Manchester United (h) pre-match thread

[Mike N]

Was talking about this picture to a, reasonable, red today. I was telling him about the massive poster we had on the outside of the ground. It used to make me laugh that the United fans behind Mario were so visible and easily identifiable! Their faces were a picture, poor things! They must have got to know that their grumpy mugs were adorning our stadium!

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

There seems to be a lot of arrogance on this thread. We play the better brand of football and Utd have had an indifferent start to the season but they are an effective team and you dont go to Jve and win without being a well organised and strong team (the got a bit of luck but every team gets that at points).
Make no mistake they can hurt us and we need to be at the top of our game. The pace of Martial is a danger and as much as we deride Pogba, some of it deservedly (who will play make no mistake about it), he has the attributes to hurt us with late runs into the box and being decent in the air as well. Even int he also few games we have won handsomely we have given up chances to the likes of Burnely, Southampton and Shaktar that the likes of Martial and pogba as well as Sanchez will take advantage of.

I think its more dangerous for us if Lukaku doesn't play as well..they are more mobile without him and will try to get in behind us more.

Of course we can hurt them but PEG will see his team up to play very defensively and hope to get us with set plays and breakaways...any free kicks around the box or around the wide areas we need to be very cautious of.

Not arrogance its confidence , the Rags havent convincingly beaten anyone this season , the maximum they have achieved is a 20/30 minute spell in any game , that will not be enough to beat us on Sunday , and Cardiff or Fulham could "hurt" us in a couple minutes of a game just like the Rags could , but i would confidently say we will be handing out far more pain to them on Sunday , if that smacks of arrogance so be it , we are far superior to them in every department.

 

[BucksBlue]

Nervous, but looking forward to this. Can never predict a derby but we're going into this with our best team compared to theirs in years.

I keep thinking 5-1...

Our best team without Kev. It's impressive that the squad has done so well without him. It will be great to have KDB back in a few weeks though.
In particular our team defending is so much better than last Etihad Derby. If we get 2-0 up tomorrow I'm sure we'll see the game out. Prediction 3-1
CTID

 

[BlueMoonraker]

American forecast site Five Thirty Eight ran an extensive forecast.....
They also do a line in sports forecasts. They have us with an 80% chance of winning, United 7%, and 14% for the draw.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/soccer-predictions/premier-league/

That amounts to 101!

 

[Nascent Blues]

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but if we beat the ****s tomorrow they'll be 12 points from 1st (us) and 12 points from 18th (Cardiff) - now that really is bang average.

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but if we beat the ****s tomorrow they'll be 12 points from 1st (us) and 12 points from 18th (Cardiff) - now that really is bang average.

Shhhhhh , its a great comeback and they are back in the race , please respect the save our PEG thread

 

[Dax777]

Ederson
Walker
Zinchencko
Stones
Laporte
Fernandihno
David
Bernardo
Sterling
Mahrez
Aguero

 

[The blue phantom]

Utd 6-1 to win
Have they ever been such long odds to win against us or against anyone ?

Apparently it's the biggest price the've been for a league game in over 20 years, they were 8/1. Nibbled in a bit now.

 

[Eds]

Utd 6-1 to win
Have they ever been such long odds to win against us or against anyone ?

Not in my lifetime

 

[taleofbluehalves]

Sorry but you seem to be forgetting we support the the best team in the world, and their agent in eufa stirring up ahornets nest of lies will backfire on them spectacularly. Gawd I hope Kaklukakus playing.

See my post after that!