Our December...

[Annihilate Now!]

It's ridiculous.

PSG (Home) - CL
West Ham (Away)
RB Leipzig (Away) - CL
Man City (Home)
Sheffield United (Away)
Leeds United (Home)
Everton (Away) - League Cup
Leicester (Away)
Wolves (Home)

That's 9 games in 28 days... and they're all (bar one) very tricky to say the least. In a perfect world we'll beat PSG on Wednesday and RB will lose so we're guaranteed top spot and we can send a bunch of kids to Germany... because it's hard to see where we can rest players in these fixtures (League Cup being the obvious one - but it's quarter final and you'd imagine Everton will take it seriously).

So how do you think we'll do?

 

[Volumiza]

It's ridiculous.

PSG (Home) - CL
West Ham (Away)
RB Leipzig (Away) - CL
Man City (Home)
Sheffield United (Away)
Leeds United (Home)
Everton (Away) - League Cup
Leicester (Away)
Wolves (Home)

That's 9 games in 28 days... and they're all (bar one) very tricky to say the least. In a perfect world we'll beat PSG on Wednesday and RB will lose so we're guaranteed top spot and we can send a bunch of kids to Germany... because it's hard to see where we can rest players in these fixtures (League Cup being the obvious one - but it's quarter final and you'd imagine Everton will take it seriously).

So how do you think we'll do?

Crazy schedule. One thing is for sure, if we can keep largely injury free, it is a run of games that once we're out of the other side of it we will know exactly what we are made of. We'll need to use the whole squad that's for sure.

 

[Massive Spanner]

it's really concerning because our best spells (unsurprisingly) under Ole are when we are able to put out a stable first XI game after game, and our worst are (also unsurprisingly) when we're dealing with injuries and bloated schedules.

 

[JJ12]

Thank feck we finally have some options to mix the squad up.

 

[wolvored]

Is it just Utd with this many games or have all the teams in Europe got to play the same amount? If we want to be successful then the amount of games come with the territory.

 

[Annihilate Now!]

Is it just Utd with this many games or have all the teams in Europe got to play the same amount? If we want to be successful then the amount of games come with the territory.

Any team that's in Europe and the League Cup - so Us, City, Arsenal and Spurs.

 

[mancave bear]

We have to rotate, sometimes starting with some of the less used players, and then use the best in the second half if we have to. Since we are playing in the CL, we will have a lot of tough games to come, so we should not prioritize the League Cup game against Everton. The faster we can get out of that cup, the better. Hope we can get a win against PSG, so that our best players don’t have to travel to Leipzig. Ole have a good grip on Pep, so I would not be surprised if we beat City, even if its at home ; )
Really looking forward to December : )

 

[Lynty]

PSG (Home) - D
West Ham (Away) - D
RB Leipzig (Away) - W
Man City (Home) - D
Sheffield United (Away) - W
Leeds United (Home) - D
Everton (Away) - League Cup - send out the u23s
Leicester (Away) - W
Wolves (Home) - W

Predicting an unbeaten run. Looking forward to Leeds the most.

 

[mitchmouse]

West Ham would be easy for many clubs, but we seem to have made habit of playing like a bunch of untrained hamsters in that fixture. You can forget Leipzig losing so we need to get a draw against PSG which we won't do of we miss chances like we did on Sunday. Just can't see us getting anything Leicester and have this dread feeling that we'll make Sheffield United look like they were last season
rather than the mess they are right now
I'd take the kids to Everton obviously but the Leeds and Wolves games will be very tough. A good run could make our season but I reckon we are more likely to sum up how e have been so far: some good results, some bloody awful!

 

[Longshanks]

It's ridiculous.

PSG (Home) - CL
West Ham (Away)
RB Leipzig (Away) - CL
Man City (Home)
Sheffield United (Away)
Leeds United (Home)
Everton (Away) - League Cup
Leicester (Away)
Wolves (Home)

That's 9 games in 28 days... and they're all (bar one) very tricky to say the least. In a perfect world we'll beat PSG on Wednesday and RB will lose so we're guaranteed top spot and we can send a bunch of kids to Germany... because it's hard to see where we can rest players in these fixtures (League Cup being the obvious one - but it's quarter final and you'd imagine Everton will take it seriously).

So how do you think we'll do?

Get something out the PSG game and the lepzig game becomes unimportant, going through top would be a bonus but it doesn't guarantee an easy draw.

Other than the CL games and the derby I dont see anything to get so worked up about, there all difficult games but that's the premier league for you and the league cup game is again not particuly important.

The schedule is gruelling this season and that's why we are seeing lots of rotation happening. Once we come out the other side of it we will certainly know where we stand this season.

 

[lsd]

If we do not win every game Ole should be sacked.