Manchester Utd (A) Pre Match Thread

[HolisticJim]

Agree with what someone else said, we should just play keep ball for 20 - 30 mins. The fans will get on their backs, they will become agitated, aggressive and do something stupid.
Felani getting a red or something similar.

 

[rnblade]

This derby has got referee blunders written all over it, the rags pinching a lucky goal and then defending like WHU, Maureen will be hailed as the master tactician and the media will have a wankfest.
Please turn up City and ream these cnuts. Kun needs to get his shooting boots on because he’s off the game at the moment. KDB , Magic Dave and Ferni could be the pivots here. PUT THE FCUKING CHANCES AWAY.

 

[citytilllidie]

Aguero always turns up for the big game. He'll be delighted to know Gawp's back in full training. I'm still limping from that night I laughed that much that I fell off a bar stool in Spain. It was the derby at OT, when Kun pretended to shoot about 3 times, leaving gawp floundering before smacking it into the top corner. This is how it feels to be small!

 

[burnley blue mcfc]

Aguero always turns up for the big game. He'll be delighted to know Gawp's back in full training. I'm still limping from that night I laughed that much that I fell off a bar stool in Spain. It was the derby at OT, when Kun pretended to shoot about 3 times, leaving gawp floundering before smacking it into the top corner. This is how it feels to be small!

He owes us a performance because he’s been fuckin shocking this last few weeks

 

[TheThirdDeano]

I have a horrible feeling that **** maureen is such a sour loser that he will aim for long term injuries to our best players trying to hinder us long term rather than win the game.

Someone like him will be thinking a long term strategy to having a sniff at winning - the man famous for winning the title in just his second season - and which would help more, long term destabilisation or winning 1 match?

Thank god Felony is out or I reckon KDB would end the match with a few less teeth and a broken nose

 

[cjn]

If these guys want to embarrass themselves at home and play for a 0-0 draw, as much as it kills me to say I hope we let them and go home with a point and an eight point lead at the top of the table. The only way they win big games is by baiting teams into overcommitting forward and hitting them on the break. They can have ten in the box and I still wouldn't play two strikers.

 

[lasereyes]

If these guys want to embarrass themselves at home and play for a 0-0 draw, as much as it kills me to say I hope we let them and go home with a point and an eight point lead at the top of the table. The only way they win big games is by baiting teams into overcommitting forward and hitting them on the break. They can have ten in the box and I still wouldn't play two strikers.

Mourinho will likely set up defensively, but make no mistake, if Huddersfield, Southampton and West Ham can score against us, then they are more than capable of doing so. In fact, I wouldn't rule them out getting two. For all the barbs you read here, they are the league's second top scorers after us. And Stones is a big miss for us.

 

[cjn]

Mourinho will likely set up defensively, but make no mistake, if Huddersfield, Southampton and West Ham can score against us, then they are more than capable of doing so. In fact, I wouldn't rule them out getting two. For all the barbs you read here, they are the league's second top scorers after us. And Stones is a big miss for us.

I totally agree actually. The point I was trying to make (badly) was that I feel we need to play our own game, not throw men forward, and if they are packing the box than so be it. I don't think we can get away with playing Jesus and Aguero at the expense of a midfielder like we did against West Ham at all. Missing Pogba nullifies their threat on the counter a bit but they're still a dangerous team and can definitely score against us.

 

[colorado blue]

If I were mourinho I would try and start like they did against Arsenal, I know Arsenal made mistakes but it was forced on them somewhat. I wouldn't be surprised to see them give us a lot of possession and counter though.

Hard one to call. We don't typically show up when we're about to set some record but this season is not typical City. I think we'll need to score 3 to win.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

If I were mourinho I would try and start like they did against Arsenal, I know Arsenal made mistakes but it was forced on them somewhat. I wouldn't be surprised to see them give us a lot of possession and counter though.

Hard one to call. We don't typically show up when we're about to set some record but this season is not typical City. I think we'll need to score 3 to win.

If they press us early and we stay as calm as we have been this season playing out of the back, we will smack them sideways when they leave gaps in MF. I'd be surprised if Peggy takes that approach at the outset. At home, they are never going to have a better chance to beat us and claw their way back in the race. I'd bet he opens up very conservative, and if he gets to HT nil-nil, which will be his goal, takes a much more aggressive gamble and tries to attack in 2H. That way he'll try to keep us off balance, and he can placate his own cowardly nature and still serve the "Well, we tried to attack them" fodder to the rag fan and media lapdogs he loves to toss bones to. And if he pulls something out, he's a hero.

If we need three to win we'll have played badly or made mistakes.