Manchester United vs Burnley Match Thread 11/2/15 k/o 1945 (NOT ON UK TV).

Cantona's Collars

Manchester United will be without Luke Shaw following his sending off against West Ham at the weekend.

Michael Carrick is the only other definite absentee as he is still recovering from an ankle problem.

Burnley midfielder Dean Marney will miss the rest of the season with a cruciate knee ligament injury.

His absence ends the Clarets' 10-match run of naming the same starting line-up. Steven Reid or Michael Kightly are most likely to replace Marney.


Burnley have won just one of the last 20 meetings with the Red Devils (D8, L11). Their last victory in any competition at Old Trafford was a 5-3 win in the old First Division in September 1962.

United have scored at least once in their last 32 home matches against Burnley in the top flight, dating back to a 1-0 defeat in December 1921 - their longest home scoring streak against any team in their top flight history.

Manchester United have conceded just one goal in their last seven matches against Burnley in all competitions.

FutureGuy

2-1 United.

Professional Griefer

No Rooney in midfield pls

DDG
Raf-Jones-Evans-Rojo
Blind-Herrera
Valencia/Adnan - Rooney - ADM
RVP

Oranage2

Extremely worrying interview by lvg it will be interesting to see how united react, I still fully expect a big united win but it could also be the start of a bottle job.

2 nil to united

The Moldy Gowl

Oranage2 wrote: »

Extremely worrying interview by lvg it will be interesting to see how united react, I still fully expect a big united win but it could also be the start of a bottle job.

2 nil to united

Haha.


Keep clutching to those imaginary straws

Rayne Wooney

Our home form hasn't been the problem, 28 from 36, second only to Chelsea, one of very few positives from Van Gaal is that he's made Old Trafford one of the toughest places to go to again unlike last season

Should pick up a win tonight, I'd like to see players playing in their best positions and less of the long ball/crossing though

Lukker-

The 2 teams who hit the most long balls in Europe. Should a great match :pac:

Will I Amnt

This thread will have somewhere in the region of 250 posts or over 1000 posts.
Let's hope it's the former

Mantis Toboggan

Hopefully Long Ball van gaal has seen the light and put players back into their preferred position. Would be great to score a few goals and keep a clean sheet. No reason why we cannot do that against Burnley.

Team I'd like to see.

De Gea
Rafael Jones smalling rojo
Di Maria herrara blind Jacuzzi
Rooney Falcao

The Moldy Gowl

Tyson Fury wrote: »

Hopefully Long Ball van gaal has seen the light and put players back into their preferred position. Would be great to score a few goals and keep a clean sheet. No reason why we cannot do that against Burnley.

Team I'd like to see.

De Gea
Rafael Jones smalling rojo
Di Maria herrara blind Jacuzzi
Rooney Falcao

Long ball van gaal. I'll give it to you. Didn't think your hysteria could get worse.

Di Maria on the right?

Lovely Bloke

Longie van Baal

Will I Amnt

What did the barman say when LvG walked into the bar?

Why the long ball.

Mantis Toboggan

Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »

Long ball van gaal. I'll give it to you. Didn't think your hysteria could get worse.

Lighten up a small bit Rex, it might never happen.

UnitedIrishman

Tyson Fury wrote: »

Lighten up a small bit Rex, it might never happen.

That doesn't even make sense in this context!

Anyways, United to win 2-1. I've an dreaded feeling with Shaw out we could see a return to 5-3-2.

The Moldy Gowl

Tyson Fury wrote: »

Lighten up a small bit Rex, it might never happen.

But, someone is wrong on the internet.

Cantona's Collars

Will I Amnt wrote: »

This thread will have somewhere in the region of 250 posts or over 1000 posts.
Let's hope it's the former

We all know it's the last few pages that are the problem,especially if United don't win;)

Mantis Toboggan

Will I Amnt wrote: »

What did the barman say when LvG walked into the bar?

Why the long ball.

That's terrible mate.

Mantis Toboggan

3-0 United. Rooney two and Mata.

5starpool

Fairly boring/standard 2-0 home win.

MagicIRL

United to win 1-0.

De Gea to belt it from the edge of his box right on to Fellaini's head. Marouane will then control it on his chest before rifling the ball in to the top left corner with his weaker foot. Van Gaal will leap from his technical area, tossing his beloved notebook in to the stands while tears stream down his face. With a bottle of champagne in one hand and a bag of cocaine in the other, he'll strip down to his jocks revealing a huge chest tattoo paying homage to his past successes and a hidden underlying long ball system at each club, all while he humps a blow-up doll with Big Sams face on it in front of the camera screaming "We're going to Europe".

Will I Amnt

Tyson Fury wrote: »

That's terrible mate.

So terrible it's funny?
I heard it the other day and it made me laugh at it's awfulness.

keeponhurling

United to win 2-1 or 3-1

Manutd_4life

Hoping for a good team line up. Don't want to see rvp and falcao together in the line up.

The Moldy Gowl

Any sniff of a line up?

fuzzydunlop85

Plz let Herrera be starting.

Manutd_4life

De Gea, McNair, Jones, Evans, Rojo, Blind, Di Maria, Januzaj, Rooney, van Persie, Falcao.


FML

fuzzydunlop85

Manutd_4life wrote: »

De Gea, McNair, Jones, Evans, Rojo, Blind, Di Maria, Januzaj, Rooney, van Persie, Falcao.


FML

Ugggh

Will I Amnt

Manutd_4life wrote: »

De Gea, McNair, Jones, Evans, Rojo, Blind, Di Maria, Januzaj, Rooney, van Persie, Falcao.


FML

Uggggh, is that really the team?

Edit: Ha, same noise fuzzy :pac:

Nolars

Ah we will win handy enough at home. Cheer up lads

Liam O

How does Januzaj keep starting games?!

shadowcomplex

LVGOUT:mad:

uncleoswald

An uninspiring United win.

adox

shadowcomplex wrote: »

LVGOUT:mad:

:pac:

Vic Vinegar

Will I Amnt wrote: »

What did the barman say when LvG walked into the bar?

Why the long ball.

I laughed.

Mantis Toboggan

Jesus Rooney in midfield yet again
I'd swap herrara with RVP and shove up Wayne.

Interesting that McNair starts ahead of Valencia, where the hell is Rafael?

Jones and Evans start

LuckyGent88

LVG showing his stubbornness again. Januzaj really needs to step up tonight and repay some of the faith put in him by the manager.
Herrera must be getting extremely frustrated too constantly being on the bench.

adox

Liam O wrote: »

How does Januzaj keep starting games?!

For width creativity and pace.


And Nani is in Portugal. :mad:

Quandary

We can judge the man properly at the end of the season but if he gets us into the champions league while playing Rooney and Januzaj in a midfield 3 then he really is a fcuking genius.

On a positive note, we might be seeing McNair at right back again which could be interesting.

Nolars

Hopefully Macnair will impress tonight again at RB.

MagicIRL

We'll find Herrera in the foetal position at the corner flag over at Carrington at this rate.

irish_man

Gutted this isn't on TV

shadowcomplex

shadowcomplex wrote: »

LVGOUT:mad:

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(Not really, too early for that decision)

darced

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shadowcomplex

irish_man wrote: »

Gutted this isn't on TV

Its a joke with the deal they signed the other day and the massive market there are for these games

Nolars

darced wrote: »

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mini meltdown?

The Moldy Gowl

shadowcomplex wrote: »

Its a joke with the deal they signed the other day and the massive market there are for these games

Yeah. If only there wasn't alternative hd ways of getting them.

Strumms

Evans.. fůck.

Then again he has to get his mojo back sometime.. doesnt he ?

Lovely Bloke

wtf colour are Burnley wearing

Di Maria is actually on the left of the midfield

It's on Canadian TV

LuckyGent88

Already looked panicky in defence.

And Keane should have scored

Lord TSC

That silver kit is like some space suit.

Burnley should be 1-0 up