Chelsea vs. Manchester United

Fergie goes British and experience for important cup games. So I expect to see this line-up

-----------------------------De Gea-----------------------------



--Smalling------------R.Ferdinand------J. Evans----------Evra----



--Nani---------------Carrick----Giggs---------------Wellbeck------



--------------------Rooney---Hernandez-------------------------



Subs:Lindegaard,Jones, Buttner, Scholes, Vidic, Ando, Van Persie
 
All time vs Chelsea in the FA Cup: W8, D2, L2

10.03.2013 r6 Manchester United 2-2 Chelsea
19.05.2007 fn Chelsea 1-0 Manchester United (n) aet
10.03.1999 r6r Chelsea 0-2 Manchester United
07.03.1999 r6 Manchester United 0-0 Chelsea
04.01.1998 r3 Chelsea 3-5 Manchester United
31.03.1996 sf Manchester United 2-1 Chelsea (n)
14.05.1994 fn Manchester United 4-0 Chelsea (n)
30.01.1988 r4 Manchester United 2-0 Chelsea
15.01.1979 r3 Manchester United 3-0 Chelsea
16.03.1963 r5 Manchester United 2-1 Chelsea
04.03.1950 r6 Chelsea 2-0 Manchester United
01.02.1908 r2 Manchester United 1-0 Chelsea
 
Here's the team from the 2-2 draw, we're likely to see a very similar team again:

De Gea
Rafael Ferdinand Evans Evra
Carrick Cleverley
Nani Rooney Kagawa
Hernandez​

Lindegaard, Anderson, Young, Vidic, Van Persie 63', Welbeck 76', Valencia 45'
 
duffer said:
Steady! We've already had (and lost) bigger games this season and we have another, bigger game on thursday.

We've won the FA cup quite a few times recently, it's 3rd on my list of priorities for the rest of the season (top 4 and europe being the other two of course).
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Fat Rafa has other ideas!
 
gooDevil said:
Here's the team from the 2-2 draw, we're likely to see a very similar team again:

De Gea
Rafael Ferdinand Evans Evra
Carrick Cleverley
Nani Rooney Kagawa
Hernandez​

Lindegaard, Anderson, Young, Vidic, Van Persie 63', Welbeck 76', Valencia 45'
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Giggs/Welbeck in for Kagawa and Smalling in for Rafael, and I think that'll be the team today.
 
De Gea

Smalling-------Evans-------Rio--------Evra

Carrick-------Cleverley

Nani--------Rooney--------Giggs/Welbeck

Hernandez​
 
Colin129 said:
Either that or we won't turn up in the 2nd half.
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I fear it will be this. No matter how lacking Chelsea ever are, I just never feel confident going to Stamford Bridge.

As a believer in tradition, I hope Hernandez starts.


I think Lindegaard will start in goal, which I'm not sure how I feel about. Fergie has mentioned De Gea getting wiped out by Nemanja a couple of times since the game on Saturday, so I'll be surprised if he's not rested.
 
OnlyTwoDaSilvas said:
I fear it will be this. No matter how lacking Chelsea ever are, I just never feel confident going to Stamford Bridge.

As a believer in tradition, I hope Hernandez starts.


I think Lindegaard will start in goal, which I'm not sure how I feel about. Fergie has mentioned De Gea getting wiped out by Nemanja a couple of times since the game on Saturday, so I'll be surprised if he's not rested.
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It's true that there are few more dangerous things to collide with on a football pitch than Vidic's face.
 
Longlivekeano said:
Fergie goes British and experience for important cup games. So I expect to see this line-up

-----------------------------De Gea-----------------------------



--Smalling------------R.Ferdinand------J. Evans----------Evra----



--Nani---------------Carrick----Giggs---------------Wellbeck------



--------------------Rooney---Hernandez-------------------------



Subs:Lindegaard,Jones, Buttner, Scholes, Vidic, Ando, Van Persie
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Fergie 'goes British' but no Cleverley even on the bench when he should clearly be starting?
 
Hectic said:
It looks like the creature on the Chelsea emblem is trying to eat it's own tail. What a twat.
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Admittedly our devil does look like a abstract of Bernie Clifton riding his ostrich with a pitchfork.
 
I hate games at stamford bridge.
 
The place feels like its cursed, no matter what the result is we always have a shit fight to get through for the 90 minutes or so.
 
Yeh, that curse of Stamford Bridge where Chelsea are reduced to 9 men and you score an offside goal to win.

Christ, I'd love some of these curses.
 
Or the FA Cup-Stamford Bridge-curse when you go 5-0 up :)
 
Chelsea are shit. We'll win.
 
Carl said:
Chelsea are shit. We'll win.
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That's the part that worries me most actually. We really ought to beat them but I always dread playing at Stamford Bridge and they're a better cup team than us so this is one of the few times I don't expect to win. We've generally done well in the big games though.

Sort of hoping Hazard starts the game this time and fades by the second half because he's found it far too easy coming off the bench against tired legs in our last couple of games.
 
alastair said:
Yeh, that curse of Stamford Bridge where Chelsea are reduced to 9 men and you score an offside goal to win.

Christ, I'd love some of these curses.
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Yes because we've never had a bunch of toss decisions decide a game of ours against Chelsea.

Most of the time we get outplayed there and we need to turn up.
 
alastair said:
Yeh, that curse of Stamford Bridge where Chelsea are reduced to 9 men and you score an offside goal to win.

Christ, I'd love some of these curses.
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You mean the one time we've had some luck at their place in about 10years?
 
pauldyson1uk said:
going to be a touch game today, I hate early matches and 2 games in 3 days will be hard on some of the players.
One thing we dont want is extra time.
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The good thing is our squad depth is so much better than Chelsea's.

We will probably only play 3 players from Saturday, where as Chelsea will be atleast 6-7
 
Hazard, mata, cole, ramires, ba, cahill and luiz didnt start on saturday so chances are they all will today.
 
Should both teams really be tired though? The players who didn't play on the weekend, they have no reason to be tired - I expect only a select few from each team to actually have an excuse to play bad today.
 
Orton said:
Hazard, mata, cole, ramires, ba, cahill and luiz didnt start on saturday so chances are they all will today.
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They are going to play their strongest team. I think for Benitez this is far more important than a top 4 finish, he won't be there next season anyway and he'd rather take credit for another trophy or two (they still have a good chance of winning Europa League) that he'd boast about for the next decade.
 
paceme said:
This will be a poor game. The spines of both teams will be tired.
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How do you figure? Rentboys left their best players out against Southampton.

I'm never confident when they have hazard and Mata against us.
 
Teams seem to be later and later these days. It used to be almost an hour before kick off to the minute.
 
Chelsea lineup supposedly:

Cech, Cole, Luiz, Ivanovic, Azpilicueta, Ramires, Mikel, Mata, Oscar, Hazard, Ba

edit: probably not reliable.
 
I've seen a starting eleven, which is quite surprising. I'm assuming it's bollocks because Rooney isn't in it.
 
United line up; De Gea, Jones, Smalling, Ferdinand, Smalling, Evra, Valencia, Cleverley, Carrick, Nani, Hernandez, Welbeck

Subs; Lindegaard, Giggs, Young, Van Persie, Powell, Kagawa, Vermijl
 
Chelsea will be well up for this game and Rafa will want to win badly, he wants another trophy on his CV.
Games like this scare me, 2 games in 3 days for the players playing both and tired towards the end of the game a simple tackle or streach for the ball, could rule them out for the rest of the season.
 
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