Newcastle United 0:1 Manchester United

gooDevil · Mar 4, 2015

Would prefer Januzaj for Fellaini, 433, di Maria in midfield.

DeGea
Valencia Smalling Evans Rojo
Blind
Herrera diMaria
Januzaj Rooney Young

With Shaw coming in and Rojo for Evans I'd say that's our best team. If you unleash di Maria.

Tincanalley · Mar 4, 2015

Frasbul said:
anyone else getting zero points in the lineup game?

9/11 ...

Ole's_toe_poke · Mar 4, 2015

Raw said:
I looked back on our 4-0 win against Newcastle away under Moyes last season, it was our 4th away win in a row. Imagine that, 4 away wins!

If we could combine Moyes' away form with Van Gaal's home form we'd be champions.

Theonas · Mar 4, 2015

Stack said:
I havent yet worked out how he is going to use Fellaini to beat the pressure. I always thought the best way to handle pressure and pressing was high ball speed 1 and 2 touch passing. Is he thinking of going over the top instead of playing out from the back.?

Even Guardiola used Martinez as a target man for high balls to beat Dortmund's pressure and skip the midfield. This idea that top teams always play a passing game on thr ground for 90mins every game is very strange indeed,

Truedevil · Mar 4, 2015

Peter de Laat said:
Agreed in defence, but when in possession it might be more like:

de Gea
Smalling - Blind - Evans
Valencia---------Herrera ------- Rojo
Di Maria ---- Fellaini ---- Young
Rooney

I don't know, Blind was quite adventurous in this formation against Sunderland so it's fair to say he's allowed to join the attack more than in 3-5-2 or in the diamond before.

Raw · Mar 4, 2015

Ole's_toe_poke said:
If we could combine Moyes' away form with Van Gaal's home form we'd be champions.

Moyes as assistant manager next season?

Samid · Mar 4, 2015

LVG just said "Fellani". :lol:

Damien · Mar 4, 2015

Samid said:
LVG just said "Fellani".

He always does

LitterBug · Mar 4, 2015

Raw said:
Hell, if we're going to spam crosses from the wings I'd rather have Fellaini there instead of Falcao.

We're not going to do that. We will do the same as we have done every game, and hoof the ball long to him. If we did it to Falcao rather than waiting to play him into space, we could have maybe seen more of the skill he produced last week and maybe more goals.

Member 58925 · Mar 4, 2015

I like the lineup on paper and there finally seems to be some consistency. I hope afro plays in midfield and Young and Di Maria are flanking Rooney but I doubt that's the case

Henrik Larsson · Mar 4, 2015

Samid said:
LVG just said "Fellani".

He can't even pronounce Van Persie correctly, and they're from the same country :lol:

Thugmann · Mar 4, 2015

It looks like Fellaini will be playing as a striker along side Rooney

Inebriated bison · Mar 4, 2015

Raw said:

From the order of this team sheet it looks like 4-2-3-1 to me with Fellaini the centre of the 3. Good to see falcao on the bench, Di Maria is lucky to be starting after the Sunderland game. But the only way to get back in good form is to play I suppose. If he doesn't play well in the first half he'll be off at half time again

AltiUn · Mar 4, 2015

I think Januzaj's exclusion is purely so that if things aren't going well he can come on and turn the game around again.

Lewis.no.9 · Mar 4, 2015

Evans again....the fact he was ok last game was just a pure fluke and long overdue. But he is garbage. Lol that Jones is on the bench behind this guy.

really like Fellaini working with Rooney. Expect both to score tonight. COME ON UTD!!!

Dunk · Mar 4, 2015

LitterBug said:
We're not going to do that. We will do the same as we have done every game, and hoof the ball long to him. If we did it to Falcao rather than waiting to play him into space, we could have maybe seen more of the skill he produced last week and maybe more goals.

It's better he's starts these sort of away games rather than coming on as sub if we need a goal. Mata plays better in home games for some reason anyway. The problem with Fellaini though is the fact that he's not good with the ball at his feet so every time we pass to him he struggles, dragging the team's attacking play down with him.

LeChuck · Mar 4, 2015

Omg-are we actually playing a 4-3-3?!

Paul Scholes · Mar 4, 2015

link for game please?

SqueakyWeasel · Mar 4, 2015

We need all 3 points and Di Maria really needs to have a big one

mu4c_20le · Mar 4, 2015

Had a quick peek on some newcastle forums and they seem to be putting money on Rooney scoring

DB17 · Mar 4, 2015

The simulation above would be great to see Gutierrez to make his return scoring a last minute winner against us. Wouldn't be great for LVG's job though

SqueakyWeasel · Mar 4, 2015

Those Newcastle faces on BT Sport :lol:

Cheesy · Mar 4, 2015

Lewis.no.9 said:
Evans again....the fact he was ok last game was just a pure fluke and long overdue. But he is garbage. Lol that Jones is on the bench behind this guy.

really like Fellaini working with Rooney. Expect both to score tonight. COME ON UTD!!!

To be fair, while Evans has largely been shite, it's not as if Jones has been brilliant either.

DatIrishFella · Mar 4, 2015

DB17 said:
The simulation above would be great to see Gutierrez to make his return scoring a last minute winner against us. Wouldn't be great for LVG's job though

Great to see him return, not to score a winning goal against us, that's ridiculous.

iammemphis · Mar 4, 2015

Come on Boys!

caisenma · Mar 4, 2015

Anyone know what the story is with Shaw?

caisenma · Mar 4, 2015

Anyway, lets go Reds!

togg · Mar 4, 2015

yep...I think if we lose tonight....isn't 4th going to start to be out of our hands?

SqueakyWeasel · Mar 4, 2015

caisenma said:
Anyone know what the story is with Shaw?

FATigue

iammemphis · Mar 4, 2015

And Fellaini is 100% upfront. I think its gonna work.

Raw · Mar 4, 2015

caisenma said:
Anyone know what the story is with Shaw?

The same tight hamstring that ruled him out of the Sunderland match.

Sassy Colin · Mar 4, 2015

Sorry just posting this smilie, it's the only way to get it off my posting box

applemacdan · Mar 4, 2015

Anyone got a BT Sport Sopcast Link?

Shyftyy · Mar 4, 2015

Norwegian tv is showing that we are playing a proper 4-3-3. Is that correct?

Cheesy · Mar 4, 2015

iamfalcao said:
And Fellaini is 100% upfront. I think its gonna work.

I'm not a fan of it in that I hope it's not LVG's long-term plan for the next few years, but I'll happily take it for the moment if it can work well.

Raw · Mar 4, 2015

Shyftyy said:
Norwegian tv is showing that we are playing a proper 4-3-3. Is that correct?

BT are showing a 442.

JonDahl · Mar 4, 2015

These are absolutely dogshit, no way they aren't getting battered. 0-4 victory.

Sassy Colin · Mar 4, 2015

Took Di Maria out of my FF team, so hopefully he'll get a few goals/assists

Damien · Mar 4, 2015

Colin129 said:
Sorry just posting this smilie, it's the only way to get it off my posting box

Shyftyy · Mar 4, 2015

Raw said:
BT are showing a 442.

Funny how that works. We'll have to work it out on our own

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