What about it is sick?
League Cup 3rd Round
Manchester United 2:2 Derby County
Derby County win 10:9 on penalties
Old Trafford
- Kick-off
- Tue, 25 September 2018 @ 8:00pm BST
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) look forward to a new life under Ruben Amorim. What system will we be playing? What players will impress? and how will it all go? We also say goodbye to Ruud Van Nistelrooy and review United's 3-0 win at home against Leicester City.
Discussion Live Updates 75 Your Lineup Prediction
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Mourinho made it clear Dalot would be starting. Pointless to take Valencia and Shaw when there's Darmian who can play either side tonight.Romero
Dalot Bailly Jones Young
Herrera
Pereira Fred
Mata Sanchez Martial
Bench: Grant, Smalling, Darmian, Matic, McTominay, Lingard, Lukaku
Something like that would be my guess. Lineup is one of those that could be an 11 or 8 (Smalling, Lukaku and Matic/McTominay/Fellaini could easily start).We are in no position to start to rotate to make everyone happy. This game should be used to try to evolve the first eleven.
De Gea
Dalot Smalling Lindelöf Shaw
Fred Pogba Matic
Sanchez Lukaku Martial
Try Sanchez on the right. It's unacceptable to have a false right winger in Lingard and leave the flank as the right backs' responsability to attack. We must settle on a system that works, the imbalance of wings surely can't help either Martial or Alexis, or whoever plays there on the left. The defending team can focus on shutting our left wing down because Valencia isn't causing any danger on the other side.I hate giving Sanchez another start after a shambolic run, but maybe a start against Derby is what he needs to find form.
Romero
Dalot/Bailly/Jones/Young
Fred/McTominay
Pereira/Mata/Martial
SanchezAny chance Darmian starts this on LB? I hope not but it's the perfect opportunity to give some minutes to members of our squad who aren't playing much & Jose loves the Italian.At The Lowry
The following players were seen at The Lowry prior to the game:
Goalkeepers (2): Sergio Romero, Lee Grant
Defenders (6): Eric Bailly, Chris Smalling, Diogo Dalot, Phil Jones, Ashley Young, Matteo Darmian
Midfielders (6): Ander Herrera, Nemanja Matic, Andreas Pereira, Fred, Marouane Fellaini, Scott McTominay
Forwards (5): Romelu Lukaku, Anthony Martial, Alexis Sanchez, Juan Mata, Jesse Lingard
Rashford is suspended, Rojo is injured and Pogba, De Gea, Lindelof, Valencia and Shaw have apparently all been rested.
Last minute lineup questions
Lineup predictions close in about ten minutes but there are questions pretty much everywhere.
Romero or Grant?
Risky, but with him previewing the match I've changed my mind late and going to go for Grant to start. Will probably backfire.
Who will be the centre back pairing?
Fullbacks are pretty predictable with Dalot confirmed to start and Darmian basically relegated to last choice so Young should start on the left, however the centre back combination could be any of Bailly, Smalling and Jones. I'll opt for Bailly and Jones as both need games.
Who will play in midfield?
With Matic, Fred and Fellaini all joining the squad, it suggests at least one of them will start but I've got no idea who. Herrera and Pereira should definitely start this, but McTominay might be the unlucky one left out of the starting lineup like he was during our defeat to Bristol City last season.
Who will play up front?
Martial is pretty much guaranteed to start. Lukaku should get a rest, but he could just as easily end up starting this. I'm opting for Mata, Sanchez and Martial.
Damien's predicted XI
Grant
Dalot Bailly Jones Young
Matic
Pereira Herrera
Mata Sanchez MartialHate games like this in terms of predictions. Wouldn't be surprised if I've got 7 right - stuff like Grant being in the home programme always throws me off.
Fair enough.
Looking at the squad that went it seems it wouldn't have mattered. Think if we played a team like Burton Albion again then we might have seen some youth players other than McTominay.Anybody know any good pubs in the middle of Dublin where I can catch the game?Wasn't even aware of this.
Romero
Dalot - Jones - Bailly - Young
Matic
McToms -- Herrera
Mata --- Martial -- SanchezMason Mount to score at least 5 goals tonight.Manchester United team
Starting XI: Romero, Dalot, Bailly, Jones, Young (c), Mata, Matic, Herrera, Lingard, Lukaku, Martial
Subs: Grant, Darmian, Smalling, Fellaini, Fred, McTominay, Alexis
Derby County team
Starting XI: Carson, Forsyth, Bryson, Tomori, Keogh (c), Wilson, Mount, Johnson, Bennett, Nugent, Bogle
Subs: Roos, Wisdom, Waghorn, Jozefzoon, Marriott, Huddlestone, Malone
Nine changes to the starting XI with Romero, Dalot, Bailly, Jones, Young, Mata, Matic, Herrera and Martial coming in for De Gea, Valencia, Lindelof, Smalling, Shaw, Fellaini, Fred, Pogba, Alexis.
Jones \0/Excited to see Dalot again. That side should do the job.The way they put the order of names makes believe Mata is our number 6.3-5-2?
Edit - No i guessDerby at full strength minus Lawrence I think.Derby going full strength it looks like. Won't be easy.
4-2-3-1 with Lingard number 10 and Mata in the crap floating RW.Very very strong team and bench.
Wish one of the kids made it.
No wonder Damien is top, he just removes whoever is in front of him.Pereira not even on the bench, what exactly is Jose's problem??Need to stop reading the MEN prior to the lineups coming out. Would never have put Grant in as starter if not for that stupid tweet.Yeah, this looks clunky. Pogba, our best player against Wolves jettisoned. Sanchez not afford more playing time.
Come on lads, the fans deserve a strong victory.Feel like Scott Carson has been around for ages, yet he's still only 33 somehow.
Is that the top half of him as he's being stretchered off.
Another win and Dalot will be 2-0Mata - Jess - Martial behind Lukaku.Like that we've gone with a 4231, and I'm hoping, especially if we play well tonight, that we continue with it in most of our games this season.Where is Periera?No Pereira
@Grylte made that joke in another thread. No idea why @The Man Himself isn't listed - he was there a couple of days ago. Anyway, I won't be in the top 10 after tonight.
No wonder Damien is top, he just removes whoever is in front of him.No Rashford unless I’ve missed something?
No. That's be expressing joy at having one of our better defenders fit again. hope he stays fit.
Suspended isn't he?
He's suspended it's been said a few times already x"My Lukaku shall always play."Lingard starts and no Pereira. Great job Jose, let’s award mediocrity while we ignore our young talents at the expense of Mata
Rash helped out Dalot last time against Young Boys. Hope Mata does the same tooHow can Lukaku play this many minutes? I know he's a beast but surely he needs the odd rest.- Status
Man of the Match
Runners-up
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25%
Marouane Fellaini
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18%
Diogo Dalot
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6%
Juan Mata
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4%
Phil Jones
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3%
Sergio Romero
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2%
Lee Grant
Player Ratings
Total Average Rating
Highest Rated Player
Lowest Rated Player
Compiled from 320 ratings.
Score Predictions
366,19,8
- Man Utd win
- Derby win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 37% Man Utd 2:0 Derby
- 19% Man Utd 3:0 Derby
- 10% Man Utd 1:0 Derby
- 9% Man Utd 3:1 Derby
- 9% Man Utd 2:1 Derby
- 4% Man Utd 5:0 Derby
- 3% Man Utd 4:0 Derby
- 2% Man Utd 0:5 Derby
- 1% Man Utd 0:0 Derby
- 1% Man Utd 1:1 Derby
- 1% Man Utd 4:1 Derby
- 1% Man Utd 0:1 Derby
- 1% Man Utd 0:4 Derby
- 1% Man Utd 0:2 Derby
- 1% Man Utd 0:3 Derby
- 1% Man Utd 5:1 Derby
- 0% Man Utd 3:2 Derby
- 0% Man Utd 1:3 Derby
Match Stats
- Man Utd
- Derby
- Possession
- 48% 52%
- Shots
- 14 16
- Shots on Target
- 4 6
- Corners
- 5 5
- Fouls
- 15 10
Referee
Stuart Attwell
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Lee Grant
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replaced by Fred
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replaced by Marouane Fellaini
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