League Cup Third Round

Manchester United 4:2 Aston Villa

Old Trafford

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Thu, 10 November 2022 @ 8:00pm GMT
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    Date: Thursday, November 10 2022
    Kickoff Time: 2000 Hrs GMT
    Venue: Old Trafford, Manchester

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    League Cup Form Guide

    Manchester United: N/A
    Aston Villa: W


    Previous League Cup Meetings

    Aston Villa 1—2 Manchester United

    Aston Villa 3—0 Manchester United

    Aston Villa 3—1 Manchester United

    Aston Villa 1—0 Manchester United

    Aston Villa 1—2 Manchester United


    All-Time League Cup Record

    Manchester United wins: 2
    Aston Villa wins: 4
    Draws: 1


    Pre-Match Pressers

    Erik ten Hag




    Unai Emery





    Team News

    Manchester United

    Raphaël Varane, Brandon Williams, Axel Tuanzebe and Jadon Sancho ruled out. Antony doubtful.

    Aston Villa

    Philippe Coutinho and Diego Carlos ruled out.


    Know the opposition

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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.

    The infant club's fortunes changed forever when a young Scotsman called George Ramsay stumbled across the Villa players' practice match in Aston Park in 1876. Word spread about how fine a player Ramsay was; he also took charge of training, later describing the newly formed club's approach to the game as 'a dash at the man and a big kick at the ball'. Ramsay was influenced by the Scottish club, Queen's Park, who pioneered what became known as 'combination football' in his native Glasgow, the intricate passing game he introduced was a revolutionary move for an English club in the late 1870s. His subsequent trophy haul of six League Championships and six FA Cups established Aston Villa as the most successful club in England. He has been described as the world's first paid football manager. To this day, Ramsay remains one of the greatest managers in the history of English football, having won the most league titles of any manager in England until he was surpassed by Sir Alex Ferguson in 1999–00 and the most FA Cup trophies until surpassed by Arsène Wenger in 2016–17

    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.


    Referee

    David Coote.


    Familiar Faces

    Ashley Young (2011—20)

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    Actually worried about this one now. Think we get knocked out 1-2. End season before World Cup break with a real whimper. At least Bruno will be back and show some desire and urgency.

    Is Dalot suspended? Malacia doesn’t fill me with much confidence, I might actually go with AWB if fit.
     
    Likely we get slapped by Aston Villa twice in one week. Good times. Ronaldo and VdB shouldn't start for this club again.
     
    James35 said:
    Actually worried about this one now. Think we get knocked out 1-2. End season before World Cup break with a real whimper. At least Bruno will be back and show some desire and urgency.

    Is Dalot suspended? Malacia doesn’t fill me with much confidence, I might actually go with AWB if fit.
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    Nah Dalot misses the Fulham game (even worse for us)
     
    How I would line up, assuming Martial, Antoy and Sancho are fit to start. I'd bring AWB in for the start as he's hardly played and will probably need to start vs Fulham, with Dalot suspended. Either that or Lindelof RB and Maguire at CB.

    DDG
    AWB, Lindelof, Martinez, Shaw
    Casemiro, Fred
    Antony, Bruno, Sancho
    Martial​
     
    Knowing our luck this game and Fulham will see the Bruno/Martial/Rashford combo come back into life only for it to be put on hold until after the World Cup
     
    Rotate. If we go out, it’s possibly a blessing in disguise with how fatigued the team is.

    De Gea
    AWB - Maguire - Martinez - Malacia
    Iqbal - McTominay
    Bruno
    Sancho - Martial - Garnacho​
     
    Would have rather had league points than place in the Fourth Round of League Cup, having said that we need to make massive changes for this
     
    Dubravka
    AWB - Maguire - Lindelof - Malacia
    McTominay
    Bruno - Fred
    Elanga - Martial - Rashford

    Dont care about the result. No Ronaldo involvement please.
     
    DomesticTadpole said:
    We need to get a good result at Fulham. I would pick players who need minutes on Thursday, if it works good, if not tough.
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    Yeah would only keep maybe Garnacho, Martial, VDB & Elanga from team who finished today,would change the rest of them
     
    croadyman said:
    Yeah would only keep maybe Garnacho, Martial, VDB & Elanga from team who finished today,would change the rest of them
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    These are the sort of games to give them a game. Might have been able to do at Sociedad but for a dodgy penalty and bad finishing in the other games.
     
    The League Cup can feck off, this year of all years. How the feck do we even find gaps to play any more fixtures if we get through?

    Play the actual u21s and leave the first team to prepare for Fulham.
     
    Don’t care if we lose. Fulham game is so much more important. Rotate. Get players who need minutes on the pitch and players who need a rest off it.

    Dubravka
    AWB
    Lindelof
    Maguire
    Malacia
    Fred
    McTominay
    Sancho
    Bruno (as he got a rest today)
    Pellistri/Garnacho
    Martial (hopefully fit enough for 45 or 60 mins)
     
    I wouldn’t be disheartened if we got knocked out. Focus on Premier League and Europa League with our small number of trusted players. Happily duck the FA Cup too this season.
     
    I mean its laughable that Emery comes back to haunt us and destroys a 27 year record on his debut match. Dont you tell me new manager's bounce is fiction.

    Cannot stand Villa the game raising bastards, I swear Jacob Ramsey only bothers when hes playing us. Same as the rest of them.

    All that bitterness aside, it absolutely favours us to bin this off straight away, and probably the FA cup too. I think this season we just seriously need to put all of our eggs in one basket be it the Europa or aiming for Top 4. We simply cannot afford to miss out on CL again and miss out on sponsor money that will likely fund the summer transfer budget.
     
    Wholesale changes needed here

    Dubravka
    Bissaka - Lindelof - Maguire - Malacia
    McTominay - Fred
    VDB
    Elanga - Martial - Sancho
     
    V.O. said:
    The League Cup can feck off, this year of all years. How the feck do we even find gaps to play any more fixtures if we get through?

    Play the actual u21s and leave the first team to prepare for Fulham.
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    Completely agree
     
    How long before we have a thread questioning our ability to beat and certainly comfortably beat the smaller teams?

    Hope this doesn’t become any more of a thing but I can certainly see it happening.

    League cup should be sacrificed but think ETH is too headstrong and will pick 8/11 regular starters.
     
    We have to beat Fulham.

    This Villa game now should not be the starting 11 players vs Fulham.
     
    Rashford - Martial - Elanga
    Garnacho - Rashford - Elanga
    Rashford - Martial - Garnacho

    just one of those forward lines, please.
     
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Alejandro Garnacho image Alejandro Garnacho 58% of 230 votes

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Score Predictions

144,26,9
  • Man Utd win
  • Aston Villa win
  • Draw

Detailed Results

  • 23% Man Utd 2:1 Aston Villa
  • 23% Man Utd 2:0 Aston Villa
  • 17% Man Utd 1:0 Aston Villa
  • 7% Man Utd 3:0 Aston Villa
  • 7% Man Utd 1:2 Aston Villa
  • 6% Man Utd 3:1 Aston Villa
  • 5% Man Utd 1:1 Aston Villa
  • 4% Man Utd 0:2 Aston Villa
  • 2% Man Utd 0:1 Aston Villa
  • 2% Man Utd 5:0 Aston Villa
  • 1% Man Utd 4:1 Aston Villa
  • 1% Man Utd 3:2 Aston Villa
  • 1% Man Utd 0:9 Aston Villa
  • 1% Man Utd 4:0 Aston Villa
  • 1% Man Utd 1:3 Aston Villa
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Match Stats

  1. Man Utd
  2. Aston Villa
Possession
59% 41%
Shots
19 5
Shots on Target
8 2
Corners
7 2
Fouls
13 13

Referee

David Coote

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