ADK Posted 26 January 2015 Share Posted 26 January 2015 Hamer Simpson Was Wes RDL Albrighton Drinkwater Hammond Schlupp Kramaric Ulloa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickyblueeyes Posted 26 January 2015 Share Posted 26 January 2015 Can't see us playing 4-4-2 at old Trafford they'll pass us off the park. Schwarzer - for his experience to calm the defence Simpson Was Wes Konch Cambiasso Hammond/James Drinkwater Albrighton Schlupp Kramaric With the exception of Mahrez coming back - that's the team to keep to play for the rest of the season (with kramaric and ulloa alternating) - our best players in their positions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suffolk exile Posted 26 January 2015 Share Posted 26 January 2015 A win would be ace - but I think they will be very keen to make amends for the 5.3.......so I think we are going to be up against it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ttfn Posted 26 January 2015 Share Posted 26 January 2015 Schwarzer Simpson Wasyl Morgan Konchesky Albrighton Cambiasso Hammond Schlupp Kramaric Ulloa Subs: Hamer, De Laet, Drinkwater, King, Knockaert, Nugent, Vardy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScouseFox Posted 26 January 2015 Share Posted 26 January 2015 Schwarzer Simpson Wasyl Morgan Konchesky Albrighton Cambiasso Hammond Schlupp Kramaric Ulloa Subs: Hamer, De Laet, Drinkwater, King, Knockaert, Nugent, Vardy did krama play behind ulloa at spurs or was he alongside him? probs take that team, i'm literally not arsed about centre mid though, we've tried so many different combinations as a two and the fact we've not settled on one shows how crap pretty much all of them have been. hammond + one seems our best bet without james. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoyJones Posted 26 January 2015 Share Posted 26 January 2015 If Algeria lose or draw tomorrow night and get knocked out, when does Mahrez come back to us? Would it be in time for Saturday? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orbison Posted 27 January 2015 Share Posted 27 January 2015 Would love it if we stuffed them, but we have not got mark clattenburg pulling for us this time, cannot see us letting in less than three goals to be honest, have given up guessing nigels starting eleven, hope all you optimists are correct, but cannot see it myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col city fan Posted 27 January 2015 Share Posted 27 January 2015 Schwarzer Simpson Wasyl Morgan Konchesky Albrighton Cambiasso Hammond Schlupp Kramaric Ulloa Subs: Hamer, De Laet, Drinkwater, King, Knockaert, Nugent, Vardy I sincerely hope we don't play a central midfield of just two, with Cambiasso as one of them. I can't believe that's what you'd actually want to see. We'd get over-run, for fun I think. If we play a 4-4-1-1, we need energy in the central midfield area. If James and Hammond are both fit, they'd be my pairing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benpicko Posted 27 January 2015 Share Posted 27 January 2015 I sincerely hope we don't play a central midfield of just two, with Cambiasso as one of them. I can't believe that's what you'd actually want to see. We'd get over-run, for fun I think. If we play a 4-4-1-1, we need energy in the central midfield area. If James and Hammond are both fit, they'd be my pairing. James is still out for another match isn't he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ttfn Posted 27 January 2015 Share Posted 27 January 2015 I sincerely hope we don't play a central midfield of just two, with Cambiasso as one of them. I can't believe that's what you'd actually want to see. We'd get over-run, for fun I think. If we play a 4-4-1-1, we need energy in the central midfield area. If James and Hammond are both fit, they'd be my pairing. How often did we play a "2" in central midfield with Cambiasso where Nugent or a Nugent equivalent were in the side? James is suspended. King and Drinkwater are in wretched form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renart Posted 27 January 2015 Share Posted 27 January 2015 I sincerely hope we don't play a central midfield of just two, with Cambiasso as one of them. I can't believe that's what you'd actually want to see. We'd get over-run, for fun I think. If we play a 4-4-1-1, we need energy in the central midfield area. If James and Hammond are both fit, they'd be my pairing. The Hammond and Cambiasso midfield is exactly what I am waiting for. Defence minded in Hammond with 'energy' and quality outlet in Cambiasso. Your objection to Cambiasso has always been defensively (tracking back); this pairing goes some way to nullifying your concern (which I still am not convinced by) through the inclusion of the defence-minded Hammond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col city fan Posted 27 January 2015 Share Posted 27 January 2015 How often did we play a "2" in central midfield with Cambiasso where Nugent or a Nugent equivalent were in the side? James is suspended. King and Drinkwater are in wretched form. How on earth 'wretched form' can equate to beating Spurs, at their place, in a game where we equalled the opposition in almost every department, I really don't know? Wretched form, for me, was the terrible run we went on a couple of months back, where Cambiasso played nearly every game. Again, I don't get your argument at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Walsh5 Posted 27 January 2015 Share Posted 27 January 2015 King & Drinkwater were both absouletly woeful on Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ttfn Posted 27 January 2015 Share Posted 27 January 2015 How on earth 'wretched form' can equate to beating Spurs, at their place, in a game where we equalled the opposition in almost every department, I really don't know? Wretched form, for me, was the terrible run we went on a couple of months back, where Cambiasso played nearly every game. Again, I don't get your argument at all. "King and Drinkwater are in wretched form". This may surprise you but it's possible for players to be playing well whilst the team is playing poorly and vice versa. You're right, we did equal the opposition in almost every department. ALMOST every department and it doesn't take a genius to work out where we didn't match them. Did you watch the game on Saturday? Did you heck and yet you still have the gumption to try to pick holes in something that is pretty universally acknowledged by anyone who watched the game judging by the player ratings threads (from those published so far King is rated at 4.2 and Drinkwater 4.0 for Spurs, hot on the heels of Stoke when King got 4.11 and Drinkwater 4.4). I'm a big fan of King (much less so Drinkwater, albeit I acknowledge he is the better player when both are at their best) but neither is playing at all well at the moment. This would appear to be the consensus given the ratings. Quite why you have used it, yet again, to have a pop at a pretty uncontroversial comment I'm not sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davieG Posted 27 January 2015 Share Posted 27 January 2015 The Premier League has released its list of referees for week 23 of matches and the headline news is that Martin Atkinson has been chosen to referee the game between Manchester United and Leicester City at Old Trafford. During the reverse fixture between the sides Mark Clattenburg was heavily criticised by some for his performance, in particular his decision to award a penalty for a collision between Rafael and Jamie Vardy, seconds after the striker had appeared to barge the defender off the ball. Clattenburg was also criticised for the decision to send off United youngster Tyler Blackett. Clattenburg has arguably become the perceived scapegoat for a number of poor decisions this season by a host of referees as he has had to serve a number of weeks in the lower leagues of football. Read more at http://www.squawka.com/news/confirmed-referee-appointments-for-week-23-with-martin-atkinson-in-charge-of-manchester-united/284757#OSRYweIMW8csxZLp.99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ealingfox Posted 27 January 2015 Author Share Posted 27 January 2015 How on earth could he have been criticised for sending off Blackett? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brooksy Posted 27 January 2015 Share Posted 27 January 2015 Expecting another dodgy decision in favour of the opposition. Seems like it's at least one every week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Power Posted 27 January 2015 Share Posted 27 January 2015 If Konchesky comes back in I'll cry, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katy Posted 27 January 2015 Share Posted 27 January 2015 I'm trying so hard not to think about this game yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glenelgfox Posted 27 January 2015 Share Posted 27 January 2015 We've yet to put in a bad performance against a big team all season and I don't think we'll start now. They've got that replay in the week which could work in our favour Hamer Simpson Wes Was De Laet Hammond Cambiasso Albrighton Schlupp Kramaric Ulloa What he said plus I like the look of that starting 11! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSpaM Posted 27 January 2015 Share Posted 27 January 2015 Did I just imagine Wes and Liam both picking up injuries at Spurs? Have they both been training this week? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Walsh5 Posted 27 January 2015 Share Posted 27 January 2015 Did I just imagine Wes and Liam both picking up injuries at Spurs? Have they both been training this week? Moore did not sure about Wes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
talking_goldfish Posted 27 January 2015 Share Posted 27 January 2015 For this one I think it has to be something like this (with Upson on the bench after playing a full 90 mins for the U21s): Hamer Simpson Wes Was RDL Albrighton Hammond Drinky Schlupp Krama Ulloa Bench: Schwarzer, Upson, Konch, Cambiasso, Knockaert, Vardy, Nuge Maybe bring Vardy on for the last 20 to terrorise their defence and remind them of why they hated him so much in the first match! FWIW I'm going for a 2-2 result on this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ttfn Posted 27 January 2015 Share Posted 27 January 2015 Clattenburg was also criticised for the decision to send off United youngster Tyler Blackett. Wot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jammie82uk Posted 27 January 2015 Share Posted 27 January 2015 It's stat time There have been just five goals in the last four Premier League games involving Man Utd. Leicester have won just one of their last nine Barclays Premier League away matches (W1 D1 L7). Juan Mata has scored five goals from just seven shots on target in the league this season. The Foxes had netted just one goal in their previous eight Premier League matches against Manchester United before their 5-3 win earlier this season. Only Chelsea (19% have scored with a higher percentage of their shots than Man Utd (17%) Leicester became only the 6th team to score 5+ goals vs Man Utd in a PL game (+ Newcastle, Southampton, Chelsea, Man City and WBA). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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