Manchester United v Aston Villa Pre-Match Thread

[villajoy]

I hope you are right! How they are unbeaten is a mystery to me!   Apart from some very strange referee decisions! As the manure flag says "we do what we like"

[Holtenderinthesky]

1-1

berbatov - gabby

                    friedel
    cuellar collins dunne clark

albrighton petrov downing gabby
                   
              young
                          bent

I don't like that midfield, isn't that the one we went with at home to Man City?  I know we won that game but playing away at OT is a different story, its's too attacking and potentially lightweight.  Horses for courses and all that. I'd like to see one of NRC, Makoun, Delph in there instead of either Downing or Albrighton and I'd like to see Gabby upfront with Bent in a 4-4-2.  So I'd go:

Brad

Cuellar  Dunne  Collins  Clark

Young  Makoun/NRC  Petrov  Downing

Gabby  Bent


I imagine he'll go 4-5-1 though with this team and Gabby on the left.

[The Left Side]

I have gone for a manure home win as they seem to be getting very lucky at the moment and they usually get the rub of the green up there, i'd take a draw right now but the way we have been playing stranger things have happened than us getting a win, I think I said the same last season.

[pr_N'villa]

 
in reply to holtenderinthesky

i cant see young on the right though, GH likes to play him off the striker.

i also cant see him dropping gabby thats why i chose that team, it is an attacking midfield but blackpool took the game to man u and could have got the points if they'd defended better, like we did against city we could win with that midfield but saying that this is the midfield i would like to see

albrighton nrc petrov bannan young

with downing and gabby options off the bench to change the game

[Irish villain]

I would take a 1-1 draw. We're in form and confident and the win at OT last season lifted that particular monkey from our back. We will go there and give them a decent game and if we get lucky could nick it.

[ozzjim]

4-0 United and half the world to end on here, despite it being a one game blip.

[pauliewalnuts]

4-0 United and half the world to end on here, despite it being a one game blip.

Followed by the predictable "we won there last season" lines.

[ozzjim]

Indeed Paulie. Just a feeling that throughout the steps forward there will be some bad days, this being one.

[Karlos96]

3-0 to United.

[German James]

I think we should be good enough to get a point, but their ridiculous ability to find an extra gear in the last third of the game meeting our second half, last-ditch deep defending may well cock it up.

[brontebilly]

Think we will get a point at least. Surprisingly confident about the game. United haven't been playing well lately and we finally have put some results together. We will play same formation as against Chelsea. Delph and Makoun are ready for 90 minutes yet. Key is Clark getting tight to Nani. Gabby will have to put a decent shift into to help him. Need a big performance from Ashley Young but he is capable of it.

Bent to put us one up early on. United to equalize late on and we hold on for a point.

[WikiVilla]

0-2 reverse

[Chris Smith]

Not expecting anything. I think a few of us are getting a little carried away with the recent upturn; it is still a very fragile recovery and we're up against a team who scored 5 in their last home game.

[pauliewalnuts]

Not expecting anything. I think a few of us are getting a little carried away with the recent upturn; it is still a very fragile recovery and we're up against a team who scored 5 in their last home game.

That's the way I see it, too.

[l_mckay]

2-0 home win im afraid! hope im proved rong though