Ah, hence why he didn’t play against Norwich. Mengi then, don’t really wanna see Phil; give the playing time to a promising young CB.
Europa League Round of 16 2nd Leg
Manchester United 2:1 LASK
Old Trafford
- Kick-off
- Wed, 5 August 2020 @ 8:00pm BST
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Discussion Your Lineup Prediction
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Crazy defence.
Dalot : not defending well enough
Bailly : injured
Axel : injured
TFM : too many fouls
How about :
Sergio Romero GK
Ethan Laird RB
Teden Mengi CB
Di'Shon Bernard CB
Brandon Williams LB
James Garner CDM
Scott McTominay b2b
Dylan Levitt AM
Tahith Chong RW
Odion Ighalo CF
Daniel James LW
Until Jones starts and we’re 3-0 down in half an hour.
I know were 5 up, but am always wary playing a team of strangers, which is what they will be, could also backfire. I would prefer we played half the first team who could be subbed at half time anyway.
If a team of united players can’t hold a 5-0 goal lead at home against an Austrian team they should all be sacked immediately.
I think we might just be ok with this one.
I agree this should be the case, but we have some dross in reserves. Lets hope you are right.
Absolutely. Especially as imo we should be looking at moulding Scott into our future permanent captain.
Nah. He probably won't ever be a definitive starter here.
He looks to have some leadership capabilities, always gives his best and is a good lad, so I wouldn't mind having him as captain when the big guns are out.
I actually think that Rashford should have become captain when Young left.
We shouldn’t. He is not that good a player to be considered for captaincy, to start with.
Bailly is fine, and I’ll edit Axel out for Mengi. Williams shouldn’t play as we need him for future rounds too. I’m all for the idea of this U23 team like the Astana game but this lot are better than Astana. Remember the meltdown from the Astana loss? Chong was blacklisted instantly.How long is Jones out for this time?What’s the latest news on Shaw. I see people in this thread saying he’s injured till next season but where did we hear that?
Trump has lost form.. maybe Kevin Hart.Jones is still out? Unbelievable that guy
Dalot is a good attacking wing-back but he's not a full-back. So why play him there when he'll be a defensive liability? I honestly have more confidence in Laird for normal defensive duties.
Bailly - yes - play him if he's fit. Partnering Mengi.
TFM? conceded 5 fouls in the 1½ matches he played against Palace and West Ham. That's a concern because defending set pieces have traditionally been one of United's big weaknesses He needs to be more careful. Hopefully he's just rusty.
The point about this next game is - all we really need to do is defend well. I can't see LASK scoring against us if we play our 2nd best defence.
Ole said it.LASK
- Can field 14 good players, including a Brazilian striker 'Klauss'.
- After the first 11 plus 3 subs the quality drops right off.
- Will play 5-4-1, changing to 3-4-3 when they have possession.
- They are athletes and mostly Austrian nationals (only 4 non-Austrians in their squad).
- They all defend well. None are particularly slow (apart from their Brazilian striker 'Klauss' who is slow). They probably won't start with Klauss.
- Weaknesses: lack of quality in attack and on the ball. None of them have scary pace.
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So no danger of them scoring 5, no matter whom they play?
I think Dalot, bailly, fred, mata, pereira and lingard will all get minutes in this game.
Don't want to see Dalot at RB and Mata as false #7 again. That will give them an attacking route down our right. They shouldn't even be allowed a sniff. Maybe: Pereira or Lingard at RW, James at LW. No way is there any excuse to put mata, pereira and lingard on the pitch at the same time. That would be a sadistic crime against the fans. Even 2 together is pushing my patience too far.
Ahh gutted.
i think it would be about putting such players 'in the shop window' as well as ensuring no first xi players have to turn up.
That’s the thing. Williams shouldn’t play as we need him for the QF and beyond. Besides, TFM’s fouls could help in breaking up play.
Tbh though, our entire conversation about which defense we should play is irrelevant. They ain’t scoring 5 even if both of us played there
Want to see lots of academy players in this. we will get some idea of what they are like as LASK really should not pose more than about two minutes threat (famous last words)What do you guys think? Garner, Mengi and Levitt or Pereira, TFM and Lingard? Would be so boring seeing a team with no future: Mata, Pereira, Dalot, TFM, Bailly etc.The United players apparently at training yesterday.
David de Gea, Sergio Romero, Lee Grant, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Diogo Dalot, Ethan Laird, Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Teden Mengi, Victor Lindelof, Eric Bailly, Brandon Williams, Fred, Nemanja Matic, James Garner, Paul Pogba, Bruno Fernandes, Jesse Lingard, Juan Mata, Daniel James, Andreas Pereira, Tahith Chong, Anthony Martial, Marcus Rashford, Odion Ighalo, Mason GreenwoodRomero
Williams
Mengi
Bailly
Laird
Mctominay
Fred
Mata
James
Ighalo
Chong
Mix of experience and youth. Tempted to play Lindelof instead of Bailly as he'd be a better leader for the younger players.
Garner to get minutes please at some point.If Ighalo starts vs LASK, he may become a player who scored in all 5 of his first 5 starts for Man Utd. Not sure it happened before, actually (so far Ighalo started 4 times and scored in each).
For some reason you missed Ethan Galbraith, who came off the bench in Kazakhstan.
Wasn’t that long a holiday for the first XI.
I thought OGS would have allowed them to stay away for LASK.
This looks good to me.
I would love to see him. More than any of our other kids.
He’s a decent talent but I doubt he’ll make it here. Hoping to see more of the likes of Laird, Mengi, Garner and maybe Levitt.
5 days off. Be interesting to see how many that started v Leicester will feature on Wednesday.
I doubt he'll make it either, but I watch a lot of our youth games and, right now, he's my favourite to watch from the lot and has been for some time. Though Mejbri is running him close now. I prefer him to Garner and Levitt, personally.
Because I cut and pasted from MEN.
Why is Luke Shaw on the Club Trained list? Have I misunderstood what that means? All the others listed are first-year academy graduates.
If I'm not mistaken, Shaw joined when he was 18. Any player who spends 3 years or more with a club when he was under the age of 21 is considered club trained.
Made a switch based on McTominay not being in training. Give Timmy Fosu Mensah a game at CDM, many think his natural position, can't hurt to try him out here. Give Garner some license to get forward and maybe nick a goal, he has been good in that role for the reserves this year.
Fred needs to be a consistent fixture in the line up, he will get better as he gets more starts, think he finds being in and out of the side difficult.- Status
Man of the Match
Runners-up
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14%
Juan Mata
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12%
Anthony Martial
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8%
Fred
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8%
Sergio Romero
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7%
Harry Maguire
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6%
Eric Bailly
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3%
Brandon Williams
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2%
Tahith Chong
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1%
Scott McTominay
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1%
Timothy Fosu-Mensah
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1%
Andreas Pereira
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1%
Odion Ighalo
Player Ratings
Total Average Rating
Highest Rated Player
Lowest Rated Player
Compiled from 164 ratings.
Score Predictions
224,7,17
- Man Utd win
- LASK win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 30% Man Utd 3:0 LASK
- 25% Man Utd 2:0 LASK
- 10% Man Utd 3:1 LASK
- 10% Man Utd 2:1 LASK
- 6% Man Utd 4:0 LASK
- 4% Man Utd 5:0 LASK
- 4% Man Utd 1:0 LASK
- 3% Man Utd 0:0 LASK
- 2% Man Utd 1:1 LASK
- 2% Man Utd 2:2 LASK
- 1% Man Utd 4:1 LASK
- 1% Man Utd 0:5 LASK
- 1% Man Utd 1:2 LASK
- 0% Man Utd 3:2 LASK
- 0% Man Utd 0:2 LASK
- 0% Man Utd 0:4 LASK
- 0% Man Utd 2:3 LASK
- 0% Man Utd 5:1 LASK
Match Stats
- Man Utd
- LASK
- Possession
- 64% 36%
- Shots
- 9 12
- Shots on Target
- 3 4
- Corners
- 5 3
- Fouls
- 8 13
Referee
Anastasios Sidiropoulos
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Teden Mengi
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replaced by Tahith Chong
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replaced by Paul Pogba
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replaced by Andreas Pereira
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replaced by Anthony Martial
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