United (A) - Sat 14th Jan, 12:30 | Pre-Match Thread

[eastmanc]

City will smash them Sat our training ground the swamp, the last Derby all I heard was well beat you today then they go missing for a week

That was rags saying they would beat us this is from blues.

 

[jmant10]

Always have a bad feeling about going to OT. Although we are stronger than them in pretty much every position and battered them a couple months back. Think we do it.. 0-1 city.

 

[PPT]

Got to be honest, worried about this game. We haven’t really clicked all season except for the first 45 minutes against them at the Etihad. Expect them to come out all guns blazing at us for the first 20 minutes and get very physical. The ref has previous of letting the rough stuff go against us. If we concede early then it could be a long afternoon.

 

[Gio's mate]

Might take a rain check on this match. If we can’t beat the team stuck to bottom with super glue, nah, I will watch, but, it aint gonna be pretty.View attachment 65806

Football doesn’t work that way though

It did in my playground. Southampton are now the champions of England.

Congratulations Southampton!

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Not confident going in to this game unfortunately.

Pep might have been experimenting his secret weapon line up for the Rag in the first half last night.

You dont know what he is going to come up with next. Like Jekyll and Hyde.

Bookies think we will have too much for the Rags at over 3/1.They rarely get it wrong.

Hoping for a win. But fearing a defeat.

Something off with us at the moment.

Was he heck. He was playing the reserves to keep the first team fresh for United.

 

[supersonicblue]

Ederson

Lewis Akanji Laporte Ake

Rodri
KDB Gundo

Mahrez Haaland Foden

 

[Rammy Blue]

All that is why I think we always look better with Bernado dropping deep to collect the ball.

Said earlier, but assuming as is favourite that Walker and Ake are the fullbacks on Sat, then we will need Bernie to do exactly that as neither of the fullbacks are ones who can play inverted well.

 

[malg]

Dreading it, but that's nothing to do with the disaster that was Southampton, I'm always like this with Derbies. It'll be tough though as they're on a high.

 

[Gumzy97]

Our midfield need to be up for this, otherwise Casemiro is going to run the midfield for the rags. He's one of the major reasons their up there in the table. Can't afford to be slow

 

[pavelsrnicek]

Was he heck. He was playing the reserves to keep the first team fresh for United.

We were very obviously resting KDB, Haaland, Ederson, Mahrez, Bernardo, Rodri, Ake and Akanji. Stone’s wasn’t fit. Lewis was even rested. Just the 9 first team players on the sidelines. The only players who started last night that might start on Saturday are Grealish, Foden, Laporte, Walker and Gundogan.

Unfortunately for the team that started we had a makeshift defence and a rusty DM. Unfortunately it proved too much disruption to our defence. It didn’t help that both full backs had stinkers and Walker proved he’s not a centre back.