[Eleven-Eighteen]

0-1

United to have 5 goals ruled out for scoring with the wrong foot. Southampton to throw the ball into the net from close range for the winner

 

[Devil may care]

I'm sure Maguire and Ronaldo will start but I'd like to see us try the below line-up.

 

[Red00012]

VAR to go for 3 in a row

 

[Ayoba]

You know things are bad when people are nervous about facing southampton at home (rightly so I might add!)


Christ how the mighty manchester united have fallen!

 

[VidaRed]

You know things are bad when people are nervous about facing southampton at home (rightly so I might add!)


Christ how the mighty manchester united have fallen!

I'd be scared even if utd played the Caf Matchday Thread XI.

 

[Fitchett]

You know things are bad when people are nervous about facing southampton at home (rightly so I might add!)


Christ how the mighty manchester united have fallen!

People are nervous because Attwell is the referee.

 

[DevTheRed]

Weirdly nervous about this one given that we have been performing well as of late.. unfortunately the finishing (and VAR) has just been absolutely shocking.

De Gea
Dalot Lindelof Varane Telles
McTominay
Bruno Pogba
Sancho Ronaldo Elanga
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Maguire needs to be taken out, if he can't perform well against a team that suits him in Burnley then he has no hope against a high pressing Southampton side. I think this is probably our strongest XI at the moment (Telles over Shaw is debatable), and I think we need to stick with it for a while and gain some momentum.

It's genuinely been years since I 100% knew what our strongest XI is.. and that is mind blowing in itself

 

[FrankDrebin]

Early kick off on a Saturday, good. Get this over and done with.

 

[soapythecat]

I've gone for 2-1 United. I've called the last few results but I'm hoping they will find a few goals and kill them off tomorrow. Fingers crossed!

 

[groovyalbert]

This will be the match Southampton will have been looking out for when the fixture list was announced. They'll be desperate to set the record straight after last season, and following their win at Spurs I wouldn't put it past them.

Expect Hasenhuttl to be in tears a la post-Liverpool last season.

 

[James35]

Think a loss is incoming rather than we suddenly find the ability to score more than one goal. Think we will get done over on set pieces and no doubt some calamity defending by slab head and co.

 

[Nou_Camp99]

It's quite incredible we are still even in with a good chance of getting 4th. This season has seen more turmoil than even the year under Moyes.

We are very lucky the others are so poor. However I still don't think we will get top 4. There's far too many players still not at it and it's almost like the coaching team don't even know how to fix this mess.

 

[MyOnlySolskjaer]

It's quite incredible we are still even in with a good chance of getting 4th. This season has seen more turmoil than even the year under Moyes.

We are very lucky the others are so poor. However I still don't think we will get top 4. There's far too many players still not at it and it's almost like the coaching team don't even know how to fix this mess.

Feel we're really going to regret bottling the run of games we had. It's going to get really intense after the Champions League game vs Atletico.

 

[Frank Grimes]

Fancy us to win the Danny Wallace derby comfortably. 4-1 to the reds.

 

[Red Dreams]

Sounds like Ralf wants to give Maguire a second chance.
Respect the man for that.

We really should be beating them comfortably with all the chances we create.
The strikers need to step up.

 

[Corridor of Uncertainty]

We're going to see a performance for the ages tomorrow.

 

[bosnian_red]

It's quite incredible we are still even in with a good chance of getting 4th. This season has seen more turmoil than even the year under Moyes.

We are very lucky the others are so poor. However I still don't think we will get top 4. There's far too many players still not at it and it's almost like the coaching team don't even know how to fix this mess.

Yeah, worst case is we are 3 points off Spurs and Arsenal after games in hand are played. And I think there's a big confidence boost to come from us once we get a good win (Atletico game?). Arsenal though will have a nightmare end to the season with all the games to fill in, Chelsea and Liverpool games being rescheduled too.

I don't think we'll do it ultimately, neither Spurs or Arsenal have European football to distract them, but as long as we show progress, that's fine.

 

[The Brown Bull]

After the hammering we give them tonight they should be easy pickings

Laughing my ass off here! Ta.

 

[The Brown Bull]

Yeah, worst case is we are 3 points off Spurs and Arsenal after games in hand are played. And I think there's a big confidence boost to come from us once we get a good win (Atletico game?). Arsenal though will have a nightmare end to the season with all the games to fill in, Chelsea and Liverpool games being rescheduled too.

I don't think we'll do it ultimately, neither Spurs or Arsenal have European football to distract them, but as long as we show progress, that's fine.

We won’t have any such distraction soon enough.

 

[BuzzKillington]

Played one game since his comeback and was our best defender, not been seen since. Please can we put Jones in for this one and see if he can carry on his form.

 

[Ollie Derbyshire]

Looking forward to this one, we’ve been playing much better of late and this is another tricky game to see if we can keep the improvements going. Would be nice to play Lindleof instead of Maguire cause he’s making so many mistakes but if we take our chances that shouldn’t matter too much. Same team as the last one apart from that.

3-1. we have to start scoring eventually!!

 

[Lee565]

Please for the love of god play Jones, whether than be in defence with varane or as our defensive midfielder, he is better than Maguire or lindelof in defence or matic or mctominay as a defensive midfielder.

I hope neither cavani or ronaldo start and go with a more flexible front 3

 

[bosnian_red]

We won’t have any such distraction soon enough.

Eh, i think if we get knocked out to Atletico then we have no chance in the league. Our only hope to getting a run would be getting a good result in a tie like that to inspire them.

 

[Dr. Dwayne]

We're going to see a performance for the ages tomorrow.

As in the shittiest you've ever seen this squad of fecking total wasters play?

Just when you thought these useless little twats couldn't be poorer excuses for footballers...welcome Southampton.

 

[Sandikan]

Yeah, I sure hope the only professional centre-back capable of losing an aerial duel against Warwick Davis is back. Having him deal with Ward-Prowse's pinpoint crosses will turn out well, I'm sure.

Truly shows how bad Maguire has been doesn't it!

Though I'm certain some fans still think Moyes would have been quality here and didn't get enough times.

 

[Varane around town]

You may say that I'm a dreamer

But I do believe that we're due to give a team a hiding at some point soon. It could well be tomorrow...

 

[Kaos]

Its not long ago we spanked these 9-0, with Ole as manager no less. We should win this.

But again we should have won against Boro and Burnley too. Let's just hope our strikers have remembered how to finish and VAR doesn't feck us over for the third game in a row.

 

[Rightnr]

2-2 for me. I was right about Burnley, hope they prove me wrong...

 

[freddie the red]

James.
Ward.
Prowse.
We can't afford to give any of those 3 the same space Spuds gave them for those crosses for the 2 copycat headed goals!

 

[Ludens the Red]

Be surprised if we win this. They’re just the type of annoying team who’s style of play might overwhelm us.

 

[The Brown Bull]

Eh, i think if we get knocked out to Atletico then we have no chance in the league. Our only hope to getting a run would be getting a good result in a tie like that to inspire them.

I don’t understand this thinking.

 

[bosnian_red]

I don’t understand this thinking.

You don't understand the thinking that a good big result can act as a spring board for their confidence? So much of football is mental.
If we get knocked out of the CL, the season will be over for the players. You think they'll be able to get themselves up and get into good form for a few months with pretty much nothing to play for with an interim manager? The only hope we have is to get inspired as a team, and that's through a big CL result pretty much. Nothing else will work long term.

 

[SAF is the GOAT]

Any news on Soton ? I've heard they'll potentially have 6 absents

 

[lex talionis]

We must defend well on free kicks. Do that and we’ll scrape the 1-0 win.

 

[always_hoping]

we're due one match where it comes together. we just need to take our chances and we'll be good. seems easier said than done lately, but its pretty simple.

Law of averages would say yes but as right now i wouldn't place any money on United to win this game.

 

[ken11]

Can we please get a 5-0 win? Just fecking once.

 

[steve.crowford]

A must win game. Southampton was rampant against Tottenham and given that we conceded while our opponents had very few chances it doesn't look good to us.
I'm not confident for this game. We bottled the games against Burnley, Wolves, Villa and Newcastle. We threw our games we had in hand and dropped so many points already and we haven't even faced one of the top teams in the second leg of the league yet. I'm worried man.

 

[Lash]

Ronaldo is due a stormer I reckon. Think he'll bag a hat trick.

 

[RedChisel]

Southampton are a well drilled side with players who actually give a shit, they have the best set piece taker in the league.

Our sack of useless egos will get their arse handed to them.

 

[mitchmouse]

I'd love to see Ronaldo and Cavani starting together with CR7 out wide. But it won't happen. at least (according to the papers), Ralf has recognised we need a goal-scorer