Europa League Round of 32 1st Leg
Real Sociedad 0:4 Manchester United
Juventus Stadium
- Kick-off
- Thu, 18 February 2021 @ 5:55pm GMT
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Discussion Your Lineup Prediction
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I think Maguire will, but I think Bailly will start with him. At least he should.
Ah right; Shaw's our best player after Bruno IMO but I think Ole will play Telles tomorrowHenderson
Tuanzebe
Bailly
Maguire
Telles
Matic
McTominay
Amad
Bruno
Martial
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I hope not. The drop in quality when Shaw doesn’t play is almost painful. Which is both praising Shaw and criticising Telles and Williams.
I feel like I’m the only person that seems interested in winning the EL. Best chance we’ve got of a cup; City are doing a sweep of the others.Henderson
AWB
Bailly
Maguire
Shaw
McTominay
Fred
Greenwood
Bruno
Rashford
Cavani
Yeah and winning this trophy would also mean being in pot 1 for the draw
My captain shall always play.
If Ole doesn't select Shaw, it's the wrong decision even if we win. It will show he doesn't care about the competition. Really fear Ole will play a weakened team, lose, and shrug it off saying we were fantastic and need to focus on the League. Let's be real. We'll struggle to a top four finish at best, we need to try and win the cups we're in.
Ole seems to be trying to find games to rest Shaw to help avoid the injury issues that he has had in the past. So far it's been working well. With this being a two legged tie there's a fairly good chance that we'll at least use the first leg as one of those games. Depending on the result he may then be rested for the second leg.
Alternatively we may play him in the first and just hope we get a good win so can rest him in the second.
Moyes yes. Thought Phil was at Valencia due to their Salford co-owner partner owning Valencia.
I bet Sociedad won't rotate and they have much more of a reason to do so than us, they are 5th in the league.
They have less reason not more. 7 points off 4th having played a game more. Sociedad will be play their strongest available starting 11.Should win this quite easily on paper, especially on neutral ground. But you never know. This team always seems to find a Way to feck up.A front 3 of Rashford Greenwood Diallo would be a nice change.How Alexander Isak been doing for Real Sociedad?
Started off the season really slowly but he’s got 6 goals in his last 5 games. Definitely in form right now.
Damn it, now worried he will smash it against us with our current defence!!!Looking forward to see Adnan against us.They seem to have very good players in attack (assuming Adnan is anything like he was in his youth). If the players think this will be easy, they'll be sorely mistaken.
There's not been a lot of times, but whenever I've seen Greenwood up top on his own in a first team game, he's looked lost - still requires a bit of physical development to get there I think. I suspect Martial will play (as much as Ole's trying to sell to everyone that he's a doubt)
When the draw vs Sociedad was made, I tried to catch their game that week given they were on a high in the liga, I think it was versus Barca, I don't think Sociedad won, but played very well and were able to be a constant threat to Barca despite less possession, Januzaj came on at the end of the game and did really well i felt, was involved in at least 3 good chances (if my memory is any good) for Sociedad in the few minutes he was on the pitch.
But not been able to watch more recently, if Sociedad are in form, we will be in for a ride.I don't know if this is true or not, but I seem to have it in my head that we're always shit in these 6pm kick offsI’d hope we’d go strong (ish) tonight and get a decent result because if we lose we will have to go full strength next Thursday and we’ve Chelsea the following Sunday. They will have 48 hours rest more than us
What? They can still make top 4 with 16 games left to win.Could easily lose tonight but is anyone really that bothered? We really need to get the league form back on track.
Fans may not be bothered but the team should be. Winning helps bring that form back, losing, not so much.
I'm bothered. We need to go deep in this comp to see where we stand regarding the likes of Henderson, Donny, Diallo etc. Players like Telles and Bailly also need game time.
If we're eliminated here we'd have one game per week for the next three months with a big squad. We might improve our league form that way but we'd be left with more questions and fewer answers going into the next season.
Not bothered about your team losing . OkIt's the David Moyes derby. Can't wait!This game has banana skin written all over it.
Also 17:55 is a ridiculous time to have a kick odd.No reason to hold back here. Take some risks and see how we go. Greenwood up top, start Amad and hook him if he looks out of place. Rest AWB.
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Williams Bailly Maguire Shaw
Mctominay Fred
Amad Bruno Rashford
GreenwoodHow on Earth can people not care about the Europa League? We are not winning the prem, whereas winning the EL guarantees a CL spot next season. Realistically, it is the easiest trophy l to win for us.
I think people underestimate the value of winning as well for the mentality of the side.
We don’t have many players in our squad who’ve won trophies. That was part of why Ferguson’s sides did so well, the squad knew how to win.
People are worried about the drain on energy the Europa League entails.
We’re wobbling atm in the Premier League and with a few more bad results we could sink to 5th. The paranoia about dropping out the Champions League places outweighs the benefits of a trophy hunt in the Europa League for some I think.
Personally I feel we should go for any trophy available to us to the fullest extent we can. There’s a pervading concern with this team that they don’t know how to win when it matters (4 semi finals in 2 years, no finals) and that only ameliorates itself through practice and experience.
A comfortable top 4 finish with an FA Cup or a Europa League win would be a fantastic season and the perfect springboard for next year.Last edited:
See your point, however, the squad is big enough to compete in several competitions at least for now. I do not see us winning the FA cup to be honest, whereas top 4 will not be an easy walk either as Chelsea are likely to improve under Tuchel and Klopp will get his team back on track sooner rather than later. EL is basically a trophy and a 100% guarantee of Champions League football next season. I would definitely have it as a top priority.I find it quite difficult to get excited about a EL fixture, however I still want us to win and will be a bit fecked off is we fail to do so.
Hadn't thought about that.
I’d definitely place it above the FA Cup in terms of priority as well because like you say, it’s more than a trophy - it’s a trophy and 4th place in one.
But I think a basic principle at United is to compete for every trophy within our grasp. Seeing competitions as beneath us is something reserved for fans I think - a professional player wants to win anything and everything they can get their hands on. And our players need to practice the mindset required to do that.
Also there’s a practical element to taking tonight seriously and playing a strong team - if we blow Sociedad out of the water it means we can rest key players next week in the reverse leg before the Chelsea game.
Chelsea, conversely, have to play Atletico midweek in Romania; a physically gruelling experience regardless of the result.
If we rest players tonight and then have to overturn a result next week Ole will undoubtedly have to play our strongest XI and it will be a slog - 3 days before we play Chelsea.
I disagree winning the EL is CL football next season, FA Cup is always a touch win, the PL OK we are 2nd , but a couple of losses and we tumble down.
EL is nearly equal to PL for me, strongest available teams for both.- Status
Man of the Match
Runners-up
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6%
Daniel James
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6%
Fred
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5%
Amad Diallo
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3%
Marcus Rashford
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2%
Scott McTominay
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Eric Bailly
Player Ratings
Total Average Rating
Highest Rated Player
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Compiled from 256 ratings.
Score Predictions
92,45,54
- Man Utd win
- Real Sociedad win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 23% Real Sociedad 1:2 Man Utd
- 21% Real Sociedad 1:1 Man Utd
- 9% Real Sociedad 2:1 Man Utd
- 8% Real Sociedad 2:0 Man Utd
- 7% Real Sociedad 0:2 Man Utd
- 7% Real Sociedad 1:3 Man Utd
- 5% Real Sociedad 0:0 Man Utd
- 5% Real Sociedad 0:1 Man Utd
- 3% Real Sociedad 3:1 Man Utd
- 3% Real Sociedad 2:2 Man Utd
- 2% Real Sociedad 2:3 Man Utd
- 2% Real Sociedad 0:5 Man Utd
- 2% Real Sociedad 3:0 Man Utd
- 2% Real Sociedad 1:0 Man Utd
- 1% Real Sociedad 0:3 Man Utd
- 1% Real Sociedad 2:4 Man Utd
- 1% Real Sociedad 0:4 Man Utd
- 1% Real Sociedad 4:0 Man Utd
- 1% Real Sociedad 5:0 Man Utd
Match Stats
- Real Sociedad
- Man Utd
- Possession
- 59% 41%
- Shots
- 8 13
- Shots on Target
- 2 10
- Corners
- 4 5
- Fouls
- 15 13
Referee
Sandro Scharer
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Juan Mata
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replaced by Nemanja Matic
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replaced by Anthony Martial
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replaced by Amad Diallo
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