Team v. Crawley

Originally Posted by Sloppy

How gutted would you be if you had to get gibsons shirt at the end.

bad times - i'd tell him to keep it thanks, would rather have phelans shorts tbh

Crawley Town £#%&!age is getting pretty bad in the media this morning. Hope Utd tear them to £#%&!ing pieces. Scoreline of at least 16-0 with Utd taking the piss throughout. Keepie uppies, Van der Saar trying to score from his goal, playing whilst hopping about on one leg, dribbling past their players whilst doing hand stands, etc

Romance my arse.

Originally Posted by Erics Collar

Lindegarrd
O Shea
Rafael
Smalling
Wes
Fabio
Anderson
Gibbo
Obers
Hernandez
Bebe

With Evans and Rio injured I cant see him risking Smalling.

Wont it be as above, but Carrick in for Smalling, with Oshea to CB and the da silvas at full back?

Update: U18s at home to City now, no sign of Tunnicliffe, Pogba or Morrison, which might mean some involvement for them this evening?

Originally Posted by dunk

Fabio or Rafael in midfield?

:0)

Originally Posted by MUFC One Love

if you're good enough you're old enough.

this really needs its own thread.

Originally Posted by Pop

Crawley Town £#%&!age is getting pretty bad in the media this morning. Hope Utd tear them to £#%&!ing pieces. Scoreline of at least 16-0 with Utd taking the piss throughout. Keepie uppies, Van der Saar trying to score from his goal, playing whilst hopping about on one leg, dribbling past their players whilst doing hand stands, etc

Romance my arse.

We should put double figures past them, realistically. They're non £#%&!ing league, if we get anything less than 6-0 it'll be a pisstake. Yeah, they'll be up for it, but 3 goals in the first ten minutes will kill that off, then we can start banging them in for fun.

It won't happen like that though, as we know, it'll be 1-0 courtesy of a dodgy penalty, and the media will £#%&! over how brave Crawley were, and how they were robbed of a dream.

Originally Posted by Gorilla Monsoon

We should put double figures past them, realistically. They're non £#%&!ing league, if we get anything less than 6-0 it'll be a pisstake. Yeah, they'll be up for it, but 3 goals in the first ten minutes will kill that off, then we can start banging them in for fun.

It won't happen like that though, as we know, it'll be 1-0 courtesy of a dodgy penalty, and the media will £#%&! over how brave Crawley were, and how they were robbed of a dream.

Their wage bill is equivalent to a League One side so i think your second scenario is more likely than your first. Expect it to be 3-0, and could see those goals coming as they tire

realistically, if we win 2-0 and spend most of the game passing to each other and looking like a team, that would be our dream.

even that isn't likely.

Originally Posted by jem

realistically, if we win 2-0 and spend most of the game passing to each other and looking like a team, that would be our dream.

even that isn't likely.

To be fair we played some great stuff in the last round.
The side looked like it had been playing together for years. It was great to see how everyone knew their job & looked comfortable in possession.
Great movement & a real swagger about their play.

Originally Posted by Crawley boss Steve Evans

I think that we are genuinely one of the teams that could possibly get a positive result there.

It will just be Manchester United v Crawley Town, and as far fetched as that sounds, that's what it is.

We settled on our team last night and we have a reasonable idea of what team they will put out.

The fact that United manager Sir Alex Ferguson and assistant Mike Phelan came to our match on Tuesday against Wrexham maybe tells us they are treating it a bit more seriously than many people thought.

Or maybe hes the greatest manager of all time and part of the reason is that he scouts the teams hes due to play