Europa League Round of 32 - 1st Leg

Club Brugge 1:1 Manchester United

Jan Breydel Stadium

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Thu, 20 February 2020 @ 5:55pm GMT
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    This is not Manchester weather, it's that flood weather you see down south and in Wales.
     
    We should play balls into Martial more often if he can roast defenders like that..
     
    hobbers said:
    It's hardly rocket science is it?

    We have two big games in Chelsea and Brugge away. Big games for our CL chances. Followed by two "lesser" games at home to Watford (obviously under Ole that's a tougher game than City away) and the return leg against Brugge. If we blow them away today we could have rested the entire side at Old Trafford.

    Any intelligent manager would have made a couple of changes tonight, then a couple more against Watford, then given the remaining players a rest in the return fixture.

    The players have had a two week break. The players finally have some serious momentum after Chelsea, which we've not had since the Spurs and City games. Ole has blown all of that away with this moronic selection.
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    I don't understand not using Fernades tonight. Surely, it's more familiar to him than playing Watford.
     
    Half-time
    So far it’s Martial 8, everyone else 3-4. Terrible performance
     
    #07 said:
    So many of the players on the pitch simply aren't good enough. Martial's pretty much the only one showing any quality. Once again the level of our squad is being horribly exposed. Take a few first XI players out and we turn to diarrhea.
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    I know what you mean, but ultimately is this actually a positive sign going forward?
     
    Fecking good goal that from Martial

    Expected performance given the shocking team selection
     
    JJ12 said:
    I think playing Thursday nights and also having 3 key players out long term hurts.
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    I don't get the Thursday night excuse cause we rarely if ever play on the Saturday so we get the same amount of break as we would playing Wed/Sat in the CL.

    The 3 key players is more telling.
     
    hobbers said:
    It's hardly rocket science is it?

    We have two big games in Chelsea and Brugge away. Big games for our CL chances. Followed by two "lesser" games at home to Watford (obviously under Ole that's a tougher game than City away) and the return leg against Brugge. If we blow them away today we could have rested the entire side at Old Trafford.

    Any intelligent manager would have made a couple of changes tonight, then a couple more against Watford, then given the remaining players a rest in the return fixture.

    The players have had a two week break. The players finally have some serious momentum after Chelsea, which we've not had since the Spurs and City games. Ole has blown all of that away with this moronic selection.
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    Brugge is the lesser opponent, plus we have a home game against them next Thursday where you can bet more components of the first XI will feature if this one is an open book by that point. I'm not quite sure why you're so willing to play second fiddle players against Watford when we have a monumental chance to close the gap.

    Maybe you should be the manager? Send in an application.
     
    We should strenghten midfield and put Ighalo up front with Martial.
     
    I’d go to a back 4, Williams off for Ighalo, move Martial to the left wing. Back 3 not working.
     
    I propose subbing Williams at halftime and switching to a 4-2-3-1.

    ------------------------ Romero ---------------------------------
    ------- Dalot -- Lindelof -- Maguire -- Shaw --------
    ----------------- Pereira --- Matic ----------------------------
    --- Mata ----------- Lingard --------------- Martial ------
    ------------------------ Ighalo ------------------------------------
     
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    Romero
    Poor error. 4
    Dalot
    Not at it. 4
    Lindelof
    Smuggled the ball away for Brugge’s first chance. 5
    Maguire
    Lack of pace exposed. 4
    Shaw
    Done okay. 6
    Williams
    Lacking confidence. 4
    Matic
    Overwhelmed at times. 5
    Pereira
    Drew a save. 5
    Mata
    Anonymous at times. 4
    Lingard
    Done next to nothing. 4
    Martial
    Took his goal so well. 7
     
    ArjenIsM3 said:
    Yeah but we cannot risk overplaying him with the injuries we already have. Don't forget he played nearly every match in Portugal too.
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    Jesus christ. Man is never injured and has just had a two week break.


    Listen to yourselves. Ole at the Wheel.....
     
    Lennon7 said:
    Didn’t clock, but still. That whole midfield shouldn’t even be at the club.
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    And yet they are. So I don't really get the original sentiment. They're here, we need to rotate if we are going to survive these next three weeks, Ole has identified this as a game we can rest key players.
     
    go look at the comments on instagram below the jesse lingaard 200 appearances post
     
    How we have got back in this game I don’t know. Think we need to perhaps re shuffle the pack a little, I love Williams to bits but he is having a tough one tonight, can’t say much about Dalot on the other side either. I say bring on a midfielder for perhaps Brandon and get some control in the middle, as much as we look shaky, so do they and we can get at them. The away goal is great but I think we can get 2 without totally screwing up at the other end,
     
    2 man midfield said:
    I’d go to a back 4, Williams off for Ighalo, move Martial to the left wing. Back 3 not working.
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    I don't know. If it wasn't for the brain fart, we'd have them where we want them.

    They're looking for the long ball over the top a lot, I just wish we didn't leave one on one at the back
     
    Judas said:
    The lack of creativity in this lineup is predictably nonexistent. Hope Bruno comes on for the second half, I’d like to take most of them off to be fair.
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    it's been going on for about five years. keep buying defensive midfielders and no creative ones (before Bruno)
    matherto said:
    I don't get the Thursday night excuse cause we rarely if ever play on the Saturday so we get the same amount of break as we would playing Wed/Sat in the CL.

    The 3 key players is more telling.
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    mind you, we did play monday!
     
    Mata off Ighalo on please.

    mata is doing nothing at all.
     
    maguire is having an absolute horror... half expect to hear his injured and out for six months
     
    Teja said:
    I propose subbing Williams at halftime and switching to a 4-2-3-1.

    ------------------------ Romero ---------------------------------
    ------- Dalot -- Lindelof -- Maguire -- Shaw --------
    ----------------- Pereira --- Matic ----------------------------
    --- Mata ----------- Lingard --------------- Martial ------
    ------------------------ Ighalo ------------------------------------
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    Take Martial further away from goal?
     
    Just seen some highlights. How did Romero escape a booking for that shin destroyer lunge he pulled?! :eek:
     
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Anthony Martial image Anthony Martial 65% of 199 votes

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Score Predictions

154,20,41
  • Man Utd win
  • Brugge win
  • Draw

Detailed Results

  • 33% Brugge 0:2 Man Utd
  • 16% Brugge 1:1 Man Utd
  • 13% Brugge 1:2 Man Utd
  • 11% Brugge 0:1 Man Utd
  • 7% Brugge 0:3 Man Utd
  • 5% Brugge 1:3 Man Utd
  • 4% Brugge 1:0 Man Utd
  • 4% Brugge 2:1 Man Utd
  • 3% Brugge 0:0 Man Utd
  • 1% Brugge 1:4 Man Utd
  • 1% Brugge 0:5 Man Utd
  • 1% Brugge 2:0 Man Utd
  • 0% Brugge 5:0 Man Utd
  • 0% Brugge 2:4 Man Utd
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Match Stats

  1. Brugge
  2. Man Utd
Possession
40% 60%
Shots
10 16
Shots on Target
4 4
Corners
4 5
Fouls
15 9

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Aleksey Kulbakov

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