Confirmed squad members
David de Gea
Sergio Romero
Joel Pereira
Antonio Valencia
Eric Bailly
Victor Lindelof
Phil Jones
Chris Smalling
Daley Blind
Matteo Darmian
Nemanja Matic
Marouane Fellaini
Scott McTominay
Jesse Lingard
Ashley Young
Ander Herrera
Juan Mata
Henrikh Mkhitaryan
Romelu Lukaku
Marcus Rashford
so only carrick and pogba out (excluding obvious ones like rojo and zlatan)
hmm assumed he was ok and not there due to living close to the hotel.Martial?
hmm assumed he was ok and not there due to living close to the hotel.
18There's 20 listed there. Isn't it 20 players in the match day squad?
Travel? It's a home game...Yeah i thought 20 travel and 2 sit out.
I have this creepy feeling that Crystal Palace will finally end their pointless streak and get a draw.
VS
Date - Saturday, September 30 2017
Kickoff Time - 1500 Hrs BST
Venue - Old Trafford, Manchester
League standings and form guide
2. Manchester United : WWDWW
20. Crystal Palace : LLLLL
Previous Meetings
Manchester United 2 : 0 Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace 1 : 2 Manchester United
Manchester United 2 : 0 Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace 0 : 0 Manchester United
Crystal Palace 1 : 2 Manchester United
All-Time Record
Manchester United wins - 33
Crystal Palace wins - 7
Draws - 10
Referee
Mike Dean.
Best available odds for a draw right now is 16/1. Best CP win odds 50/1. Can't remember being such favourites to win before.I have this creepy feeling that Crystal Palace will finally end their pointless streak and get a draw.
Assuming Jones and Valencia both can't play
----------------De Gea-----------------
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-------------Bailly---Smalling----------
Young------------------------------Blind
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-------------Herrera---Matic-------------
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-----------------Henrik-------------------
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Mata------------------------------Martial
------------------Lukaku-----------------
Bring it to them from the first whistle. I want to see us completely relentless and ruthless
Way to harsh. Smalling rarely lets us down and seems to have severely reduced the shirt-grabbing and unlike Chulski's Luiz, stays on the pitch. And yes, the odd overly ambitious pass goes awry, but you'd still be hard pressed to find too many better CB's in the league or that make less mistakes.I wouldn't start Smalling in this. No aerial threat from them, we cannot afford a centerback who only passes sideways.
Exactly, and because we have such great depth this season we should win this quite comfortably AND give minutes to players might not otherwise be first choice.I'm no fan of Smalling but come on, I don't think Blind or Lindelof playing instead is the key to us unlocking a dire Palace team.
Nuts that Shaw is not at the least with the team even if he isn't going to dress. Thought maybe this is a team he could get a run out against CP if we can get to a comfortable lead.
Travel? It's a home game...
However you want to put it. There's usually 20 named then 18 make the final squad. If any get injured in the warm up then one of the other 2 step in.
Either way, there's 20 named in the squad above and I seem to remember there being 20 named whenever I've bothered to count previously. Which means Martial isn't in the squad for tomorrow.
Think Herrera will start. We dont need to risk another long term injury by putting Fellaini in there. Worst case scenario he starts on the bench and comes on later in the game if needed.Don't know if I should keep Herrera as a starter or Fellaini will surprise us with a start tomorrow.
I agree with you in that we need to work more on this formation. We could've scored bucket-loads and were clearly the better team but, whenever they had a period of possession, which was rare, they managed to play through us too easily considering we had 3 CBs and a midfield 2 of Matic & Herrera. Thankfully we have the best GK in the world!While I think the 4-3-3 option is most likely going to be Mouriho's go to line up for this match I can't but feel the line up in Russia needs to be "worked on". Yes we won handily and it certainly suited certain players styles but I don't think we we totally comfortable playing "the system" so we need to . Not for lack of talent but to lack of familiarity. Sure we won big (and could easily have been much bigger) but let's be honest; the Muscovites really weren't up to much.
So this Palace match might be a great opportunity to run with 3 at the back again. Smalling between Valencia on his right and perhaps Lindelof again on his left if not Bailly. (Or Bailly on the right with Lindelof left) That would give Young the chance to play as a wing forward on the right and leave Blind on the left until Shaw proves he's still got what it takes.
Or Smalling between Valencia and Lindelof with Valencia at RWB and Young on the left.
We still have a great midfield for this system with Matic and Herrera winning balls in the middle and distributing forward to Mkhi, Mata and Martial / Rashford or directly through to Lukaku!
Yes we're missing Pogs and it would have given Carrick some match time had he been fit, but what we have below is more than capable of beating all but the top couple of teams in this league let alone a struggling Palace side. Fellaini is probably going to come on from the bench as will Lingard and Martial unless we get an injury at the back and we still have Blind, Darmian and (probably) Jones to come off the bench if absolutely necessary. 3 nil will suffice
DDG
Smalling
Bailly Lindelof
Valencia Young
Matic
Herrera
Mkhi
Mata Rashford
Lukaku
Yep, that's what I saw too.I agree with you in that we need to work more on this formation. We could've scored bucket-loads and were clearly the better team but, whenever they had a period of possession, which was rare, they managed to play through us too easily considering we had 3 CBs and a midfield 2 of Matic & Herrera. Thankfully we have the best GK in the world!
And that's why I think Jose will probably play with four across the back rather than this line up. I guess we'll find out at game timeIThe conundrum for me is that, whilst this is a good as opportunity as any to work on the formation as they're the worst side in the league at the moment, it's also a great opportunity to boost our GD and keep up with City so it might be worth sticking with a trusted formation. It'd be great if we could manage both.
And given Lindelof played in Europe, Blind is a more likely starter tomorrow. Nice to have a number of options, each of which I'm confident can play good football and come away with positive results isn't it.If we do play said formation, I'd be all for the lineup you wrote but Blind for Lindelof.
DDG
Smalling
Bailly Lindelof
Valencia Young
Matic
Herrera
Mkhi
Mata Rashford
Lukaku
Or does Jose take injured players to the Lowry anyway?
I have this creepy feeling that Crystal Palace will finally end their pointless streak and get a draw.
Jose already confirmed no injuries from the Moscow game.
There's is no 50%, they're all fit. No casualties from Moscow.Fantasy says there's a 50 percent chance Martial will be fit
Mike Dean