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Manchester United 4:1 Newcastle United

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Thu, 26 December 2019 @ 5:30pm GMT
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    Date - Thursday, December 26 2019
    Kickoff Time - 1730 Hrs GMT
    Venue - Old Trafford, Manchester

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    League standings and form guide

    8. Manchester United : DWWDL

    9. Newcastle United: DWWLW


    Previous League Meetings

    Newcastle United 1—0 Manchester United

    Newcastle United 0—2 Manchester United

    Manchester United 3—2 Newcastle United

    Newcastle United 1—0 Manchester United

    Manchester United 4—1 Newcastle United


    All-Time League Record

    Manchester United wins: 78
    Newcastle United wins: 42
    Draws: 39


    Pre-Match Pressers

    Ole Gunnar Solskjær



    Steve Bruce



    Team News

    Manchester United

    Eric Bailly and Timothy Fosu-Mensah ruled out. Marcos Rojo and Diogo Dalot doubtful.

    Newcastle United

    Jamaal Lascelles, Matt Ritchie, Allan Saint-Maximin and Ciaran Clark ruled out. Jetro Willems and Paul Dummett doubtful.


    Know the opposition

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    Newcastle United Football Club (nicknamed The Magpies) is a professional football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne. The first record of football being played on Tyneside dates from 3 March 1877 at Elswick Rugby Club. Later that year, Newcastle's first football club, Tyne Association, was formed. The team was renamed Newcastle East End F.C. in October 1882. Shortly after this, another Byker side, Rosewood FC, merged with East End to form an even stronger side. Meanwhile, across the city, West End Cricket Club began to take an interest in football and in August 1882, they formed Newcastle West End F.C. West End played their early football on their cricket pitch, but in May 1886, the club moved into St. James' Park.

    The two clubs became rivals in the Northern League. During the spring of 1892, in a season during which West End's results were at an all-time low, and in which they had lost to their bitter rivals, East End, five times, West End found themselves in serious trouble. They approached East End with a view to a take over, the directors having decided that the club could no longer continue - leading to a merger of the two rivals as Newcastle East End decided to adopt a new name in recognition of the merger.Suggested names included Newcastle F.C., Newcastle Rangers, Newcastle City and City of Newcastle, but Newcastle United was decided upon on 9 December 1892, to signify the unification of the two teams.

    The club has been a member of the Premier League for all but three years of the competition's history, spending 85 seasons in the top tier as of May 2016, and has never dropped below English football's second tier since joining the Football League in 1893. They have won four League Championship titles, six FA Cups and a Charity Shield, as well as the 1969 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and the 2006 UEFA Intertoto Cup. Newcastle United has the ninth highest total of trophies won by an English club. The club's most successful period was between 1904 and 1910, when they won an FA Cup and three of their First Division titles. The club were highly successful in the Premier League in the 1990s and early 2000s without winning any trophies, but have been mostly struggling since the 2006–07 season, and were relegated in 2009 and 2016.

    Newcastle has a fierce local rivalry with Sunderland, and the two clubs have engaged in the Tyne-Wear derby since 1898. Newcastle play their home games at St James' Park - which has been the home ground of Newcastle United since 1892 and has been used for football since 1880.


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    Kevin Friend.


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    Team should be...

    -----------------De Gea :nervous:-----------------
    AWB--Lindelof--Maguire--Williams
    ----------Pogba-----Matic----------
    James----------------------Rashford
    ---Greenwood---Martial---

    Subs: Romero, Young, Fred, McTominay, Mata, Andreas, Lingard

    442 please
     
    A win is far from certain here, but I think we might just sneak this one.
     
    --------------Romero
    AWB-Lindelof-Maguire-Williams
    -------McTominay-Fred
    Greenwood-Pogba-Rashford
    ---------------Martial

    DDG, Dalot, Tuanzebe, Garner, Puigmal, Gomes, James
     
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    Ole shouldn't be managing this game anyways, but if Lingard starts this one I don't think there's any point of watching. Romero should also start but he won't because Lord De Gea will never be dropped
     
    I hope we lose every game until the manager is sacked. Sick of him fluking more time with the odd well timed result.
     
    No hopes at all of this game. The team has proven what type of team they are, and they stand no chance to get a result from this.

    Top 4 is gone anyway.
     
    Struggle to see us winning, and we always concede if De Gea plays. Either 2-1 or 1-1.
     
    We'll win this game.

    This team is a specialist in letting its fans down when the hope is high and vice versa.
     
    King Andow said:
    --------------Romero
    AWB-Lindelof-Maguire-Williams
    -------McTominay-Fred
    James---Pogba--Rashford
    -------------Martial

    DDG, Dalot, Tuanzebe, Garner, Puigmal, Gomes, Greenwood
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    Ole doesn't have the balls to do this but it needs to be done. The rest is what I would expect now that Pogba is fit.
     
    Should be a nice Christmas pressie leg up for Newcastle. Brucie going for the double after never beating United before this season.
     
    Another shithouse game and a shithouse performance no doubt. Steve Bruce will be licking his chops at the prospect of humiliating Ole Yella once again with his superior tactical nous and superior squad of players.

    -----------------------------------DDG------------------------------------------------
    AWB------------Lindelöf-----------Maguire------------------------Shaw
    --------------------McTominay--------Pogba--------------------------------
    -----------------------------------Pereira------------------------------------------
    James------------------------Martial------------------------------Rashford

    SUBS - Greenwood (James), Fred (Pereira), Lingard (Pogba).

    Man United 1 - 1 Newcastle United
    Rashford (penalty).
     
    James will be next to useless if Newcastle sit back so I'd play Mata or Andreas on the right, hell even Lingard maybe. I doubt he'll play Greenwood but y'never know.

    Pogba as the advanced midfielder/10. Let's see if he's creative enough to break them down. Martial seems to light up a bit when Pogba plays near him so make that happen.

    Fully expecting a draw or for Newcastle to score an easily defendable goal and win but alas, let's see.
     
    Hope we go 4-4-2 and start Greenwood.

    Massive fan of McT but i'd play Pogba in a 2 with Fred.

    Only difficult one is who to put on the right, I think James needs a break, i'd be tempted to go with Chong which is highly unlikely but I feel as though we need to be bold and try something different.
     
    This is going to be an ugly game. Newcastle going to park the bus and try to use set pieces against us. Could be another 1-0 win for them, but I predict a 1-1 draw since we at least should have Pogba for it.
     
    If we start with the same team as today but with Pogba instead of Lingard, we'll score a few goals. I think we'll finally start clicking from now on (if we can avoid injuries).

    4-1 win.
     
    Unable to keep clean sheets anymore which means Man United will have to score at least twice to get a result and this is against a side they couldn't score a goal against back in October.

    Team that I would start.

    Romero
    Wan Bissaka Tuanzebe Maguire Williams
    Fred. McTominay
    Pogba
    Greenwood Martial Rashford
     
    Other then expecting individual brilliance to lead to a goal, I'm not hopeful of any managerial masterclass between today and Thursday that means our team can play with any semblance of creativity!
     
    I’m heading to the bookies for this one backing a draw and having a few sociables with my winnings
     
    We will start the game of well, with lots of energy and high pressing. It will lead to an early chance where the ball lands in either Martial or Lingard feet, who will miss the goal or a fantastic last ditch block from a Newcastle defender.

    We will continue to be overly eager to score a goal resulting in misplaced passes. Maguire, after receiving a splendid pass from Lindelöf, will attempt a pass to Rashford on the left-wing but it ends up in the crowd.

    Newcastle will grow into the game, and have our backs pinned against the wall. Shelvey will become De Bruyne, and the Longstaff brothers will come to life to play out of their skin before reverting back to never be seen or heard from again.

    0-2 (Longstaff; Assist Shelvey, Longstaff; Assist Longstaff).
     
    Newcastle are defensively very solid, they don't concede many. Pogba as an AM could be key for us.

    On the plus side Newcastle's best attacker, Saint Maxim I believe will be injured, and they really don't score many.
     
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Score Predictions

195,36,52
  • Man Utd win
  • Newcastle win
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Detailed Results

  • 20% Man Utd 2:0 Newcastle
  • 16% Man Utd 2:1 Newcastle
  • 14% Man Utd 1:1 Newcastle
  • 12% Man Utd 3:0 Newcastle
  • 7% Man Utd 3:1 Newcastle
  • 6% Man Utd 1:0 Newcastle
  • 5% Man Utd 1:2 Newcastle
  • 4% Man Utd 0:1 Newcastle
  • 3% Man Utd 0:0 Newcastle
  • 3% Man Utd 4:0 Newcastle
  • 2% Man Utd 5:0 Newcastle
  • 1% Man Utd 1:3 Newcastle
  • 1% Man Utd 0:5 Newcastle
  • 1% Man Utd 0:2 Newcastle
  • 1% Man Utd 2:2 Newcastle
  • 1% Man Utd 3:2 Newcastle
  • 1% Man Utd 0:3 Newcastle
  • 1% Man Utd 4:1 Newcastle
  • 0% Man Utd 5:1 Newcastle
  • 0% Man Utd 4:2 Newcastle
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Match Stats

  1. Man Utd
  2. Newcastle
Possession
73% 27%
Shots
22 7
Shots on Target
10 2
Corners
5 0
Fouls
10 7

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Kevin Friend

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