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Manchester United vs. Bursaspor
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
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Is Scholes injured? He was rested at the weekend, I assumed he'd be starting today.
It's a good enough team to win, but Macheda up front alone is a strange one.
It's a good enough team to win, but Macheda up front alone is a strange one.
Stoke Saturday - going to get bombarded with long balls / high balls - we'll need him fit.
Protecting him for the Stoke game, perhaps.
You sure you want to go there.....
Hmmm... Good point. Not that we'll get an update from Fergie, mind you. Doubt he'll get to say a word about tonight's game in any interview.
Oh yea, there's a match on tonight
I'm liking the line-up tonight(minus Rio),, GET IT ON!! I hope all the players show tonight what kind of a club we are!
Interesting line-up. Potential for Ando to actually be behind Macheda, and Nani with a bit of a free role switching flanks with Park. A lot of similarities to our "442"s while Ronaldo was here.
Scholes is 36. Fergie will utilise him in the league games against <7th opposition. This midfield of Carrick, Fletcher and Anderson is Fergie's first choice in my opinion, because of their fitness and its balance - Carrick holding, Fletcher right, Anderson left. Park is always preferred in big games and Nani is our matchwinner - our only one tonight, which is worrying.
I wish Fergie would just be more positive with his player selection. Playing Obertan or Bebe rather than Park would likely give us more of a spark. The game could be slow paced and awful.
See, this is what annoys me most about the actions of Rooney's camp. The talk is going to be about shrek till he leaves, a distraction, our team could do without.
I'm quite happy to see the Fletch-Carrick-Ando trio in the middle, as long as Anderson pushes further up the field. What I'm not happy about is combining that with a very out of form Park on the left and Macheda up front by himself. I rate Kiko highly, but he's not ready to be one of only two real attacking players in the entire team (along with Nani obviously). There needs to be another proper attacking player in there.
At least we have plenty on the bench if we need them though.
It's like a beefed up CC line-out.
I wouldn't be surprised if Fergie is playing Nani through the middle and Fletcher down the right (or Anderson down the left and Park on the right).
Whatever formation we start with, expect Nani to pop up all over the place.
b3b3 on ze bench 
You don't half talk rubbish at times do you Scholesy? Nani's our only match winner tonight is he?
This is Kiko's chance. He is playing as the main man through the middle rather than the wing.
Arguably need is a strong word if it was only longball and highball bombardment Stoke offer, Smalling is taller than Rio, and Vidic wins more of them.
Just saying.
Fergie's interview 
With Rooney off, could we see Nani's role be modified a bit now? A constant threat between midfield and attack? Unless he's man marked for the whole match, he could prove lethal if he perfects that role.
Fergie's interview
Bless him i bet hes hardly had a nights sleep with all the shit going on, i hope the players do it for him tonight as much as anything.
Yeah expecting Nani to have a sort of free role today.
Expecting Obertan to come on today. Really hope he gets some sort of chance now with our left wing having no one anymore.
If he was a bit taller/better in the air he could develop in exactly the same way Ronaldo did.
Still think he's be mainly played out wide but with a lot of license to roam. Hoping to see him and Macheda link up as well as they did against Spurs.
Its fairly likely, in tough away games i can see him playing that role pretty effectivily with Berba up top, problme with that is we would idealy have Park and Valenica (
) on the wings to help with tracking backManchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson on his 2,000th game as a manager in professional football: "It feels like the 10,000th after this week!
On hearing tonight is his 2,000th game: "It feels like 10,000 after this week"
I don't see what's so wrong with him saying that, to be honest. I was just thinking before I read his post that we're likely going to be completely reliant on Nani to give us that something extra in the final third.
Kiko has proven to be a match winner off the bench when we're chasing a game, but he hasn't really done much when he's started games with a somewhat weakened team around him, which is the same situation he's got tonight. At least he'll be upfront though, not on the left like he has been in his last few matches.
what did fergie say ?
i missed it
i missed it
Amen to that.
Hate to think of someone his age being put through all the stress he's gone through this last couple of days. That's almost the worst thing about all of this.
What did he say?
I would have liked to have seen a 4-4-2 formation but I'm pleased that Macheda is starting.
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Fergie, informed it's his 2,000th game as manager: "It feels like the 10,000th after this week" #mufc
If someone wants to save my trouble of having to look for a decent stream, I'd be a very happy camper
Well atleast he still has some humor left. Hopefully up for building one more great team.
Shearer on arab tv talking about Rooney unfortunately he's being translated
If the players feel how I feel right now, Bursapor are in for a hiding
Perfect man to talk about football transfer mistakes.
Can't wait for this!!!!!!!!!
United is not the best team to place your bets on right now
Well, I'm placing it anyway.