Manchester United vs Crystal Palace 20/4/16 k/o 20.00 Not on UK TV.

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Man Utd possible starting lineup:
De Gea; Fosu-Mensah, Smalling, Blind, Rojo; Schneiderlin, Fellaini, Lingard, Mata, Martial; Rooney

Crystal Palace possible starting lineup:
Hennessey; Ward, Mariappa, Delaney, Souare; McArthur, Jedinak, Zaha, Puncheon, Sako; Adebayor

Head To Head

Manchester United have never lost a Premier League match against Crystal Palace, with 10 wins and three draws from their previous 13 meetings in the division.

Palace have failed to score in 10 of those 13 games, including five of six at Old Trafford where they have also lost each of their last eight league visits and have kept only one clean sheet in 18 attempts - a 1-0 win in October 1970.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb0-Cv_-OnU

Crucial game...

So another scrappy 1-0 win to Utd with no goal in the first half and playing with corner flag in the 87th minute?

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I won't get to see the game but after enduring the Villa game on Saturday it might be a blessing in disguise.
Bolasie confirmed as out for Palace,he's their main threat.

Leroy42

OT, but why are there certain games that are not shown live? It doesn't make any sense to me that a match in the EPL is not being broadcast on either Sky or BT

UnitedIrishman

We badly need to win.

So I'm expecting a 1-1 draw.

ArmaniJeanss

Leroy42 wrote: »

OT, but why are there certain games that are not shown live? It doesn't make any sense to me that a match in the EPL is not being broadcast on either Sky or BT

They can only show a certain amount of games, roughly 112 games Sky, 38 BT.
This particular game was scheduled for a Saturday@3pm so might have been a Setanta IRL pick if it hadn't needed rescheduling.

xabi

Leroy42 wrote: »

OT, but why are there certain games that are not shown live? It doesn't make any sense to me that a match in the EPL is not being broadcast on either Sky or BT

The much more important and exciting Merseyside Derby is on instead.

Liam O

xabi wrote: »

The much more important and exciting Merseyside Derby is on instead.

Yeah the 8th place trophy is a doozy this year.

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Liam O wrote: »

Yeah the 8th place trophy is a doozy this year.

The "alternative league" needs sewing up.

Shanotheslayer

*Clicks into United V Palace thread*


*See's Merseyside Talk*

Lol.

xabi

xabi wrote: »

The much more important and exciting Merseyside Derby is on instead.

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

*Clicks into United V Palace thread*


*See's Merseyside Talk*

Lol.

And yet it was a Liverpool fan who brought it up :rolleyes:

Jayop

We've almost a full squad to choose from now for these two games so we need to make damn sure we don't leave ourselves exhausted for Saturday.

I'd probably go with something like this for today.

DDG
Valencia - Smalling - Blind - Rojo
Herrera - Carrick - Fellaini
Rooney - Rashford - Martial​


Varela and TFM will be rested after playing last night so the back 4 is pretty predictable with maybe Darmian coming in for either full back, likely Valencia. Either Carrick or Schniederlin will be rested as I think one both will play Vs Everton. Probably switch them over at 60 minutes to keep both fresh. I do think the front 3 will all play given Rashford and Martial were rested Vs Villa and he'll want to keep playing Rooney to get his fitness up.

Maybe Lingard for Herrera too but since he's decided against playing Lingard in position it's most likely going to be Herrera.

TheTownie

Super finish from Delaney!

Mars Bar

G'man Damo!

Bret Hart

Top class finish.

LuckyGent88

Ah OG, Iv missed him for us

RobertKK

Match fixing, some of our strikers could take lessons from Delaney

StringerBell

Cut open too easily

Valencia is **** at right back aerially.

I hate watching us so much of the time. Rooney gave the ball away horribly there too actually

Mars Bar

Why is nobody getting forward to help Rashford there. The players are thinking straight away "Where should I be if we lose it?" rather than getting forward.

RobertKK

Had a stream in English, but now watching a stream with Arabic commentary but it works.

Rayne Wooney

why is there nobody getting into the box?

TheTownie

Lingard what are you at! Shoot!

josip

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

why is there nobody getting into the box?

Mars Bar

Commentators on my stream are creaming themselves over Rooney.

How Soon Is Now

Mars Bar wrote: »

Commentators on my stream are creaming themselves over Rooney.

Nbcsn?

Jayop

Mars Bar wrote: »

Commentators on my stream are creaming themselves over Rooney.

He;s playing well.

StringerBell

Was there ever anything more fitting then that for Valencia, does good work beats his man gets inside, no idea what to do next.

Mars Bar

How Soon Is Now wrote: »

Nbcsn?

I think so. They are English lads.

Jayop wrote: »

He;s playing well.

He is. You'd swear it was Messi-like though. One thing they are not wrong about is that we have no target up front most of the time.

Mars Bar

StringerBell wrote: »

Was there ever anything more fitting then that for Valencia, does good work beats his man gets inside, no idea what to do next.

You'd expect Rashford to be there for him to hit but there was no one. That was Hernandez territory!

How Soon Is Now

Mars Bar wrote: »

Yup.



He is. You'd swear it was Messi-like though. One thing they are not wrong about is that we have no target up front most of the time.

There always like this ha.

Faugheen

StringerBell wrote: »

Was there ever anything more fitting then that for Valencia, does good work beats his man gets inside, no idea what to do next.

There was nobody in the box to be fair.

Lord TSC

It really is frustrating how we can't put these awful teams to the sword

Trigger

We are such a ****ing frustrating team to watch!

UnitedIrishman

See it's not that hard to make a run and pass the ball in behind a defence.

Jayop

astradave wrote: »

We are such a ****ing frustrating team to watch!

??

Not this game. We've been really good and created chances. keepers made a few ok saves and they're defending in their six yard box. I'm enjoying this.

LuckyGent88

Getting shots on target at least

Jayop

Great chance.

Mars Bar

Get the ****ing ball in from the corner.

Unearthly

Ugh short corners

Trigger

Jayop wrote: »

??

Not this game. We've been really good and created chances. keepers made a few ok saves and they're defending in their six yard box. I'm enjoying this.

Oh i get that but we will end up ruing all this and the match will probably end 1-1. thats what is frustrating about it

Jayop

astradave wrote: »

Oh i get that but we will end up ruing all this and the match will probably end 1-1. thats what is frustrating about it

I don't think so.

Mars Bar

Where was Rooney off to there? He left a huge gap in the midfield

StringerBell

Why is that only a yellow?

Lord TSC

Horrific tackle.

Faugheen

How is that not a red card?

Trigger

2 foot off the ground.. ref a joke here

Jayop

mason's a joke. He's made about 10 bad decisions already tonight.

Trigger

Jayop wrote: »

I don't think so.

I hope your right but this season(and last) has left me with no confidence

UnitedIrishman

Our ability - much like all season - to make runs in behind a defence is abysmal. Our front three are so restricted in their movement.

Lord TSC

We have had more chances than usual by they have all been right at the keeper. Our finishing needs to kick up a notch, but I hope we don't see the usual retreating back in the second half now we are one up.

Unearthly

Probably one of our better first half's this season....