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Leicester City 0:1 Manchester United

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    3 - 0 with Lindelof clubbing Vardy on multiple occasions (but within the rules of the game) .. and Vardy sent off for retaliation.
     
    LawCharltonBest said:
    That would be a bad move in my view. Martial is our biggest threat right now and I’d keep our best front 6 in toe
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    He might not be fully fit yet. And I'd much prefer Sanchez starting on the left and Rashford through the middle rather than what we saw on Tuesday.
     
    They are a shit team who raise their game against top 6 opposition.

    Their last few results:

    Drew 1-1 away at Liverpool.
    Lost 4-3 away at Wolves.
    Lost 1-2 at home to 10-man Southampton.
    Lost 2-1 away to League Two Newport County.
    Won 1-0 away at Everton.
    Lost 0-1 at home to Cardiff City.
    Won 2-1 at home to Manchester City.
    Lost 0-1 away to Chelsea.

    The key is to get an early goal or two; they'll start thinking about next weekend's game with Spurs by half-time.
     
    What's with all the gloom and doom? OK, it's true that Leicester can always get a result against us irrespective of the manager's competency as they are massive game-raisers against top sides. So I don't consider this a test of Ole's credentials as it is quite possible to lose even if we get our tactics right.

    But luck has to play a huge part in beating such teams and I hope we have that in spades tonight. Going with 2-1 United.
     
    It makes sinse.
    If you told me two years ago that we'd have Sanchez I'm the starting eleven and it weakens us, I'd have told you to have your head checked.
     
    Happy enough with any front three combination from Rashford, Lingard, Martial, or Sanchez, please no Mata or Lukaku starting.
     
    Chilwell, Maguire and Ndidi will be on it, they know United and other big clubs have them on the radar for potential summer recruits.
     
    If we treat this is a European away day under Fergie (sit back, let them have the ball, counter), we win.

    If we go all out attack, we play it into their hands because that's the only game they know. I know there's an emphasis from everyone regarding playing 'the United way' but a significant part of the United way was to not go gung-ho in banana skin away games.
     
    Samid said:
    If we treat this is a European away day under Fergie (sit back, let them have the ball, counter), we win.

    If we go all out attack, we play it into their hands because that's the only game they know. I know there's an emphasis from everyone regarding playing 'the United way' but a significant part of the United way was to not go gung-ho in banana skin away games.
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    Yep, need to play them like Arsenal. After all, they've got the English Aubameyang up front.
     
    DDG

    Young Lindelof Jones Shaw

    Herrera Matic Pogba

    Lingard Rashford Alexis/Martial

    Important three points ahead, win this and we’ll be in the top 4 after the Fulham game.
     
    Hopefully we won't get to see Lindelof - Jones partnership at work today. Vardy gonna feast on their lack of pace/speed considering the high CB line we play with.
     
    Buster15 said:
    Manchester United are not about a single player.
    Wether he is fit or not we should have a team capable of being Leicester if we really are capable of a top four finish.
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    We are not. But Martial is one of our best players and very important for our attack.

    And you are making it look like Leicester are some push over. We have a team capable of beating them, they also have a team capable of beating anyone. I hope we have our best attacker available for this, that’s all.
     
    Trophy Room said:
    I think Leicester's defence is underrated. This will be very difficult, we will have to be at our best.
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    Underrated? Chilwell, Maguire and Pereira seem to be rated quite highly from what I have seen. All three of them would probably even start for us tbh.
     
    Mr Smith said:
    This is the last game to bring Smalling back for. On his day he's probably better than Jones, but he's lacking match sharpness and Vardy will do him. Jones may not be our best defender, but he's performed reasonably well over the last 8 or so games, I'd keep him in for this one and then bring Smalling or Bailly in at Fulham which is a much more forgiving game after several matches out of the team.
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    Smalling hasn't been out that long though and Maguire is a big threat at set pieces with neither Jones or Lindelof being great in the air. On the flipside if not Smalling I'd play Bailly who was better against Arsenal than Jones has been in any of the games he's played and he was very poor against Burnley.
     
    izec said:
    Chilwell, Maguire and Ndidi will be on it, they know United and other big clubs have them on the radar for potential summer recruits.
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    Ndidi wouldn’t be a bad successor to Matic in our DM role to be honest. He’s a useful player with plenty of room to grow.
     
    Makes sense if Martial is on the bench and Alexis is staring this one. Martial has been just back from injury.
     
    Kostov said:
    We are not. But Martial is one of our best players and very important for our attack.

    And you are making it look like Leicester are some push over. We have a team capable of beating them, they also have a team capable of beating anyone. I hope we have our best attacker available for this, that’s all.
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    On the contrary. I certainly don't see Leicester as a pushover.

    My point is simply that if we are going to finish in the top four, we should be able to beat a mid table side.
    Agree with you that Martial is one of our best players.
     
    It will be a tough game no doubt as Leicester ain’t no pushovers.

    Then again, these are the games we need to win and I am confident we will.
     
    The main worries are set pieces with Maguire and the counters with Vardy. They can cause us problems I just hope the Burnley game has us ready from minute 1
     
    J_XO said:
    The main worries are set pieces with Maguire and the counters with Vardy. They can cause us problems I just hope the Burnley game has us ready from minute 1
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    I'd be worrying about Vardy's liking for falling flat on his face in the box as well?
     
    Buster15 said:
    On the contrary. I certainly don't see Leicester as a pushover.

    My point is simply that if we are going to finish in the top four, we should be able to beat a mid table side.
    Agree with you that Martial is one of our best players.
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    We are able to beat a midtable side and we are able to beat Leicester, but as we both agree it’s a combination of factors. For our best chance let’s hope our best players play.
     
    This will be more than a battle, I don’t expect them to lie down at home. I’ve gone for a 3-3 draw because both sides can score goals but have ‘under performing defences’. We don’t need Jones having brain farts in this match. I hope Lindelhof can do a good job on channeling Vardy who always seems to lift his game against us. Son of Schmeics can have his moments, hope our forwards give him a hard match.
     
    Tell our defenders not to chat shit in front of Vardy and We'll be fine.
     
    J_XO said:
    The main worries are set pieces with Maguire and the counters with Vardy. They can cause us problems I just hope the Burnley game has us ready from minute 1
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    It poses a tricky problem.

    We have decent headers of the ball to counter Maguire. And fast enough defenders to handle Vardy. But not enough of either to form a coherent combination.

    Ole seems very good at coming up with weird formations to deal with a specific team's strengths. I think we could be in for another one.
     
    Samid said:
    If we treat this is a European away day under Fergie (sit back, let them have the ball, counter), we win.

    If we go all out attack, we play it into their hands because that's the only game they know. I know there's an emphasis from everyone regarding playing 'the United way' but a significant part of the United way was to not go gung-ho in banana skin away games.
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    Agreed. They aren't game-raisers against top teams, they are simply a counter-attacking team and if we just go in looking at exchanging blows and relying on better quality we would be ignoring they have been perfecting that a lot longer.
     
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386,34,48
  • Man Utd win
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Detailed Results

  • 36% Leicester 1:2 Man Utd
  • 18% Leicester 1:3 Man Utd
  • 12% Leicester 0:2 Man Utd
  • 6% Leicester 2:3 Man Utd
  • 5% Leicester 1:1 Man Utd
  • 4% Leicester 2:2 Man Utd
  • 4% Leicester 0:1 Man Utd
  • 4% Leicester 0:3 Man Utd
  • 4% Leicester 2:1 Man Utd
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  • 1% Leicester 0:5 Man Utd
  • 1% Leicester 1:0 Man Utd
  • 1% Leicester 0:0 Man Utd
  • 1% Leicester 0:4 Man Utd
  • 1% Leicester 2:0 Man Utd
  • 0% Leicester 3:2 Man Utd
  • 0% Leicester 5:0 Man Utd
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  • 0% Leicester 3:1 Man Utd
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Possession
45% 55%
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17 10
Shots on Target
6 6
Corners
7 2
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14 9

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