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Champions League Group A
CSKA Moscow 1:4 Manchester United
VEB Arena, Moscow
- Kick-off
- Wed, 27 September 2017 @ 7:45pm BST
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) look forward to a new life under Ruben Amorim. What system will we be playing? What players will impress? and how will it all go? We also say goodbye to Ruud Van Nistelrooy and review United's 3-0 win at home against Leicester City.
Discussion Your Lineup Prediction
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Has he actually mentioned that Jones is inujured or is it like Valencia he doesn't want to risk him in this particular game?
No Rashford nor Martial.I think Jones is simply being rotated and given a rest.4:01
Training squad
These are the players who have taken to the pitch:
Lindelof
Matic
Mkhitaryan
Herrera
Bailly
Pereira
McTominay
Smalling
Lingard
Rashford
Young
De Gea
Darmian
Martial
Blind
Tuanzebe
Lukaku
Mata
Romero
My bad i missed it
Confirmed United squad members
David de Gea
Sergio Romero
Joel Pereira
Eric Bailly
Chris Smalling
Daley Blind
Victor Lindelof
Axel Tuanzebe
Matteo Darmian
Ander Herrera
Nemanja Matic
Scott McTominay
Jesse Lingard
Ashley Young
Henrikh Mkhitaryan
Juan Mata
Romelu Lukaku
Marcus Rashford
Anthony MartialDe Gea
Bailly Smalling Lindelof
Darmian Matic Herrera Young
Lingard Lukaku Martial
Jones is probably just being given a rest.So Matic, Herrera and Lingard in mf?
Was mentioned on the mutv post-presser show.
So I wonder if it is in training or another casualty from the Southampton game? The international break might be a blessing for once. If he is out of the Palace game we will be justified keeping him back from the England games as well.De Gea
Bailly Smalling Lindelöf
Darmiam Matic Herrera Young
Mkhi-Lukaku-MartialWe're definitely gonna drop points here. Looking at the squad, I'd take a point and run.We have too many group matches later on in the year that are in between two PL matches against title rivals so I think a win tomorrow is quite important. Need to get the group wrapped up as soon as possible just so we can take out foot off the gas later on and settle for draws.de Gea
Romero
Pereira
Bailly
Smalling
Lindelof
Blind
Young
Darmian
Tuanzebe
Matic
Herrera
McTominay
Mata
Lingard
Mkhitaryan
Lukaka
Rashford
Martial
Looks to be the travelling squad in full, 18-man squad + a third goalkeeper. Not sure on the fitness of Valencia and Jones, but I did expect them to be most likely left out for this trip given current importance to the squad and likelihood of getting an injury. Valencia still taking injections for a knee problem as far as I remember and Jones being Jones, the cold weather and hybrid pitch was probably something José felt we could risk leaving them out of and still achieve a result. Which, in fairness, I still think we can with that squad. Expect Valencia and Jones back in against Palace.
Really torn as to whether José will go for three at the back due to the lack of experienced central midfield players, or whether he just wants to go with 4231 and try to outplay them. Of course we can and should outplay a team like this, but it's very easy to fell to the conditions and atmosphere so I am leaning toward more of a cautious game plan.
I'd put my neck on the line and say surely de Gea, Young (RB), Matic, Herrera, Lingard, Lukaku all start, probably Bailly. But then it's toss ups between Blind/Darmian, Smalling/Lindelof (or both if a back three), Mata/Mkhitaryan/Rashford/Martial... Lots of options.Think we'll win 1-0.Mods can we put Young into the defender category of the line up predictor?Jose will go with the strongest team he can set out on the pitch. His mentality is to get the points to progress beyond the group stage as quick as possible. Then, he can rotate players and rest players in the latter matches in the group stage.Think the lineup is obvious now.
De Gea
Valencia - Bailly - Smalling - Blind
Matic - Herrera
Mata - Mikhi - Martial
LukakuIs Jones really injured?
I think it's more of a precaution to leave him out. He was limping against Southampton for a while but didn't look serious as he went on to finish the game.
Unfortunate...hopefully Herrera will come to the party against CSKA Moscow.
That's a optimistic with regards to Jones but hopefully it's nothing.
It is still a very good line-up. I hope Pogba is back soon!Interested to see how Matic and Herrera do as a duo.I'm going to be in Amsterdam for the first time and was wondering if there are any good places to watch the match. PMs are appreciated too, thanks!If the pitch is decent, I have a hunch Herrera and Matic will be immense and dominate. But good midfields suffer on shit pitches, so that could scupper us.
Valencia didn't travel
Rested ?
Well that's Darmian or Young starting then but I think since we play Palace on Saturday Young may stay on the bench to be rested as well.Will Shaw get some game time?Martial didn't even travel!?
He did.“I won't have Fellaini, I won't have Pogba, we won't have Carrick, so all three midfield players that we lose for this match,” Mourinho said. “So there are not many solutions, but we try not to focus on individual battles or in specific areas on the pitch. We try to focus on the globality and we are going to have a team with quality, with balance, to try to win the match which is our objective.”
Good to hear.People complain about Lingard all the time, but he could feature in at least three different positions of a 3-5-2 tomorrow.So how good are this lot in comparison to the outfit at Liverpool faced tonight? I think a draw would be a decent result considering we have a few missing.
Again I don't think a draw will be enough. If we draw and Benfica win then both we and Cska will be 4 points and Benfica 3. Then any negative result in Lisbon will put us under much pressure in the next 2 home games and the group will be complicated.
The 2015 group still have its shadows on. We were too much confident of getting through it till we complicated it a lot and we went to Germany asking to defeat Wolfsburg. We must avoid a similar situation here.Last edited:- Status
the feck you doing missing out Martial and Rashford?Man of the Match
Runners-up
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10%
Romelu Lukaku
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3%
Henrikh Mkhitaryan
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2%
Nemanja Matic
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1%
David de Gea
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1%
Ander Herrera
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1%
Daley Blind
Player Ratings
Total Average Rating
Highest Rated Player
Lowest Rated Player
Compiled from 568 ratings.
Score Predictions
550,28,136
- Man Utd win
- Moscow win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 27% Moscow 0:2 Man Utd
- 20% Moscow 1:2 Man Utd
- 16% Moscow 0:1 Man Utd
- 15% Moscow 1:1 Man Utd
- 5% Moscow 0:3 Man Utd
- 5% Moscow 1:3 Man Utd
- 3% Moscow 0:0 Man Utd
- 2% Moscow 0:4 Man Utd
- 2% Moscow 2:1 Man Utd
- 1% Moscow 0:5 Man Utd
- 1% Moscow 2:2 Man Utd
- 1% Moscow 1:0 Man Utd
- 1% Moscow 5:0 Man Utd
- 1% Moscow 2:0 Man Utd
- 0% Moscow 3:1 Man Utd
- 0% Moscow 4:5 Man Utd
- 0% Moscow 1:4 Man Utd
Match Stats
- Moscow
- Man Utd
- Possession
- 38% 62%
- Shots
- 15 16
- Shots on Target
- 7 10
- Corners
- 3 7
- Fouls
- 10 5
Referee
Jonas Eriksson
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Matteo Darmian
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replaced by Jesse Lingard
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replaced by Marcus Rashford
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