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Aston Villa 1:3 Manchester United

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    Date - Sunday, May 09 2021
    Kickoff Time - 1405 Hrs BST
    Venue - Villa Park, Birmingham

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    League form guide

    2. Manchester United WWWWD
    10. Aston Villa: WLLDW


    Previous Meetings

    Manchester United 2—1 Aston Villa

    Aston Villa 0—3 Manchester United

    Manchester United 2—2 Aston Villa

    Manchester United 1—0 Aston Villa

    Aston Villa 0—1 Manchester United


    All-Time League Record

    Manchester United wins: 87
    Aston Villa wins: 43
    Draws: 39


    Pre-Match Pressers

    Ole Gunnar Solskjær




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    Team News

    Manchester United

    Anthony Martial, Phil Jones and Daniel James ruled out.

    Aston Villa

    Trézéguet, Morgan Sanson and Jack Grealish ruled out.


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    Aston Villa Football Club (nicknamed Villa, The Villa, The Villans, and The Lions) is a professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham. The club were formed in March 1874, by four members of the Villa Cross Wesleyan Chapel. The four founders were Jack Hughes, Frederick Matthews, Walter Price and William Scattergood. The first match was against the local Aston Brook St Mary's Rugby team. The club were soon playing the modern version of football though and won its first FA Cup in 1887. Aston Villa were one of the dozen teams that competed in the inaugural Football League in 1888 with one of the club's directors, William McGregor being the league's founder. Aston Villa emerged as the most successful English club of the Victorian era

    Villa are one of only five English clubs to have won the European Cup, in 1981–82. They have also won the Football League First Division seven times, the FA Cup seven times, the League Cup five times, and the UEFA Super Cup once. At the end of the 2018–19 season, Aston Villa had also spent 105 seasons in the top tier of English football. The only club to have spent longer in the top flight are Everton, with 116 seasons, making Aston Villa versus Everton the most-played fixture in English top-flight football. Aston Villa's arch-rivals are Birmingham City, with games between the two clubs known as the Second City Derby. Historically though, West Bromwich Albion have arguably been Villa's greatest rivals. Villa also enjoy less heated local rivalries with Wolverhampton Wanderers and Coventry City. Aston Villa have been playing their home games at Villa Park since 1897.



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    Chris Kavanagh.


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    Henderson
    AWB Lindelof Maguire Shaw
    McTominay Fred
    Rashford Bruno Pogba
    Cavani
     
    Team should be...

    -----------------Henderson-----------------
    AWB--Lindelof--Maguire-- Shaw
    -----McTominay-----Matic-----
    Greenwood--Bruno--Pogba
    ------------------Rashford------------------

    Subs: De Gea, Tuanzebe, Bailly, Telles, Williams, Fred, Mata, VDB, Cavani

    I would have said give Telles a game and save Shaw for the Leicester/Liverpool double header but not after that 45 minutes :lol:
     
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    Would go strong for this then look to assess fitness. Start Cavani here, and then rest him till Liverpool.

    Henderson
    AWB - Lindelof - Maguire - Shaw
    McTominay - Fred
    Rashford - Bruno - Pogba
    Cavani​
     
    Bwuk said:
    Would go strong for this then look to assess fitness. Start Cavani here, and then rest him till Liverpool.

    Henderson
    AWB - Lindelof - Maguire - Shaw
    McTominay - Fred
    Rashford - Bruno - Pogba
    Cavani​
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    Agree. The lads had a full weeks rest, there was some rotation tonight against Roma, should be fine to go full strength this weekend and reassess after the game.

    Have to keep momentum and get ourselves over the line now.
     
    Think we should go with our normal starting line up. Hopefully Villa without Grealish will fold easy and we can give 30 min breaks to a few of the lads.

    Get 3 points here and the games vs Leicester and even Liverpool are slightly less important... the end aim is to get 2nd and win the EL cup.

    If we do that, at the end of season we wont worry too much about this week.
     
    Solskjaer On United's punishing schedule over the next few days:

    "It's unheard of. It's made by people who have never played football at this level. It's physically impossible for the players. We have not been dealt a good hand. We are going to need everyone for these four games. It's a short turnaround but we have to be ready."
     
    At 34, Cavani doesn't seem comfortable playing too frequently, so after 73 minutes tonight I'd only have him on the bench here and start him either Tuesday or Thursday.

    It's going to be tough to predict, as there's so many ways to approach this nightmare set of fixtures. For the first game I'd probably go very strong and hope to get a win that would set us up for the even harder games when fatigue will be even more of a factor. We don't want to lose rhythm, form and confidence with four, albeit understandable, winless games in a week, so go strong and try to get the 3 points v Villa..

    Henderson
    AWB Lindelof Maguire Shaw
    McTominay Fred
    Rashford Bruno Pogba
    Greenwood
     
    Out of the three games this game week, this is the most important one for me.

    We are pretty much assured top 4 now in the league and due to the EL final and busy week, we do need to rest some players.

    However we are now 24 away games unbeaten in the league, 3 off Arsenal's record. So for me Villa and Wolves are the big games because we still have something to play for.
     
    How come you subbed Shaw early? I presume AWB went off due to him being on a yellow. Seeing all the Telles love has got my hopes up a bit there. :lol:

    I can remember 18 months back El Ghazi giving Brandon Williams a really torrid 10 minutes at Old Trafford but he then got injured, nice goal from Anwar v Everton but incredibly inconsistsnt player when he starts.

    We played very well at Everton but I don't half hate this fixture. Still if we score first I think we'll get a draw.
     
    I imagine we will do something like:
    Henderson
    AWB-Lindelöf-Maguire-Shaw
    McTominay-Fred
    Greenwood-Fernandes-James
    Rashford

    Pogba to come off the bench and start vs Leicester.
     
    FootballHQ said:
    How come you subbed Shaw early? I presume AWB went off due to him being on a yellow. Seeing all the Telles love has got my hopes up a bit there. :lol:

    I can remember 18 months back El Ghazi giving Brandon Williams a really torrid 10 minutes at Old Trafford but he then got injured, nice goal from Anwar v Everton but incredibly inconsistsnt player when he starts.

    We played very well at Everton but I don't half hate this fixture. Still if we score first I think we'll get a draw.
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    shaw and AWB came off to rest them. It was clearly pre-planned.
     
    ThehatchetMan said:
    Out of the three games this game week, this is the most important one for me.

    We are pretty much assured top 4 now in the league and due to the EL final and busy week, we do need to rest some players.

    However we are now 24 away games unbeaten in the league, 3 off Arsenal's record. So for me Villa and Wolves are the big games because we still have something to play for.
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    I'm from the school that recognises Liverpool as the big game.

    Ending Liverpool's hopes of Top 4 - meaning they won't attract the best players; and ultimately stops them from winning the European Cup for at least one season...

    Outweighs a meaningless league away record (of course it's nice, but it's not important in the grand scheme of things).
     
    I kind of miss Martial now, he's been bad but having some fresh energy could serve us well. I'd also utilise Dan James for one of the next games.
     
    horsechoker said:
    I kind of miss Martial now, he's been bad but having some fresh energy could serve us well. I'd also utilise Dan James for one of the next games.
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    slored1 said:
    I imagine we will do something like:
    Henderson
    AWB-Lindelöf-Maguire-Shaw
    McTominay-Fred
    Greenwood-Fernandes-James
    Rashford

    Pogba to come off the bench and start vs Leicester.
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    horsechoker said:
    I kind of miss Martial now, he's been bad but having some fresh energy could serve us well. I'd also utilise Dan James for one of the next games.
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    James is injured
     
    The Oracle said:
    I'm from the school that recognises Liverpool as the big game.

    Ending Liverpool's hopes of Top 4 - meaning they won't attract the best players; and ultimately stops them from winning the European Cup for at least one season...

    Outweighs a meaningless league away record (of course it's nice, but it's not important in the grand scheme of things).
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    I'm the same mate, Liverpool is always the biggest game of the season for me too.

    But with this fixture schedule we now have we can't afford to put out our strongest XI for every game and having seen Liverpool/City claim so many records in recent years, it would be good to claim one back for ourselves.

    In 20 years I won't remember beating Liverpool but I will remember our record.

    Beating Villa and Liverpool however would be the perfect outcome.
     
    FootballHQ said:
    How come you subbed Shaw early? I presume AWB went off due to him being on a yellow. Seeing all the Telles love has got my hopes up a bit there. :lol:

    I can remember 18 months back El Ghazi giving Brandon Williams a really torrid 10 minutes at Old Trafford but he then got injured, nice goal from Anwar v Everton but incredibly inconsistsnt player when he starts.

    We played very well at Everton but I don't half hate this fixture. Still if we score first I think we'll get a draw.
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    Least there's no Rooney anymore. Loved a goal against Villa
     
    Henderson

    AWB
    Maguire
    Lindelof
    Shaw

    Mctominay
    Matic

    Mata
    Fernandes
    Pogba

    Rashford
     
    Wow these fixtures are mad. Punishment for fans preventing the game going ahead.

    I'd go full strength against Villa, we want to try to get points as early as possible.
     
    I would go full strength this game, then rest as many players as possible against Leicester and then full strength again vs Liverpool.

    Would only rest Cavani against Villa because he's never played 2 games in three days and we want to avoid injuries at all costs.

    Also, these 3 games will bey key for VdB and Telles to show they can be valuable players in the squad, as they'll definitely get at least 90 minutes at some point
     
    I’d play Cavani it’s important to keep him in the goals and on form..
     
    --------Henderson---------
    AWB-VNL-Bailly-Shaw
    ---------McT-Pogba-------
    Mata-----Bruno-----Rashford
    -------------Cavani-----------

    All in for this, win this one and we can rotate for Leicester and go full strength vs Liverpool.
     
    You play your best side with the win putting you seven and nine points above Leicester and Chelsea respectively with twelve points left to play for minus the points they pick in their next match with nine points left for them to play for.
     
    I’d go with a strong line up and try and get top 4 mathematically sewn up as soon as possible. That way we can just play rotated sides in the remaining league games and fully focus on the EL final.
     
    ShinjiNinja26 said:
    I’d go with a strong line up and try and get top 4 mathematically sewn up as soon as possible. That way we can just play rotated sides in the remaining league games and fully focus on the EL final.
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    Totally agree

    and play the strongest team against the scousers
     
    FootballHQ said:
    How come you subbed Shaw early? I presume AWB went off due to him being on a yellow. Seeing all the Telles love has got my hopes up a bit there. :lol:

    I can remember 18 months back El Ghazi giving Brandon Williams a really torrid 10 minutes at Old Trafford but he then got injured, nice goal from Anwar v Everton but incredibly inconsistsnt player when he starts.

    We played very well at Everton but I don't half hate this fixture. Still if we score first I think we'll get a draw.
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    Clearly you aren't aware of what happens when United go a goal down away from home in the 20/21 season.
     
    If Cavani feels he can play, we have to play him. We can rest him for Leicester.
     
    Godfather said:
    Is Grealish ready for Villa?
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    No, only starts with training this weekend.

    Henderson, AWB, Lindelof, Maguire, Shaw, McTominay, Fred, Bruno, Rashford, Pogba, Cavani. Think that is our starting 11 vs Villa, even though Rashford isn't as effective from right wing.
     
    No way we start Cavani for this one. We are actively managing him playing minutes and we should be able to get the job done without him against Villa.
     
    I think Ole somehow figures a way to navigate this stretch without overly weakening the team.

    Henderson
    AWB - Bailly - Maguire - Shaw
    McTominay - Fred
    Greenwood - Bruno - Rashford
    Cavani

    Subs: Pogba - Matic - Van de Beek​

    I know the howls about Bailly against Roma, but this isn't Roma fighting for an outside chance in a tournament format. Villa are about as stuck in the middle as you can get. Literally, the only thing they can play for now is the increased payout for league places.

    Formation morphs from halftime. Cavani off at half , Bruno at 60', Rashford at 75'.

    Save Lindelof for the next two matches and stick DeGea behind them for one. Williams and Telles will each get a start somewhere, but not at the same time. Matic will get a start; so will Donny. We'll see some earlier subs than usual.
     
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Possession
41% 59%
Shots
11 18
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5 7
Corners
5 6
Fouls
13 18

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