Europa League Quarter-Final 1st Leg

Anderlecht 1:1 Manchester United

Constant Vanden Stock Stadium

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Thu, 13 April 2017 @ 8:05pm BST
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    Pexbo said:
    Yeah the 28 goals is a bit deceiving. In the Belgium league they start with half their goal count from the previous season, rounded up to the nearest integer.
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    wait.. what? Why?
     
    VanGaalEra said:
    Is he not that good? Says he's got 28 goals.
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    He misses much more than he scores.
    Pexbo said:
    Yeah the 28 goals is a bit deceiving. In the Belgium league they start with half their goal count from the previous season, rounded up to the nearest integer.
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    I watch him for Poland. Hes just bad. Dont worry about him.
     
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    Should be an easy game for us. Hopefully we wrap the tie up in the 1st leg by scoring a few away goals and not concede any stupid goals. Then we can rest key players and take it easy at OT in the 2nd leg. Going for a 3-0 win.
     
    Why is Sean Goss still listed on here in our squad line-up? Didn't we sell him to QPR in January?
     
    Pexbo said:
    Yeah the 28 goals is a bit deceiving. In the Belgium league they start with half their goal count from the previous season, rounded up to the nearest integer.
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    Are you serious? Why is the Belgian league so weird?
     
    charlenefan said:
    Team should be...

    -------------De Gea-------------
    Valencia--Bailly--Rojo--Shaw
    -------------Carrick-------------
    ------Herrera------Pogba------
    Mkhitaryan-------------Martial
    -------------Zlatan-------------

    Subs: Romero, Darmian, TFM, Blind, Fellaini, Lingard, Rashford

    Anyone know why their league season has only just started?
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    Solid team - would have this tie wrapped up I reckon.
     
    I don't think we will be playing both Shaw and valencia for now. even though we technically play a back 4 when valencia plays. and we are in possession we play 3 at the back with valencia playing as a wing back. We did similar on Sunday but the other way around where Darmian stayed back while Luke was given a license to play fwd. having both valencia and Shaw playing high up the pitch won't give us much balance right now.

    __________Romero_________
    Valencia Bailly Rojo Darmian
    ____Herrera pogba fellaini___
    __Lingard Zlatan Mkhitaryan__
     
    Teodorczyk (AND) won't start the game, will be on the bench. Didn't train today.

    Contrarily to what certain people here said, I rate him. I see him ending up at a mid table team in England/Germany next season.
     
    GailWynand said:
    I have a weird feeling Rooney's going to start this one.
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    No chance. We're taking this competition seriously.

    Also, check out the articles this morning. His people have briefed that he doesn't expect to play much this season.
     
    bucky said:
    The more you learn. Never heard of that system before, just that they have playoffs.
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    Their Europa League qualification tourney is bizarre. Three teams from the second tier are included, but not the one that is getting promoted to the top tier. Add a load of mid-table top division teams and they all play a mini-cup for a 3rd Qualifying Round berth only.
     
    TMDaines said:
    Their Europa League qualification tourney is bizarre. Three teams from the second tier are included, but not the one that is getting promoted to the top tier. Add a load of mid-table top division teams and they all play a mini-cup for a 3rd Qualifying Round berth only.
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    Second tier is even weirder. Team that got the most points in second division this season didn't even get a chance for promotion. Was decided by a play-off between the team that got the most points in the first half of the season and the team with the most points in the second half. Apparently consistency doesn't matter anymore.

    Play-off system in the first division should be changed in the future. Was designed to improve the quality of Belgian top teams (and get more TV-money) but in reality it punishes the teams that progress in the Europa League. You can understand English teams choosing their domestic league over the EL, but when a Belgian team is tempted to prioritize their league over the EL, you know something has to change.
     

    Rooney hasn't travelled. Assessed after training with rest of team this morning and decided he wasn't fit enough to make squad #mufc
     
    I'm starting to forget that Rooney is still a part of the squad . He seems plays one game from month to month .

    Can't believe he's injured all these time . I think Jose just reached the same conclusion the fans have reached on him long ago .
     
    Travelling squad:

    David de Gea
    Sergio Romero
    Joel Pereira

    Antonio Valencia
    Timothy Fosu-Mensah
    Axel Tuanzebe
    Marcos Rojo
    Eric Bailly
    Daley Blind
    Luke Shaw

    Michael Carrick
    Ander Herrera
    Paul Pogba
    Marouane Fellaini
    Henrikh Mkhitaryan
    Jesse Lingard

    Zlatan Ibrahimovic
    Anthony Martial
    Marcus Rashford
     
    Superpolfcb said:
    Second tier is even weirder. Team that got the most points in second division this season didn't even get a chance for promotion. Was decided by a play-off between the team that got the most points in the first half of the season and the team with the most points in the second half. Apparently consistency doesn't matter anymore.

    Play-off system in the first division should be changed in the future. Was designed to improve the quality of Belgian top teams (and get more TV-money) but in reality it punishes the teams that progress in the Europa League. You can understand English teams choosing their domestic league over the EL, but when a Belgian team is tempted to prioritize their league over the EL, you know something has to change.
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    Pretty much agree with you, but you have to acknowledge performances in Europe have approved recent years. Let the top 6 play each other more often seems to have an effect on team performances.
     
    I just got tickets for this game!!!! :drool: Somehow my girlfriend got hold of tickets for this and she will actually see Man United live for the first time. She's not into football at all, but she's super excited about it. Somehow even moreso than I am. :lol:
     
    Super excited about this match. If we can get two away goals it will be good.
     
    So apparently the last time Zlatan played here he scored 4 for PSG
     
    GailWynand said:
    I have a weird feeling Rooney's going to start this one.
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    Rooney won't be starting any important games for us now.
    If there are any "nothing" games, he may start those, but even then I think he'll be either on the bench, injured, ill or unavailable.
    Rooney is finished @ MUFC. His only chance is if LVG returns, in which case, he'll start every game, even when he doesn't score any goals.
     
    Romero
    Darmian Bailly Rojo Shaw
    Herrera Fellaini Pogba
    Lingard Zlatan Mkhi
     
    Cristiano_RAFC said:
    I just got tickets for this game!!!! :drool: Somehow my girlfriend got hold of tickets for this and she will actually see Man United live for the first time. She's not into football at all, but she's super excited about it. Somehow even moreso than I am. :lol:
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    Enjoy mate
     
    Romero is starting today yeah . Jose probably fixed him as our GK in the Europe league .
     
    We'll find it difficult tonight. Anderlecht will be so motivated, and we're not playing very well lately.

    Mourinho said yesterday that we have two legs and we can "fix" it at Old Trafford next Thursday and knowing the guy, he'll look for a draw at Brussel.

    It'll the worst thing to do.

    He doesn't have to play safe, play 4-4-2, with Ibra, Martial, Mkhi and Lingard tonight. Play for all tonight, win and it'll be okay.

    I really think that the best way to prepare for Chelsea is playing a top game tonight, winning and knowing that we can qualify from this point
     
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Score Predictions

389,23,85
  • Man Utd win
  • Anderlecht win
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Detailed Results

  • 28% Anderlecht 0:2 Man Utd
  • 19% Anderlecht 1:2 Man Utd
  • 14% Anderlecht 0:1 Man Utd
  • 13% Anderlecht 1:1 Man Utd
  • 7% Anderlecht 1:3 Man Utd
  • 7% Anderlecht 0:3 Man Utd
  • 4% Anderlecht 0:0 Man Utd
  • 2% Anderlecht 2:1 Man Utd
  • 1% Anderlecht 5:0 Man Utd
  • 1% Anderlecht 0:4 Man Utd
  • 1% Anderlecht 1:0 Man Utd
  • 1% Anderlecht 1:4 Man Utd
  • 1% Anderlecht 0:5 Man Utd
  • 0% Anderlecht 2:2 Man Utd
  • 0% Anderlecht 3:1 Man Utd
  • 0% Anderlecht 3:3 Man Utd
  • 0% Anderlecht 4:1 Man Utd
  • 0% Anderlecht 2:3 Man Utd
  • 0% Anderlecht 2:4 Man Utd
  • 0% Anderlecht 2:5 Man Utd
  • 0% Anderlecht 1:5 Man Utd
  • 0% Anderlecht 2:0 Man Utd
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  1. Anderlecht
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Possession
36% 64%
Shots
12 15
Shots on Target
1 7
Corners
6 3
Fouls
17 9

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Dr. Felix Brych

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