League Cup Third Round

Northampton 1:3 Manchester United

Sixfields Stadium

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Wed, 21 September 2016 @ 7:45pm BST
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    It's league cup? It should be Schweinsteiger time.

    ------------------- De Gea -------------------
    Darmian - Schweinsteiger - Smalling - Shaw
    ---------- Schweinsteiger - Pogba ---------
    ------Mata - Schweinsteiger - Rashford ------
    ------------------- Ibra -------------------------

    On a even more serious note: I would field our strongest eleven. No one deserves a rest. And it seems we need every possibility to built something like a team.
     
    Think he should play Lingard on the right, Mata in the middle, Martial on the left and Rashford upfront.

    Put Carrick & Schneiderlin behind them and let them take care of defensive responsibilities.
    Blind & Smalling at the back, and Darmian & Young at FB.
     
    Hope Jesse is reintroduced to the team tonight.

    Very important for his confidence.
     
    Hope to see

    Romero
    Young Smalling Blind Rojo
    Carrick Fellaini
    Mata Rooney Lingard
    Rashford

    Subs De Gea, Darmian, Bailly, Herrera, Pogba, Valencia, Zlatan
     
    ---------------Romero---------------
    -Darmian----Smalling(c)--TFM--Shaw-
    -----------Carrick-------Herrera----------
    -------------------Pogba--------------------
    ----------Lingard-------------Memphis------
    -------------------Rashford-----------------

    Rooney rested to give us another shit pass compilation video for Leicester.
     
    Kaos said:
    ---------------Romero---------------
    -Darmian----Smalling(c)--TFM--Shaw-
    -----------Carrick-------Herrera----------
    -------------------Pogba--------------------
    ----------Lingard-------------Memphis------
    -------------------Rashford-----------------

    Rooney rested to give us another shit pass compilation video for Leicester.
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    Rooney being rested for the Watford match was laughable. What exactly are we resting? A player in the prime of his life? :lol:

    Throw him in here as a striker for all I care, just as long as he's nowhere near our league games.
     
    Training in a car park
    Well, you’ve got to use whatever facilities at your disposal, I suppose.

    It looks like Manchester United are in fact warming up in a car park ahead of tonight’s game.

    Magic of the cup, ey?


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    12:23 PM - 21 Sep 2016
     
    Rooney will probably start, bundle one in off his ass from two yards, prompting Jose to say how he has silenced his critics and start him against Leicester. Calling it now!
     
    Rooney will start this. Interesting to see if he gets hauled off if we play bad.
     
    Romero
    Young Smalling Blind Rojo
    Carrick
    Schneiderlin Fosu-Mensah
    Lingard Rooney Memphis​
     
    The BlackGaijin said:
    After what Mou said on the weekend. I can bet my left testicle that Ashley Young will start both this and Leicester. New managers seem to love him.
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    Like Fellaini and Valencia, A.Young has a hard work ethic. He listens to instructions and implements them on the pitch.
    Where some players will drop their effort, if the game is getting away from them, Young will continue plodding away and continue working hard to implement the manager's instructions.
     
    Pretty sure Carrick, Young, Rojo and Rooney will all start together... I bet not many thought that would happen at the beginning of the Summer, even in a League Cup game.

    de Gea
    Darmian Smalling Blind Rojo
    Carrick Herrera
    Rashford Mata Young
    Rooney
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    Romero; Bailly, Fosu-Mensah; Schneiderlin, Fellaini, Memphis; Ibrahimovic​

    Lingard might get in the squad over Fellaini, but I can't see many other options with Mkhitaryan, Shaw, Martial, and Jones injured. Valencia to be rested for Leicester, maybe Pogba too, but I wouldn't be surprised if he's involved as well. Hopefully Schweinsteiger is involved, but I think we'd have heard something by now if he was. Probably nowhere near fit enough anyway.

    Not liking the idea of Rooney leading the line if it's true, but when it doesn't work he can drop deep, Mata would move out wide and Rashford to the front.
     
    If you would have asked me my team for this 10 days ago I would have said to give some of the youth players a chance, but to be honest, I would name an unchanged side where possible. Almost like a slap in the face to the guys in our 'first XI' - like saying 'I've lost so much confidence, that you need to convince me that you are capable of beating Northampton'. It could act as a kick starter to our season, let Pogba, Ronney, Zlatan take out some of that frustration from Saturday.

    What that approach would do however is deny us from seeing some of the fringe players and getting them some match sharpness. Would love to see Fosu Mensah get a start, I've loved what I seen from him so far, just want to see more. Even at right back, with Darmian filling in left back. Anything to prevent Rojo starting in place of Shaw. I try and stay level headed when judging players, but I kind of gave up on him after the Feyenoord match, granted it was his first start of the season, but the guy looks like an imposter... worse than a man short. I would promote Riley, before I gave him another start.
     
    sunama said:
    Like Fellaini and Valencia, A.Young has a hard work ethic. He listens to instructions and implements them on the pitch.
    Where some players will drop their effort, if the game is getting away from them, Young will continue plodding away and continue working hard to implement the manager's instructions.
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    Which is the bare minimum we should be getting from every one of the overpaid twats at our club. Ridiculous that his ethic is the exception rather than the norm.
     
    Raees said:
    Rooney will start this. Interesting to see if he gets hauled off if we play bad.
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    He won't get hauled off.
    He is Jose's No.1 guy and he may offend Rooney if he subs him off, due to poor performance.

    I don't understand what hold Rooney has on his managers, but we have seen this with Moyes, LVG, Jose, Hodgson and Allardyce.
     
    Faetheshire86 said:
    If you would have asked me my team for this 10 days ago I would have said to give some of the youth players a chance, but to be honest, I would name an unchanged side where possible. Almost like a slap in the face to the guys in our 'first XI' - like saying 'I've lost so much confidence, that you need to convince me that you are capable of beating Northampton'. It could act as a kick starter to our season, let Pogba, Ronney, Zlatan take out some of that frustration from Saturday.
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    That surely worked for Pogba's motivation against Feyenoord, no doubt...:rolleyes: Imagine with this opponent!
     
    DanNistelrooy said:
    Anyone's guess tonight mate. Will be rotation but expect a strong team still, can't afford a fourth consecutive loss
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    Maybe a fourth consecutive loss, or whatever the result, with a strong team is worse than with our second team players. That was the logic behind the kind of strong team presented against Feyenoord, that almost all here welcomed, and look how that worked. Mourinho's changing his stance on playing all players and youngsters in these September games is part of the problem.
     
    Android1974 said:
    That surely worked for Pogba's motivation against Feyernoord, no doubt...:rolleyes: Imagine with this opponent!
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    I think that's different though, against Feyenoord, Pogba was one of a few first teamers who started. The perception was there to provide that real quality and help to shepherd the rest of the fringe players through the game (also a touch of needing match fitness). I think if we play all of the 'usual' players then that sends out more of a message of them being given a slap on the wrist for their poor performance. Rightly or wrongly, I think a few of them would be embarrassed at us having to field our strongest team against Northampton. Would be interesting to see who pulls up their socks and gets to work, and who decides to have a sulk.
     
    Faetheshire86 said:
    I think that's different though, against Feyenoord, Pogba was one of a few first teamers who started. The perception was there to provide that real quality and help to shepherd the rest of the fringe players through the game (also a touch of needing match fitness). I think if we play all of the 'usual' players then that sends out more of a message of them being given a slap on the wrist for their poor performance. Rightly or wrongly, I think a few of them would be embarrassed at us having to field our strongest team against Northampton. Would be interesting to see who pulls up their socks and gets to work, and who decides to have a sulk.
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    I agree it's… let's say, an interesting thought experiment, but the results can be disastrous (also extending physically against Leicester in a few days). Better play the second and third team players, which by the way should be more than enough for this kind of opposition, and fight for the result.
     
    Also, unpopular opinion, I hope Mourinho ditches the 4-3-3 experiment and goes back to his preferred 4-2-3-1 and just finds someone who can link play (Mkhitaryan… I know he's injured). Perhaps Lingard could do it, but I suspect he's still grounded after his very poor first-half display against City.
     
    And why are almost all people in the press defending we should start with a midfield of Carrick, Herrera and Mata but in 4-3-3? Mata being overun and losing the ball to counterattack is dangerous enough for him to play as #10, imagine as #8…
     
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  • 8% Northampton 0:4 Man Utd
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26% 74%
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8 14
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2 7
Corners
5 4
Fouls
7 7

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