Europa League Quarter-Final 1st Leg

Manchester United 2:2 Sevilla

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    top1whoisman said:
    I get where you’re coming from, but I think we’ve already made the mistake of rushing Rashford back and paying for it later. If it was a final and the physios said he can play for 10 minutes and participate in a shootout, I’d understand.

    But it’s not a good look as a club to hurry players back. More often than not you’ll end up suffering for it later on. I would definitely not play someone at 70% fitness. Brazilian Ronaldo in the WC final as an example.

    Anyway we don’t know how fit McTominay is or isn’t and I trust the medical staff and EtH to make the right decision. Long term is the key I’d say. And it’s not like we’re talking about a key player here.
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    It no doubt has something to do with me personally taking the needle a few times during deep runs to nationals with my amateur team as well as being an American sports fan who sees the game through a toughness / resiliency prism.

    I wouldn’t want such a ‘push them back out quickly’ ethos to ever be in the club’s DNA, but, if there’s ever a time to get your best 11 out there, niggles & all, it’s now.

    And no doubt it’s the greedy United fan in me who wants more silverware & see the lads reach what should be coming to them.
     
    calodo2003 said:
    It no doubt has something to do with me personally taking the needle a few times during deep runs to nationals with my amateur team as well as being an American sports fan who sees the game through a toughness / resiliency prism.

    I wouldn’t want such a ‘push them back out quickly’ ethos to ever be in the club’s DNA, but, if there’s ever a time to get your best 11 out there, niggles & all, it’s now.

    And no doubt it’s the greedy United fan in me who wants more silverware & see the lads reach what should be coming to them.
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    Again I understand that and I get the sentiment of playing through the pain. Actually I’m pretty sure more or less every player in a top professional team plays through the pain every single match. But there has to be a limit to it.

    NFL and to a degree other NA sports are a good example of why winning a sports match should never be put in front of people’s health. There’s some horrible stories with people ruining their mobility and/or functioning brain for the rest of their life just to be able to compete.

    Regarding the bolded parts. He’s not in our best XI, so there’s no need to take a risk. And I’d say the first leg of a quarter-final is not the time to take those huge risks at the cost of our players’ health. Is there ever was such a time, for me it’d perhaps be a final or a title decider late in the season.
     
    I think

    ................. De Gea

    Dalot - Varane - Martinez - Malacia

    ........ Casemiro - Eriksen

    ............. Fernandes

    Antony - Martial - Sancho

    or

    Antony - Weghorst - Martial
     
    People including Martial in our starting XI are deluding themselves. As much as I'd love it too, it's gonna be Weghorst
     
    Going to be a very on the edge game. We are not a free scoring team and Sevilla have our number in recent games. Not very confident. We also have played 3 games a week for a while now and players will be tired. Just hope we can keep a clean sheet and score a couple to make the game in Spain less nervy.
     
    Ideal is a 3/4 - 0 win with Bruno and Casemiro getting yellow's so they miss the 2nd leg.
     
    I think we'll have a convincing win tomorrow. By convincing, I mean one of those nights where we should probably score 5, but actually end up winning by 1
     
    Andre Kagawa said:
    People including Martial in our starting XI are deluding themselves. As much as I'd love it too, it's gonna be Weghorst
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    There is no way Weghorst will be starting. I’ll tell you that for free. Especially with Rashford out. Sevilla defence could push up to the half way line and have no threat on their goal.
     
    Chief123 said:
    There is no way Weghorst will be starting. I’ll tell you that for free. Especially with Rashford out. Sevilla defence could push up to the half way line and have no threat on their goal.
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    That’s what I'm afraid will be the case here, chief.
     
    glasgow 21 said:
    yellow cards tally is cleared on completion of quarter finals.
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    But they can still get suspended if they get a yellow in the 2nd leg and miss the 1st of the semis. Hence why best to miss the 2nd leg (ten hag won't rest them let's be real).
     
    I’m not expecting this to be as easy as some are making out. I know they’re 14th or wherever in La liga, but they’ll turn up as they always do. They’ll be falling over at every chance, and ref will give them everything as usual. To cap it all, we don’t have Rashford who has scored something like half our goals. Which means that we’re basically relying on Martial, who isn’t match fit, and who Sevilla themselves didn’t even want after he stank out the place on loan there.

    With all that said, we’re good at home. I think it’ll be tight though.
     
    Sevilla away results in Europe this season

    Europa league

    PSV 2-0 defeat (2nd PSV goal came in the 95th minute)
    Fenerbahce 1-0 defeat

    Champions league

    0-0 v FC Copenhagen
    1-1 v Dortmund
    Man City 3-1 defeat


    Away form in La Liga

    Played 14 Won 3 Drew 4 Lost 7 Scored 15 Conceded 26
     
    Think it will be
    DDG
    AWB
    Varane
    Martinez
    Malacia
    Casemiro
    Eriksen
    Bruno
    Sancho
    Martial
    Antony
    Can see an high scoring game 3/4-0
     
    ClassOf'99 said:
    How have they been playing in terms of transitions/game plan?

    Long ball, counter attack, possession with diving anytime we go near them?
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    Didnt followed all their game, but with Sampaoli, they tried to play the normal Sampaoli game, with high tempo, high press, individual marking etc, but they have absolute average players. (J.Navas, Fernando, Suso, Lamela, Gil and El Nesery are their best players).

    With Extebbaria, they are more disciplined, less "Spanish" like they used to be when they beat us few years ago.

    If we manage to put a high tempo with quick transition we can win the game, and hopefully score 1-2 more goals than them.

    To me the only risk would be El Nesery that can be on fire on his days, Lamela on direct free kicks, but other than that, even if we are not on fire at the moment, even if Rashford is not there, we should win this.
     
    Seven Seas Sardines said:
    Martial might be ready for 45 minutes. Would be decent to have him play the first half and try to get us out of reach before Wout comes on.

    Same thing goes for Eriksen and Sabitzer/Fred.
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    I would play Martial for 60 min then play Wout has Martial can't play 90 min yet.

    Then I would start a midfield 3 of Casemiro-Sabitzer-Bruno, so the Sabi and Bruno can play behind their midfielders, and play Eriksen and Fred also around the 60th min too, with potentially Bruno moving right or left.
     
    Martial will not start, he's only been training for 7 weeks...
    Jokes aside, he looks a bit off to me so I would put my money on Weghorst. We all know it has to be Bruno or Casemiro with a goal anyway.
     
    Borys said:
    Martial will not start, he's only been training for 7 weeks...
    Jokes aside, he looks a bit off to me so I would put my money on Weghorst. We all know it has to be Bruno or Casemiro with a goal anyway.
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    How does he look off? If anything his cameos have been half decent.
     
    Another solid win imo. Won't be easy but also won't be too difficult. We've been pretty good at home this season and Sevilla have been a bit shit this season.
     
    Borys said:
    Martial will not start, he's only been training for 7 weeks...
    Jokes aside, he looks a bit off to me so I would put my money on Weghorst. We all know it has to be Bruno or Casemiro with a goal anyway.
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    Looks off?

    He's been incredibly sharp in every cameo.
     
    Adisa said:
    How does he look off? If anything his cameos have been half decent.
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    Pirlo'sBeard said:
    Looks off?

    He's been incredibly sharp in every cameo.
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    He looks good on the ball but he looks slow and a bit rigid. Still 10x the player Weghorst is, I just think it makes sense to have him for the last 30'/45' because surely he won't last a game.
    I like Martial but no way he's 100% fit now.
     
    I think we will control large parts of the game, much like Brentford and Everton. Realistically, while Sevilla have pedigree in this competition, the game should be about as difficult as those two and as long as we play like that it should be a routine 2- or 3-0 win. For the reason of control, I think we will start with basically our 10 best players on the ball (from the ones available), bar Eriksen who probably isn't quite ready for a start yet:

    De Gea
    Dalot Varane Martinez Malacia
    Casemiro
    Bruno Sabitzer
    Antony Martial Sancho​

    Hopefully, we can avoid yellow cards for Casemiro and Bruno. Weghorst to replace Martial after 60 minutes and hopefully we could bring on Fred & Eriksen for Casemiro & Bruno with 20-25 left assuming we are comfortable.

    As well as that, it'd be nice to just sure things up and bring on Maguire/Lindelof for Antony as an example, if we have that cushion. Will it work out this way in the end? Probably not, but in general our home from is incredibly strong. We just need those attacking players to step up to the plate with Rashford out.
     
    Seven Seas Sardines said:
    Martial might be ready for 45 minutes. Would be decent to have him play the first half and try to get us out of reach before Wout comes on.

    Same thing goes for Eriksen and Sabitzer/Fred.
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    I've lost count of how many cup matches, and PL games against bottom half teams, that I've read this kind of ideal scenario. It almost never happens as we're never prolific enough to be 'out of reach' by HT.

    In this case, it's a 2 legged match against a competent Sevilla side - so HT will just be a quarter of the way through the tie and I very much doubt we'll be out of reach by then.

    Like Liverpool and Chelsea, they're underperforming in the league this season. But they're a strong Europa League side and I'm sure they'll raise their game and will prove a tricky enough team to beat over two legs. Especially without the pace of Rashford or Garnacho. We're favourites to get through over the two legs even without those two, but I'd be amazed if we're 'out of reach' after the first 45 minutes of the tie.
     
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    Sevilla have been dire this season, we should be winning this tie comfortably with our without Rashford.
     
    DDG
    AWB
    Maguire
    Lindelof
    Malacia
    Casemiro
    Fred
    Bruno
    Sancho
    Weg
    Antony

    Try and rotate a few players, I would rotate Bruno as well personally, but there's probably no chance ETH does that.
     
    Much like Real Madrid and the Champions League, Sevilla's form in La Liga is irrelevant to Europa League. This will go to whoever wants it more over the two legs. And if past experiences are anything to go by... Ah well, I'm sure this time will be different, right?
     
    Time for some of the other lads to step up and fill Rashford's big scoring boots. Get 3 or 4 at home and this tie should be over.

    Pessimist in me unfortunately doesn't see this happening - rather a scrappy 1-0 and making the away game more stressful.
     
    Godfather said:
    I'm actually a bit nervous.
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    I'd stay confident ahead of the second leg if United go in at least level.

    Go into the away leg behind and we know Sevilla will just plump 11 men behind the ball at all times and time waste as much as possible. Making it a very slow, frustrating and tedious match.
     
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Possession
55% 45%
Shots
12 13
Shots on Target
5 3
Corners
6 6
Fouls
13 12

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