good team selection. let's get 3 points!
FA Premier League
Middlesbrough 1:3 Manchester United
Riverside Stadium
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- Sun, 19 March 2017 @ 12:00pm GMT
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It will.1-1 draw written all over it, Jesus what a line up that is. What does he see in this 3 at the back line up? it's awful.
You won't find logic here.Pathetic, wish he cuts that 3 defenders bollocks anyway. It's stupid and needless, we havent looked good in it one match and theres zero need for it. Is he trying to be Conte 0.5?
I would definitely prefer Rojo instead of Jones today if it was against Adama Traoré, but Rojo must be in terrible physical shape banana wise.Hate the formation but can't really argue with that team selection. We're down to our bare bones.
I don't think we've ever had a manager who has chopped and changed the starting 11 as much as José.
Just have to look at the lineup prediction table to see that most people can't 2nd guess who he's going to pick.And people thought that we'd be challenging for the title this year. The state of that line up
Our summer transfer ins and outs are going to need to be absolutely spot on.
Kneejerk or what?
Imagine Chelsea didnt have Matic, Kante and Costa for a game and that Hazard (mikhi in our case) was fighting fatigue. Oh and add Pedro/Willian (Martial for us) is coming back from injury.
How do you think their team would look?
So true
Exactly. The matchday threads are frequented by drama queens.Why Miki not starting
Need to get back to Jones/Rojo pairing. Was our strongest pair during that run of wins.I don't think anybody has an idea as to why suddenly we are playing 3 at the back.
Going to be a disaster of a game to watch. As long as we win, I'll take it.
The only way this team could have been worse is if it was Rooney upfront
Questioning a formation or line up says f all about not supporting your club. If you don't notice that team is weak you aren't paying attention, nothing wrong with commenting on how weak it is, I'm sure everyone will be cheering on as always.
The guy was a disaster. It's going to take another 2-3 transfer windows to sort this squad out.
Swap out lingard and Mata for Di Maria and Hernandez and the attack looks quality.
A manager like Mourinho would have used both of them properly and they wouldn't have wanted to go.Last edited:Why are we doing 3 at the back? I really dont get it
We actually tend to score in our frustrating games. Arsenal / Stoke x2/ Bournemouth / West Ham / Liverpool.
There are more of those games than the 0-0 that posters complain about. We give up a lot of silly goals and we tend to need two goals to win games
So fecking true mate.
Yet people say he barely ever rotates. Which is it then?
I think plenty of us understand exactly why actually
No creativity in the team then you mention Mata?Some comments on the line up are mortifying.
You'd swear we were playing Fantasy Football. All you want to see is a list of the best individuals. Ridiculous.
This has all the attributes of a great counter-attacking display, with an abundance of pace out wide and up front. This will be all about Young and Valencia. One of them will end up man-of-the-match and United will be way too hot offensively for Boro to handle. Easy 0-2 win, United destroying Boro with width.
I would genuinely say that those suggesting the line up is 'horrific' or 'pathetic' or any other negative adjective haven't a clue what they're talking about when it comes to this sport.
Boro got one of the best strikers in the world so we need 3 players to keep him quiet.
He's not thinking that far ahead, he just wants to survive this run of games before international break.
Why?It's laughable really, Jose will never win on here!
Ah well, I'm sticking with my 2-0 to United prediction. We should be able to do this lot and FINALLY move above the Gooners.
Hoping for a Spurs draw and Liverpool win later. Hopefully the United result will enable me to enjoy those games.Looks like this will be hard work, but I really don't care as long as we get the 3 points."Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Marcos Rojo are on the bench but it will be difficult for them to play. The ones that are injured or suspended are not here. This is the group we have but, to be honest with you, I am positive. I chose the guys; I always say that when somebody doesn't play, it is an opportunity for somebody else to play, and I trust my boys."I'm not in any way confident after looking at our starting XI. Three at the back and Fellaini, Young and Lingard in midfield. That's not a strong team.
Does anyone know why Micky, Martial and Rojo are on the bench? Rotation or fitness?Should be good enough to beat boro.
With that kind of quality and money on the bench there's no way our squad today can be called bare.I assume he is playing three at the back as it means mata and lingard can take up better positions by not having to offer width. Its not a problem for me. The personnel however is a major issue. How can we aspire to being a title challenging side and send out teams like that.Don't fancy the formation. There's a lot of pressure on Lingard and Mata to create for RashfordLove it when the matchday thread loses it's shit, we usually win then!Decided to assess things before making a reactionary comment, liking the look of the wing backs, will provide pace next to Fellaini and Carrick. Rashford up top is good, his pace is always a threat and 3 at the back whilst overkill could prove to be very helpful in at least not conceding. I think we can win this, we've been quite good away from home.Strangely optimistic for this one, think it will be a 1-0 for us - a historically ugly one that will make the Rostov game look as El'Classico.- Status
Man of the Match
Runners-up
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27%
Antonio Valencia
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8%
Marouane Fellaini
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4%
Marcus Rashford
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3%
Juan Mata
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2%
Ashley Young
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1%
David de Gea
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1%
Michael Carrick
Player Ratings
Total Average Rating
Highest Rated Player
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Compiled from 502 ratings.
Score Predictions
309,41,103
- Man Utd win
- Middlesbrough win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 23% Middlesbrough 0:2 Man Utd
- 20% Middlesbrough 0:1 Man Utd
- 15% Middlesbrough 1:2 Man Utd
- 13% Middlesbrough 1:1 Man Utd
- 9% Middlesbrough 0:0 Man Utd
- 5% Middlesbrough 0:3 Man Utd
- 3% Middlesbrough 1:3 Man Utd
- 3% Middlesbrough 1:0 Man Utd
- 2% Middlesbrough 2:0 Man Utd
- 2% Middlesbrough 2:1 Man Utd
- 2% Middlesbrough 0:5 Man Utd
- 1% Middlesbrough 5:0 Man Utd
- 1% Middlesbrough 2:2 Man Utd
- 1% Middlesbrough 3:0 Man Utd
- 1% Middlesbrough 1:4 Man Utd
- 1% Middlesbrough 0:4 Man Utd
- 1% Middlesbrough 3:1 Man Utd
- 0% Middlesbrough 3:2 Man Utd
- 0% Middlesbrough 2:4 Man Utd
- 0% Middlesbrough 1:5 Man Utd
Match Stats
- Middlesbrough
- Man Utd
- Possession
- 64% 36%
- Shots
- 10 14
- Shots on Target
- 3 6
- Corners
- 8 3
- Fouls
- 9 8
Referee
Jonathan Moss
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Marcos Rojo
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replaced by Anthony Martial
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replaced by Matteo Darmian
