Manchester United Thread

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the moral of the story is that football teams no matter how much they win, how many fans they have, they are not a good investment/profitable, if normal companies were run like football clubs, we would have no companies.. LOL
 
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Team for today:

VDS
Brown Rio Vidic Evra
Scholes Carrick Gibson
Nani Valencia
Berba

First time the back 5 have played together since October 2008 apparently.
 
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Worried about Berba being able to play the lone front man role, He needs to be disciplined tonight and stay high up the pitch as much as he can
 
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Yeah, he came on for Gibson and he played like we'd basically put some spastic kid on for a charity deal or something.
 
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The One was just paying homage to Bendtner's performance against Burnley earlier in the day...
 
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man...that kid missed two very good opportunities...still need more composure ala Scholes. (but none of his chances were as good as the one that the Wolves had which was 7 yds one on one and kicked it over the top.)

Can't believe we won that...and i also can't believe we paid Berba so much money. I know that he's not the lone-striker type of player, but still, when you're in a position where there are almost no strikers aside from you, you have to play better!!! Did you see that crazy throw Van der Sar had?? Freed up Diouf, Park and Berba onto a 3 on 2 counter. Berba was the one closest to the net when that ball was thrown, and at the end, he was still 3/4 forward in the pitch when Park and Diouf are in the box. Only a goal up against a side that was piling the pressure from then on, I think he really should've ran up, created more space for Diouf or at least give him another option. Don't just walk up the pitch!!!

*edit* Great! so Rooney might not make it for Milan. Seems like its only Diouf and Berba as our strikers for that match. What you guys think? same formation as today?? don't think that'd work...

and any words on Giggs?
 
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Harsh on Berba. Just not a lead striker. Thought he at least put in more effort than most players today. Yes, he's not that fast, and not especially fit, but was uber-keen to get stuck in and close down.

Diouf was an embarassment, I'm fairly sure he neither controlled nor passed a ball successfully in his 30 minutes. I described it to a friend as, imagine you or I got called by United...

I actually thought we did pretty well against one of the least ambitious teams I've ever seen. Wolves strategy appeared to consist of passing it backwards to their 2 DMFs, then to their CBs, then to their keeper who would lump it forward, and give their 6 defensive mids time to get back in place for the next attack. And that was when they were down 1-0. If not for the fluke deflection they wouldn't have had a single effort in the second half.
 
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It looks like Wes has a broken metatarsal, so could be out for a while...
 
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:LOL: Calm down dear, If we don't go through then we didn't deserve to especially with them needing 2 without reply.

Looking at the big 3 leagues (PL, Serie A and La Liga) their all very tight and on current evidence their isn't a standout side in Europe like previous years (Us and Barca) so I wouldn't bet against the teams fighting for the titles getting knocked out in the CL and giving them the edge to win the league.
 
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Love it, so United's 'first choice' back five of:
EVDS
Wes,Rio,Vida,Evra

Played Saturday for the first time this season, and also the last time. Sigh. What a year.
 
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The sort of form Big Bad Wesley Brown's been in I'll be quite happy to see Rafael playing at right back for the rest of the season.
 
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That assumes that Rafael can manage 90 minutes for (more or less) the first time in his career.
 
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He's played the full 90 in every league game he's started this season bar one. :)
 
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It's your game to lose. 90% you won't. I just can't see Leonardo putting a perfect tactical formation and beating Fergie.

It may depend on individual skills and we have a good number of players who can do so. But 2-0 will be tough!!

Is Roneey gonna play? Pato is in the lineup.
 
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The big questions are obviously Rooney and the other midfielder, Id like to see a :

- - - - -vdS
??? - Rio - Vidic - Evra
- - Fletch Scholes
- - - - -Park
Valencia - - - - - - Nani
- - - -Berba/Rooney

Just pray that if Park plays there he can be as affective as he was against Villa in the final
 
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I think Rooney will start on the bench and depending on the situation at HT we'll either see him on or not.
 
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No way, is that true about Rafael this season? My apologies then, I swear I remember him hobbling off a few times. Must have been Fabio ;)

Agree with YounGun, Rooney will be rested at the start, with the hope that he won't be needed. Be good for the team confidence if we can win such an important match without him. Midfield is the real problem area, we more or less have to play a non CMF in there, which is a real disadvantage. I think it will be Park:

-----------VDS----------
-Rafael-Rio--Vida---Evra-
----Scholes--Fletcher----
----------Park-----------
-Valencia---------Nani---
----------Berba----------

Biggest problem the above team will face is that it won't be effective on the break. Have a bad feeling it'll be a United 'close up shop' performance, which just seems silly against a team that we're clearly fitter than.

If Pato doesn't play it would almost be worth man-marking Ronaldinho, because I just don't see the spark coming from the other players up front.

As I mentioned in the Milan thread, it'll come down to first goal, and when it comes. I can see us getting undone by two quick strikes, but if they get one early it'll remind us that we're actually quite good at attacking, and I'm sure there are goals in that Milan defence.
 
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The best thing about Park right now is that he's intelligent enough to link up effectively with Berbatov, something Nani lacks.

It's hard to call whether we'll go 4-4-2 or not if Rooney's fit. Scholes tends to be better with an extra man's protection in midfield and he's played a lot of consecutive games lately so maybe 4-5-1 would suit us better, with Park as the third man and Nani on the left again. Only problem with that is Nani has gone back to being average since he's been on the left. I dunno :LOL:
 
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Is there no one else we could play alongside Scholes and Fletch in midfield? IMO Park would be better coming off the bench if we're gonna use him in that position.
 
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He did well there in the first leg and was more central when he came on for Nani on Saturday. He played there for PSV too, especially well once against Milan so I think he'd be fine. Gibson is the other option and he was a bit crap at the weekend so not sure Fergie would trust him in such a big match.
 
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Park was excellent in that role at the San Siro.

His and Fletcher's pressure on the Milan midfield created time and space for Scholes and Carrick to control possession.

Even without Carrick, that side should be good enough not to lose by two goals at home.

I can see us dropping deep and allowing them the majority of the possession and probably hitting them on the break, a bit like we did in that 1-0 against Roma at home in 2008.
 
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I think the tactics just don't suit a player like Nani from the left, he's not the brightest and we play a sort of inside left player who drifts in and becomes a bit of a CAM/LM hybrid. One of the reason's I think Silva is a target as he'd be a great replacement for the current Giggs.

Anyway about Wednesday, I think we'll do the business as long as we go into the game with the right attitude. The key will be not to let Milan's midfield dictate the game.
 
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Rooney's fit. And we're gonna be looking to attack Milan and kill off the tie according to Sir Alex.
I think I'm feeling a lot more positive about the tie than I was 24 hours ago.
 
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He was always going to say we were going to attack, I wouldn't have expected anything else, still not sure Wayne will start.
 
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Well we all knew we need to attack, it was a question of whether the manager decided on the same thing. And with Rooney out, I would have thought we would've had to take the foot off the pedal a bit, seeing how we'd have been lacking that attacking spark up front. Either that or we would have been forced onto the back foot.
But if Rooney starts, I dont think there's any doubt that we'll be attacking. I mean, if we werent, he might as well have been rested again.
 
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