Leicester are shite so we can afford to play 2 poachers who don't do much outside the box at home and still be comfortable... Need a lot more in midfield away to West Ham.
FA Premier League
West Ham United 1:1 Manchester United
Upton Park
- Kick-off
- Sun, 8 February 2015 @ 4:15pm GMT
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
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Paul pisshead Merson thinks we'll get beat 2-1, so that's a 3-0 win then.is Januzaj available?
What he said basically. This would be a good game to push Wayne up top just behind whoever, then bring in a proper CM. Wayne can still help out in midfield when he sees fit.if anybody told me that McNair has the biggest chance to start as RB ahead of Valencia and Rafael I would be laughing.. but if he doesn't play as RB we will probably play with 5 at back again as all of our center backs are getting into form and are fit, and obviously all of our strikers are fit. We need to shoehorn them in the team.Merson has spoken, we'll lose this one.
This makes absolutely no sense at all
Jones should be taking corners no?
He's been getting our predictions right recently
he had got our previous 3 right before the Leicester game i think...what an absolute bell he is. Some guy commented this on the Facebook post:He's been getting our predictions right recently
"that's why he lost a fortune gambling because he hasn't got a clue"
Christmas tree:
De Gea
Rafael - Smalling - Rojo - Shaw
Fellaini - Blind - Di Maria
Mata - Rooney
RVP
Falcao, Herrera and Januzaj as substitution for RVP, Fellaini and MataNot overly confident about this one
Jones taking the corners ? Ok we're laughing at Jones, but taking corners.... doesn't seems to unreal ?
SAF had RVP taking corners, always seemed a bit of a waste. You might argue that Jones as a corner taker leaves us shy a defensive midfielder in a counter attack, and secondly that he is decent in the air, so corner taking wastes him. Maybe him having that role says something about LVG's priorities; is there a lesser emphasis on headed goals? Obviously corner taking demands excellent dead ball skills. Who would you pick? If you were making a poll (corners from the right only), who would be the contenders?
People are saying it should be Mata on corners and we should be taking any opportunity to get a goal, not be sniffy about the sort of goal we want to score.
Then what does LVG want from headers? Scholes' like volleys whistling into the top corner?
During Fergie's last year RVP took all the corner and I remember than in terms of stat we were very good on scoring from corner and free kick. So RVP was a clear answer. But we had top guys like Vidic and Evra opening spaces during set pieces helping us.
I think that the corner taker is not the answer. It’s more who is in the box and what the movements in there are. I guess that neither Smalling, Evans nor Jones are great at receiving offensive corners (or free kick).
So what, I would pick one of Di Maria or Mata taking the corners from the right side, with a better choice for Mata, and Rooney is the obvious choice from the left. But, personally I would rather have all my “strikers” in the box during offensive set pieces rather than one of them staying outside de box.
Playing with 3 center back, I would have all of them in the box, one cutting first post, one central and one second post, (this weekend Rojo, Jones, Smalling) with our 2 strikers (RVP, Falcao/Di Maria) slightly behind, meaning 5 players in the box and 1 other player outside the box (Rooney or Mata/Fellaini), and 3 on defensive duties (Blind, Valencia and Shaw)Really hope we'll win this one and maybe even keep the clean sheet, just to prove that bloody Merson bloke wrong.Allardyce confirms his injury list, 6 out:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/west-ham-b...-injury-list-visit-manchester-united-1486925?Reckon everything is going to suddenly click and we're going to absolutely smash this lot.I'm going with this team, not because thats what I think we'll play but because thats what I want to see!
De Gea
Rafa - Jones - Rojo - Shaw
Herrera - Blind - Felliani
Di Maria
Rooney - FalcaoGuyz, is there any press conference today ? Or is it postponed due to the commemorations ?
There is a press conference. MUTV at 4.00 p.m.
1600 today I think.
ThanksOnly Carrick is definitely out as of right now (but knowing LvG he'll leave out the players who aren't 'match-fit', which could be any number of players).What I would like:
De Gea
Rafael Smalling Rojo Shaw
Blind
Herrera Di Maria
Mata
Rooney Falcao
What I expect:
De Gea
Valencia Jones Evans Rojo Young
Blind Rooney Di Mara
RVP Falcao
Based on the manager's presser comments I would not be surprised to see Fellaini upfront at some point.
To be fair, we're over half way through the season and have seen big investment. If we do finally click, there is nothing sudden about it. It's well overdue now.
I would play the same team as well. West Ham players are huge, we are going to need height at the back, so Rojo and McNair would be my choice as full backs and Fellaini in midfield.
Same back 4 as Tuesday, would prefer someone else but Evans but that's hard with our defenders. Rojo and McNair were class as fullbacks.
Di Maria for me plays better in the centre but no way will Rooney be played as a No10. Suppose Fellaini could play there and have a Rooney/Di Maria partnership in the middle.De Gea
Valencia Jones Rojo Shaw
Blind
Fellaini Di Maria
Rooney
RVP Falcao
What I expect though would like to see Rafael inThis is a massive match for our season. With 3 of our top 4 rivals all playing in derbies, a win for us will guarantee some breathing room over someone. Desperately need an 'calm win' - something we've not had for ages it feels like in the league.
If we're honest, the momentum is really with LFC/AFC/THFC in terms of performance over the last month and a half. We're in third but clinging on a bit. If injuries are really 'over' than this has to be the type of match we take 3 points from.
But our away form, susceptibility to being 'out-muscled' and chronic lack of goals away from OT lead me to believe we'll almost certainly drop points again.I would really like us to play 4231 but that would be with Carrick & Blind as the '2', so with Carrick out I would go 4141 ;
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Rafael-Jones-Rojo-Shaw
Blind
Januzaj-Herrera-Rooney-ADM
RVP
Phew... match just got a lot easier boys. No worries of a debut for new superstar signing Doneil Henry.Hardest game in our supposed "easy" spell of games. A win here would be big, as you can easily see our rivals dropping points
We need to have a margin before the mid march run of doom
Definitely not overdue. For the first time this season, we've managed to get through consecutive games without losing players to injuries. There's no way you could have expected us to "click" as a team, at any time this season, given how many players we've continually lost every week.
Presume you have forgotten all the injuries we've had and that Chelsea finished third last season in their year of transition
I think if we managed to finish 3rd we'd all be quite happy. wouldn't we?
I would hope so, always a slight chance of finishing a little higherI really hope to see McNair as Right Back. Rafael would be obvious choice but that's not happening.- Status
Man of the Match
Runners-up
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27%
Daley Blind
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8%
Luke Shaw
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4%
Marcos Rojo
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4%
Antonio Valencia
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2%
Chris Smalling
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1%
Phil Jones
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1%
Marouane Fellaini
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1%
Adnan Januzaj
Player Ratings
Total Average Rating
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Compiled from 491 ratings.
Score Predictions
414,54,82
- Man Utd win
- West Ham win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 36% West Ham 1:2 Man Utd
- 12% West Ham 0:2 Man Utd
- 12% West Ham 1:3 Man Utd
- 11% West Ham 1:1 Man Utd
- 5% West Ham 2:1 Man Utd
- 4% West Ham 0:1 Man Utd
- 4% West Ham 0:3 Man Utd
- 3% West Ham 2:3 Man Utd
- 2% West Ham 2:2 Man Utd
- 2% West Ham 0:5 Man Utd
- 2% West Ham 0:0 Man Utd
- 2% West Ham 2:0 Man Utd
- 2% West Ham 1:0 Man Utd
- 1% West Ham 1:4 Man Utd
- 1% West Ham 3:1 Man Utd
- 1% West Ham 0:4 Man Utd
- 1% West Ham 3:0 Man Utd
- 0% West Ham 2:4 Man Utd
- 0% West Ham 4:4 Man Utd
- 0% West Ham 5:0 Man Utd
- 0% West Ham 5:1 Man Utd
- 0% West Ham 1:5 Man Utd
Match Stats
- West Ham
- Man Utd
- Possession
- 41% 59%
- Shots
- 13 18
- Shots on Target
- 6 6
- Corners
- 9 9
- Fouls
- 7 13
Referee
Mark Clattenburg
Man Utd Lineup
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