I'd be surprised if Giggs was to be involved tomorrow. He'll play against Chelsea.
Wigan Athletic vs. Manchester United
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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.
Valencia coming back will have a big impact for us.
Hope that is soon.
Hope that is soon.
I suppose so, but at the same time, 4pm on the eve of a game is a bit late to be out shopping I'd have thought(especially as we always stay overnight at a hotel even for home games). I wouldn't be surprised if SAF has held him back for the Chelsea game, hence the spare time for a shopping spree. He certainly didn't look like a guy with a game on his mind with the amount of cash he was flashing
Its all relative, he earns best part of £100K a week, what is pocket money to him is a years wages to most of us...
Despite our other differences (
), I sometimes think we are the only 2 supporters who have faith in our team...We are playing Wigan, they haven't beaten us in like a million years they have an awful record this season, how come so many people think this will be such a difficult match?
If we can't beat these, we haven't much chance against Chavski or the Scouse.
Stop listening to the media, we're not top of the league for nothing you know...
Which TV channel(s) are covering this ?
Insomnia
9.00 AM here... perfect time.
Lets hope we get a perfect result.
Lets hope we get a perfect result.
I think that a little too much has been made of this fixture-f*** we have other the next few games. There's a decent gap between the Chelsea and Liverpool games of around five days plus then we have six days to recover for the FA Cup tie, where changes would be expected from both sides anyway and then the domestic fixtures begin to look less ferocious.
So I think there's a chance not much tinkering has to happen very much at all if the aim is to keep players fresh.
-------------------------Van Der Sar-------------------
---W.Brown----------Smalling------Vidic-------O Shea--
---Nani-------------Scholes----Gibson---------Obertan-
------------------Hernandez-------Berbatov------------
Bench: Lindegaard, Fletcher, Evans, Rooney, Owen, Carrick, Rafael,
Prediction:0-3. Hernandez, Berbatov, Nani
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---W.Brown----------Smalling------Vidic-------O Shea--
---Nani-------------Scholes----Gibson---------Obertan-
------------------Hernandez-------Berbatov------------
Bench: Lindegaard, Fletcher, Evans, Rooney, Owen, Carrick, Rafael,
Prediction:0-3. Hernandez, Berbatov, Nani
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Good God No!
It's going to be interesting to see Fergie's team selection tomorrow. I think Fletcher and Scholes will be the midfield pairing and Nani is going to have to play all 3 games.
Defensively I wouldn't be surprised to see Fergie give Wes and Fabio a run out, the real questions marks are over the left wing and who the striker partnership will be.
Defensively I wouldn't be surprised to see Fergie give Wes and Fabio a run out, the real questions marks are over the left wing and who the striker partnership will be.
I don't think Rooney would be rested either. Berba will not play in the 4-5-1 away, or only play in one of them, so no need to rest him at Wigan. The back four don't need a rest
Injured: Ferdinand, Evans; Anderson, Park, Valencia, Hargreaves
Doubtful: Giggs; Owen
We won't see anyone on the 'injured' list until the Liverpool game at the earliest. Giggs and Owen are probably more likely to be in the match day squad for Wigan than they are to not, but if they are it'd be on the bench IMO. The former more likely to be starting at Chelsea.
Obertan's been poor, but I'd still give him a shot at starting this game. The quality of everyone else on that pitch should be enough to beat Wigan, but if it doesn't go our way soon enough, we can bring on any of those three midfield players for Obertan to change the system (if he has another stinker). We're kind of down to the bear minimum here, with only maybe Wes Brown as the other senior player who isn't injured.
My other useless comments are that Smalling has been more than good enough when called upon, so I don't see why he shouldn't be starting this game and the Chelsea game. I can see Sir Alex maybe opting for Brown at Chelsea for more experience, but I'd still go with Smalling. He's bound to make a mistake soon and a lot of people will get on his back, but I don't think anyone will have a right to when he does, as he's been solid every game so far.
I think we'll win, but we'll make hard work of it again.
I think a similar team will start against Chelsea as well. Carrick will join up with Fletcher and Scholes in a midfield three, while Giggs would start over Rooney or Berbatov. Probably the latter, unless he has a good game against Wigan. As I touched upon, possible tweaks to the back four, but I'd hope not.
Doubtful: Giggs; Owen
We won't see anyone on the 'injured' list until the Liverpool game at the earliest. Giggs and Owen are probably more likely to be in the match day squad for Wigan than they are to not, but if they are it'd be on the bench IMO. The former more likely to be starting at Chelsea.
van der Sar
Rafael Smalling Vidic Evra
Nani Fletcher Scholes Obertan
Berbatov Rooney
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Lindegaard; O'Shea, Fábio; Carrick, Gibson, Giggs; Hernández
Rafael Smalling Vidic Evra
Nani Fletcher Scholes Obertan
Berbatov Rooney
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Lindegaard; O'Shea, Fábio; Carrick, Gibson, Giggs; Hernández
Obertan's been poor, but I'd still give him a shot at starting this game. The quality of everyone else on that pitch should be enough to beat Wigan, but if it doesn't go our way soon enough, we can bring on any of those three midfield players for Obertan to change the system (if he has another stinker). We're kind of down to the bear minimum here, with only maybe Wes Brown as the other senior player who isn't injured.
My other useless comments are that Smalling has been more than good enough when called upon, so I don't see why he shouldn't be starting this game and the Chelsea game. I can see Sir Alex maybe opting for Brown at Chelsea for more experience, but I'd still go with Smalling. He's bound to make a mistake soon and a lot of people will get on his back, but I don't think anyone will have a right to when he does, as he's been solid every game so far.
I think we'll win, but we'll make hard work of it again.
I think a similar team will start against Chelsea as well. Carrick will join up with Fletcher and Scholes in a midfield three, while Giggs would start over Rooney or Berbatov. Probably the latter, unless he has a good game against Wigan. As I touched upon, possible tweaks to the back four, but I'd hope not.
Rooney will play tomorrow and will score the winner
Anyone else in Wigan end ? Piss easy to get tickets !
We must play our strongest team TODAY.
What's the point in beating Chelsea if we lose today?
Whenever we've made 5-6 changes to the lineup we've looked disjointed and crap.
What's the point in beating Chelsea if we lose today?
Whenever we've made 5-6 changes to the lineup we've looked disjointed and crap.
Might be in the Americas... or just got the dates wrong
He lives in he US mate, when he posted that it was probably still Friday to him.
Yes one or two changes is fine, but I don't want wholesale changes. I won't be surprised if we see at least one of Rooney or Berbatov on the bench, and Chicharito starting. Get 3 points today and we can go into the Chelsea match in good spirits.
Setanta Sports 1 TD, we have the joy of watching Phat Dolan speaking absolute nonsense.
Also I think if you have Eircom broadband you can watch it on the Eircom website
I could have sworn ESPN had been advertising this as being on T.V. in the U.K. But obviously I'm just going insane because no 3pm K.O's are televised in this country.
Not impressed.
Not impressed.
Spot on.
This isn't on TV in England and you all know what that means, a lovely stream and a brilliant performance from us.
We can't drop any points here today
Line ups soon. Excitement rises.
fecking Danny Mills on Setanta, they really have a loads of toe rags on this station
MUTV say Giggs hasn't travelled to Wigan
We cannot afford to drop points against teams like this, at this stage of the season. City and Chelsea are out of it but the Arse are creeping up on us. I don't want to see Carrick or Gibson or Obertan in this one. Not a game to experiment with.
Let's get this gap back up to 4, boys.
No Berba or Giggs.
Giggs hasn't even travelled.
Giggs hasn't even travelled.
Obertan on the wing then.
If it's not Berba today, he's going to start at Chelsea, isn't he?
Nope.
Maybe, maybe not.
No surprise there.
What then?
Confirmed MUTV squad:
-------------VDS
O'Shea - Vidic - Smalling - Evra
Carrick - Scholes - Fletcher
Nani---Rooney--Hernandez
Subs: PIG, Brown, Fabio, Rafael, Gibson, Berbatov, King
-------------VDS
O'Shea - Vidic - Smalling - Evra
Carrick - Scholes - Fletcher
Nani---Rooney--Hernandez
Subs: PIG, Brown, Fabio, Rafael, Gibson, Berbatov, King
VDS, O'Shea, Smalling, Vidic, Evra, Fletcher, Carrick, Scholes, Nani, Rooney, Chicharito.
Confirmed by MUTV.
Bench: PIG, Da Silvas, Berbatov, Gibson, King (can't remember the other).
Confirmed by MUTV.
Bench: PIG, Da Silvas, Berbatov, Gibson, King (can't remember the other).
Please no Rooney on the wing FFS, stick Obertan/Bebe wide, we need Rooney upfront with Berba rested.