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Europa League Semi-finals 2nd Leg
Manchester United 1:1 Celta Vigo
Old Trafford
- Kick-off
- Thu, 11 May 2017 @ 8:05pm BST
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Discussion Your Lineup Prediction
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Taking Romero out now would be a shit message to send the squad. Do well and get replaced by a bigger name who hasn't been great and might be leaving, just because.
It would also feck up my prediction, which is what really counts.Romero will start tonight and the final if we go through.
He's played very well and it would be unfair, as well as bizarre, if Mourinho replaces him at this point.
This, SAF said it was his biggest regret not playing the keeper that made it through all the previous rounds.
Trolls the lot of em.- 3% Man Utd 0:5 Celta Vigo
Without fail, every match thread where Romero is likely to start, at least one person says Romero has a mistake in him, accident waiting to happen etc.
He's had a better season than De Gea and deserves to play tonight. Would be a crap message to send to dump him now.2-1 win
Exactly this.
Even if he does make a mistake I'm not bothered, everyone does and who is to say de gea wouldn't have made a mistake either.De Gea is better, you don't not play Nerymar in a final because Lingard played solidly in the other games, it's romantic nonsense, Romero is a professional, he knows his role is that of a back up.
It's not just loyalty, he's been amazing this season. 10 clean sheets in 15 matches, 7 in 10 EL matches. Should definitely play tonight and in the final.
Exactly. The team comes first. Either you think we're a better team with De Gea (in which case you pick De Gea) or you think we're a better team with Romero (in which case you're weird but I guess you pick Romero).
Last week was our supposed biggest game of our history, now this week is our biggest game of our history... Fixed
If your life was on the line, you'd sooner have Romero in goal than De Gea? Even though De Gea is arguably the best goalkeeper in the world and Romero very definitely isn't?
Nail meets headCelta supposedly good travellers or am I making things up now?
eh I guess? if you split the La Liga table into home and away matches. They're 13th at home (28 points) and 11th away (16 points)
The difference between the performances of the two players this season can't really be compared to Neymar vs Lingard. It's doing Romero a disservice while also being pretty favourable to De Gea. Even in previous seasons Romero has been pretty consistent.
My life isn't on the line, a EL semi final is and Romero is more than capable of doing the job.I'm back from the petzoo and can't shake the worried feeling. I think this will be unpleasant.
I'd have De Gea starting but he definitely isn't the best keeper in the world and whenever Romero's played he's been as good as De Gea this season.
De Gea is the much better keeper, Romero is a guy that was sat on the bench at clubs like Fiorentina before LvG threw him a life line. When you go into the big, important games you play your best players, De Gea is by far the best keeper, not only in our team but arguably in the world, you don't leave him out.
Can't really compare league form with Celta playing second string for large parts of the season there but they've only lost one away game in the Europa League and that was to Ajax. They still managed to score two goals though.
Right. But if your life was on the line you would go with De Gea as he's obviously the better goalkeeper?
I think Romero commands the area better than De gea recently.
You're not really comparing like for like though. Goalkeepers are less involved in games than outfield players and therefore there is less opportunity for the difference in class between the two to be as apparent, especially when the lesser goalkeeper has largely featured in low level EL games.
That difference in class is definitely there though. De Gea is generally a far superior goalkeeper than Romero, everyone on the planet accepts that. It's weird to deliberately hinder the team in a massive game by risking that difference in class being exposed.Why are people so scared?
They were absolutely average at home, that was their chance.
We will boss them at home, apart from sisto/aspas/guidetti they all looked pretty poor.
That's not really what I asked though.
Anderlecht?
I really didn't want to reply, this life on the line thing is a tad ridiculous but not as ridiculous as you talking on my behalf.
Not based on recent form and based on the fact Romero has been reliable in the EL. DDG doesn't seem to have any command of his box, noticed a couple of mix ups with defenders and his distribution has been woeful of late. Not bothered at all if DDG doesn't play.Again, the most sane approach is to select De Gea.
Exactly this. Nothing wrong with rotating keepers (or indeed any other players) to maintain match fitness, but when it comes to the crunch you want your best players on the pitch.Are people still crying over the potential inclusion of Romero? It's really quite pathetic. Romero has been fantastic all tournament, and I have no qualms over our goalkeeper whoever he is.I can't shake the feeling we're going to rue the missed chances at their place. These guy's have nothing to lose so will come out of the blocks firing and that's exactly what we can't contain or deal with.
Need an early goal to puncture their spirit. The longer it goes on the more we'll suffer nerves and risk of losing.
Aye we bottled the chance to get about 3/4 at their ground, could come back to haunt us.
But I think it's quite clear that he's right. For a team that won the treble, numerous PLs, three Chammpions League, it's absurd to think that a EL semi-final is the most important game.
Not exactly true is it? There's a final on the line. Sure we have the away goal but they're hardly going to come out and throw everything in the desperate search for a goal from minute 1. They will have a carefully considered game-plan they plan to execute as will we.
Agree with the rest. Could be a nervy night if we don't dictate the tempo from the outset.
I think he'll too.
I expect it, but feel very sad to know he'll mostly play in all of important matches. Bizarre for a club of United's stature.
Hardly surprising that a run of good performances against the likes of Anderlecht, Rostov, St Etienne and Zorya isn't quite enough to persuade people he's a better option than De Gea.We score first they'll have no choice but to open up. We can then score another to put the tie to bed.
It is quite surprising that people might think Jose doesn't know this himself. He clearly has his reasons for persisting with Romero thus far. In fact DDG might even be starting tonight, we don't know yet but soon will. Let's at least see who's in goal before throwing our toys out the pram.- Status
Man of the Match
Runners-up
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26%
Paul Pogba
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14%
Marcus Rashford
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8%
Sergio Romero
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7%
Henrikh Mkhitaryan
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7%
Eric Bailly
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5%
Ander Herrera
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1%
Antonio Valencia
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1%
Wayne Rooney
Player Ratings
Total Average Rating
Highest Rated Player
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Compiled from 420 ratings.
Score Predictions
494,35,81
- Man Utd win
- Celta Vigo win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 35% Man Utd 2:0 Celta Vigo
- 16% Man Utd 1:0 Celta Vigo
- 14% Man Utd 2:1 Celta Vigo
- 8% Man Utd 1:1 Celta Vigo
- 7% Man Utd 3:0 Celta Vigo
- 5% Man Utd 3:1 Celta Vigo
- 4% Man Utd 0:0 Celta Vigo
- 2% Man Utd 5:0 Celta Vigo
- 2% Man Utd 1:2 Celta Vigo
- 2% Man Utd 0:5 Celta Vigo
- 1% Man Utd 4:0 Celta Vigo
- 1% Man Utd 0:2 Celta Vigo
- 0% Man Utd 1:3 Celta Vigo
- 0% Man Utd 2:2 Celta Vigo
- 0% Man Utd 3:2 Celta Vigo
- 0% Man Utd 4:1 Celta Vigo
- 0% Man Utd 2:3 Celta Vigo
- 0% Man Utd 5:3 Celta Vigo
- 0% Man Utd 0:1 Celta Vigo
- 0% Man Utd 5:4 Celta Vigo
- 0% Man Utd 5:5 Celta Vigo
- 0% Man Utd 0:3 Celta Vigo
- 0% Man Utd 0:4 Celta Vigo
Match Stats
- Man Utd
- Celta Vigo
- Possession
- 33% 67%
- Shots
- 11 16
- Shots on Target
- 4 6
- Corners
- 4 8
- Fouls
- 19 20
Referee
Ovidiu Hategan
Man Utd Lineup
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