Man Utd (H) 26/12 Build Up & Match Thread

[The Bear]

Injured: Sarabia, Traore, Lemina (doubt).
Suspended:
One yellow away from suspension: Toti, Ait-Nouri, Lemina

Mount, Lindelof and Shaw are definitely out for Man Utd. De Ligt also might still be out after illness and faces a fitness test.

Still no idea what team Pereira will pick. You'd expect RAN to come back in but with Rodrigo playing well at LWB and scoring who knows. I'm expecting an unchanged team to start with.

 

[1986]

One thing that always annoyed me with O Neil and indeed other Managers is this insistence of starting the same team for a match following a particularly good performance in the previous game.
It should always be horses for courses . Toti was far from inspiring last Sunday . Dawson remains a better option for me in a binary choice .
In a back three Toti might stay with Dawson replacing Doherty and RAN coming in .

 

[Tony Towner]

Hopefully Rashford is still in the bad books given his record against us. Speaking of bad books I'd not bring RAN back in unless Cunha is banned which at 4pm on Xmas Eve seems unlikely. The longer that goes on, the more I think he's getting more than 3 games though. At least the Cup game will now be one of them

 

[Tony Towner]

One thing that always annoyed me with O Neil and indeed other Managers is this insistence of starting the same team for a match following a particularly good performance in the previous game.
It should always be horses for courses . Toti was far from inspiring last Sunday . Dawson remains a better option for me in a binary choice .
In a back three Toti might stay with Dawson replacing Doherty and RAN coming in .

I don't think you can play Dawson with Bueno and Doherty, Toti doesn't have much going for him, but you need his pace. Those 3 together would be asking for trouble, playing 2 of them is really

 

[1986]

I don't think you can play Dawson with Bueno and Doherty, Toti doesn't have much going for him, but you need his pace. Those 3 together would be asking for trouble, playing 2 of them is really

I'm not , Santiago, Dawson and Toti in a three . Alternatively Santi and Daws in a two with better protection from our midfield.

 

[Mel Evo]

Hopefully Rashford is still in the bad books given his record against us. Speaking of bad books I'd not bring RAN back in unless Cunha is banned which at 4pm on Xmas Eve seems unlikely. The longer that goes on, the more I think he's getting more than 3 games though. At least the Cup game will now be one of them

Shame about lack of replays. Good ban burners.

 

[The Bear]

I had a quick look at tickets since they were on general sale. Just behind the press box in W4 and this is what they expect you to pay. This club FFS.

 

[Kenny]

Has Vitor told us this is a game we are likely to lose?

 

[sycophantia]

Has Vitor told us this is a game we are likely to lose?

I suspect the opposite, if we lose he will be savage and the team will be made aware of where they went wrong.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Dawson looks absolutely done based on recent appearances. He isn't a better option.

 

[Kenny]

I suspect the opposite, if we lose he will be savage and the team will be made aware of where they went wrong.

Be a nice change of mentality.

 

[Wellen Wolf]

I had a quick look at tickets since they were on general sale. Just behind the press box in W4 and this is what they expect you to pay. This club FFS.

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There were a lot of seats available earlier today especially with the Ticket Exchanges being registered. Living abroad and then being expected to pay GBP 40 for memberships for one visit means basically GBP 100 per person. No way would I be going if it wasn't on General Sale. Shows how far we and they have sunk that we are now on General Sale for Man U on Boxing Day!

 

[Tony Towner]

And it'll be full of local plastics, particularly the golf stand

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I wonder if United plastics will have a sharp drop off soon. If you're under 20 then you'll struggle to remember them being any good.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Toti was far from inspiring last Sunday . Dawson remains a better option for me in a binary choice .
In a back three Toti might stay with Dawson replacing Doherty and RAN coming in .

Toti was decent on Sunday, he made that one mistake, but also cleared it off the line - he was MOTM in some places too.

Wouldn't drop Doc either, he's been decent the last few games and was again against Leicester.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Toti was decent on Sunday, he made that one mistake, but also cleared it off the line - he was MOTM in some places too.

Wouldn't drop Doc either, he's been decent the last few games and was again against Leicester.

But you know he's rubbish.

Don't wait for him to prove it and cost us a game. We don't have that kind of leeway.

I would also argue he was not good vs West Ham. Good goal but generally crap. Awful vs Ipswich. He was ok on Sunday other than spending the first 15 minutes randomly booting it out of play.

 

[pagey]

This says differently.

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www.whoscored.com

 

[sycophantia]

I only saw the game on motd but it seems only Wolves based sites that are saying Toti was shit on Sunday. Obviously there was at least one massive clanger, which he then cleared off the line. Was he OK apart from that?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I only saw the game on motd but it seems only Wolves based sites that are saying Toti was shit on Sunday. Obviously there was at least one massive clanger, which he then cleared off the line. Was he OK apart from that?

He was Toti, he looks like a calamity waiting to happen but sort of gets away with it.

The clanger wouldn't have mattered, Mavididi was miles offside in the build up.

 

[Wellen Wolf]

I wonder if United plastics will have a sharp drop off soon. If you're under 20 then you'll struggle to remember them being any good.

About bloody time. There again we had them as the most loved English club in the country in the 1950s.