I'm starting to like the makeup of the squad again. Just a RW and someone to take over from matic.
Champions League Group H
Paris St Germain 1:2 Manchester United
Le Parc des Princes
- Kick-off
- Tue, 20 October 2020 @ 8:00pm BST
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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.
Discussion Your Lineup Prediction
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Yeah Cavani will start after one day of training. Seriously?
Yeah. Despite the imperfect support from the board, Ole has done an amazing job reshaping it and so quickly and ruthlessly ridding as much deadwood as possible.
We now also have some proper depth. @ GK, fullbacks, all across mf and 2 striker.
Just lack depth on the wings and one more quality CB. Hope one of the new wingers kids can 'break through' this season, and Garner can come back from loan able to take Matic minutes.
Cavani will take 3 or 4 weeks to get into proper groove, but I have a feeling he will be amazing.Henderson
Wan-Bissaka --- Lindelöf --- Maguire --- Telles
Pogba --- McTominay
Van de Beek --- Fernandes --- Rashford
MartialThese will be out for revenge......................De Gea.....................
.........Lindelof Maguire Shaw.........
WanB .............Matic .............Telles
.............Bruno..........VdBeek................
.......Martial..................Rashford
Subs: Pogba, Cavani, Fred
3-3-2-2 formation, with Matic barely ever crossing half way line.
Not ideal that Telles makes his debut in such a high pressure game, but needs mustLast edited:Have we played against neymar before?
We played against him once in a friendly when he was at Barca, he scored in that game. Apart from that don't think we played against him.
We played Barca twice and he was at PSG at that time.
We played PSG in the same season, he was injured.Henderson
Lindelöf Maguire Shaw
AWB McTominay Bruno Van de Beek Telles
Rashford Martial
Pretty much this. I’d like to see Henderson as well as the Cup keeper
Henderson, for the cups. He needs to see the manager trusts him too and in the bigger games. He will learn from it and develop his game further in the CL. He’s not here just to be a foil for DDG and simply improve DDG’s consistency.It'll be interesting to see who our UCL keeper is. Are we going to go with Dave for the league and Hendo for the cups?
They are going to be so up for this, we'll either get smashed or you know what will happen again
It's why Tuchel has been so pissed with Leonardo, they just made it to the CL finals and yet he's not bringing in players while letting players walk away on free transfers.
Is it me or were the starters for the Newcastle game all not in the video?Sit in deep and look to frustrate and then hit them on counter with pace. PSG won't play with a deep line at the back so Martial Rashford etc are going to get acres of space in certain moments.
Our best chance of getting anything. Dont think we are good enough to trade off a shot for them and then a shit for us. They will come out on top if we do.We rotated for a reason, so that the players who were rested can go full force for this game. Pogba will play. Matic, I don't know. But Ole would play them and tell that that we rotated, so they have no excuse to not run over the PSG midfield. VdB in the same situation for this game, but Bruno might play because he's superhuman.
Yeah, good spot.
No we go 5 at the back when we don't have enough creative midfielders or forwards, but especially the midfielders, to ask the FB to attack.
Our midfield is back. At worst, if we want to set up defensive, we will reuse Fred and Scott but I think because we have rotated, the expectation is that those who have not played are fresh to play a full intensity game. And that's what we will ask of them.DeGea
Wan Bissaka Lindelof Maguire Telles
McTominey Pogba
De Beek Bruno Rashford
Martial
Like the look of that video Cavani, Pogba, DeBeek.
Something coming together at United.
We're either gonna fluke a draw or get completely destroyed.
We can win. As soon as our intensity is back, we are going to play in a way that very few teams will be able to handle, because it's very vertical and direct. And it will make us super resilient.We need to have a very high tempo right from the off. Cant be switched off in the beginning. Have a feeling PSG will start with a lot of intensity and hit us hard with a goal or two.
Most of the line-ups don't have Cavani starting from what I've read by posters! Also it will be 3 days of training.Can see Ole going with a midfield of Pogba, VDB and Matic so wouldn't be surprised to see Bruno not start. Hopefully Pogba and Martial in their home country can have a good game.Why are we so eager to play VdB at right wing, when he has never played there in his entire career?
Add Paredes who did his hamstring on the weekend.
It's an interesting line up, but VdB on the right... well asked to play a bit like Mata then? And drift centrally to offer a fixating point like Mata did? Against PSG we will need to be good at getting the feet on the ball.
anybody with a brain isn't. He's not exactly athletic in the first place.
It's going to be interesting to see how we can contain Neymar, Di Maria and Mbappe. The rest aren't scary.
One way is to block the ball transmission to them and force them to come down to get the ball. This will be especially true for Neymar and Mbappe, but they will then try most likely to jump over us as they can find Mbappe speed for example. I'm interested to see how Ole solve this one.
Neymar likes to come deep and get the ball to feet anyway, he rarely stays high or wide waiting. He's more of a playmaker in this side and will drop into midfield to get the ball and then use his speed and agility to weave through our midfield.
IMO Fred has to play this match as a Pogba/matic midfield will get left for dust unfortunately
I think we did a great job of isolating Saint Maximan against Newcastle who is a similar style player, so let's see if we can do it again. Neymar is a different level though.Fred and Scott seem perfect for this type of game. We will need to be aggressive in winning the ball back quickly and stopping them from getting any rhythm going.
Fred had a storm in that famous win last time, hopefully he can do the same again.
I'd be tempted to go with Bruno, VDB and Martial behind Rashford to get us to be as direct as possible on the counter.
Looking forward to the game.
Yes you're right but we did the rotation for a reason. Fred is already tired and we know he's not very good when playing every 3 days. The midfield is a demanding area so I think we will have to rotate. Fred and Scott are industrious and sometimes you need that but it all depends on what we want to achieve... OR we agree with Pogba, VdB that we want to win the game in the last 20mn. And we let Fred and Scott harass their midfield and the offensive players.Neymar likes to come deep and get the ball to feet anyway, he rarely stays high or wide waiting. He's more of a playmaker in this side and will drop into midfield to get the ball and then use his speed and agility to weave through our midfield.
IMO Fred has to play this match as a Pogba/matic midfield will get left for dust unfortunately
I think we did a great job of isolating Saint Maximan against Newcastle who is a similar style player, so let's see if we can do it again. Neymar is a different level though.Never a bad time to rewatch this...
If we do go 3 at the back (and we probably will) ... I would put McT back there with Maguire and Lindelof.
Then have 3 of Matic/Fred/VDB/Bruno/Pogba in front of them and Rashford/Martial up front.
Ye, just get as many ballers on the park as possible.
VDB is versatile and has earned a start. Or stick Greenwood out wide, Pogba on bench and VDB in midfield - but seen as Greenwood didn't even travel - I can't see him starting v PSG.
I really can't see us going for a back 3.
Probably all the starters were given a day off/recovery session with it being the day after a game.Tweet
— Twitter API (@user) dateSeeing all the predicted teams, our team’s not bad is it?
Maybe not as bad of a squad as made out (on paper at least).
I’d go with 3-5-2, with a fluid midfield...
Henderson
Bailly
Lindelof
Shaw
Awb
Bruno
Fred
Vdb
Telles
Rashford
Martial
Bailly and Shaw at the back to better deal with Mbappe’s pace.
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Man of the Match
Runners-up
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26%
Axel Tuanzebe
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16%
David de Gea
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15%
Aaron Wan-Bissaka
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5%
Marcus Rashford
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4%
Scott McTominay
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3%
Bruno Fernandes
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2%
Victor Lindelof
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1%
Paul Pogba
Player Ratings
Total Average Rating
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Compiled from 523 ratings.
Score Predictions
70,179,92
- Man Utd win
- PSG win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 14% PSG 3:1 Man Utd
- 14% PSG 2:1 Man Utd
- 13% PSG 2:2 Man Utd
- 12% PSG 1:1 Man Utd
- 9% PSG 3:0 Man Utd
- 9% PSG 1:2 Man Utd
- 8% PSG 2:0 Man Utd
- 3% PSG 2:3 Man Utd
- 3% PSG 0:1 Man Utd
- 3% PSG 0:2 Man Utd
- 2% PSG 1:3 Man Utd
- 2% PSG 5:0 Man Utd
- 1% PSG 0:0 Man Utd
- 1% PSG 4:1 Man Utd
- 1% PSG 3:2 Man Utd
- 1% PSG 4:0 Man Utd
- 1% PSG 0:5 Man Utd
- 1% PSG 1:0 Man Utd
- 1% PSG 3:3 Man Utd
- 1% PSG 5:1 Man Utd
- 0% PSG 2:4 Man Utd
- 0% PSG 1:4 Man Utd
- 0% PSG 0:3 Man Utd
Match Stats
- PSG
- Man Utd
- Possession
- 61% 39%
- Shots
- 14 14
- Shots on Target
- 5 6
- Corners
- 11 8
- Fouls
- 9 14
Referee
Antonio Miguel Mateu Lahoz
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Paul Pogba
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replaced by Donny van de Beek
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replaced by Daniel James
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