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Leicester City 0:1 Manchester United

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Thu, 1 September 2022 @ 8:00pm BST
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    De Gea
    Dalot
    Varane
    Martinez
    Malacia
    Casemiro
    Fred
    Fernandes
    Sancho
    Elanga
    Ronaldo

    Defend well, be patient and I'm sure we're capable of scoring 2 goals today.

    1-2 United
     
    Revaulx said:
    Yes I am. And that’s what SAF did all the time. And it often involved replacing a great player in red hot form with an inferior one. It was the right thing to do in the long run.

    I do think he occasionally went overboard with making too many changes at once. Nobody’s advocating that now though; we haven’t got the depth in any case.
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    I can't really say much before 2005 with SAF because didn't watch the matches but, I honestly don't recall him rotating players that were in good form other than for tactical reasons. He certainly didn't rotate the back 4 once he found a partnership that worked well.

    Managers do rotate their front players, ETH actually mentioned that yesterday specifically about that due to the higher intensity runs they make. Ledley King for Spurs is the only CB that I can recall that was ever rotated due to his fragility. Don't think Varane is in that category. He was fit to start the season but, apparently had a special program due to the issue of last season. But, now can't see him rotated just to hope he doesn't get injured.
     
    Excited tp see casemiro tonight. Lets see if our midfield will look a bit harder to play through.

    Same line-up as the last game, with Casemiro for Scott i guess.

    Hoping for another clean sheet, 0-2. Sancho and Bruno with the goals.
     
    DickDastardly said:
    Sure.

    Keeping years of underperforming players happy is our primary goal.

    Feck em. I'd want nothing more then to see them benched until sold.
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    That’s not really the way to keep performance high. Mourinho, pretty much the most grumpy person alive, talked about the importance to give minutes to the whole squad, to keep them match fit bit also happy.

    Also, the whole starting xi is full of players who underperformed last year and also so far this season. Lets not pretend we’ve been a great success so far with 6 points, 12th position in the table and scoring an average of 1 goal and conceding 1.75 per game.
     
    Shimo said:
    I can't really say much before 2005 with SAF because didn't watch the matches but, I honestly don't recall him rotating players that were in good form other than for tactical reasons. He certainly didn't rotate the back 4 once he found a partnership that worked well.

    Managers do rotate their front players, ETH actually mentioned that yesterday specifically about that due to the higher intensity runs they make. Ledley King for Spurs is the only CB that I can recall that was ever rotated due to his fragility. Don't think Varane is in that category. He was fit to start the season but, apparently had a special program due to the issue of last season. But, now can't see him rotated just to hope he doesn't get injured.
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    I don’t recall Rio ever being picked more than once a week in his last couple of seasons. Evans, and later Jones and Smalling, got plenty of games; and not just when Vidić or Rio were injured.

    Uncle Pat was the only ever-present :drool:
     
    wolvored said:
    de Gea
    Dalot Varane Martinez Malacia
    Casemiro
    Eriksen Bruno
    Elanga Rashford Sancho

    We won with this team twice so got to start this. Bring Ronaldo on 2nd half for whoevers playing the worst out the front 3.​
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    I get that De Gea has his issues but playing him over there would be risky.

    He would be at least 50% better at dealing with corners though.
     
    Todd said:
    This is obviously the more winnable match of the two this week, so I think we need to go with our strongest lineup today. Assuming Antony won't debut until Sunday:

    De Gea

    Dalot
    Varane
    Martinez
    Malacia

    Casemiro
    Eriksen
    Bruno

    Rashford
    Ronaldo
    Sancho
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    Arsenal really aren’t that good, neither are we but we can win both games.
     
    5 fecking games into the season. No need for rest tonight or Sunday. Only way to scrub the laziness from this squad is to run them hard. Get them used to it.

    Europa League next week, some rotation for that is fine.
     
    3 point at leicester is just as important as any points at arsenal..
    Play the strongest team, get it won and then use the FIVE subs and rest key players..
    Id like to see the same starting 11 as weekend with Casamiro in for MCT?.
     
    diarm said:
    I get that De Gea has his issues but playing him over there would be risky.

    He would be at least 50% better at dealing with corners though.
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    :lol: dont know what happened i centered the text
     
    Shimo said:
    I can't really say much before 2005 with SAF because didn't watch the matches but, I honestly don't recall him rotating players that were in good form other than for tactical reasons. He certainly didn't rotate the back 4 once he found a partnership that worked well.

    Managers do rotate their front players, ETH actually mentioned that yesterday specifically about that due to the higher intensity runs they make. Ledley King for Spurs is the only CB that I can recall that was ever rotated due to his fragility. Don't think Varane is in that category. He was fit to start the season but, apparently had a special program due to the issue of last season. But, now can't see him rotated just to hope he doesn't get injured.
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    He was regularly dropping and rotating players. Phil Neville would play midfield / left back or Nicky Butt would play, Ronny Johnsen would sometimes play midfield.

    Utd's best line up from 1999 only ever started 1 game together.
     
    I reckon he'll pick Casemiro, McTominay and Bruno and the CAF will implode.

    Scotty will play well and people will spend the evening trying to tell us why he didn't again.
     
    diarm said:
    I reckon he'll pick Casemiro, McTominay and Bruno and the CAF will implode.

    Scotty will play well and people will spend the evening trying to tell us why he didn't again.
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    I'd prefer to do this against Arsenal because of the energy Arsenal have been playing with. Eriksen could struggle to keep up.
     
    diarm said:
    I reckon he'll pick Casemiro, McTominay and Bruno and the CAF will implode.

    Scotty will play well and people will spend the evening trying to tell us why he didn't again.
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    Basically, McTominay is brilliant and the rest of us have all just been making it up.
     
    Rozay said:
    Basically, McTominay is brilliant and the rest of us have all just been making it up.
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    Basically, McTominay is a developing midfielder with limitations and areas he can improve on. He's also played decent games where the rest of you have ignored what happened in front of you and made shit up.
     
    Hoping for Fred, Casemiro and Bruno as the midfield behind Sancho, Rashford and Ronaldo. Leave the back 5 as is. Eriksen rested, McTominay replaced.
     
    Looks like Ronaldo doesn't start, but Maddison does for Leicester.
     
    Recon Ronaldo will start now that he's staying and Martial still injured.
     
    diarm said:
    Basically, McTominay is a developing midfielder with limitations and areas he can improve on. He's also played decent games where the rest of you have ignored what happened in front of you and made shit up.
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    This is all semantics and can’t bamboozle me. I can easily substitute any footballer at any team who isn’t good enough with just saying ‘they have limitations and areas they need to improve on’. It is these very limitations and areas needed to improve that make him below the required standard, as applies for any other player who isn’t good enough, but perhaps would be if they only improved their passing, dribbling, finishing etc (i.e - their limitations).

    He’s no more or less ‘developing’ than anyone else. He’s an almost 26 year old player who has been a United regular for years. The idea isn’t for players to develop and become good enough at the end of their careers (with no guarantee of that or even evidence in this case).

    And the idea that nobody ever says McTominay has a decent game on here when he has a decent game is total fabrication anyway. In fact, it’s only recently that many people have stopped making excuses for his performances. Go back a couple of seasons and he was being called a future captain and his limitations that you speak of were simply ignored.
     
    diarm said:
    Basically, McTominay is a developing midfielder with limitations and areas he can improve on. He's also played decent games where the rest of you have ignored what happened in front of you and made shit up.
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    Yeah a bit like Jesse Lingard
     
    De Gea
    Dalot Varane Martinez Malacia

    Eriksen Casemiro

    Bruno

    Antony Martial Sancho
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    I imagine this will become a regular line up for you, though tonight I’d expect Sancho right, Ronaldo and Rashford down the left.
     
    Where do I predict the lineup?

    Edit: Just sawed that i was closed. It's over an hour remaining!
     
    Rozay said:
    This is all semantics and can’t bamboozle me. I can easily substitute any footballer at any team who isn’t good enough with just saying ‘they have limitations and areas they need to improve on’. It is these very limitations and areas needed to improve that make him below the required standard, as applies for any other player who isn’t good enough, but perhaps would be if they only improved their passing, dribbling, finishing etc (i.e - their limitations).

    He’s no more or less ‘developing’ than anyone else. He’s an almost 26 year old player who has been a United regular for years. The idea isn’t for players to develop and become good enough at the end of their careers (with no guarantee of that or even evidence in this case).

    And the idea that nobody ever says McTominay has a decent game on here when he has a decent game is total fabrication anyway. In fact, it’s only recently that many people have stopped making excuses for his performances. Go back a couple of seasons and he was being called a future captain and his limitations that you speak of were simply ignored.
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    It's not his fault that United have failed to sign a decent MF in years. Nobody has any doubt that he's not a starter in a team that's going to win things but he's got his head down and put the required effort in more often than not. He's going to be an important player for the rest of the season as there's bound to be rotation/injuries. I have confidence he can have an impact in that role instead of having to deal with the pressure of being part of one of the worst Utd MF's in recent history.
     
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54% 46%
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10 9
Shots on Target
2 2
Corners
1 3
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7 15

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