Watford 1:2 Manchester United

Niall · Nov 6, 2015

VS

Date - Saturday, November 21 2015.
Kickoff Time - 1245 Hrs GMT.
Venue - Vicarage Road, Watford.

League standings and form guide

4. Manchester United : LWDDW

11. Watford : DLWWL

Previous Meetings

Manchester United 4 : 0 Watford

Watford 1 : 2 Manchester United

Watford 2 : 3 Manchester United

Manchester United 4 : 1 Watford

Watford 0 : 1 Manchester United

All-Time Record

Manchester United wins - 10
Watford wins - 2
Draws - 4

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Louis Van Gaal

Quique Sánchez Flores

Team News

Manchester United

Luke Shaw, Paddy McNair, Michael Carrick, Marouane Fellaini, Antonio Valencia, Wayne Rooney and ruled out. and Chris Smalling facing late fitness tests. James Wilson is nearing a return to full fitness.

Watford

José Manuel Jurado and Sebastian Prodl ruled out.

Know the opposition

Watford Football Club nicknamed The Hornets, The Golden Boys,Yellow Army, and The 'Orns; are a professional football club based in Watford, Hertfordshire; and were founded in 1881 by eventual player Henry Groverand as Watford Hornets, originally an amateur team that turned fully professional in 1897. After spending almost half century in the lower divisions of The Football League, Watford enjoyed its greatest era of success following Graham Taylor's appointment in 1977, rising from the Fourth Division to the First Division. The team also finished second in the First Division in the 1982/83 season, competed in the UEFA Cup in 1983/ 1984, and reached the 1984 FA Cup Final where they faced Howard Kendall's Everton. Watford's most prominent rivalry is with fellow South-Eastern English club Luton Town; and they have been playing their home games at Vicarage Road since 1922.

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Robert Madley.

U99ted · Nov 7, 2015

Ighalo has 7 of their 11 goals. Basically stop him and we'll win.

0-2.

Sigma · Nov 7, 2015

They are good defensively, we are good defensively... this could be a boring game.

littlepeasoup · Nov 7, 2015

Ugh. Two weeks to wait for this game. I f*cking hate international breaks.

Raw · Nov 7, 2015

Should be winning this, but it won't be a cakewalk. Gone for an edgy 2-0 win, hopefully Watford will open up unlike West Brom.

DWelbz19 · Nov 7, 2015

U99ted said:
Ighalo has 7 of their 11 goals. Basically stop him and we'll win.

0-2.

Deeney is a proper workman's clogger, though. He could keep Smalling occupied enough for Ighalo to try his luck against our other CB, which is why I hope Jones will be ready to start this one. I think it's the first time all season we'll play against two up-top. Should be interesting.

Sammyjunn · Nov 7, 2015

Jones has to start in this one with their duo up front, otherwise I hope the same line up bar Schneiderlin starting.

U99ted · Nov 8, 2015

DWelbz19 said:
Deeney is a proper workman's clogger, though. He could keep Smalling occupied enough for Ighalo to try his luck against our other CB, which is why I hope Jones will be ready to start this one. I think it's the first time all season we'll play against two up-top. Should be interesting.

Good point. Despite improving, Blind isn't as well suited to pacey/physical forwards as Jones, so hopefully the latter can stay fit to play this one.

2 man midfield · Nov 8, 2015

Why, England? Why?

DocRockter · Nov 8, 2015

Last time we played here, I remember thinking "This Young fellow is quite good"..

gooDevil · Nov 8, 2015

De One
Young Smalling Jones Rojo
Blind
Herrera Schweiny
Mata Martial Lingard

Maradona10 · Nov 8, 2015

feck off fifa...

Devil may care · Nov 8, 2015

I'd like to see us try this.

RedTiger · Nov 8, 2015

Devil may care said:
I'd like to see us try this.

that looks nice, I reckon that would work.

Longlivekeano · Nov 8, 2015

---------------De Gea------------
Darmian-Smalling-Jones-Rojo
Lingard-Carrick-Herrera-Depay
--------------------------Mata-----
----------------Martial------------
Mata & Herrera to exchange positions.
0-1 Herrera

Insanity · Nov 8, 2015

De Gea
Valencia Smalling Jones Rojo
Carrick Schneiderlin
Lingard Rooney Depay
Martial

devilish · Nov 8, 2015

DDG

Young
Smalling
Jones
Rojo

Schneiderlin
Herrera

Lingard
Mata
Depay

Martial

bosnian_red · Nov 8, 2015

Hopefully nobody picks up injuries over the break.

De Gea
Darmian Smalling Blind Rojo
Schweinsteiger Schneiderlin
Lingard Rooney Young
Martial

dannyrhinos89 · Nov 8, 2015

It'll be a cagey game.

1-0 to United

Cooksen · Nov 8, 2015

De Gea
Darmian - Smalling - Blind - Rojo
Schweinsteiger - Schniderlin
Lingard - Rooney - Young
Martial

iammemphis · Nov 8, 2015

Having a season ticket to Watford i know this game could potentially be a 0-0. Watford defend so well and set up primarily to be hard to beat. The only thing i would say is that recently we have they have been attacking a fair bit more.

Against Arsenal it was a very tight game for 60 minutes and Deeney missed a great opportunity to set Ighalo through for a tap in before Arsenal scored.

United should win this one no problems if our attacking options play like they did against CSKA and West Brom. Honestly i have mixed emotions about this game. Its horrible. Life long United fan but have found myself becoming a passionate Watford fan too seeing them every week for the past 3 years due to the convenience of how close their stadium is to my place of work and I finish work at 1 on saturdays just in time for their kick offs! Deep down if im honest with myself i would prefer the United win, but i don't want Watford to get dicked on and if Watford get anything from the game it would admittedly be a consolation for me.

Im going 2-0 to united.

Hammerfell · Nov 8, 2015

I think this'll be a relatively comfortable game for us, we have the resources to keep the ball and catch them on the counter if they play aggressively. 2-0 to United.

imperi · Nov 8, 2015

devilish said:
DDG

Young
Smalling
Jones
Rojo

Schneiderlin
Herrera

Lingard
Mata
Depay

Martial

I cannot imagine Louis to pick Jones over Blind when playing rather weak teams, we need Blind his passing way more than Jones physicality.

Kaos · Nov 8, 2015

My local side and my first time watching United live in years

I'll be in the Watford end though.

Hellboy · Nov 8, 2015

Ashley Young was playing for Watford :lol:

Hernandez - BFA · Nov 8, 2015

First time we go into an international break this season with a win.

Hopefully no injuries obviously. Need to continue with this winning run. The confidence will come.

devilish · Nov 8, 2015

imperi said:
I cannot imagine Louis to pick Jones over Blind when playing rather weak teams, we need Blind his passing way more than Jones physicality.

I cant imagine him calling those players either. Having said that I feel its the perfect balance between defence and midfield. I can see Watford parking the bus so the likes of Herrera, Mata, Young (as RB), Martial, Depay and Lingard should sort that. However Jones, Smalling, DDG, Schneiderlin and Rojo can keep the fort for those occasional quick counters or aerial threats

2 man midfield · Nov 8, 2015

Lingard is like a new signing, adding some energy into a front line that needed shaking up.

Spock · Nov 8, 2015

One of the surprises of the season so far is that Blind continues to start at CB. He's been at times outstanding and I would think he'll get another start against Watford. I'd like to see him push forward a bit more and with just that one tweak we'll be more effective against clubs which set up to defend on us from the very first whistle.

A comfortable 0-3 win for United.

Red Dreams · Nov 8, 2015

don't think Watford will park the bus. They are a decent side and will give it a go at home.

RedDevil@84 · Nov 9, 2015

Another international break. How boring!!!

RedDevil@84 · Nov 9, 2015

We should win 1-2

Barca84 · Nov 9, 2015

Last time I saw United play Watford...

2 goals for Luther Blissett who got an obviously very confused AC Milan to pay £1 million for him a couple of years later. Also noteworthy for an appearance in goal for United for the calamitous Paddy Roche who mention of will have United fans of a certain age shaking their heads in disbelief.

Sparky Rhiwabon · Nov 9, 2015

Barca84 said:
Last time I saw United play Watford...

2 goals for Luther Blissett who got an obviously very confused AC Milan to pay £1 million for him a couple of years later. Also noteworthy for an appearance in goal for United for the calamitous Paddy Roche who mention of will have United fans of a certain age shaking their heads in disbelief.

Paddy Roche is a new name on me - I started supporting United around 1983 and I hadn't heard of him. According to Wikipedia he played for us 46 times but over 9 years - was he mainly the back up / reserve goalie?

Went onto play for Brentford and Halifax so I guess he wasn't that good, although he did get 8 Ireland caps.

Sparky Rhiwabon · Nov 9, 2015

Red Dreams said:
don't think Watford will park the bus. They are a decent side and will give it a go at home.

I dunno they do tend to be quite measured and will try to nick one on the break - Ighalo their main threat who is on fire this season (and last)

Adcuth · Nov 9, 2015

Barca84 · Nov 9, 2015

Sparky Rhiwabon said:
Paddy Roche is a new name on me - I started supporting United around 1983 and I hadn't heard of him. According to Wikipedia he played for us 46 times but over 9 years - was he mainly the back up / reserve goalie?

Went onto play for Brentford and Halifax so I guess he wasn't that good, although he did get 8 Ireland caps.

Poor Paddy was a bit of a disaster and is credited by some with derailing our title chances in 1975. Docherty dropped Stepney for him but then brought him back after just a few games due to Roche being all over the shop. He was in goal when we got done 4-0 by City in the League Cup that year prompting me to have to wag it from school for the following couple of days so as to avoid the City fans.

SirAF · Nov 9, 2015

Adcuth said:

Yes, please! I'd obviously like to see Herrera instead of Rooney at #10 but yeah.

Adcuth · Nov 9, 2015

SirAF said:
Yes, please! I'd obviously like to see Herrera instead of Rooney at #10 but yeah.

Me too but we've got no chance of that

paulscholes18 · Nov 9, 2015

Ddg
Darmian smalling blind Rojo
Morgan BFS
Mata Rooney Memphis
Martial

Subs
Romero
Jones
Young
Herrera
Pereira
Lingard
Wilson

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