinNombre

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    Must win if there are any hopes to compete for the league. We are a confidence team and need the momentum back.
     

    dev1l

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    Imo this game may prove to be more difficult than vs leicester.
    Mind you it s still a game we must win
     

    Gerald G

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    De Gea
    Tuanzebe--Bailly--Maguire--Shaw
    Pogba--Fred
    Greenwood--Bruno--Rashford
    Cavani

    Subs: Henderson; Williams, TFM; Matic, McTominay, Mata; Lingard, James, Martial

    If AWB is fit then I would start him.​
     

    Gordon S

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    Wolves are not the same without Jimenez and Jota, they did a lot for them. We should have enough quality to win this.
     

    GMoore23

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    Not sure on the fitness of Bissaka or Lindelof

    De Gea
    Tuanzebe - Bailly - Maguire - Shaw
    Fred - VDB
    Bruno
    Greenwood - Cavani - Rashford
     

    SER19

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    A must win. Still a really solid side but more vulnerable this season, have a day less rest and our squad is much deeper. Should be winning fixtures like this if looking to compete.
     

    Schmeichel's Cartwheel

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    DDG
    Tuanzebe Bailly Maguire Telles
    Pogba Matic
    Greenwood Bruno Martial
    Cavani​

    Technical ability.


    De Gea
    Tuanzebe--Bailly--Maguire--Shaw
    Pogba--Fred
    Greenwood--Bruno--Rashford
    Cavani

    Subs: Henderson; Williams, TFM; Matic, McTominay, Mata; Lingard, James, Martial

    If AWB is fit then I would start him.
    You’re entitled to your opinion but Williams & Fosu-Mensah over Telles on the bench is a baffling call.
     
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Player Ratings

6.3 Total Average Rating

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Score Predictions

185,13,22
  • Man Utd win
  • Wolves win
  • Draw

Detailed Results

  • 24% Man Utd 2:1 Wolves
  • 20% Man Utd 2:0 Wolves
  • 17% Man Utd 3:1 Wolves
  • 10% Man Utd 3:0 Wolves
  • 8% Man Utd 1:1 Wolves
  • 5% Man Utd 1:0 Wolves
  • 2% Man Utd 3:2 Wolves
  • 2% Man Utd 0:1 Wolves
  • 2% Man Utd 4:0 Wolves
  • 2% Man Utd 0:3 Wolves
  • 1% Man Utd 4:1 Wolves
  • 1% Man Utd 5:0 Wolves
  • 1% Man Utd 2:2 Wolves
  • 1% Man Utd 0:0 Wolves
  • 1% Man Utd 1:2 Wolves
  • 0% Man Utd 1:4 Wolves
  • 0% Man Utd 0:2 Wolves
  • 0% Man Utd 0:5 Wolves
  • 0% Man Utd 5:1 Wolves
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Match Stats

  1. Man Utd
  2. Wolves
Possession
58% 42%
Shots
11 9
Shots on Target
3 5
Corners
2 2
Fouls
11 7

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