West Bromwich Albion vs. Manchester United

Team
Starting XI:
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Bench: Lindegaard, Fabio, Evans, Cleverley, Giggs, Berbatov, Owen

Result: 1-2 (Long - Welbeck, Rooney)
 
......................De Gea.........................

Smalling........Rio.........Vidic............Evra


................Carrick...Anderson................

Nani.................Rooney................Young

......................Berbatov......................
 
5-0.
 
Probably no one expected him to play, but...

Michael Owen
Season starts for us today. Gutted I'm not involved. My back is still giving me grief but hopefully available for next game. Good luck lads.
 
I have a feeling we're gunna absolutely smash them. However usually when I'm so confident about a game it means we play shit and draw :(
 
wr8_utd said:
Well it can't really get any worse than last season.
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Thats why I think we need a change in emphasis. I'd like to see us start with Welbeck and use the same pace and interchanging of positions that worked so well in the CS.

I don't think Berba was quite the force we needed him to be away from OT so i'd like to see us go with raw counter attacking pace upfront.
 
Need to hit the ground running.If we play like we did in the community sheild i can see a comfortable win 3-1.But i'm not being complacent.
 
We showed Manchester City a thing or two about football the other day. Today WBA will get a similar lesson. Am I confident? Yes!
 
I think we'll start with:

--------De Gea
Smalling-Rio-Vidic-Evra
Nani-Anderson-Carrick-Young
-----Berbatov-Rooney

And bring on Cleverley and Welbeck in the second half.
 
The manager isn't ex-United in any way. So I'm going for a narrow 3-1 win for the away side, but it'll be a draw for a long while before they crack.
 
Do we know who's the ref? I can't find it anywhere. Not that it should matter, we play to the best of our abilities and we win, simple as that. However after last year's let off, we may find some pressure being put on the ref to be a bit stronger.
 
This game got draw written on it.... Hope I'm wrong though because I'm sick of shaky league starts by United.
 
Can't bloody wait. I really hope we maintain our faith in Welbeck by giving him a starting spot. West Brom are a footballing side and counter at pace, so we need energy and pace up front to keep them pinned back.

Great chance to send out a message to the league, but West Brom are no mugs anymore. 2-0 to us; Young and Anderson. :)
 
I reckon we'll win this 2-1.

I'd like for us to do it without any shenanigans though, as (I may have mentioned this before) my dad's a WBA fan, and the Neville/Dorrans incident last season turned the Minkaro household into a very tense area indeed.
 
I think Jones deserves to start today after that fantastic performance last sunday, but I can't see who he should replace.

Think we will go with Fabio, Vidic, Rio and Smalling as the back four, midfield a bit harder, will Giggs start in the centre or will Fergie go with the sucess of Anderson-Cleverley? Young and Nani as winger, Welbeck and Rooney up front.
 
thoroughly enjoying the Stoke vs Chelsea match? Anyone else is?

Good attacking by both sides
 
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