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Manchester United 2:2 Burnley

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    Date - Tuesday, December 26 2017
    Kickoff Time - 1500 Hrs GMT
    Venue - Old Trafford, Manchester

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    League standings and form guide

    2. Manchester United: WLWWD

    7. Bournemouth: LWWDL


    Previous League Meetings

    Burnley 0-2 Manchester United

    Manchester United 0-0 Burnley

    Manchester United 3-1 Burnley

    Burnley 0-0 Manchester United

    Manchester United 3-0 Burnley


    All-Time League Record

    Manchester United wins: 50
    Burnley wins: 40
    Draws: 18


    Pre-Match Pressers

    José Mourinho


    Sean Dyche




    Team News

    Manchester United

    Michael Carrick, Eric Bailly, Marouane Fellaini, Antonio Valencia and Chris Smalling ruled out. Matteo Darmian doubtful.


    Burnley

    Tom Heaton, Robbie Brady, Chris Wood, James Tarkowski and Dean Marney ruled out. Jonathan Walters and Stephen Ward doubtful.


    Know the opposition

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    Burnley Football Club (nicknamed The Clarets), is a professional association football club based in Burnley, Lancashire. On 18 May 1882, The club was founded on On 18 May 1882, when Burnley Rovers Football Club decided to shift their allegiance from rugby union to football. Playing in various green or blue and white kits for their first few years, the club played their first competitive game in October 1882 against Astley Bridge in the Lancashire Challenge Cup, that game ending in an 8–0 defeat. In the early months of 1883 the club moved to Turf Moor and remain there, only their Lancashire rivals Preston North End having occupied the same ground continuously for longer. Burnley first appeared in the FA Cup in 1885–86 but were ignominiously beaten 11–0 when eligibility restrictions meant that their reserve side had to be fielded against Darwen Old Wanderers. On 13 October 1886, Turf Moor became the first ground to be visited by a member of a (British) Royal Family. When it was decided to found the Football League for the 1888–89 season, Burnley were among the 12 founders of that competition.

    The club enjoyed its Golden days as one of the most progressive clubs around in the 1950s to the early 1970s under the reign of chairman Bob Lord. They were one of the first teams to build a training ground next to the stadium, while every other team still trained in their own stadium, and the Turf Moor club used innovative training methods. Among other things, this resulted in an excellent youth team. Nearly all members of the 1959–60 Division 1 winning team had played in the Burnley youth team. Lord also pioneered the short-lived 'Football Specials'. The Clarets were also the first to let a manager decide about the transfer policy. After the 1959–60 title winning season finished, Burnley went to the United States to participate in the inaugural international football tournament in North-America, the International Soccer League. The following season Burnley played in European competition for the first time. Burnley's biggest traditional rivals are Blackburn Rovers and Bolton Wanderers with the match between Burnley and Blackburn sometimes called The Cotton Mills Derby. Burnley play their home games at Turf Moor.


    Referee

    Martin Atkinson.


    Familiar Faces

    Tom Heaton, Robbie Brady, Anders Lindegaard and Phil Bardsley

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    The league is now just a dead rubber for second place. Couldn't really care really, everyone is dropping points left right and centre, City aside. We'll probably squander a Bajillion chances here as well.
     
    Can the league just go away?

    Either way, I’m done with it. Roll on the last 16 of the CL.
     
    Seriously people are thinking this is a dead rubber game ?

    If we don't win this, our whole season will be in danger of collapsing considering our fragile mentality.
     
    I think Jose will rest Young so that will mean more Lindelof at RB as he surely can't out Darmian back in. I also think Matic could do with a break given the cluster of fixtures but right now we can't trust Herrera to start IMO.


     
    Need to bounce back with a big win. 2 games in a row conceding in the dying seconds is a huge kick in the teeth. Also hope Mourinho puts his faith in Shaw, should've started today I feel. Team picks itself though IMO.

    De Gea
    Young Lindelof Jones Shaw
    Matic Pogba
    Mata Lingard Martial
    Lukaku​
    Bit of a change from before when there were question marks over a lot of places, injuries and others not performing ensures this is the easy 11 I think.
     
    Some armchair options but a bit rubbish...
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    Jacko21 said:
    Can the league just go away?

    Either way, I’m done with it. Roll on the last 16 of the CL.
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    That’s my mindset right now too.

    As a United fan who grew up watching us win title after title, anything BUT first place is a loss to me. I realise times have changed but I’m not going to start celebrating top four all of a sudden. If we get it, we get it. If not, then we didn’t deserve it anyway.

    Either way, the league title was the priority this season and after the City game it finally kicked in that we don’t have a hope in hell of catching them. So why are we even bothering watching these games? Force of habit I suppose. From my POV, there’s nothing worth fighting for anymore.

    Focus on the Champions League and FA Cup. Go all out and win those. That’s what I’m looking forward to now.
     
    Feck this. Just hand the goddamn trophy to City and get the league over with.

    All eyes on the CL.
     
    Jaybomb said:
    That’s my mindset right now too.

    As a United fan who grew up watching us win title after title, anything BUT first place is a loss to me. I realise times have changed but I’m not going to start celebrating top four all of a sudden. If we get it, we get it. If not, then we didn’t deserve it anyway.

    Either way, the league title was the priority this season and after the City game it finally kicked in that we don’t have a hope in hell of catching them. So why are we even bothering watching these games? Force of habit I suppose. From my POV, there’s nothing worth fighting for anymore.

    Focus on the Champions League and FA Cup. Go all out and win those. That’s what I’m looking forward to now.
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    Be thankful you're not 15 years younger. You'd be a City fan.
     
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    Not even sure who to play, so many of our squad out of form and need dropped.
     
    We need to keep fighting City till the end and get at least second this season. What happened this week is done. Need to pick ourselves up. Can't get into the thinking that the title race being almost done gives us an excuse to ease off. Need to pick up a minimum 45 points on the back 19 and use that as a springboard for next season.

    Like us to play 3 at the back for this one. Don't like a two with one of Lindeof or Rojo

    De Gea
    Lindelof Jones Rojo
    Lingard Herrera Pogba Shaw
    Mkhitaryan Martial
    Rashford​
     
    Well struggle. Might scrape a win by the odd goal.
    Burnley score feck all goals. 2 in the last 5 games.

    So so frustrating to watch United at the moment. Trotting around. No guts.

    Need some inspiration form somewhere
     
    Not the game for this group of mentally weak players....
     
    De Gea
    Young Jones Rojo Shaw
    Matic Pogba McTominay
    Mata Lingard
    Lukaku

    That would be my team. 1-0 to us.
     
    I think Burnley have several injured players out for this match. Still, it will be a hard game.
     
    Expecting an ugly, boring, shit game to be honest. Punctuated by a couple of lucky goals.

    --------------------DDG-------------------------
    Young-------Lindelof---Jones-------------Blind
    --------------Pogba----Matic--------------------
    Mata----------Mkhitaryan----------------Martial
    ----------------Lukaku---------------------------

    SUBS - Lingard (Mkhi), Rashford (Martial), Zlatan (Lukaku)

    Man United 2 - 0 Burnley
    Lukaku, Mata
     
    el3mel said:
    Seriously people are thinking this is a dead rubber game ?

    If we don't win this, our whole season will be in danger of collapsing considering our fragile mentality.
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    Exactly, top four might be in danger again.
     
    Burnley love a 1-0 win. Hope we don't see a repeat of the game last season. That was painful.
     
    Merry christmas all. Very frustated at the outcome of yesterdays match like others. Was really hoping that we would stay very close to city for as long as possible so that we can capitalize should they experience a dip in form. But I'm not giving up just yet. There's a lot of games to he played and so if we have a good winter transfer activity I fancy us to push city all the way. But we must conquer that which is right in front of us first - Burnley.

    Burnley play very deep in 2 banks of four crowding the center so that opposition attackers are forced to go wide and deliver crosses. This works for them because they have very tall players that can deal easily with aerial balls. Also because of their numerical advantage in and around their box, you usually don't see opposition wide attackers run freely from wide into their box (as an alternative to crossing the ball) because there is always a Burnley defender staying tight to him.

    Even in the center there is another strategy they use: they allow opposition attackers some room in between their 2 forward players (Wood and Hendrick) and the rest of their 8 players (usually set in 2 banks of four). This gives the opposition attackers the false sense that there is an opportunity that can be exploited and so many a times they aim shots right at Burnley's defence right from those central positions intentionally vacated by Burnley. More often than not these shots are blocked because by default Burnley make sure they have many blockers to deal with these kind of shots.

    Little wonder Tarkowski and Mee are in top 10 of number of blocks in the league. Last time I checked Tarkowski was number two with respect to number of blocks in the league. A while ago he was number one. Even Mee and Cork feature amongst the top ten players with most blocks in the league the last time I checked. Along with making clearances (headed clearances inclusive), engineering blocks is a tactic that they have mastered.

    There is something else they do: their center backs stay on either side of the keeper positioning themselves in a way that the wider parts of the goal mouth are well covered. If you watch them closely you'll see that they concede a lot of shots to the center of their goal which their keeper can easily deal. Sean Dyche has created a simple but effective way to survive in the jungle that is called the EPL and it's no accident that his team sit top of the league's non-top 6.

    It took City, Spurs and Arsenal penalties to break them down so make no mistakes they are a handful. As deep as they play, they still have Hendricks who is supposed to provide support for Wood up top doing the box-to-box thing adding top their defensive steel. Then you have a Cork patrolling the area and making sure that the central defenders have little trouble.

    To counter their game plan, I'd have Mata and Martial play a prominent role but they have to be absolutely at the top of their game. Mata will help with those short and intricate passing in their final third and I expect Martial to do the dribbling into the box, laying off for team mates and giving us that bit of unpredictability in attack. Also I expect Young to feature in right back if Valencia is still out. He and Mata can help with crosses to Lukaku and I do not expect that we will win the aerial battle 100/100 as they are very brilliant in handling these but crosses to the box are a weapon as it gives you that additional option and yes I'm hopeful that out of the many crosses into their box we'd score one or a couple.

    I'd go:

    De Gea
    Young Jones Rojo Shaw
    Matic Pogba
    Mata Lingard Martial
    Lukaku​
     
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    Jig1234 said:
    Burnley love a 1-0 win. Hope we don't see a repeat of the game last season. That was painful.
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    I still can't believe we didn't win that game. 38 shots on goal I believe and Ibra missed some sitters. Herrera was sent off and Mourinho sent to the stands and we were still throwing the kitchen sink at them. We could've played for another 2 hours and still not scored on a day like that.
     
    pauldyson1uk said:
    I would really like to be wrong , but my gut feeling is we have NO chance of winning the CL.
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    I think we have a good chance to win it or reach at least the semis. We should get past Sevilla and 2 of Madrid, PSG, Barcelona and Chelsea will be knocked out. In the quarters I'd say there is a big chance we get another English side because City and Liverpool should get there comfortably and possibly Spurs will be there too. I honestly believe the CL is there for the taking this year if we put our focus into it. With a bit of luck of course.
     
    DDG
    Darmien Jones Rojo Shaw
    Pogba Matic
    Miki Mata Martial
    abdo99 said:
    I think we have a good chance to win it or reach at least the semis. We should get past Sevilla and 2 of Madrid, PSG, Barcelona and Chelsea will be knocked out. In the quarters I'd say there is a big chance we get another English side because City and Liverpool should get there comfortably and possibly Spurs will be there too. I honestly believe the CL is there for the taking this year if we put our focus into it. With a bit of luck of course.
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    Yeah i agree. The way i look at it is City are by far bookies favourites and even though they've been outstanding this season i do think we can beat them over 2 legs or in a one off final. The face we've Mourinho as manager fills me with confidence too
     
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355,26,32
  • Man Utd win
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Detailed Results

  • 29% Man Utd 2:0 Burnley
  • 18% Man Utd 3:0 Burnley
  • 15% Man Utd 1:0 Burnley
  • 8% Man Utd 4:0 Burnley
  • 7% Man Utd 2:1 Burnley
  • 4% Man Utd 1:1 Burnley
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  • 4% Man Utd 3:1 Burnley
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  • 3% Man Utd 0:5 Burnley
  • 1% Man Utd 4:1 Burnley
  • 1% Man Utd 1:2 Burnley
  • 1% Man Utd 0:1 Burnley
  • 1% Man Utd 0:2 Burnley
  • 0% Man Utd 5:1 Burnley
  • 0% Man Utd 2:3 Burnley
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  • 0% Man Utd 0:3 Burnley
  • 0% Man Utd 3:2 Burnley
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  • 0% Man Utd 2:2 Burnley
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  1. Man Utd
  2. Burnley
Possession
71% 29%
Shots
24 3
Shots on Target
6 2
Corners
12 2
Fouls
10 14

Referee

Martin Atkinson

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