Real Sociedad 0:4 Manchester United

Red00012 · Feb 15, 2021

GledTheRed said:
Man City are in the FA cup mate.

That’s a very defeatist attitude Dougal

GledTheRed · Feb 15, 2021

Red00012 said:
That’s a very defeatist attitude Dougal

Very realistic one too.

Red00012 · Feb 15, 2021

GledTheRed said:
Very realistic one too.

Everton might say otherwise

GledTheRed · Feb 15, 2021

Red00012 said:
Everton might say otherwise

Doubt it.

Paul_Scholes18 · Feb 15, 2021

Strongest side and go for this. Best chance of a trophy it should be. Fa cup got City so slightly harder.

Two legs should help us too if we are the better side which I hope.

Rest everyone vs Newcastle if we need too since we can win that one anyway and the league is lost anyway.

Dr. Dwayne · Feb 15, 2021

Why is the kick off so horribly wrong? @Damien

Asger · Feb 15, 2021

Please bench Maguire, Rashy and Martial, im tired of how poor they are.

redshaw · Feb 15, 2021

Heads up

This game is on the 18th of Feb (Thursday) at 17:55 in Turin. The OP date is wrong.

Not that you were going to watch this anyway.

Feed Me · Feb 15, 2021

K Stand Knut said:
This attitude is a joke.

I can only presume you’ll be slagging Ole off come June if we don’t win a trophy.

Embarrassing

I’ve been trying to avoid slagging anyone off of late. But okay.

Feed Me · Feb 15, 2021

Red00012 said:
There is one of these at the start of each match day thread immediately after a poor result , I wouldn’t take much notice . He’ll be ok after a nights sleep and will be posting in the match day thread Thursday night about how shit we are .

Who are you?

lenny_1248 · Feb 15, 2021

I'd leave both Marcus and Anthony on the bench.
Henderson, AWB, Bailly, Maguire, Shaw, McT, Matic, Greenwood, Bruno, James, Cavani.

freeurmind · Feb 15, 2021

wE ARE GOING TO GET SPANKED

K Stand Knut · Feb 15, 2021

Red00012 said:
There is one of these at the start of each match day thread immediately after a poor result , I wouldn’t take much notice . He’ll be ok after a nights sleep and will be posting in the match day thread Thursday night about how shit we are .

With any luck, he’ll properly give up supporting us and just go and support Bayern.

Damien · Feb 15, 2021

Dwazza Gunnar Solskjær said:
Why is the kick off so horribly wrong? @Damien

@Niall

Ajr · Feb 15, 2021

I think we need to drop martial

Lee565 · Feb 15, 2021

GoranIvanisevic said:
I think we need to drop martial

I would say play him because this competition is more for our back up players and that is all martial should be for the rest of the season and rest the attackers this thursday that are actually productive for us.

The Corinthian · Feb 15, 2021

Hendo

Telles
Axel
Bailly (if fit)
AWB/Williams

Matic
Donny
McT

James
Cavani
Mata

I'd like us to try and play a flatter middle three - more of a 4-3-3 rather than a 4-2-3-1.

buckooo1978 · Feb 15, 2021

Think id play a team focused on giving fringe players minutes, a strong core and good counter attacking ability

---------------------Henderson-------------------------
--------Tuanzebe---Lindelof----Maguire------
Williams---Matic---Van De Beek---Telles
--Greenwood-------Martial----------James

Give Bailly some minutes in prep for the league games

KiD MoYeS · Feb 15, 2021

Honestly don't care about progression in this cup, as nice as it would be to win.

Start Amad if fit, our forward line needs a spark. Rest Bruno, Cavani, Shaw, Wan-Bissaka.

Niall · Feb 15, 2021

Damien said:
@Niall

Oops!

@Dwazza Gunnar Solskjær

Gandalf Greyhame · Feb 15, 2021

Ole will probably put out our strongest XI. I just hope Bruno is rested for the league game.

horsechoker · Feb 15, 2021

I think the Spanish coaching will be too much for us. British and Norwegian coaching might show some viking spirit but it's very much stuck in that time. Whereas Spanish coaching is modern, we'll see some "patrones de juego", Carrick probably doesn't even know what that means.

bosnian_red · Feb 15, 2021

Henderson
Wan Bissaka Maguire Bailly Telles
Van de Beek Matic
Greenwood Bruno Martial
Cavani

Would do something like this. Use Diallo as a sub. Half rotation and half starters. Will be a tough game but we should take it seriously enough like the FA Cup, as it's a safety net for the CL, it's a trophy which we need, and even if we get top 4 and FA Cup, it's an added bonus to be in the 1st pot and not in the 3rd pot for the group phase next year.

Damien · Feb 15, 2021

Niall said:
Oops!

@Dwazza Gunnar Solskjær

It wasn't just the time you got wrong, it was the week as well :lol:

(18th)

Ali Dia · Feb 15, 2021

buckooo1978 said:
Think id play a team focused on giving fringe players minutes, a strong core and good counter attacking ability

---------------------Henderson-------------------------
--------Tuanzebe---Lindelof----Maguire------
Williams---Matic---Van De Beek---Telles
--Greenwood-------Martial----------James

Give Bailly some minutes in prep for the league games

I like this a lot in theory but we would surely be beaten? We have to give the fringe players minutes and chances to displace misfiring first team players and the EL is the only real chance to do it. I’d love to see a youth debut but I doubt sociadad are the team to be taking lightly. Anyway it doesn’t matter, it’s Ole. He will probably play our strongest team but with Telles and VDB in for Bruno and Shaw. Hendo in for DDG.

peridigm · Feb 15, 2021

I don't get the "put out the kids/2nd string" talk. This team is in serious need of a trophy. No way in hell Ole will throw this away while we're still in it. The players will want it too.
Rotation is one thing but putting out an entire squad setup for failure is pointless.
Bring in Henderson, Bailly, Diallo, and DVB for DDG, Lindelof, McT, and Martial or Rashford. The rest should be regular starters.

Annihilate Now! · Feb 15, 2021

Drop some underperformers, play Bailly, VdB, Dan James, Greenwood and "He who shall not be named" if he's still alive.

Give Amad minutes of the bench if he's not ill.

Havak · Feb 15, 2021

Have to use the squad here, league form has dipped and we could be dragged Into top 4 fight very easily with 1-2 more bad results. Chelsea & City coming up, we have more chance of winning the FA Cup than the Europa League IMO and the latter would impact our Premier League form much more due to the amount of games left.

Obviously, I'd like us to win the trophy and stay in the competition, but if there's one competition where we can rest players and get knocked out with less consequence it's this one.

Henderson, Williams, Tuanzebe, Bailly, Telles, Matic, Van de Beek, Diallo etc should be playing minutes here. Some first teamers will start though IMO, it isn't going to be a case of changing the entire XI from West Brom.

Henderson
Tuanzebe Bailly Maguire Telles
Van de Beek Matic
Greenwood Bruno James
Martial

We can make five substitutions right?

Diallo, Williams, Mata etc should be getting on, maybe one of them even starting. Think Maguire definitely still plays, I'm 50/50 with it being Bruno/Mata. I think I'd rather we started Mata though.

elmo · Feb 15, 2021

Spanish opponent and we're in a bad run.

Ole is going to set us up to not lose and hope we can take them down at home instead.

RashyForPM · Feb 15, 2021

Fellaini got sent off the last time we played this fixture didn’t he? Anyway, I’d go:

Henderson*
AWB Bailly Maguire Shaw
McT VdB
Greenwood Bruno James
Cavani

*Should be DDG, who should have been relegated to cup goalkeeper already.

2-2 draw. Isak is unfortunately a guarantee to tear Maguire and Lindelof (that’s who Ole will play yet again for no reason) apart. We have enough to score as well though, as attack isn’t our problem, defence is.

DWelbz19 · Feb 15, 2021

Shane88 said:
Losing constantly in the latter stages of cups - "Ugh, who cares about this cup"

Will one of these brainboxes tell me where this team's winning mentality is supposed to come from other than trying fecking hard to, ya know, win something?

In another few transfer windows, once we've cleared the deadwood etc. etc.

Inigo Montoya · Feb 15, 2021

Annihilate Now! said:
Drop some underperformers, play Bailly, VdB, Dan James, Greenwood and "He who shall not be named" if he's still alive.

Give Amad minutes of the bench if he's not ill.

That’s cool because I was going to suggest throwing him on despite illness or injury

DWelbz19 · Feb 15, 2021

Start slow as we almost always do and I reckon we'll be in for a long old night. I believe Oryazabal (their top scorer) has recovered from an injury doubt, and I can't remember a single game David Silva has played against us where he hasn't shown up.

Add in the massive miss that is Paul Pogba, and the fact that genuinely nobody other than our LB and our no.10 are in good form, this feels like it will be such a tetchy game to watch.

Sweet Square · Feb 15, 2021

horsechoker said:
I think the Spanish coaching will be too much for us. British and Norwegian coaching might show some viking spirit but it's very much stuck in that time. Whereas Spanish coaching is modern, we'll see some "patrones de juego", Carrick probably doesn't even know what that means.

Giant Midget · Feb 15, 2021

who gives a feck about this. play the reserves and finish.

RedDevil250 · Feb 15, 2021

I definitely think Ole will set us up to not lose and that will backfire. They are a decent team and will likely be up for it more than us. I think we can win the tie, but it's not going to be easy and we could get dumped out early.

By the way, I thought EL was doing away with the home/away fixtures in the early parts of the knockout stages? Or was that only last year?

bsCallout · Feb 15, 2021

Asger said:
Please bench Maguire, Rashy and Martial, im tired of how poor they are.

But keep Lindelof and DDG? You sure?

Asger · Feb 15, 2021

bsCallout said:
But keep Lindelof and DDG? You sure?

No, I want Henderson in all EL and FA cup matches.

bsCallout · Feb 15, 2021

Asger said:
No, I want Henderson in all EL and FA cup matches.

Sticking with Lindelof though? Our weakest CB?

Lee565 · Feb 15, 2021

I can't see why we can't use diallo, we have thrown youth players into the first 11 in the premier league and europe before.
____________henderson
Williams_bailly-lindelof_telles
________tuanzebe-fred
______diallo---mata---vdb
___________martial

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