It's always a boring as feck game at their ground with few goals (except for the few times when they smashed us). We're normally shite like we are at Liverpool, but we nick our fair share of results still. I fancy a draw as we're due one, but City are due a loss in the league so we just need to attack them and keep the pressure on. Midfield is a worry though!
I don't understand why Sir Alex played so much 'respect' to Galastasaray and Cluj. Galatasaray are a professional outfit and they knew they needed to win to be sure, they were always going to go for that regardless. Any team in a position of needing to win their last game to qualify is in that position purely because of their own doing. It's not our fault they weren't good enough to qualify in four games, we should go about our own business however we want to. Admittedly, only de Gea, Fletcher, Rooney, Cleverley, Scholes, Hernandez, and Welbeck have a chance of starting on Sunday and played a part on Wednesday. But we have probably lost Cleverley due to a pure insistence of fecking around.
Anyway, as we have to expect the worst, on the basis that there is no Vidic, Anderson, Cleverley, Valencia, Kagawa, or Nani, I'd probably be tempted to go with this:
de Gea
Rafael Ferdinand Evans Evra
Fletcher
Carrick Scholes
Rooney
van Persie Welbeck
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Lindegaard; Jones, Smalling; Giggs, Powell, Young; Hernandez
The line-ups are so unpredictable though. I can see Young being favoured to start but I fecking hope not otherwise I might just turn the game off. I can also see us going three at the back (but faking it and saying Jones is in midfield or something like that). We have to go for a diamond with the players have have fit though (if we're benching as many as we can that started on Wednesday night).
Won't mind if Hernandez starts, I think he's more lethal from the bench but we'll see.
