He didn't shit himself, we got pressed well and Pogba didn't offer the cover his role requires, but it's still not an excuse to play a garbage player instead of our best CM and disrupt the best area of our team for the last two months.
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Stoke City 1:1 Manchester United
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He didn't shit himself, we got pressed well and Pogba didn't offer the cover his role requires, but it's still not an excuse to play a garbage player instead of our best CM and disrupt the best area of our team for the last two months.
Obviously. No idea why the drama queens always get so wound up
I guess he'll play on the wing as usualEven though the team José's put out is fine, I can't help but be disappointed in his handlings of both Martial and Shaw this season.Can only see a 1-1 bore fest today in this game.
Tbh I'd take a crappy 1-0 and run right now.
Being fair to Fellaini he's generally been good (Everton aside) this season when he's played, and I'm a fairly big Fellaini critic.
Incredible double standards in here mate.
When Rooney was stinking the place up and getting picked the next game everyone lost their shit. When Martial stinks the place up and then rightly gets dropped everybody loses their shit.
Anyhow, I'd bet money that Martial is either ill or injured.
Exactly.
Very rarely spends time hugging the touchline with the attacking runs of Valencia, though.
That would mean Pogba as #10. Don't think it will happen.Carrick on the bench
Aren't we allowed to rotate players now? Especially in a position we have so many players. Geez calm down.
He's obviously not a traditional winger but he's not playing centrally either, so he'll play on the right side I guess
He was one of our best players in 2 of his last 3 appearances. Agreed he's likely ill or injured though but its just bullshit to say he's been stinking the place up of late.
No he hasn't, he had two decent games at the start of the season and has been his usual garbage self otherwise when played in midfield, his only purpose is to throw on near the end to cause a nuissance in the box.
I have to agree that's not a good decision from Mourinho.Carrick on the bench
Today will be a good test for Herrera in the single-pivot role. Hope he does well..
As center-back backup, mind you.Carrick on the bench
He will play on the wing on paper, but what I'm saying is, he'll roam inside quite often like he usually does.
Stop talking sense.
Blind could shift.This would be a massive win if we can get it. I think they'll turn up as usual against us, I'm leaning towards a 1-1 drawliverpool have lost
This is MUST WIN. If we win we are 2 points from 3rd.
He has been much improved recently, but my comment was more in relation to earlier in the season when he was absolutely dreadful.Massive game, now.
Shocked that Martial isn't even on the bench, that's weird.
Scousers dropping 3 points, City likely to drop points later, we HAVE to win this however we do it. C'mon lads.
You honestly believe the situations are the same? Rooney was putting in awful performances for years and still getting picked every week, whereas Martial gets dropped after a great game or a substandard one. Even against Liverpool he was our biggest attacking threat despite having 3 players on him and was the first to be substituted.Hopefully Zlatan can have a good first half for a changeAnother chance now for us to be close to top 4!Liverpool have just offered us a huge lifeline and Jose has selected a weak team, so frustrating.Can see us not taking advantage of the points Pool dropped today, with one of City/Spurs also dropping points today is extremely important, a win today and top 4 is in our own hands.Omens everywhere!Had a dream Liverpool lost 2-1 to Swansea and we pumped Stoke.
Not quite the score, but they did lose. Not many would have predicted that.
Now lets hope we 'pump' Stoke. We could do with improving our goal difference.Why is the text of each post starting one line down? Is this a new thing?Demonstrates just how weak we are in the midfield area, we do need to buy in this window. Only Fellaini can step in of the first choice 3 cant play.Big match. Hopefully we can get the points.Stoke are a physical team so Fellaini plays. We really need to win this so I hope it pays off.Disappointed to see Fellaini start, just can't believe he continues to get game-time. I'm also concerned that not playing Carrick will leave less cover for the defence.
Pleased with Blind at LB, sick of seeing Darmin there and hoping he'll give us more balance.
Must win game after the scousers result.
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Turns it out he said that today. In the press conference yesterday there were no concerns.I'll be gutted if we don't win this now. I never expected Liverpool to lose against Swansea, so being 2 points behind them would be the same as us beating them last week and them beating Swansea today. Also I'm expected Spurs to beat City, which would put us above them. Big match this.- Status
Man of the Match
Runners-up
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25%
Antonio Valencia
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10%
Henrikh Mkhitaryan
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7%
Ander Herrera
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4%
Paul Pogba
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4%
Marcus Rashford
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2%
Marouane Fellaini
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1%
Phil Jones
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1%
Juan Mata
Player Ratings
Total Average Rating
Highest Rated Player
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Compiled from 447 ratings.
Score Predictions
540,32,63
- Man Utd win
- Stoke win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 26% Stoke 0:2 Man Utd
- 24% Stoke 1:2 Man Utd
- 11% Stoke 1:3 Man Utd
- 9% Stoke 0:3 Man Utd
- 9% Stoke 0:1 Man Utd
- 7% Stoke 1:1 Man Utd
- 2% Stoke 2:1 Man Utd
- 2% Stoke 0:0 Man Utd
- 2% Stoke 0:5 Man Utd
- 1% Stoke 1:4 Man Utd
- 1% Stoke 0:4 Man Utd
- 1% Stoke 5:0 Man Utd
- 1% Stoke 2:2 Man Utd
- 1% Stoke 2:0 Man Utd
- 1% Stoke 1:0 Man Utd
- 0% Stoke 3:1 Man Utd
- 0% Stoke 2:3 Man Utd
- 0% Stoke 2:4 Man Utd
- 0% Stoke 3:0 Man Utd
- 0% Stoke 3:4 Man Utd
- 0% Stoke 4:5 Man Utd
- 0% Stoke 5:5 Man Utd
- 0% Stoke 1:5 Man Utd
Match Stats
- Stoke
- Man Utd
- Possession
- 35% 65%
- Shots
- 6 25
- Shots on Target
- 1 8
- Corners
- 1 7
- Fouls
- 13 12
Referee
Mark Clattenburg
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Jesse Lingard
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replaced by Marcus Rashford
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