Line up vs City?

Foster
O'Shea Vidic Ferdinand Evra
Nani Carrick Fletcher Giggs
Rooney Owen

Article in the Mail (I know).

Pretty dull apart from Paddy being Paddy, but worth a read none the less.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...pectation.html

Originally Posted by poppy

Article in the Mail (I know).

Pretty dull apart from Paddy being Paddy, but worth a read none the less.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...pectation.html

MS: They used to sing: 'You'll walk a million miles to the end of his nose.' Charming. You have to get on with it. I used to conduct the United fans as they sang. And then I blew my nose on the corner flag at the Stretford End.

PC: Yes, and you were standing on the halfway line at the time!

Originally Posted by believe

3-5-3

Count again. It's 3-5-2. Quite common in Germany among other places.

@#%&!s.

3-5-2

where's throb when you need him?

Interesting to see Ando is predominently in favour here.

Originally Posted by 139sroberts

Interesting to see Ando is predominently in favour here.

seems to have settled down and is finding his form again. early days but that goal can do nothing but good for his confidence


as long as we don't play rooney up front alone i reckon we'll murder them

but then again i would say that

Originally Posted by 139sroberts

Interesting to see Ando is predominently in favour here.

hargreaves and scholes both out and two good performances by anderson (spurs & besiktas). a fairly easy choice, unless you fancy nani - giggs - fletcher - valencia, which is a bit lightweight for the derby imo.

i'll be interested to see if he doesn't go with neville. got a sneaking feeling he might, especially if rio is out.

Originally Posted by Jack's Smirking Revenge

seems to have settled down and is finding his form again. early days but that goal can do nothing but good for his confidence


as long as we don't play rooney up front alone i reckon we'll murder them

but then again i would say that

I agree entirely

Quite a few people putting fletcher on the right



Foster

OShea
Vidic
Rio if fit, Evans if not
Evra

Valencia
Fletcher
Giggs/Anderson
Nani

Rooney
Berbs

3-1 united

As usual I got the line up spot on on Tuesday, apart from the 4 I got wrong.

Foster
O'Shea
Rio/Evans
Vidic
Evra
Valencia
Fletcher
Anderson
Giggs
Rooney
Berbatov

Foster(by default)

Brown
Ferdinand(very doubtful again eh, dunk)
Vidic
Evra

Valencia
Fletcher
Anderson
Nani

Rooney
Berbatov

Giggs should come in with half an hour left or something to make an impact, we cant afford him messing about for a whole 1st half like in the Arsenal game.

foster

brown
ferdinand
evans
evra

fletcher
scholes
anderson

giggs
rooney
nani

notes -
cant afford to have carrick and vidic in the starting 11 as they seem to save their 'stinkers' for big games.
scholes with big andy and fletcher looked good against a combatitive spurs midfield
rooney will get chances and with nani a threat and giggs the play maker we will creat enough chances to score goals.
valencia is far too one dimensional for this game. we need more that just hit, run and cross in this game

Rio is Reds' only doubt

Even if City are without several big-name strikers, United will still want to field a first-choice defence in Sunday's hotly-anticipated Manchester derby at Old Trafford.

Whether Sir Alex Ferguson has that luxury rests on a training session at Carrington today (Friday) in which Rio Ferdinand needs to prove his fitness.

The central defensive stalwart made his first league appearance of the season only last weekend, when the Reds impressively won 3-1 at Totenham Hotspur. But Rio then reported a groin problem in training the next day and consequently wasn't risked in Tuesday night's Champions League victory over Besiktas.

"Rio has to do some good training today if he's to be in with a chance," admitted Sir Alex in his pre-match press conference on Friday morning.

If Ferdinand fails the fitness test then Jonny Evans will deputise once again.

More to follow...

http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pa...newsid=6639950

ridiculous tbh.

Originally Posted by Aloe Blacc

Giggs should come in with half an hour left or something to make an impact, we cant afford him messing about for a whole 1st half like in the Arsenal game.

how do you do it? i mean, really, what's the secret?

anybody else would have long since decided that it was impossible to be a bigger @#%&! than you'd already managed but then - BAM - there you go, taking @#%&!ery to a whole new level.

you utter, utter #@&%! :shakehead:

scholes is suspended, surely?

Originally Posted by marlo

foster

brown
ferdinand
evans
evra

fletcher
scholes
anderson

giggs
rooney
nani

notes -
cant afford to have carrick and vidic in the starting 11 as they seem to save their 'stinkers' for big games.
scholes with big andy and fletcher looked good against a combatitive spurs midfield
rooney will get chances and with nani a threat and giggs the play maker we will creat enough chances to score goals.
valencia is far too one dimensional for this game. we need more that just hit, run and cross in this game

Scholes is suspended and you also want to leave Vidic out...log out

Originally Posted by marlo

foster

brown
ferdinand
evans
evra

fletcher
scholes
anderson

giggs
rooney
nani

notes -
cant afford to have carrick and vidic in the starting 11 as they seem to save their 'stinkers' for big games.
scholes with big andy and fletcher looked good against a combatitive spurs midfield
rooney will get chances and with nani a threat and giggs the play maker we will creat enough chances to score goals.
valencia is far too one dimensional for this game. we need more that just hit, run and cross in this game

Originally Posted by borsuk

scholes is suspended, surely?

Originally Posted by ScholesScoresGoals2

Scholes is suspended and you also want to leave Vidic out...log out

Pathetic from marlo again.

Originally Posted by wiganste

Pathetic from marlo again.

so now im a @#%&! for actually liking scholes.

as scholes is out.

the only viable alternative is to push giggs back into scholes position then put berbatov uptop with nani and rooney.

foster

oshea
ferdinand
evans
evra

fletcher
giggs
anderson

nani
rooney
berbatov