Manchester United 1:1 AC Milan

Harry190 · Mar 8, 2021

They play open. We'll do well against them.

HailtotheKing · Mar 9, 2021

Will VDB be back for this one? Not keen on Matic and McTominay midfield. Feel so much more secure with Henderson in goal though. Not saying he's a better keeper. Just feel he's what we need right now with our defence. Someone who dominates his area more. Loved his set up for Shaw.

Rozay · Mar 9, 2021

I just hope Matic plays in the midfield and not at left centre half.

USREDEVIL · Mar 9, 2021

Is Cavani still out?

Suedesi · Mar 9, 2021

Everyone from Milan is injured, need a comprehensive win please, grazie a tutti

JakeC · Mar 9, 2021

Deano, AWB, Bailly, Maguire, Tells, Mctominay, Matic, Fred, Bruno, Rushford, Martial.

Will most likely be James or Greenwood in for Matic

Irwin99 · Mar 9, 2021

Some people in this thread saying saying they play open and some say they will sit back and counter. Not seen them at all this season but let's hope it's the former, otherwise it could be a long night.

always_hoping · Mar 9, 2021

A possibility United could well start this game without 7 of Ole first choice 11.

DeGea (new daddy still in Spain)
Shaw (got a knock v City)
Lindelof (managing his back issue)
Fred or McTominay (both won't start again)
Pogba (another game too soon for him)
Rashford (ankle injury)
Cavani (another injury)

Two other options and would have featured if fit is De Beek, Mata.

Champ · Mar 9, 2021

USREDEVIL said:
Is Cavani still out?

No, should be back i think.

rron10 · Mar 9, 2021

always_hoping said:
A possibility United could well start this game without 7 of Ole first choice 11.

DeGea (new daddy still in Spain)
Shaw (got a knock v City)
Lindelof (managing his back issue)
Fred or McTominay (both won't start again)
Pogba (another game too soon for him)
Rashford (ankle injury)
Cavani (another injury)

Two other options and would have featured if fit is De Beek, Mata.

Based on this the logical lineup would be:

Hendo awb maguire bailly telles matic fred bruno martial james greenwood

RUCK4444 · Mar 9, 2021

rron10 said:
Based on this the logical lineup would be:

Hendo awb maguire bailly telles matic fred bruno martial james greenwood

Yeah, no way that teams wins this leg of the tie.

yamo123x · Mar 9, 2021

Let's hope Martial puts the effort in again, been one of his biggest critics his season but he put a shift in against City, needs to show consistent effort now and set good examples to the younger members of squad like Greenwood, James, Shoretire and Diallo

yamo123x · Mar 9, 2021

Big game vs west ham at the weekend...so changes will take place

Can see Mctom, Lindelof, Bruno and Shaw being rested

Shame VDB isnt fit, ideal game for him. Hope Cavani is fit and Martial plays from the left.

Chaky_Best · Mar 9, 2021

We play an in form West Ham team on Sunday and it will be so hard to beat them so hopefully a few changes for this game against Milan.

-----------------------------------------Henderson-------------------------------------------
Tuanzebe------------------Bailly-------------Maguire------------------------Telles
---------------------------------Matic-------------Fred---------------------------------------
Greenwood-----------------------Fernandes----------------------------------James
-----------------------------------------Martial-------------------------------------------------

Nicoseth · Mar 9, 2021

Actually excited for this one! Way better than drawing an easy team. Should be a good game too, - over the two legs I think we should win, but I think it could be a fun watch - hoping for lots of goals. United to go through 4-2 on agg.

Foxbatt · Mar 9, 2021

Is Lindelof injured?

Ludens the Red · Mar 9, 2021

Irwin99 said:
Some people in this thread saying saying they play open and some say they will sit back and counter. Not seen them at all this season but let's hope it's the former, otherwise it could be a long night.

They can mix it up to be fair. A bit like us I don’t think they have a dominant set style but they do counter quite well. I’d imagine they’ll take a pragmatic approach playing us.
Kessie in midfield is probably their stand out player.

LawCharltonBest · Mar 9, 2021

Is Phil Jones available?

U99ted · Mar 9, 2021

LawCharltonBest said:
Is Phil Jones available?

Married in 2017.

DRJosh · Mar 10, 2021

our lack of depth will be exposed here. I wish we had Shaw fit for this

Reddevildans · Mar 10, 2021

DRJosh said:
our lack of depth will be exposed here. I wish we had Shaw fit for this

Is he out?

Mcking · Mar 10, 2021

DRJosh said:
our lack of depth will be exposed here. I wish we had Shaw fit for this

Shaw's position is probably one of the few we have multiple good options. Telles has proven to be more than capable of stepping in for Shaw.

Lay · Mar 10, 2021

We will stuff them

Berbasbullet · Mar 10, 2021

I’d like to see:

Henderson

Williams
Bailly
Maguire
Telles

Mctominay
Matic

Bruno (or ideally VDB or Mata if fit)

Greenwood
Martial
James

RUCK4444 · Mar 10, 2021

So what are AC like currently? Don’t follow much of the Italian leagues.

Would a weakened team from us be enough to get a result in this first leg?

groovyalbert · Mar 10, 2021

RUCK4444 said:
So what are AC like currently? Don’t follow much of the Italian leagues.

Would a weakened team from us be enough to get a result in this first leg?

They've got a lot of key players out for this one, so we should be able to make a few changes.

That said, I hope we don't make too many - now we've got a proper European tie/there's good competition to come, I really hope we take this seriously.

RUCK4444 · Mar 10, 2021

groovyalbert said:
They've got a lot of key players out for this one, so we should be able to make a few changes.

That said, I hope we don't make too many - now we've got a proper European tie/there's good competition to come, I really hope we take this seriously.

Thanks. I’m pretty sure Ole will take it seriously.

It’s a nice draw, bit of the old ‘glamour’ to it. Looking forward to it.

tomaldinho1 · Mar 10, 2021

I think this will be uncharacteristically comfortable for us. 3-0 with a lot of possession.

LoneStar · Mar 10, 2021

I hope we don't change too much, and capitalise on their injuries. Kill the game in the first leg.

Solius · Mar 10, 2021

Really looking forward to this one.

The crap thing about Europa is playing against random teams you've never heard of. This game could (and should) be a CL tie. They'll play an open game which will suit us and there isn't really that much pressure in the EL either, especially now we're pretty odds on for top 4.

Brightonian · Mar 10, 2021

Hendo
Tuanzebe Bailly Maguire Telles
McT Matic
Bruno
Greenwood Martial James

Despite our injuries, Fred must be rested. Him and Matic together is too defensive anyway, McT is a better link to Bruno and the forwards.

I feel optimistic about what James can do in this game. We need to see more from Martial to get anything though. He was good against City but only because it was a game that required him to do a very specific job, mostly the one thing he can be bothered to do most games these days, hold the ball up. He'll need to be more expansive against Milan.

Still ill · Mar 10, 2021

That rarest of beasts, A Europa tie with a bit of panache. Bring it on, really looking forward to it.

Bertie Wooster · Mar 10, 2021

Solius said:
Really looking forward to this one.

The crap thing about Europa is playing against random teams you've never heard of. This game could (and should) be a CL tie. They'll play an open game which will suit us and there isn't really that much pressure in the EL either, especially now we're pretty odds on for top 4.

That should very rarely happen apart from in the qualifying rounds - same as the CL. If a person hasn't even heard of most of the clubs in the group stage of the Europa League, and especially the knock out stage, then that reflects worse on their knowledge of football than the Europa League.

And why does it really matter that our opponents have to be 'glamorous' for people to be interested in the match?

Do those same people not care about league games if they're against the likes of Burnley, Sheffield United, West Brom, and only watch them against the 'big' teams? Or only view the latter as 'proper' league games? If not, why only view 'proper' cup matches to be those against elite opponents? Both the league and cups have bigger and smaller, harder and tougher games throughout the campaign - they're all 'proper' matches.

Solius · Mar 10, 2021

Bertie Wooster said:
That should very rarely happen apart from in the qualifying rounds - same as the CL. If a person hasn't even heard of most of the clubs in the group stage of the Europa League, and especially the knock out stage, then that reflects worse on their knowledge of football than the Europa League.

And why does it really matter that our opponents have to be 'glamorous' for people to be interested in the match?

Do those same people not care about league games if they're against the likes of Burnley, Sheffield United, West Brom, and only watch them against the 'big' teams? Or only view the latter as 'proper' league games? If not, why only view 'proper' cup matches to be those against elite opponents? Both the league and cups have bigger and smaller, harder and tougher games throughout the campaign - they're all 'proper' matches.

Well the whole point of European competition is to compete against the best and I definitely look forward to games against PSG more than I do against Otelul Galati. This is not a slight on clubs like that and they also of course add a different dimension to the competition.

At the moment I do care less about games against Sheffield Utd and West Brom but that is mainly down to how we play against them. They sit deep all game and we cannot break it down. It makes for a tumescent game of football. So yeah I'm looking forward to playing a better team.

jetlee · Mar 10, 2021

Based on the training pics on the official site Rashford hasn't trained and no one is returning from the players that are out.
Bit of rotation would be still needed though.

Bertie Wooster · Mar 10, 2021

Solius said:
Well the whole point of European competition is to compete against the best and I definitely look forward to games against PSG more than I do against Otelul Galati. This is not a slight on clubs like that and they also of course add a different dimension to the competition.

At the moment I do care less about games against Sheffield Utd and West Brom but that is mainly down to how we play against them. They sit deep all game and we cannot break it down. It makes for a tumescent game of football. So yeah I'm looking forward to playing a better team.

No it isn't.
It's to play against teams representing all countries across Europe - whether they're champions / top 6 / cup winners from leagues both strong and weak.

The expectation is the cream will rise to the top and that, as the competition progresses, the standard of opponents will get harder. But the whole point of seedings and different pots, and group winners drawing runners up in the knockout round, means the top teams are not expecting to 'compete against the best' until the later rounds and that most group games, and early knockout rounds in the EL, won't be against some of the other tough teams in the competition.

So I'd have expected, and preferred, easier draws in the last 32 / last 16 of the EL - and to save the likes of Milan, Tottenham, etc, until the last 8 onwards when it becomes tougher to avoid them.

Okey · Mar 10, 2021

I just hope we put the tie to bed in the first leg. We need our main players to be only spectators in Milan. There's another cup we need to progress in right after. Milan are not in great shape so we should walk this one.

Solius · Mar 10, 2021

Bertie Wooster said:
No it isn't.
It's to play against teams representing all countries across Europe - whether they're champions / top 6 / cup winners from leagues both strong and weak.

The expectation is the cream will rise to the top and that, as the competition progresses, the standard of opponents will get harder. But the whole point of seedings and different pots, and group winners drawing runners up in the knockout round, means the top teams are not expecting to 'compete against the best' until the later rounds and that most group games, and early knockout rounds in the EL, won't be against some of the other tough teams in the competition.

So I'd have expected, and preferred, easier draws in the last 32 / last 16 of the EL - and to save the likes of Milan, Tottenham, etc, until the last 8 onwards when it becomes tougher to avoid them.

We'll have to agree to disagree. We play enough 'lesser' teams in the cups and it excites me to play against the best, so I'm happy we're playing Milan. It should be fun!

Markolan · Mar 10, 2021

Half of our ideal Starting XI: Theo Hernandez, Bennacer, Rebic, Calhanoglu and Ibrahimovic (+ Mandzukic) won't even travel to Manchester

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Well, it was fun while it lasted..

RedDevilRoshi · Mar 10, 2021

Markolan said:
Half of our ideal Starting XI: Theo Hernandez, Bennacer, Rebic, Calhanoglu and Ibrahimovic (+ Mandzukic) won't even travel to Manchester

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Well, it was fun while it lasted..

Are all those players injured for you guys or just being rested for the Napoli game this Saturday considering that’s pretty much the more important out of the two games?

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