Watford Away – Saturday 3pm

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    killyboye
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    This could be a tricky fixture, it’s arguable that Watford might be improving under Ranieri, at this point every game is a must win because the pressure on Ole will ramp up if he doesn’t.
    I’m guessing a drab 1-1.

    #2019508
    steveosnakeeye
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    2-0 United

    #2019510

    mufc
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    It’s not on Sky or BT. Saves us the misery lol, unless you stream it.

    #2019591

    homerjay540
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    I suspect we’ll revert to 4 at the back. Fitness permitting:

    DdG
    Dalot, Lindelof, Maguire, Shaw
    vdB, McT
    Sancho, Bruno, Rashford
    Ronaldo

    #2019650
    Alfie07
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    That will be interesting to see Homerjay, if we do revert to 4 at the back for this one or not. I would love to see Sancho and VDB both in the line up but I just can’t see it happening. I guess we will find out soon enough.

    3-1 Utd

    #2019679

    englishbob
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    1-1

    really want to see Sancho and VDB more, agreed Alfie.

    can’t wait for a new manager. I’d take anyone who plays attacking football.

    #2020018

    mufc
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    1-3 to us.

    #2020063
    killyboye
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    I’d like to see a 4-1-2-3 formation

    DDG
    Dalot Bailly Maguire Telles
    McTomminay
    Fernandes VDB
    Sancho Ronaldo Greenwood/Rashford

    Mctomminay basically being told not to come past the centre circle unless it’s for a set piece along with the CB’s in effect making him a Makelele type player who just shields the CB’s allowing the wing backs to bomb forward and get crosses into Ronaldo and giving the Wide Forwards licence to cut inside and force the defence to compress and get in each others way.

    #2020081
    Ika
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    Killiboye mctominay is a box to box player and never a DM stop trying to put square pegs in round holes.

    1) he never ever receives the ball from back 4

    2) he can’t pass through the lines

    3) he never tracks runners

    It makes laugh when people big up mctominay and slate fred when both as poor as each other must be British bias.

    #2020097

    englishbob
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    agreed ika!

    #2020103
    killyboye
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    I know he’s not a DM and I’m not bigging him up but he’s the best we have as Matic isn’t mobile enough and Fred, well, Fred is Fred. He’ll have to do until we get a proper DM.

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    homerjay540
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    McT is no Pirlo but does play some great balls thru the lines when playing right CB in a back 3 for Scotland.
    And he does track runners

    I’m interested to see what you think is our best XI given our unbalanced squad @Ika

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    happyhurling
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    I’d leave Scott and Fred out if I was him. Rashford, Bruno and Sancho behind Ronny.
    Donny and Hannibal holding.
    My granny in central defence with Phil Jones

    #2020187

    homerjay540
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    Hannibal holding? He can play in a double pivot in U23’s games but needs a holding mid alongside him
    Garner, Levitt or Galbraith maybe. Anything else and it’s just more square pegs in round holes

    #2020189
    killyboye
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    I know we’ve a tradition of giving youth a chance but at the moment we need results, I don’t know if it would be fair to throw Mejbri, Garner, Levitt or Galbraith into the mix right now. The pressure on the team and manager to get a result this weekend is colossal. When things settle, I’d be all for dropping McT, but not right now.

    #2020558

    jm1502
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    Nobody ever said life was fair killy. If Mejbri’s going to make it, now’s the time. He’s not a holding midfielder though. Gets up and down and play makes. He’s a talent but I’m not sure what kind of midfielder you’d call him.

    #2020560
    killyboye
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    I’ll be honest, I know the academy lads but would be far from an expert on them. It seems to me though, that even at that level we don’t have a holding DM. It’s a large hole in the club, not just the first team squad, I could be very wrong though.

    #2020598

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    I wasn’t suggesting one of Garner, Levitt or Galbraith actually get a game ahead of our current CM options. Just that they would be more suitable for the position than Mejbri

    His position? Simple. He’s an attacking midfielder. He can play anywhere across the line behind the front man and is the man who makes things happen. Because of this he is fouled almost as much as Jack Grealish.

    He reminds me of Pogba but difference is he is young enough to become a natural central midfielder… just not in the next couple years

    #2020618

    happyhurling
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    I’m starting to hate hearing “he can play anywhere across the front line” like it’s some sort of amazing positive attribute. Martial, Greenwood, Sancho and Rashford have all suffered massive dips in form because they’ve just been stuck into different positions without any kind of plan. Everyone in the world could see that Rashford and Martial were actually just total shite on the right wing, yet we got to see it waaaaay too many times. Pogba has played left anf right wing for us in the past year – would any other manager do that?
    Losing the point a little bit now, but, i actually think this notion that someone can play anywhere across the front line is a huge hinderance. They don’t develop as quickly, they don’t gain the tactical & positional sense from having 1 position to learn and i can’t remember the last time it actually made a player better.
    Apart from when Wayne Rooney was deployed in the holding midfield role of course!!! 😉

    #2020633
    killyboye
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    Yeah, I don’t know if this is the case in many clubs but many players have been cursed with this affliction at Man Utd in recent memory, O’Shea, Rashford, Greenwood, Fred, McTomminay. Rather that training guys up to be the best at their natural position or buy specialists, we shoehorn them into another position figuring they’ll learn on the job if they’re good enough. It’s just a cheap way of getting a ‘new’ player.

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