[Niall]

VS ...

Date - Saturday, January 23 2015.
Kickoff Time - 1500 Hrs GMT.
Venue - Old Trafford, Manchester.

League standings and form guide

5. Manchester United : LDWDW

10. Southampton : WLLWW



Previous Meetings

Southampton 2 : 3 Manchester United

Manchester United 0 : 1 Southampton

Southampton 1 : 2 Manchester United

Southampton 1 : 1 Manchester United

Manchester United 1 : 1 Southampton



All-Time Record

Manchester United wins - 50
Southampton wins - 24
Draws - 23



Pre-Match Pressers

Louis Van Gaal



Ronald Koeman





Team News

Manchester United

Luke Shaw, Antonio Valencia, Michael Carrick, Marcos Rojo, Ashley Young, Phil Jones and Bastian Schweinsteiger ruled out.


Southampton

Jay Rodriguez ruled out. Maarten Stekelenburg doubtful.



Know the opposition

Southampton Football Club nicknamed The Saints, are a professional football club based in Southampton, Hampshire, England; and were founded in 1885 by members of St Mary's Church of England Young Men's Association. Southampton play their home games at St. Mary's Stadium, and were one of the founding members of the Premier League in 1992. The club has a long-standing sporting with Portsmouth in a match termed the South Coast Derby or the Hampshire Derby. In recent years, Southampton has received praise for employing an attractive brand of football under Mauricio Pochettino and now Ronald Koeman, and having the best youth system on English soil - which has produced the likes of Gareth Bale, Theo Walcott, Alex-Oxlade Chamberlain, Calum Chambers, Adam Lallana; apart from current Manchester United leftback, Luke Shaw.



Referee

Mike Jones.​

 

[dannyrhinos89]

2-0

Wazza and martial

 

[ADJUDICATOR]

Southampton aren't a very good team. 0-0

 

[Raw]

Despite their good win yesterday, Southampton have been very very poor (well so have we to be fair) so we should be winning this.

Young injured means we'll probably get CBJ at LB which I'm okay with, he's been good this season.

Hopefully Schweinsteiger's back too.

 

[Giant Midget]

Need to build on the massive win at Anfield. A loss here and it will be back to square one.

David De Gea

Darmian
Smalling
Blind
Borthwick-Jackson

Schweinsteiger
Schniederlin

Lingard
Herrera
Martial

Rooney

 

[Di Maria's angel]

Could the Liverpool win be the momentum starter we need? Probably not. 1-0 to us. Rooney.

 

[bosnian_red]

Need to build on today and get another win here. Spurs play Crystal Palace I think so there's a good chance of them dropping points. We just need to do our job.

De gea
Darmian Smalling Blind CBJ
Schweinsteiger Schneiderlin
Mata Rooney Memphis
Martial
​

 

[DomesticTadpole]

Need to build on today and get another win here. Spurs play Crystal Palace I think so there's a good chance of them dropping points. We just need to do our job.

De gea
Darmian Smalling Blind CBJ
Schweinsteiger Schneiderlin
Mata Rooney Memphis
Martial
​

If Palace play like yesterday Spurs won't be dropping points. If the lock Wayne Hennessey in he dressing room they might.

 

[Sied]

I'm going to this one Very glad we've won today to take a bit of confidence into the game. Otherwise I'd be worrying the £200 it's costing me for a weekend piss up would only be worthwhile for the piss part.

 

[Red Dreams]

We are 7 points off the top. Need to get a run going. I'm not satisfied about getting top 4. The Title can be ours. Grind out results if need be.

 

[The White Pele]

Wouldn't it be great to have a match where we score a couple of goals in the first half and put the game to bed early to build some confidence.

I'd like to see Memphis start this one. There's been signs that he is starting to contribute more but today wasn't the right match to throw him into.

Herrera in the midfield two with Schneiderlin and Mata behind Rooney (won't happen).

 

[sunama]

We are 7 points off the top. Need to get a run going. I'm not satisfied about getting top 4. The Title can be ours. Grind out results if need be.

Mate, we are not currently a title winning team.
Of course, if we do win the next 7 games in a row (or similar), then we can talk about titles. But lets not get ahead of ourselves.
For now at least, top 4 is what we should be aiming for.

 

[the hea]

DDG
Darmian Smalling Blind CBJ
Bastian Schneiderlin
Herrera
Januzaj Rooney Martial​

 

[pacifictheme]

Ddg
Darmian
Smalling
Blind
Young?

Schniederlin
Schwiensteiger?

Martial
Mata
Januzaj / Depay / Lingard (any of them)

Rooney

 

[Devil may care]

I think we'll start with the same line-up as today apart from CBJ instead of Young. Hopefully Schweini is fit enough to come off the bench.

 

[MyOnlySolskjaer]

De Gea
Darmian Smalling Blind CBJ
Morgan Bastian
Young Mata Martial
Rooney​

 

[JB08]

2-1. Martial, Rooney, Tadic

 

[Gerald G]

De Gea
Darmian--Smalling--Blind--CBJ
Schneiderlin--Schweinsteiger
Mata--Rooney--Memphis
Martial

subs: Romero, McNair, Fellaini, Herrera, Pereira, Lingard, Januzaj
​

 

[Stack]

Southampton aren't a very good team. 0-0

neither are we....

 

[BootsyCollins]

Hence the 0-0 i guess

 

[Giant Midget]

De Gea
Darmian--Smalling--Blind--CBJ
Schneiderlin--Schweinsteiger
Mata--Rooney--Memphis
Martial

subs: Romero, McNair, Fellaini, Herrera, Pereira, Lingard, Januzaj
​

No more Mata on the right wing, please. With a full back like Darmian, you need someone who's more attacking on that side and willing to take players on. Lingard gives the side a much better balance.

 

[KiD MoYeS]

Said before the Liverpool game that we'd beat them before returning to shit for this game.

Hope I'm wrong.

 

[VanGaalEra]

Biggest game of the season, every PL game from here on is.

 

[Gandalf Greyhame]

0-0. Rooney to miss sitters and DDG to save us again.

You heard it here first.

 

[LawCharltonBest]

I think this is a huge match.

Win and I can see us gaining confidence and blasting into the top 4

Lose or draw and I can see us going on another bad run and losing ground

I'm going to be confident and say 2-1 to United

 

[RedFish]

Rooney on form makes me confident we'll win this. If he hadn't been as pants as he undoubtedly was for most of the season so far, we'd be sitting pretty in the top 4 no doubt. Still, we need him, and he could save our season yet.

 

[sunama]

I actually feel confident of a win.
Its a home game and Southampton aren't too great.
The odds are definitely in our favour to win this.
We seem to be win games by 1 goal and our attack is weak.
Prediction: MUFC 1 - 0 Southampton.

 

[shabadu84]

This one worries me, we haven't had an easy match in ages and Southampton always seem to give us problems. Would be good to have some players back from injury. This will be the first match with a full week's rest though so that should help. I'm predicting a 2-1 win but it will be tight

 

[Red Dreams]

Januzaj and Will Keane scored for the under 21 v Southampton. They should be attacking options from the bench.

 

[acrebo]

Anyone know what channel this will be shown on in the States?

 

[Red Dreams]

Anyone know what channel this will be shown on in the States?

atm it says NBC Sports Live Extra, which means live streaming. But they may switch it NBCSN.

 

[Nickosaur]

I'd love to see
DDG

Darmian Smalling Blind CBJ

Schneiderlin Schweini

Januzaj Herrera Martial

Rooney

 

[arthurka]

LVG you better not feck this up!

 

[Adcuth]

 

[Gerald G]

I don't expect Januzaj to start as LVG loves his match rhythm stuff.

I'm expect to see:
De Gea
Darmian--Smalling--Blind--CBJ
Schneiderlin--Schweinsteiger
Rooney & Martial
but I don't know who will start in the other two positions.

Obviously it will be out of Januzaj, Lingard, Herrera, Memphis. I'd love Pereira to be in with a shout but I cannot see that happening. A bench role at best for him.

 

[I_live_cement]

neither are we....

I guess you missed his prediction then?

 

[peridigm]

atm it says NBC Sports Live Extra, which means live streaming. But they may switch it NBCSN.

or USA Network.

 

[caisenma]

i'd just love to see our senior team play as freely as the u21's. yesterday's match, and a few others before it have been light years ahead in terms of quality. nevermind the aesthetic value of seeing players move quick on the counter.

 

[Magnus]

Ddg Darmian Smalling Blind CBJ Lingard Herrera Schneiderlin Memphis Rooney Martial. 442.

 

[Spock]

Every match is a must-win now, at least until we've established some separation from the fifth place club. That's not going to happen for a while.

Dave
Darmian Smalling Blind Bo-Jack
Schwneinsteiger (Hopefully!) and Schneiderlin
Mata Herrera Martial
Rooney

But you have to figure Louis loves the work Fellaini has been doing (one header but otherwise a grim performance against a grim club) so maybe he gets the start. Or maybe MF comes on as the super sub after we've bored Soton to death with our possession game.

Lingard did himself no favors with his performance v Liverpool so Mata gets the start.