Young playing RWB is not going to work, should have been Rafael.
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Stoke City 1:1 Manchester United
Britannia Stadium
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- Thu, 1 January 2015 @ 12:45pm GMT
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Surprised Falcao and RVP start again, I expected at least one to be rested. Hope Mata has a similar influence and continues his good form. Nice to have Shaw back.
I'm guessing it's 3-5-2 but it could also be a 4 man defence.the first line-up with no complaints I'm predicting
Stoke Starting XI: Begovic, Cameron, Shawcross, Muniesa, Pieters, N'Zonzi, Whelan, Arnautovic, Walters, Diouf, Crouch.
Subs: Bardsley, Huth, Wilson, Adam, Butland, Assaidi, Shenton.
Why? The past two games we have dominated using it. If it had not been for tired legs/minds we would have beat Tottenham.
United XI: De Gea, Young, Jones, Smalling, Evans, Shaw, Carrick, Mata, Rooney, van Persie, Falcao
Valencia got a knock, they say on twitter.Van Gaal doesn't seem to have a lot of faith in Rafael it seemsLast time Young played on the right creativity was zero..Happy with the starting 11 and the bench looks good too. It's still weird seeing us start with a CAM and 3 strikers especially away but we will be fine i think.McNair is not even on the benchThanks all for the team list
Herrera starting from bench.. Hmmm
Hope you subbed him
Good to see him back.
Van Gaal will play his 60 minute trick with Herrera again.
That's clear.352 as i predicted. And both of our full backs are back. So do people realize now that we will stick with 352 till the end of the season.Hope they don't play as well as they did at OT even though we won... we've got to win this one too... couldn't bear starting the new year having too see Sparky with a smug look on his face
I wouldn't trust an unfit Rafael away at Stoke.
I'm pleased with the team - very happy to see Smalling back.According to SSN Jones has been clonedPeople still suggest Rafael is untouchable, even though LvG starts Young before him
It's a shame. I thought Rafael did well before his injury. I know Young's playing well so can't drop him but thought it would make sense to keep Young on the left and put in Rafael on the right.No complaints really, we have enough quality on the bench to make changes if this isn't working in Herrera, Januzaj and Rafael.
Think it's more to do with Young justifying his place in the squad and Shaw needing more minutes.
If Valencia wasn't injured I don't think Shaw would've gotten in the team either.No Bojan for Stoke, that's keyThat's some claim Mr Dyson
You are a bit harsh now - especially considering
a) every team has a few of those (apart from Arsenal where Wenger thinks you don't need it)
b) Charlie Adam has started 7 games this season and Robert Huth 2 - not even Crouch is a regular anymore.
c) you can't change a team of thugs to World-beaters overnight - but Hughes certainly has made them play more attractive football.so glad Di Maria hasn't been selected,stoke would of went out to try and hurt him
The spurs game as an example almost put me to sleep didn't feel for a minute we were gonna get more then a point in that game.If we can lead by a couple and ease in Herrera, I can see this game as the last time we play 5 at the back for some time. But with our luck with injuries I'm not filled with confidence
First half was brilliant I thought. Had it not been for Lloris we would have been 2-3 up.No idea how today is going to go. Just hope we have recovered enough from the last two games.
We are talking about Stoke here, some of their tackling is brutal, If we get away with injuries today it will be a bonus.SmallingStoke will hoof the ball up to Crouch.
Every set piece and corners against us they will aim for him and he will cause us problems.
Hope we pull off a win but think it will be a very difficult game.
You definitely saw only the 2nd half..No complaints. Rafael doesn't fit this formation, as he's lost without a winger infront of him. Young will be predictable but should do fine.
Good to see Adnan and Herrera back
But sure Rafael needs minutes, if that's your argument for Shaw starting?Which one of our players will Charlie Adam kick today?We actually have Jones, Smalling and Evans being fit and playing together in a match !!
Can we just award a knighthood to LVG for making this possible
Very happy with that.
He looked nowhere near 100% fit when he came on against Spurs. Young started ahead of Shaw on left against Spurs too. It doesn't really mean anything at this stage.Glad to see Smalling back but there really is no need for the 352. We have fit full backs and we should utilise that. We could also do with more energy in the midfield. Herrera would offer that.- Status
Man of the Match
Runners-up
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13%
Chris Smalling
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8%
Michael Carrick
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7%
Juan Mata
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5%
Phil Jones
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3%
Luke Shaw
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2%
David de Gea
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2%
Wayne Rooney
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1%
Ashley Young
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1%
Ander Herrera
Player Ratings
Total Average Rating
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Compiled from 448 ratings.
Score Predictions
405,38,54
- Man Utd win
- Stoke win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 27% Stoke 1:2 Man Utd
- 20% Stoke 0:2 Man Utd
- 12% Stoke 1:3 Man Utd
- 8% Stoke 0:1 Man Utd
- 8% Stoke 1:1 Man Utd
- 7% Stoke 0:3 Man Utd
- 4% Stoke 2:1 Man Utd
- 2% Stoke 0:0 Man Utd
- 2% Stoke 0:4 Man Utd
- 1% Stoke 2:3 Man Utd
- 1% Stoke 0:5 Man Utd
- 1% Stoke 1:4 Man Utd
- 1% Stoke 2:0 Man Utd
- 1% Stoke 2:2 Man Utd
- 1% Stoke 3:1 Man Utd
- 1% Stoke 3:0 Man Utd
- 1% Stoke 1:0 Man Utd
- 0% Stoke 5:5 Man Utd
- 0% Stoke 2:5 Man Utd
- 0% Stoke 3:3 Man Utd
- 0% Stoke 4:0 Man Utd
- 0% Stoke 5:0 Man Utd
- 0% Stoke 2:4 Man Utd
- 0% Stoke 1:5 Man Utd
Match Stats
- Stoke
- Man Utd
- Possession
- 34% 66%
- Shots
- 11 6
- Shots on Target
- 2 2
- Corners
- 11 7
- Fouls
- 8 12
Referee
Michael Oliver
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Rafael
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replaced by Adnan Januzaj
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replaced by Ander Herrera
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