Man United (A) | Pre-Match Thread

[Sheik Battle and Goal]

Hate and love derby day.
Put our chances away we win gotta score first and early.
Stifle out there long ball game no stupid free kicks or pens 2 nil city onwards and upwards.
Ole sacked on Monday would be the icing

Ole in surely
He’s doing such a crap job long may it continue

 

[mccity]

Mahrez as his best two games for us in prem, and you drop him

He was rather good the last time he started there in the Carabao Cup too.

 

[SWPISHOME]

Don't know about reliability but

Sergio takes 3-4 games to get back fully when he does return. Gabby will do the job Saturday evening.

 

[lancs blue]

Defo a rag, my boss knows him.

No problem, so was Neil Midgely who reffed the Maine Road Massacre.

 

[Sprayleej3]

Wonder if we might see a similar strategy to the one we used against Arsenal. Walker-Stones/Dias-Laporte forming a quasi back three with Cancelo playing free down the right side. Something like this I guess. KDB, Mahrez, Cancelo, and Jesus overloading the right and targeting Telles. Worked pretty well to nullify Arsenal’s counter attack.

 

[Akpowell]

God I hate derbies, getting butterflies already

 

[BringBackSwales]

I know a referee who tells me he's a Rag fan. However, he strikes me as one of the better officials at the moment and I don't foresee any real worry (famous last words?)

He’s a rag but no real worry with him reffing a Derby? Fucking hell mate do you still believe in Santa?

 

[Tricky_Trev]

It will be interesting to see who misses the squad entirely against the rags. A fully available squad gives us some serious depth. Let’s suppose the team is the same as against Fulham but with Walker in for Cancelo. That would leave the bench as being 7 from:

Steffen
Cancelo
Zinchenko
Ake
Laporte
Garcia
Fernandinho
Foden
Bernardo
Torres
Aguero

We’d generally need a balanced bench of a goalkeeper, centre back, full back, defensive midfielder, creative midfielder, winger and a striker.

So you’d think Steffen, Cancelo, Laporte, Fernandinho are the first 4. Aguero as the striker, so that means one of Foden, Bernardo and Torres won’t be in the squad (unless Aguero has a bad reaction to tomorrow’s game).

So not in the squad:

Zinchenko
Ake
Garcia
Bernardo/Foden/Torres

That’s some depth!

 

[Cornish_Blue]

Ole in surely
He’s doing such a crap job long may it continue

Can’t be that crap a job, the rags are above us.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Steffen
Cancelo
Zinchenko
Ake
Laporte
Garcia
Fernandinho
Foden
Bernardo
Torres
Aguero

That's not a bad team.