Tuanzebe still rehabbing and Ole said Garner has been ill and so is playing for the Academy on Monday to get match fitness back. I would expect Chong and Gomes to be on the bench at least and frankly I would start them just to give the senior players a rest.
FA Cup FA Cup 3rd Round
Wolverhampton Wanderers 0:0 Manchester United
Molineaux
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- Sat, 4 January 2020 @ 5:31pm GMT
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Tuanzebe still rehabbing and Ole said Garner has been ill and so is playing for the Academy on Monday to get match fitness back. I would expect Chong and Gomes to be on the bench at least and frankly I would start them just to give the senior players a rest.Romero
Williams Jones Lindelof Young
Matic Pereira
Mata Lingard Chong
Greenwood
Subs: Gomes, Dalot, James
We don't have the squad to be fighting on 4 fronts - injuries and lack of depth in the forward areas. Europa is a crapshoot, with League Cup we are at least already in the semis and top 4 is still a good possibility if we can keep our key players fit and not exhausted. Missing out on CL will result in us losing money on the shirt deal plus potential to sign players - so league and Europa for now get priority.
No one said about not trying to win but, we can't try to get to all 4 goals with the same players, so we need to prioritize which competitions will see us use more of the fringe/youth players and right now it has to be the FA cup.
Not sure with wolves. Jota is out but i remember we thought they'd rotate last season and didn't.
As this is only a third round we'll certainly have to prioritise Tuesday.
Not much to rotate with though.
Need to get both rested for Tuesday then!My preference
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Young-----Tunazebe-----Rojo----Williams
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Pereira---------------Mata--------------Chong
---------------------GreenwoodI just watched the presser and felt embarrassed for Ole squirming when answering questions on Pogba.
The only thing I could understand from what he said was that it was a new ankle injury which he must have picked up in the last half he played and he has had scans and there will be an operation and he will be back playing in three to four weeks.
I wish he would stop trying to deflect issues by going back to his playing days.
Back in training but not ready, same goes for Tuanzebe and Fosu-Mensah.
I would rather focus on getting back into the champions league via top 4. We are worse off now than under LVG, and our squad is even thinner.If Laird is fit, I would start him at RB, with Williams at LB, Maguire, Lindelof and AWB in a back three, AWB could slot on the right of the three, or just in front of the back two to get in tackles on forward moving midfielders, he won't win many headers. Fred and Pereira in a slightly more advanced role with Rashford, Martial and Greenwood up front. If Gomes is available, then possibly play him in the point of a diamond, with any two of the strikers up front.No idea on this. If Rashford sticks in a performance we could win, but he should probably be rested.
We are in a better position now based on position in the league at the same point in time. Didn't have a league cup semi though.
Yeah it is much more thin in midfield now and I guess it hurt you more having to replace that part of the team compared to fullbacks and central defenders.
Jackson as an example did pretty well even if Valencia and Shaw our main fullbacks missed most of the season. He was mostly better than Darmian and Rojo anyway who also had injuries. Mensah did well too when we had a crisis with central defenders.
Also Rooney being injured was mostly a blessing forcing us to use Rashford in the end rather than just hearing LVG saying my captain shall always play.
Still I think great that we at least won that cup with all the injuries. I give credit to LVG for it even if the football was bloody dire in order to get it. Main reason was our easy draw with also all the other big guns being knocked out by smaller sides.
Not as easy this time around though and teams like City are much stronger and more focused on the cups now. Liverpool can hopefully fail again in the cups so that should help us a lot.Even though all signs point to an obvious "Wolves want it badly enough to play us off the park and we lose 0-2 in one of our trademark vanilla do these guys give any shits at all? Do they have any shame?" performances I have this weird feeling we'll score early and then battle the game out and win by a goal with both teams scoring. It just has this "United need something here and they might just try hard enough to arse it" vibe.Hate these Wolves feckers. Just scratch this fecking gameI'd love these 6 to feature:
Galbraith PuigmalThat won't happen of course, but I'd love to see it nonetheless. Rashford and Fred both need a rest
Greenwood ----- --------------- James
Ramazani Martial
I remember hating football while LVG was in charge, save for those games against Liverpool. With his style/philosophy I think it would be easier for players like Matic and Mata to fit in, as the game was about possession and maintaining a specific spot on the grass, not about attacking and running and athleticism. (I'm being a little hyperbolic).
With the squad Ole has at his disposal, we function only when playing a counter-attacking style, and only when our top players actually play. If Rashford and Martial and Greenwood (in any combination) get injured, we have no forwards. We could play the vaunted 4-6-0 formation, maybe. Our midfield is on life support with McTominay and Pogba out. Matic, Pereira, and Fred are no one's idea of an exciting, capable midfield - at least not top flight standard.
We might get to see Garner, Hamilton, and a bunch of other youth teamers get to play, and I will hope they win, but this squad has no chance of winning the Cup, so we need to be cautious.
All that changes if we get any new players in this transfer window!
He shouldn't really play at all.The FA cup should hardly be a priority for us at this point of time, given that it's just the third round.
I'd give starts to Williams and laird and axel, if he's fit. Greenwood to start for sure, though not sure beyond that who would play.
Expecting us to loose the game and frankly speaking, I don't even care much about this one.I know the idea won't be popular but honestly I'd rest all the 1st XI this match. They all look so exhausted last match and if we don't want to risk anymore injure, we should rest them this match imo.Yeah, I’m not going to watch this.
Agree. I wouldn’t start the front three, Fred or Matic against City either.
Chong only I thinkHope Wolves take it easy on us.Rest Fred. He's probably likely going to play against City anyway so we need to rest him and give Garner a chance. I think Rashford will start but if I got to choose, I'll rest him. Going to play Romero in both Wolves & City games, deserve to play in cup games imo.
Maguire has been playing lot of games, makes sens to rest him but our only option is Jones. What a sad option.
Romero
Young Lindelof Jones Williams
Matic Garner
Lingard Mata James
Greenwood
Edit: Oh shit Garner is injured/ill?? Well, Pereira in CM role again then.Flood the midfield.
They will play 3-5-2 with Jota/Jimenez causing havoc if we go 4-3-3.
Let’s go 3-5-2 as well, like for likeJust don't embarrass ourselves today. I can see it happening..don't even want to think of our Supertanker speed midfield that is going to get eaten alive.
Can't be asked to do watch today. Not feeling the love
3 of those are out.
Never understood this attitude. Do you only watch when we are at our best?Can’t see past a Wolves victory in this one unfortunately. How we’ve fallen.With such a thin squad, I would rather we rest Rashford, Martial, Fred and McGuire at a minimum and get James off after the first 60.
This a game for Mata, Young et al.Not feeling confident about this one at all. Our bogey team that we’ve failed to beat in 4 attempts. Won’t be surprised if Ole matches Wolves with a 3-5-2
Starting XI
Romero
Lindelof
Jones
Maguire
Young
Pereira
Matic
Fred
Williams
Rashford
Greenwood
subs:
Grant
Wan-Bissaka
Shaw
Gomes
Mata
Chong
James
Score Prediction:
Wolves 1-0 Man Utd
Be fecking hilarious if we field that team and beat Wolves
It looks like you’re just naming random historical figures.McTominay, Pogba, Martial, Lingard out along with the long term injured ones. Man, our squad depth is taking a hit. This is going to be such an insanely rough month.Not feeling confident about this game at all.
That is pretty much our best side though if Martial is out. Yes James can play too in our normal system and AWB would be fullback then, but for 3-5-2 it is our best players with the current squad and injuries.- Status
Man of the Match
Runners-up
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22%
Brandon Williams
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15%
Harry Maguire
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12%
Victor Lindelof
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2%
Nemanja Matic
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2%
Andreas Pereira
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Tahith Chong
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Mason Greenwood
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Ashley Young
Player Ratings
Total Average Rating
Highest Rated Player
Lowest Rated Player
Compiled from 208 ratings.
Score Predictions
77,176,31
- Man Utd win
- Wolves win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 25% Wolves 2:0 Man Utd
- 18% Wolves 2:1 Man Utd
- 14% Wolves 1:2 Man Utd
- 9% Wolves 1:1 Man Utd
- 7% Wolves 3:0 Man Utd
- 6% Wolves 0:1 Man Utd
- 5% Wolves 3:1 Man Utd
- 5% Wolves 1:0 Man Utd
- 2% Wolves 1:3 Man Utd
- 2% Wolves 0:2 Man Utd
- 2% Wolves 5:0 Man Utd
- 1% Wolves 2:2 Man Utd
- 1% Wolves 2:3 Man Utd
- 1% Wolves 0:0 Man Utd
- 1% Wolves 0:5 Man Utd
- 0% Wolves 2:4 Man Utd
- 0% Wolves 0:3 Man Utd
- 0% Wolves 4:0 Man Utd
- 0% Wolves 4:1 Man Utd
Match Stats
- Wolves
- Man Utd
- Possession
- 49% 51%
- Shots
- 12 12
- Shots on Target
- 2 0
- Corners
- 8 5
- Fouls
- 9 11
Referee
Paul Tierney
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Marcus Rashford
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