I can't even tell what Carrick will do, things are in such disarray, but I know we have zero chances with Villareal. We dragged our feet so much that we ruined our Champions League chances and possibly even a chance to make top 4.Carrick and co won't take any risks, they'll go mostly with the standard Ole 11 bar the inclusion of VdB surely, hopefully we'll nick a point.
Champions League Group F
Villarreal 0:2 Manchester United
Estadio de la Cerámica
- Kick-off
- Tue, 23 November 2021 @ 5:45pm GMT
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Discussion Your Lineup Prediction
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Flood the midfield and set up with players and formation with the intention to control the tempo and win the midfield battle.
_________de gea
_lindelof_maguire_shaw
Dalot____matic____telles
______beek_____lingard
__________sancho
__________cavani
Christ, you sound like a spoiled child. Even if we knew exactly who we wanted we would struggle to get them in, contract signed and on the plane out again to Villarreal within 24hrs. A foreign manager wouldn't have a work visa ready in that time and if they're in another job they need to negotiate their exit.
As I say, if this lingers on, by all means moan. But complaining about an interim arrangement at this short notice is a joke.Would be hilarious if it’s a 4231 with McFred holdingJust play a 4-3-3 and make me happy, Michael.
DDG
AwB Bailly Lindelof Telles
VdB Fred Fernandes
Sancho Ronaldo Rashford
Saved penalties aside DDG has been poor this season, making errors, poor distribution, and his usual habit of being glued to his line.If you think the last few defeats have been embarrassing, imagine how it would have been without De Gea.
I mean, fecking hell
The most important game to save our season. We must qualify for next round if we want to have some meaningful season for new manager.
It really wouldn’t.Go defensive, real tight midfield, drop Bruno, AWB & Arry.
DDG
Dalot Bailly Lindelof Shaw
Fred Matic VDB
Sancho CR7 LingardIf he is fit we must get Cavani playing so that we press and fight from the front……if he picks a defensive shaped team we are stuffed as this team is not strong enough defensively to hold out for a match against the wall - and it will be backs against the wall - they will be smelling blood
just hope Carrick uses his subs way better than Ole did
I really hope there is some pride in our players and they feel guilty for hanging Ole out to dry at Watford…If we lose this and Atalanta win their game, we would have to beat YB to qualify on the last game I presume? Unless Atalanta beat Villarreal and then it would go on head to head records and goal difference between Villareal and us.
He's also single-handedly saved our sorry asses a few times.
Mixed bag at the very least.
A couple of times perhaps, but he's been poor more than he's been good.
At his best, he still had poor distribution and refused to leave his line, forcing us to defend deep and cede territory, but he made up for it with regular superhuman saves. Without those, he becomes a bit of a liability very quickly.What I expect:
DDG
AWB - Lindelof - Maguire - Shaw
Fred - Van de Beek
Sancho - Bruno - Lingard
Ronaldo
2-0 Villareal
Agree on the bolded. Opponents have had an easy battle in midfield against us ALL season long.
Lets get some controlled possession first and foremost, build from that.Ooooooh wonder what Carrick will do. Hope he goes 433 but think it’ll probably be similar to Ole. A man can dream though so here we go.
DDGNot really a great fan of McT but I don’t think Dm is a position for Fred he’s better as a hound hunting people down. Matic not sure he can do games back to back and I’d imagine he starts vs Chelsea.
Bissaka Lindelof Maguire Telles
McT
Bruno——-Donny
Rashford—Ronaldo—Sancho
You have to laugh. Half the posts in here still have Maguire in the line up. How can he be anywhere near the team in such an important game. There's not a defender in our clubs history that's played this badly, this consistently. What is this spell he has over people?
Anyway, in regards to the game, it'll be interesting to see who Carrick starts. Donny has to play. I'd like to see a midfield of Donny, Fred and Matic. Maybe with Bruno as a false 9 (which is essentially players anyway) with Ronaldo and Greenwood or Sancho as wide forwards/strikers. The defence is anyone's call, but I just don't want to see Maguire, he's painful to watch.
It’s a very tricky one to guess on Tuesday.I hate it ffs, not sure how athletes cope with the pressure
hoping I get luckier than @Reditus
I thought I would have dropped quite a bit after last game but very closeDanjuma vs Dalot was a horrible sight in the first game
Yup.
There is nothing in this line up that suggests we could control anything haha
Maybe the worst 11 you could pick
He plays and moves like he is Beckenbauer and he's fooled a lot of people by doing that throughout his career. He's also English, so the standards for him are way lower. Bailly has never ever been this bad for such a prolonged period of time yet half the caf wont consider playing him and wants to sell him. There's not much between Maguire, Lindelof and Bailly so I would pick the latter two off of form.Hard to believe it's not Scholes, it's Carrick, oh nooo....
He better motivate them enough to go on and get a result here.We are not going to win.
Can lose this game and still qualify for the next round by beating Young Boys in Old Trafford.
Not good because that's where the pressure is on.Hard to believe its not toe
We have a fairly poor record in Spain so I feel the same. Hope we can get a draw.There is no way we are losing this. Surely the downward spiral has to stop at some point?De GeaNot expecting a win but I hope Maguire and McTominay are dropped and Shaw needs a rest.
AWB - Lindelof - Bailly - Telles
VDB - Fred
Greenwood - Bruno - Sancho
Ronaldo
why not try bruno in the LW spot we tried to build for pogba? Allows vdb to come in the middle to help out the midfield. Bruno that lw/lm attacking spot, vdb links in the middle, then sancho wide right feeding ronaldo up topStart Matic, Donny and Fred. Bench Bruno. Rashford, Ronaldo and Sancho as front 3.
We need passing options from the midfield. They are well coached to keep and pass.
Greenwood has COVID. Don’t think he’ll even travel.If we had a competent coaching staff, I would say that the priority is to stop their 4 players Capoue, Barejo, Albiol, Torres from playing deep and having their time to play like they wanted.
They just destroyed us in the first game, and we had no players in their zone, so a 4-1-4-1 would surely be efficient, but we don't have the players and confidence to do so.
Playing a 5-4-1 as we did recently ? Hope not.
So probably a 4-2-3-1 and no many changes from the Watford game.
---------------------------------------De Gea----------------------------------------
Wan Bissaka--------Maguire--------Lindelof------------------Telles
-----------------------Van de Beek--------Fred--------------------------------
Sancho----------------------------Bruno-------------------------Rashford
---------------------------------------Ronaldo-------------------------------------I think he'll go something like this and get couple more runners in:
De Gea
AWB Lindelof Maguire Shaw
Fred Donny
Sancho Bruno Jesse
CR7Whichever line-up he goes with, I am not looking forward to this match.—————-——-DeGea———————
-Dalot—-Bailly——-Lindelof—-Shaw
——————VdB——-Fred—————-
————————-Mata———————
—Lingard——-Cavani———-Ronaldo
Drop for horrible form: Maguire, AwB, Bruno + Mourinho’s Scottish son
Captain: cavani
Ah fair enough I forgot about that.
Give Captain to someone mainly injured (And injured right now I think...)
Cavani, Ronaldo & Mata as 3 of the 4 up top with no speed?
You want to drop for horrible form but include Shaw? Can't agree with most of this, don't think we have the players for a 4-2-3-1 as we don't have good 6's
DDG
Dalot Bailly Lindelof Telles
VDB Matic Fred
Sancho Ronaldo Lingard
That seems sensible, bolster that defense with 3 in midfield, drop the underperforming players at least to push meritocracy and give Lingard his start after his recent form, I was one of his biggest detractors but he has been good when played and we need to play Sancho, we paid too much for him and need to give him a consistent run and some trust.- Status
Man of the Match
Runners-up
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36%
David de Gea
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11%
Fred
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8%
Cristiano Ronaldo
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4%
Victor Lindelof
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2%
Bruno Fernandes
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1%
Juan Mata
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1%
Donny van de Beek
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1%
Alex Telles
Player Ratings
Total Average Rating
Highest Rated Player
Lowest Rated Player
Compiled from 307 ratings.
Score Predictions
70,77,75
- Man Utd win
- Villarreal win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 20% Villarreal 1:1 Man Utd
- 16% Villarreal 1:2 Man Utd
- 12% Villarreal 2:0 Man Utd
- 9% Villarreal 2:1 Man Utd
- 8% Villarreal 2:2 Man Utd
- 6% Villarreal 0:0 Man Utd
- 5% Villarreal 0:2 Man Utd
- 5% Villarreal 3:1 Man Utd
- 4% Villarreal 3:0 Man Utd
- 3% Villarreal 1:3 Man Utd
- 3% Villarreal 1:0 Man Utd
- 2% Villarreal 0:1 Man Utd
- 2% Villarreal 2:3 Man Utd
- 1% Villarreal 4:1 Man Utd
- 1% Villarreal 5:0 Man Utd
- 1% Villarreal 0:3 Man Utd
- 0% Villarreal 4:0 Man Utd
- 0% Villarreal 2:4 Man Utd
- 0% Villarreal 1:4 Man Utd
- 0% Villarreal 1:5 Man Utd
- 0% Villarreal 0:5 Man Utd
- 0% Villarreal 3:2 Man Utd
Match Stats
- Villarreal
- Man Utd
- Possession
- 51% 49%
- Shots
- 13 11
- Shots on Target
- 3 6
- Corners
- 8 6
- Fouls
- 9 5
Referee
Dr. Felix Brych
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Bruno Fernandes
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replaced by Nemanja Matic
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replaced by Marcus Rashford
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replaced by Juan Mata
