Middlesbrough 1:3 Manchester United

TMDaines · Mar 16, 2017

Boro have been shit this year, but so had Bournemouth. Changes might freshen our approach, but I too am struggling to see victory.

Wayne's World · Mar 16, 2017

We look like a very tired team tonight who needs a break and despite Boro being shit....this game is going to be very difficult and to make matters worse it's on at 12 on a Sunday....

I hope we somehow manage to sneak a 1-0 and get out of there

Longlivekeano · Mar 17, 2017

------------De Gea-------

A.Young-Jones-Rojo-Shaw

------Carrick--Blind-----

-----------Mata------------

-Mkhti---Martial---Rashford

United 3-0 Martial hattrick

tentan · Mar 17, 2017

Boro' 1-0. :houllier:

Kostur · Mar 17, 2017

Well since everybody is shitting it we'll win it comfortably most likely.

paulscholes18 · Mar 17, 2017

Please be a back 4
DDG
Valencia Bailly Smalling Blind
Carrick Fellaini
Mkhitaryan Mata Lingard
Rashford

Android1974 · Mar 17, 2017

Raw said:
No Ibra, Herrera or Pogba. No news on Martial either.

This is going to be shit.

Truth be told, of all the injured, Martial seems the most likely to feature, although there might be some bad blood between him and the manager.

Android1974 · Mar 17, 2017

Don't really get what's going on on Mourinho's mind, with this late 3 at the back shit. Maybe he feels it's the only way to get through the run of games, even if we're out of the FA Cup.

sammsky1 · Mar 17, 2017

What's the news on Rooney and Martial?

dichinero · Mar 17, 2017

Surely Blind can be given a shot in CM.

AgentP · Mar 17, 2017

So Pogba, Herrera and Zlatan out. Martial and Rooney doubtful. My lineup would be

De Gea
Bailly Smalling Rojo
Valencia Carrick Fellaini Young
Mata Rashford Mkhi

bosnian_red · Mar 17, 2017

Who cares about the league anyway, all about europa league. Even though boro are shit, playing away it will be difficult, especially without herrera, pogba and ibra. Guess you can add blind, martial and rooney to that, and probably shaw but for different reasons. So we'll probably play:

De gea
Bailly Smalling Rojo
Valencia Carrick Fellaini Lingard
Mkhitaryan Rashford Mata

Possibly young for lingard. Maybe darmian too. Something like that though.

Ballache · Mar 17, 2017

DDG
Darmian-Smalling-Bailly-Shaw
-------------Carrick-Fellaini------------
-Lingard------Rooney---------Young
------------------Rashford----------------

YouOnlyLiveTwice · Mar 17, 2017

Miki Marcus Mata
Young Blind Fella Antonio
Rojo Chris Jones
DdG

K2K · Mar 17, 2017

Android1974 said:
Truth be told, of all the injured, Martial seems the most likely to feature, although there might be some bad blood between him and the manager.

How did you come to that conlusion?

K2K · Mar 17, 2017

Red Katie said:
Absolutely dreading this.

You say that every week.

RedDevil@84 · Mar 17, 2017

Jose has already said we ll lose this. So that's about it

kps88 · Mar 17, 2017

Monday night, Thursday night, Sunday 12pm. That is bullshit.

LuisNaniencia · Mar 17, 2017

I'm not normally a doomsayer but I just can't see a positive result here. We look tired and really struggle to break teams down.

Florida Man · Mar 17, 2017

Only two pages in and everybody's already in stage 3 depression. :lol:

Mr. Meeseeks · Mar 17, 2017

This is the greatest test for this team. But its always darkest before the dawn. This team is going to do amazing things. I can feel it. Theres just something special about them and you could feel it at the end of that Rostov match. Everything happened to us. We lost Pogba. We lost Blind. But they fought until the end. Even that free kick Rostov had. I could feel that Romero would step up and save it. Theyre starting to play for each other. And it going to be amazing when it clicks.

PS Did anyone see that nutmeg Jones did to that defender? He was playing left back FFS!

Chaky_Best · Mar 17, 2017

My first ever United game was at the Riverside Stadium, so always looked forward this game. Boro away is always tough. They've been poor against City, but they've sacked Karanka so we'll probably have a tough game there.

No Pogba, no Ibra, no Herrera... Hopefully not three at the back, but I really fear that we may be up for this again.

-------------------------------------De Gea-------------------------------------
Valencia-----------------Smalling------------Rojo------------------Blind/Shaw
--------------------------Fellaini--------------Carrick--------------------------
Mata------------------------------Mkhitaryan------------------Martial/Lingard
-------------------------------------Rashford------------------------------------

Or
-------------------------------------De Gea-------------------------------------
----------------Jones---------------Smalling--------------Rojo-----------------
Valencia-------------------Carrick------------Fellaini---------------------Young
---------------------Mata-----------Rashford-------------Mkhitaryan-----------

markelphick · Mar 17, 2017

As Mourinho said we'll probably lose. going for a 1-1 draw hope we win though

Scarecrow · Mar 17, 2017

Chaky_Best said:
My first ever United game was at the Riverside Stadium, so always looked forward this game. Boro away is always tough. They've been poor against City, but they've sacked Karanka so we'll probably have a tough game there.

No Pogba, no Ibra, no Herrera... Hopefully not three at the back, but I really fear that we may be up for this again.

-------------------------------------De Gea-------------------------------------
Valencia-----------------Smalling------------Rojo------------------Blind/Shaw
--------------------------Fellaini--------------Carrick--------------------------
Mata------------------------------Mkhitaryan------------------Martial/Lingard
-------------------------------------Rashford------------------------------------

Or
-------------------------------------De Gea-------------------------------------
----------------Jones---------------Smalling--------------Rojo-----------------
Valencia-------------------Carrick------------Fellaini---------------------Young
---------------------Mata-----------Rashford-------------Mkhitaryan-----------

I like both. That 3-4-3 team actually looks better than anything we've tried with that formation, in my opinion.

We've got plenty of quality, even without Ibra, Pogba, Herrera and Martial. There's no excuse not to beat them.

rocks13 · Mar 17, 2017

I'm sure that despite our injury problems Jose will still find a way to leave Shaw out of the squad.

Godfather · Mar 17, 2017

Ballache said:
DDG
Darmian-Smalling-Bailly-Shaw
-------------Carrick-Fellaini------------
-Lingard------Rooney---------Young
------------------Rashford----------------

What is this. Mkhi? Mata? Wtf is Young doing there. Or Rooney.

KomodoBadger · Mar 17, 2017

Predicting a 2-1 win for us.

Ballache · Mar 17, 2017

Godfather said:
What is this. Mkhi? Mata? Wtf is Young doing there. Or Rooney.

I don't think we have a realistic chance of finishing 4th in the league, we should go all in on the EL.

chicha14 · Mar 17, 2017

Why the hell are the lot of you so negative?

the same people that were asking for Pogba to be rested are complaining that we gonna miss him?

Have some damn belief and get behind the players and the team!

My 11

De Gea

Valencia
Bailly
Rojo
Shaw

Fellaini
Carrick
Mata

Mkhitaryan
Rashford
Martial

I believe we will nick it by a single goal and go into the international break that much closer to the top 4 with either city or liverpool definitely dropping points! Zlatan has 2 weeks off, hopefully that will give him a good rest before the final push!

Godfather · Mar 17, 2017

Ballache said:
I don't think we have a realistic chance of finishing 4th in the league, we should go all in on the EL.

Ah well I agree but we have a 2 weeks break after this game so...

Ballache · Mar 17, 2017

Godfather said:
Ah well I agree but we have a 2 weeks break after this game so...

But we looked dead yesterday, that's why I chose those players. I think it's a strong enough team to grind a result vs Boro.

GailSpaceWynand · Mar 17, 2017

We do have 2 games in hand but it looks like top-4 will evade us. Teams crashing out of cups is not helping us either. City, Arsenal, Spurs - have no other distractions; CFC and LFC did not anyway; except the FA Cup.

Godfather · Mar 17, 2017

Ballache said:
But we looked dead yesterday, that's why I chose those players. I think it's a strong enough team to grind a result vs Boro.

Can see us grinding out a 0-0. Who is going to score though.

Catt · Mar 17, 2017

K2K said:
You say that every week.

I really don't, but seeing us tonight we look very tired.

Ballache · Mar 17, 2017

Godfather said:
Can see us grinding out a 0-0. Who is going to score though.

Well since 50% of this place thinks Rashford should start ahead of Ibra then I'm assuming it's gonna have to be him.

GailSpaceWynand · Mar 17, 2017

Ballache said:
Well since 50% of this place thinks Rashford should start ahead of Ibra then I'm assuming it's gonna have to be him.

Isn't Ibra banned?

Chaky_Best · Mar 17, 2017

GailWynand said:
Isn't Ibra banned?

Yes 3 games, missed Chelsea, will miss Boro and WBA after the int break

Ballache · Mar 17, 2017

GailWynand said:
Isn't Ibra banned?

Yeah he is.

GailSpaceWynand · Mar 17, 2017

Chaky_Best said:
Yes 3 games, missed Chelsea, will miss Boro and WBA after the int break

Ballache said:
Yeah he is.

Quite a bit of unexpected rest for Zlatan. I think April first week is when he plays again.

redsunited · Mar 17, 2017

chicha14 said:
Why the hell are the lot of you so negative?

the same people that were asking for Pogba to be rested are complaining that we gonna miss him?

Have some damn belief and get behind the players and the team!

My 11

De Gea

Valencia
Bailly
Rojo
Shaw

Fellaini
Carrick
Mata

Mkhitaryan
Rashford
Martial

I believe we will nick it by a single goal and go into the international break that much closer to the top 4 with either city or liverpool definitely dropping points! Zlatan has 2 weeks off, hopefully that will give him a good rest before the final push!

If martial is available, this is our best team for the boro game. This is last years best team with upgrade (Smalling -> Bailly and Depay/Lingard -> Mkhi).

Please no 3 at the back and boring LVG 0-0 draw as we don't have the players to play that formation. Hope Shaw starts.

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