Crystal Palace 1:3 Manchester United

Jonno · Feb 26, 2019

sunama said:
And Ashley Young?
Should the captain not play?

Erm, Technically if the captain plays, then Ashley Young does not

el3mel · Feb 26, 2019

Fred is going to start this surely. Scott, Fred and Periera midfield with Pogba pushed up in number 10 position behind Lukaku and Alexis. Not the dream midfield but there's no other options.

JJ12 · Feb 26, 2019

el3mel said:
Fred is going to start this surely. Scott, Fred and Periera midfield with Pogba pushed up in number 10 position behind Lukaku and Alexis. Not the dream midfield but there's no other options.

I'd prefer Pogba deeper and Pereira further forward for this one. Get Pogba on the ball as much as possible

kafta · Feb 26, 2019

Dave
Young
Smalling
Lindelof
Shaw
Andreas
Scott
Pogba
Rashford
Lukaku
Sanchez

Walters_19_MuFc · Feb 26, 2019

Rozay said:
Why would you drop Chris Smalling?

Not dropping as such, but he's not long got over his injury. I'd really want to rest one of Shaw or Young too and put Dalot in but I feel Townsend and/or Zaha would give him a torrid time.

Chicharo · Feb 26, 2019

I am actually very scared before this match. Too many players away, after the derby. If only Ole had come earlier...

Rozay · Feb 26, 2019

Walters_19_MuFc said:
Not dropping as such, but he's not long got over his injury. I'd really want to rest one of Shaw or Young too and put Dalot in but I feel Townsend and/or Zaha would give him a torrid time.

I hear you on that, especially regarding Young and Shaw.

Coops73 · Feb 26, 2019

Not gonna lie, I don’t like the feel of this.

ManuMou · Feb 27, 2019

Reading through some of the posts I just realized Rojo and Darmian are still with us.

Sweet Square · Feb 27, 2019

0- 3 United

The Man Himself · Feb 27, 2019

Do we know the squad which travelled for Crystal Palace?

Kapardin · Feb 27, 2019

Crystal vs Glass, more like, considering our injuries.

I think it's more about confidence really. If players are in the right frame of mind, even the second string, or third string in this case, can play out of their skins and come away with the win.

Ole's got to go with a 3-5-2 or similar for this game. Not spoilt for choices with respect to wingers at the moment.

PieCrust · Feb 27, 2019

el3mel said:
Fred is going to start this surely. Scott, Fred and Periera midfield with Pogba pushed up in number 10 position behind Lukaku and Alexis. Not the dream midfield but there's no other options.

Yeah I went with this too. I think it's either that or 3 in the back.

Feed Me · Feb 27, 2019

glazed said:
He's clearly got the job, short of some unbelievable collapse. Don't think that's even up for debate now.

I hope so. He's been near perfect since taking over.

AgentP · Feb 27, 2019

Crystal Palace are a good team. I hope everyone realises this. They are on a very good run. They beat City away and almost drew against Liverpool away. They'll sit deep and try to hit us on the counter with pace. We'll have to be at our best to win this. The injuries have made it even tougher.

Yagami · Feb 27, 2019

I'm confident of a win, which is rare for me. Rarely do Palace cause us trouble.

Tony247 · Feb 27, 2019

fred will start

ayushreddevil9 · Feb 27, 2019

Yagami said:
I'm confident of a win, which is rare for me. Rarely do Palace cause us trouble.

They cost us trouble last season when we had to rely on Matic wondergoal in the dying seconds

Yagami · Feb 27, 2019

ayushreddevil9 said:
They cost us trouble last season when we had to rely on Matic wondergoal in the dying seconds

They did, but I was always confident of getting a result. Even at 2-0 down. That's rare for me, but I just wasn't worried against them.

FootyGirl88 · Feb 27, 2019

ayushreddevil9 said:
They cost us trouble last season when we had to rely on Matic wondergoal in the dying seconds

They did but it was because of our tactics, we were very passive and we allowed them to play.

minoo-utd · Feb 27, 2019

They also will be without couple of defenders.

royboy16 · Feb 27, 2019

Is this on Sky ?

Nou_Camp99 · Feb 27, 2019

Apparently we might be putting two keepers on the bench. That's how bad it is.

roonster09 · Feb 27, 2019

Nou_Camp99 said:
Apparently we might be putting two keepers on the bench. That's how bad it is.

That's as bad as Pep naming only 6 subs.

ivaldo · Feb 27, 2019

royboy16 said:
Is this on Sky ?

Nope. This is BTs package and they've understandably chosen Chelsea vs Spurs.

Alemar · Feb 27, 2019

el3mel said:
Fred is going to start this surely. Scott, Fred and Periera midfield with Pogba pushed up in number 10 position behind Lukaku and Alexis. Not the dream midfield but there's no other options.

The option is to play Fred himself behind the strikers, Pogba is better where he plays, and Fred is a much higher attacking threat compared to Pereira. Although it might be better to opt for Gomes instead of Fred in such a setup

royboy16 · Feb 27, 2019

ivaldo said:
Nope. This is BTs package and they've understandably chosen Chelsea vs Spurs.

Bah,I was hoping to go watch the match in the pub,oh well.. -Thanks

ivaldo · Feb 27, 2019

royboy16 said:
Bah,I was hoping to go watch the match in the pub,oh well.. -Thanks

We get a raw deal in the UK!

Mourinhonista · Feb 27, 2019

If we want to make top 4 we have to beat these. We have a good squad and on paper we should win, it's up to Ole to get the best out of them.

.........Sanchez...............Lukaku.....
........................Pogba........
Fred.............McTominay......... Dalot
Shaw......Lindelöf....Smalling.......Young
..................... ...De Gea.....................

Play our most expensive attackers together, Pogba behind and Dalot on the right site to offer the necessary width. Pereira is on the bench.

Kostov · Feb 27, 2019

Don't we have a travelling squad news already?

Bola · Feb 27, 2019

People are right to point to the impact of injuries for United, but we should also recognise that Palace are without their 1st choice CB pairing I believe, while whatever keeper they choose, it will be of Championship standard

A long as Lukaku isn't the like striker, we will control this game

Go with a Diamond, be disciplined with the DM, get the full backs to be very attacking and we should keep them pinned in their half

roonster09 · Feb 27, 2019

Bola said:
People are right to point to the impact of injuries for United, but we should also recognise that Palace are without their 1st choice CB pairing I believe, while whatever keeper they choose, it will be of Championship standard

A long as Lukaku isn't the like striker, we will control this game

Go with a Diamond, be disciplined with the DM, get the full backs to be very attacking and we should keep them pinned in their half

Sakho is out and AWB is also out. So that's RB and CB. Tomkins is fit to play, I think he is their first choice CB.

Canagel · Feb 27, 2019

Tony247 said:
fred will start

He hasn't kicked a ball for 2 months. There's no way he will be upto speed starting from the beginning.

pocco · Feb 27, 2019

Nou_Camp99 said:
Apparently we might be putting two keepers on the bench. That's how bad it is.

That would be thoroughly pointless. We'd just have a youngster on the bench instead surely.

MrBest · Feb 27, 2019

Anyone know if Greenwood is in for a shout. Heard he was injured a few weeks back, seems like the perfect opportunity for him.

Bola · Feb 27, 2019

roonster09 said:
Sakho is out and AWB is also out. So that's RB and CB. Tomkins is fit to play, I think he is their first choice CB.

Thanks for clarifying

Also forgot about Wan-Bisakka, very decent player with a promising future ahead of him

pocco · Feb 27, 2019

MrBest said:
Anyone know if Greenwood is in for a shout. Heard he was injured a few weeks back, seems like the perfect opportunity for him.

Frustratingly it seems like he's still injured but there's not been much said about him. He's missing a lot of opportunities recently with injuries. Hopefully he'll be back for Southampton but I'm sure more first team players will be back from injury by then.

NJM78 · Feb 27, 2019

ivaldo said:
We get a raw deal in the UK!

The only thing apart from the weather that I enjoy about living in SA these past 6 years is that United are on TV every match. Although we did lose the carabao cup games. So sad.

waza7111 · Feb 27, 2019

I highly doubt that Fred will start in what will be a difficult away fixture having not played for months.

Catt · Feb 27, 2019

This will be tough. A hard game regardless and with the injuries it will be impressive if we can nick a win.

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