To be fair, the latter two have never shown their minds being out of a game and a lack of motivation, and Pogba helped us win the midfield battle after he came on on Tuesday simply by virtue of being a better footballer than Ander, Danilo and Gueye. I agree that Matic and Maguire shouldn’t play though, but I think Pogba should.
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Manchester United 0:0 Chelsea
Old Trafford
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They must have thought highly of Pellistri in training. Looking forward to him making his debut at some stage.The 352 I expect, with James or Greenwood in for martial. Cavani off bench. Maguire for tuanzebe.
Not saying what I want but what I predict. Really need to get at this Chelsea defence and trust Fred and McTominay most of any combo to keep us solid. Get Telles right up3-5-2 again please.
Pogba I agree but let's not pretend we have an abundance of good centre backs after one game. Lindelof has been worse than Maguire this season.
Did you miss Maguire playing well v Newcastle and coming back strong with a key goal?
Let's no rewrite history. Lindelof has not been any worse than Maguire. Just because we didn't pay £80m for him, it doesn't mean we can slander him to excuse Maguire's shite performances.
Actually we have : Vs PSG second half territory: 36.4% – before Pogba ↓ 53.1% – after Pogba. Do you want to contain or attack?!
What have you/you learned? some people are just blinded by their dislike of Paul and just wanting to be right even when the facts show that they are wrong.
Can injury-prone Axel start 2 games in 5 days after not starting for 10 months?! Very risky call.I would love to see another 4-0 win against these lot especially after all the cash they’ve spunked this summer. Unfortunately this could really go either way. I would go with the same team that beat PSG but with Mason or Cavani replacing Martial and I think it’s obvious Ole will put Maguire straight back in, just hope it’s in place of Lindelöf and not Tuanzebe though as harsh as it is on Victor who played well mid week we need Axel’s pace against Werner.
In his early career.
Oh that makes senseDifficult team for Ole today, especially after the PSG game.
Massive conundrum around Maguire and Pogba.
Would be a bit unfairto drop any of the team from midweek, tricky one!
He was rightly dropped for Bailly just a couple of games ago. Unfortunately Bailly is even worse.Ddg
Tuanzebe Lindelof Maguire
AWB Van Beek Pogba Telles
Bruno
Greenwood Rashford
Subs cavani Matic james
United win 2-1
I like this team but I am worried kante, Jorgino may overrun our midfiled?
What would you do instead? I want Fred and McT for Leipzig so need to rotate in centre.I always have the feeling Ole wants an excuse to put Pogba back in. Maguire will be back for sure though.Last edited:
Maybe any Villa fans can enlighten us but I'm not sure if he played all the games coming up. He had an excellent partnership with MingsI'd be truly baffled if we play that team.
Makes little sense given what we know about Chelsea, but if it's true, that team also did very well for its purpose of closing game for 75 mins before allowing some ball players on to win the game (Pogba, Telles, Cavani?).
The reason I'd be surprised is that Leipzig are one of the best high energy pressing teams in the world and Fred and McT would be best in our squad to help deal with that in 4 days time.
Who is that? And how is he supposed to know the line-up 3 hours before it's announced?
Surprising if that's the team. Resting the likes of McT and Fred would be more beneficial in the long run surely.
He could have at least rested one of them, it's not like we're short on options in midfield right now.
I agree.
There's no reason whatsoever James should start this game unless he's literally one of the last 11 registered squad members available
Wouldn’t you, if you were Pogba?
Is Greenwood still out injured?
absolutely haha.
Disgraceful if true with James and Mata..we could barely beat Newcastle with that lineup until Paul and vdB came on. Disgraceful
Ole was suggesting he's back but I'd like to see Pogba from the left in the front 3
Any evidence whatsoever that this random United fan from Twitter has genuine inside the club knowledge? Aside from the blue tick.If that's true then what the hell is going on? Someone leaking the team everyweek is suspicious
Nah, this is the kind of game a McT/Fred midfield is made for. Would’ve liked to have seen VdB or Greenwood starting, but the lineup makes sense.James and Mata starting? fecking hell
When was the last correct leak?
Tell me how James starting with the options we have makes any kind of sense.
If Ole doesn't feel confident starting Cavani or Greenwood as the CF then Rashy has to and we don't have a ton of options for LW after Rashy.
At least as long as VdB struggles to get starts.
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Man of the Match
Runners-up
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10%
Fred
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10%
Aaron Wan-Bissaka
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5%
Harry Maguire
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3%
Bruno Fernandes
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3%
Marcus Rashford
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2%
Scott McTominay
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1%
David de Gea
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1%
Daniel James
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1%
Edinson Cavani
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1%
Juan Mata
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1%
Luke Shaw
Player Ratings
Total Average Rating
Highest Rated Player
Lowest Rated Player
Compiled from 286 ratings.
Score Predictions
204,34,45
- Man Utd win
- Chelsea win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 25% Man Utd 2:1 Chelsea
- 18% Man Utd 3:1 Chelsea
- 11% Man Utd 2:0 Chelsea
- 8% Man Utd 1:1 Chelsea
- 7% Man Utd 2:2 Chelsea
- 6% Man Utd 3:2 Chelsea
- 5% Man Utd 1:2 Chelsea
- 5% Man Utd 3:0 Chelsea
- 4% Man Utd 1:0 Chelsea
- 3% Man Utd 1:3 Chelsea
- 2% Man Utd 0:2 Chelsea
- 2% Man Utd 4:1 Chelsea
- 1% Man Utd 0:5 Chelsea
- 1% Man Utd 4:2 Chelsea
- 1% Man Utd 0:0 Chelsea
- 0% Man Utd 5:0 Chelsea
- 0% Man Utd 0:3 Chelsea
- 0% Man Utd 0:4 Chelsea
- 0% Man Utd 3:3 Chelsea
- 0% Man Utd 2:3 Chelsea
Match Stats
- Man Utd
- Chelsea
- Possession
- 50% 50%
- Shots
- 14 6
- Shots on Target
- 4 1
- Corners
- 9 6
- Fouls
- 8 6
Referee
Martin Atkinson
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Paul Pogba
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replaced by Mason Greenwood
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replaced by Edinson Cavani
