West Bromwich Albion 1:1 Manchester United

GMoore23 · Feb 10, 2021

I'd like to see

Henderson
Bissaka - Lindelof - Maguire - Shaw
Fred - Mctominay
Bruno
Greenwood - Cavani - Rashford

De Gea and Pogba will probably start though over Hendo and Fred

MonkeysMagic · Feb 10, 2021

With big Sam going full on aerial bombardment, DDG should be nowhere near the 1st 11!

Given injuries, the rest of the team picks itself. I'd bench both Martial and Rashford (on current form) but we have no viable alternatives so one of the two will play.

SuperiorXI · Feb 10, 2021

Should absolutely batter these 0-0

Brightonian · Feb 10, 2021

If Bailly's fit, get him back in. Otherwise the obvious line-up please:

DDG
AWB Bailly Maguire Shaw
McT Fred
Greenwood Bruno Rashford
Cavani

I'd accept resting Rashford since he does look exhausted, and played 120 minutes. But even off the boil he's still one of our better attackers so it's hard to know who to bring in for him. I'm a bit sick of Martial.

EDIT: Tempted by people suggesting Hendo over DDG to deal with those Big Sam balls into the box. But I can't see Ole doing it.

SirAnderson · Feb 10, 2021

Yeah we not going to make this easy are we...either the title fantasy truly ends here, or we struggle our way across the line only to let hope kill us later.

Inigo Montoya · Feb 10, 2021

GMoore23 said:
I'd like to see

Henderson
Bissaka - Lindelof - Maguire - Shaw
Fred - Mctominay
Bruno
Greenwood - Cavani - Rashford

De Gea and Pogba will probably start though over Hendo and Fred

Pogs is out for a few weeks

Inigo Montoya · Feb 10, 2021

Amad to get a few minutes here

TrustInJanuzaj · Feb 10, 2021

I'll be slightly annoyed if Martial drops out in place of Rashford. He's in the worst form of all our front guys but I just cant see Ole taking him out.

GMoore23 · Feb 10, 2021

Inigo Montoya said:
Pogs is out for a few weeks

Thanks for the update.

mitchmouse · Feb 10, 2021

Anything back a (pretty easy) win and we can forget winning anything this season. This lot have a defence that makes ours look like the French World Cup winning back four!

DDG should be on the bench. Hendo look far more confident on Wednesday night and didn't put a foot wrong (admittedly having very little to do; not that that has stopped De Gea screwing up). Cavani must start ahead of Martial and I'd like to see Donny given a chance to get a few games under his belt now that Pogba is out. He clearly needs game time and to build up his confidence; you don't become a bad player overnight (although I recall saying that about Sanchez!!!).

We must start quickly and not give them a chance to get into the game - although I'm sure the absolute opposite will happen

Raven · Feb 10, 2021

Should be winning this one handily. I'd imagine Amad will be on the bench, hopefully this time we're in a position to bring him on.

jderbyshire · Feb 10, 2021

Raven said:
Should be winning this one handily. I'd imagine Amad will be on the bench, hopefully this time we're in a position to bring him on.

I reckon he'll be an anused sub again and then he'll get his first minutes off the bench against Sociedad.

Devil81 · Feb 10, 2021

My biggest hope for this game is De Gea is dropped, it will send out a good message to the rest of the team that you can be dropped even if you have a reputation that means you expect to be a starter.

RedorDead21 · Feb 10, 2021

Too little too late for the title but need to aim for 2nd.

Red00012 · Feb 10, 2021

Devil81 said:
My biggest hope for this game is De Gea is dropped, it will send out a good message to the rest of the team that you can be dropped even if you have a reputation that means you expect to be a starter.

It’s highly unlikely though. Henderson will probably start the following Thursday night .

Gerald G · Feb 10, 2021

Henderson
AWB--Lindelof--Maguire--Shaw
McTominay--Fred
Greenwood--Bruno--Rashford
Cavani

Subs: De Gea; Tuanzebe, Telles; Matic, Galbraith/Puigmal, VdB; Diallo, James, Martial

Olecurls99 · Feb 11, 2021

-De Gea has to be dropped.
-We need the Bailly recovery speed.
-Overloading full backs.
-Scotty to bomb on.
Henderson
Bissaka Bailly Maguire Shaw
Fred Mctominay
Fernandes
Greenwood Cavani Rashford

Olecurls99 · Feb 11, 2021

We're finally going to be able to give lads a week off now. Play the B team against Sociedad.

city-puma · Feb 11, 2021

This is a hard battle for sure, but we have traditionally played well against any team Big Sam in charge. It’s Wenger’s arse normally struggling against them.

Rozay · Feb 11, 2021

Brightonian said:
If Bailly's fit, get him back in. Otherwise the obvious line-up please:

DDG
AWB Bailly Maguire Shaw
McT Fred
Greenwood Bruno Rashford
Cavani

I'd accept resting Rashford since he does look exhausted, and played 120 minutes. But even off the boil he's still one of our better attackers so it's hard to know who to bring in for him. I'm a bit sick of Martial.

EDIT: Tempted by people suggesting Hendo over DDG to deal with those Big Sam balls into the box. But I can't see Ole doing it.

Pogba is injured, but the fact that you wouldn’t want a fit Pogba to start in midfield against West Brom is baffling in any case.

McGrathsipan · Feb 11, 2021

Inigo Montoya said:
Amad to get a few minutes here

He might get a few seconds.
Cant see him getting any meaningful minutes agaisnt a bunch of hackers

sunama · Feb 11, 2021

WBA have lost 4 and drawn 1 of their last 5 matches.
This is exactly the sort of team we will lose to.
It's such a shame that many of our players cannot raise their game to play against teams in the relegation zone.

sunama · Feb 11, 2021

Rozay said:
Pogba is injured, but the fact that you wouldn’t want a fit Pogba to start in midfield against West Brom is baffling in any case.

Out of interest, did Pogba play in the loss to Sheffield Utd?
If memory serves me correct Pogba tends to be a player who plays best against top teams.

big rons sovereign · Feb 11, 2021

2-1 West brom, we'll huff and puff for 60 mins before conceding from a lindelof/Maguire brainfart.
A Bruno pen will.get us back in it on 80 but we'll concede again in injury time from a one v one with De Gea hiding behind the goal.

Rozay · Feb 11, 2021

sunama said:
Out of interest, did Pogba play in the loss to Sheffield Utd?
If memory serves me correct Pogba tends to be a player who plays best against top teams.

Well yea, he did, along with 10 others. He also played in all the games we had won prior, seems odd to take a defeat and conclude anything simply from the basis that Pogba was on the pitch.

As for your more general opinion, fair enough, it’s an opinion. The general one I seem to read seems to be that he can’t be relied upon against top teams, at least not in the midfield. To me, it would seem odd to not want to play by far our most creative central midfielder and instead opt for runners and chasers against relegation fodder. As I said, football is opinions, but it baffles me how anyone would not prefer Pogba in midfield against a weak side camped back on the edge of their box to asking McTominay and Fred to break them down.

If memory serves me correct, he has been seen as higher risk against teams that will require us to do the most defending, as it hasn’t been his strongest suit. The type of defending we will have to do against WBA actually suits him best, as he’s comfortably one of our best defensive players from an aerial perspective.

Utd heap · Feb 11, 2021

sunama said:
WBA have lost 4 and drawn 1 of their last 5 matches.
This is exactly the sort of team we will lose to.
It's such a shame that many of our players cannot raise their game to play against teams in the relegation zone.

Are you criticising us for a performance that hasn't happened yet?

Offside · Feb 11, 2021

big rons sovereign said:
2-1 West brom, we'll huff and puff for 60 mins before conceding from a lindelof/Maguire brainfart.
A Bruno pen will.get us back in it on 80 but we'll concede again in injury time from a one v one with De Gea hiding behind the goal.

feck off

Mcking · Feb 11, 2021

We will win this convincingly. Could see Rashford and Fernandes running riot, with Lindelof and Maguire handling their attacks with relative ease.

We are more flat track bullies these days.

big rons sovereign · Feb 11, 2021

Offside said:
feck off

iHicksy · Feb 11, 2021

These guys have the worst defence in the league. It's the first time I've seen a big sam team that concedes goals for fun. Looks like he's decided they aren't able to shut up shop or it won't be enough to keep them up and they need to attack more. For the record they've conceded 54 goals this season, the highest in the league. The next highest team are palace with 39. They appear to concede 2 goals on average with City, Leeds and palace all putting 5 past them. We should absolutely decimate these.

Eternitiy · Feb 11, 2021

If Ole selects de Gea instead of Henderson... Even if we win 100 - 0, it is still the wrong decision.

MyOnlySolskjaer · Feb 11, 2021

Henderson
AWB Lindelof Maguire Shaw
McTominay Van de Beek
Greenwood Bruno Rashford
Cavani

We'll probably see Fred for Van de Beek and De Gea for Henderson.

12OunceEpilogue · Feb 11, 2021

If we get an early goal I can see us getting a few more and wining easily. The longer we go in the match without one the more chance of bundling our fragile defence over. You know Sam will target De Gea from set pieces and will look to punt balls into the box generally, and while we're usually fine from these kind of tactics we sometimes switch off and let dreadful goals go in.

Brightonian · Feb 11, 2021

Rozay said:
Pogba is injured, but the fact that you wouldn’t want a fit Pogba to start in midfield against West Brom is baffling in any case.

I didn't pick him because he's injured.

VivaRonaldo85 · Feb 11, 2021

Given we only scraped passed these at home, scraped passed Fulham away and lost against Sheffield United at home, we would be foolish to think that this will be anything but tricky, particularly with el gravy game raising his troops in the opposite dug out.

Henderson (Sure DDG will start mind)

AWB
Lindelof
Maguire
Shaw

Fred
McTominay

Greenwood
Bruno
Rashford

Cavani

1-2: Bruno (pen) and Rashford

Rozay · Feb 11, 2021

Brightonian said:
I didn't pick him because he's injured.

My response wasn’t meant for you, hence the back and forth with the intended recipient afterwards. Apologies.

Manoucha09 · Feb 11, 2021

Gerald G said:
Henderson
AWB--Lindelof--Maguire--Shaw
McTominay--Fred
Greenwood--Bruno--Rashford
Cavani

Subs: De Gea; Tuanzebe, Telles; Matic, Galbraith/Puigmal, VdB; Diallo, James, Martial

Would love to see either player make the bench, especially Puigmal. Doubt they will though as I think Ole will want three defenders on the bench, so either Bailly or Williams.

always_hoping · Feb 11, 2021

VivaRonaldo85 said:
Given we only scraped passed these at home, scraped passed Fulham away and lost against Sheffield United at home, we would be foolish to think that this will be anything but tricky, particularly with el gravy game raising his troops in the opposite dug out.

Yes what this season has told us so far is to expect another tricky game.

Big Sams home record against United.

P13 W1 D6 L6 F12 A24

The Win was as Sunderland manager in 2016. Draws as West ham and Bolton manager

Gator Nate · Feb 11, 2021

DDG
AWB - Lindelof - Maguire - Shaw
McTominay - Fred
Greenwood - Bruno - Rashford
Martial

Subs: Cavani - Van de Beek - Diallo

WBA 0-5 MUFC

Ole puts this one to bed early, Cavani gets us goal differential, Van de Beek gets one last chance, Diallo gets out there for 5 or 10 minutes.

DRJosh · Feb 12, 2021

Miss the days under Sir Alex when we could put a team of second stringers out and still expect a result against lesser teams.

Also Henderson should start. Let's see how many fellow posters think that this is as ludicrous as what I suggested before the Everton game.

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