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United vs Chelsea: This game is among the tough fixtures that the Reds have to go through.
With the rough start to the season Ole’s men made an stunning comeback against PSG in the Champions League game after loosing 6-1 to Jose’s Spurs.
Chelsea’s last victory at Old Trafford was in May 2013 when Juan Mata’s 87th-minute goal secured all 3 points for them.
But the Reds do not hold a very impressive record at home. They played two games at home and lost both.
United haven’t won at OT since defeating Bournemouth 5-2 on the 4 July. Since then their home results have been Southampton 2-2, West Ham 1-1, Crystal Palace 1-3 and Tottenham 1-6.
United is unbeaten in the past seven Premier League meetings at home against Chelsea, winning three and in the remaining four.
Following their victory in Paris on Tuesday, Man United have won 10 successive away games in all competitions for the first time in their history.
Head to head:
United
Matches: 187
Wins: 81
Draws: 51
Chelsea
Matches: 187
Wins: 55
Draws: 51
Formation:
Talking about formations, the 3-5-2 layout worked wonders against PSG since they are an attacking side.
MUFC were able to contain PSG’s midfield while also creating quite a few chances themselves.
But I would expect Ole to change the formation, since Chelsea rely more on their wingers and their defense is weak.
They might be scoring goals but they are conceding a lot of goals at the same time.
Ole can take advantage of his new players, play Cavani with Telles and if VDB starts then Fred is the best option to play with him.
He should go with the players who have shown good form in the last few games, we cannot keep using the same lineup and expect them to win games for us.
We would love to see Axel Tuanzebe in action again, he was very impressive against PSG and If Maguire isn’t fit Alex deserves another start.
“He’s a boy who takes responsibility for his own development and he’s doing everything he can have to have a long career at #mufc and get that consistency. Now it’s about getting consistency in his performances, he’s got to stay injury-free but I think he can kick on, he’s a leader, can play right-back, Centre-back, midfield
Ole on Tuanzebe
Defensive problems:
Both the team have issues at the back, Chelsea have given away 10 goals while United have conceded 12 since the season started.
We cannot let last two wins get on our head. Chelsea have Werner and Kai Havertz who look dangerous and can split open our defense.
I expect Ole to form more of an attacking team that will take advantage of Chelsea’s defensive problems but at the same time look to protect our back line.
Predicted lineup:
DDG
Tuanzebe, Lindelof, Shaw
Telles, Pogba, Bruno, AWB
Martial/Cavani, Rashford
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United vs Chelsea, Premier League: 24th Oct, 10:30 PM IST.
After the dramatic end to last season, we welcome Crystal Palace to Old Trafford for the first game of the 2020/21 season.
Having lost just once against the visiting team in the previous 22 games. That loss is still fresh in every MUFC fans mind (hard to forget that last-minute fuckery)
After scoring in the 93rd-minute goal CP’s Patrick Aanholt become the first and to date only visiting player to score a 90th-minute winner away against United in the Premier League.
Crystal Palace have never won back to back league trips against United, only six sides have won away at Old Trafford in consecutive PL games- Man City, Bolton, Liverpool, Southamton, Spurs and West Brom.
Analysing the opposition.
CP are unbeaten in their last four PL away games, one of them being Manchester United. The last team that went unbeaten in their last five PL away games was Chelsea. Will CP be the next team to secure this record? (hell no, why would you think that?)
CP has started their 20/21 campaign with a 1-0 win over Southampton. However, Red Devils have won their opening game more times than any other side (19)
On the other hand, CP has never won two consecutive games at the start of any top-flight campaign.
Manchester United have lost just one of their last 17 Premier League games at Old Trafford (ohh yeaahhh)
With just one month and three daybreak, one friendly against Aston Villa (and one hell of a Sancho transfer drama) United are back in the business.
All eyes will be on on their newest and the only addition- Van De Beek. After participating in the only pre-season game against Aston Villa the Dutch forward will probably come on to make his debut at the 60 minute mark. MUFC fans have to be patient with him, he will take time to adjust to his new environment, teammates and style of play.
The hosts will be favorable to win but cannot underestimate the team which defeated us twice at home last season.
Injury update
Phil Joans and Axel Tuanzebe are still unavailable “Phil Jones is still out,”
Ole told in his exclusive pre-match interview with MUTV. “Axel is not 100 per cent back with us yet, but he’s on the grass running, which is a positive. Apart from that, we don’t have any serious injuries, but, as we’ve said, the players are at different stages of their training programmes.
“We need points and the players need games but some of them haven’t trained enough or had enough football. Some of them have been in quarantine, it’s just one of these situations which we’ve adapted to really well before and the players have done well.”
Ole
Lineup Prediction
David De Gea
AVB, Maguire, Lindelof, Shaw
Matic, Pogba
Greenwood, Bruno, Rashford
Martial.
What are your score predictions? Comment down below.
Thank you for reading. 😀
The longest season ever has come to an end, even though United have lost too many semi-finals we have a lot to take away from this season.
From 14th position in October 2019 to fighting and finishing in top 3 was a big achievement. Ole’s first season was all about fixing the team and that’s what he has done.
Getting rid of all the deadwood and making space for the young fresh talent. weren’t we cribbing about this for years?
That’s what United is all about that’s our culture and 99′ squad have proved everyone who was against this culture wrong.
But is it helping us now? I would say yes, the biggest proof we have is Greenwood. Had Ole not given him enough chances he wouldn’t have able to show what he can do.
Then there is Williams who sent a player like Shaw to the bench, McTom is another example, he replaced Matic when Ole came in.
The first half of the season was bizarre. We drew too many games, played like a championship team. Our most important players Rashford, Martial and Pogba were injured. And the team was in charge of players like Lingard, Pereira, Mata.
Maguire was a good addition to the team after Smalling was sent away to Inter.
We conceded 36 goals compared to 54 goals in the last term, we have the third-best defence in the PL and we cannot forget countless mistakes that David De Gea made.
Last season we earned 66 points same like this year but last year we finished 6th 66 points for 3rd place was too bad, shows how bad we were. Before December we had picked up only 34 points from 24 games win rate was 37.5% and we conceded 24 goals in 29 games which are total rubbish.
I would blame the injury of our key players, within first four games of the season we lost Martial and Pogba, which affected our form terribly and by the mid of Oct we were thrown down to 14th place on the table, we earned only 9 points from 8 games before the international break.
By this time we had only two goals since August and the only goal we scored without Pogba was through penalty.
After the international break, things started to look bright for United when they drew the yet to be defeated side- Liverpool. What changed? The mighty Frenchmen Anthony Martial had returned and by December we defeated Spurs and City within a week.
We earned 59 points from 29 games after his arrival, only Liverpool and City had more and if would have played at this pace we could have probably earned more than 73 points.
When Bruno arrived we did not had to change the style of the play rather he fit the team so well that we not only started winning but started scoring good number of goals in most of the games, the goal percentage went from 1.74 pg to 2.33 pg.
we played Chelsea and City eight times and won six of them but the main problem lies against the small teams who come to the pitch which the sole purpose of parking the bus in front of the front men.
There are a lot of places where we need to improve. Qualifying for Champions League shouldn’t be our aim but rather fighting for the title and going ahead in Champions League as far as we can.
Over all according me Ole has done a decent job. He cleared out the deadwood that we have been dragging along since so many years, he made a clear space for the young fresh faces from the academy.
He made Greenwood in to a first team player when he had no more than 1 first team start.
Fred who wasn’t even a second choice midfielder had a great team under Ole
Nemanja Matic did not even look eye to eye with Ole is now an important part of the team. Even though he came into the light after McTom had to be dropped due to injury.
What do we need to do to be better?
Well, it’s no secret, We really really need to add squad depth. With Van De Beek our midfield will be strong and stable but we need a good LB, RW and a good second choice attacker who can come on for Martial.
How will you describe this season in one word?
The race for Premier League top 4 has never been this exciting.
Leicester’s loss against Spurs on Sunday have made it easier for the Red Devils to move above them with a draw/win with their game in hand against WHU.
Chelsea are ahead by a point with a game in Hand against Liverpool. But I doubt Liverpool will like it if their rivals end up playing CL football. So we can really not expect any favours from them.
The best ending for the Red Devil’s will be a victory in both their remaining games but if they fail to do so? Then here is the second best ending for them.
Top 4 possibilities
If we remove City and Liverpool from the picture (since they have already qualified for the CL) we are left with:
Chelsea are 3rd with a 1 point lead- they have to play Liverpool and Wolves.
Leicester City are in 4th place level on points with Manchester United (having played a game more), they have Manchester United to play on the final day.
Manchester United are in 5th level with Leicester City- Have a game in hand- they play West Ham and Leicester City.
Since Leicester City lost against Spurs with a 3 goal margin, they have opened the opportunity for United to grab the 4th spot.
If United win with a margin of 3 goals against West Ham today they can secure the 4th spot with just a draw against Leicester City and shouldn’t lose by a 1 goal margin on the final day to stay ahead on goal difference.
And the best case will be If Chelsea lose to Liverpool tonight and United beat WHU, Ole’s men can jump up to the 3rd spot with 2 points lead if Chelsea fail to win.
So even if United draw against Leicester they can secure the Champions League spot.
United are guaranteed to finish in the top 4 if they pick up 2 points from their remaining 2 games and if they pick up 3 points by beating WHU and losing to Leicester, they could still miss out on top 4
It means that if United get 2 points that means that they will draw against WHU and LC (with a total of 64points)
And if they get 3 points, win against WHU and lose against LC then they will finish with 65 total points, but since LC will win against them they will get 3 points with the total of 65 points which will level with Man Utd but they will be ahead of goal difference.
Fun fact:
After Arsenal lost to Aston Villa the highest Points tally they can get is 56 points.
That’s 8 points lower than we got under David Moyes.
What are your predictions for tonight’s game?
Do you think Liverpool will let Chelsea win?
Comment down your reviews.
United’s biggest January signing has had a huge impact on Manchester United since he joined the Red Devils.
A lot was expected from his arrival, but who would have guessed this Portuguese wonder boy would set fire the moment he stepped foot on the pitch.
Since Manchester United signed Bruno Fernandez from Sporting Lisbon for £67.6m, He has been involved in 15 goals. Only Messi has been involved in more goals (16) than him.
He has won 7 Man of the Match awards in 16 games and 2 Premier League player of the month award since he joined in January, he becomes the seventh player in history to earn the prize twice in a row.
The Red Devils were 10 points off from then third-place Chelsea in Oct 2019, fast forward to now, now we are competing with them for the third and fourth position along with Leicester City with just a point separating them from Leicester and us.
Ole’s army took only 34 points from their first 24 games, after Bruno’s arrival the win ratio doubled and they have not lost a single game since, stretching the winning streak to 19 games. This run was halted by the 3-1 loss in the FA Cup SemiFinal to Chelsea.
Since making his debut, United have sealed the joint-most points (18), scored the most goals (15) and conceded the joint-fewest goals (2) in the Premier League.
Manchester United have continued their winning streak after the Premier League resumed and Bruno has been quite influential.
United have played 11 PL games with Bruno and took 25 points, lost 0 games. A better stat than Liverpool who has taken 23 points and has lost 2 games in 11 PL matches.
The biggest transformation United has ever had after signing a new player, even Robin Van Persie has been left behind, Burno (14) has overtaken Robin Van (12) Persie’s first 11 games record of most assists and goals.
His arrival has also impacted the number of goals scored, United scored 36 goals in 24 matches before him, and 20 in nine matches since.
United have also managed to concede 36% fewer goals per match than previously, they conceded 24 in 29, and afterwards, the nine games in the league he has featured they have let in just four.
Bruno has also improved the players around him, with him handling the midfield Anthony Martial, Rashford and Greenwood have the freedom to attack, our linkup play between Bruno and our front 3 is so promising and every MUFC fan will be looking to see more of these 4 play together in the future.
Pogba has also been a completely different player since the restart and looks happy and confident to share his workload with him. They have not played a lot of games together, but the signs are very promising
Do you think he will manage to take United to the Champions League?
There was a lot of fuss regarding Manchester City’s European football ban due to their violence of FFP in the transfer window.
The club’s successful appeal to overturn the ban means 2nd placed City and champions Liverpool have booked their place for the Champions League next season.
Chelsea, Leicester City and Manchester United are fighting for the two remaining UCL spots.
Ole’s men failed to make the most of their opportunity to go 3rd after they were denied 3 points against Southampton earlier this week.
Chelsea (2 pending games)
Liverpool: 23rd July
Wolves: 26th July
Chelsea is in third place with 4 points ahead of Leicester and United, both UTD and Leicester have a game in hand. Chelsea has Liverpool and Wolves to play before they know their fate for UCL football next season.
United (3 pending games)
Crystal Palace: 16th July
Westham: 22nd July
Leicester City: 26th July
The Reds can guarantee their spot in top 4 if they manage to win all three of their remaining games.
Leicester City (3 pending games)
Sheffield United: 16th July
Spurs: 19th July
Manchester United: 26th July
Leicester can probably manage to ease past struggling Spurs but they will have to put up a show if they want to win against United who are desperate to earn all the points from their last 3 games.
A maximum of 5 teams are allowed from a single league so if United or Wolves win Europa League or Chelsea manage to win the Champions League then both the winning team will qualify for the next season’s Champions League and fourth-placed team in the Premier League would earn a spot in the Europa League.
If Chelsea and Leicester City fail to lose points, Manchester United will have another chance of qualifying for the Champions League next season by winning the Europa League.
So if United manage to win the European title, they will qualify for next season’s Champions League no matter where they finish in the PL.
If Chelsea do win the Champions League and Manchester United or Wolves win Europa League then 6th placed team in the league table will not play be eligible for the Europa League.
But if Chelsea and United don’t manage to finish in top 4 and Chelsea and Man Utd/Wolves win the European cups then only top 3 will manage to qualify in the Champions League.
It’s very unlikely for Chelsea to win the Champions League considering their form. But United and Wolves have a chance to win the Europa cup if they continue their current form.
How United can get affected financially if they fail to qualify.
Manchester United players will get a reduction of 25% in their salaries.
The club’s finances will get a huge dent if they don’t get revenue from UCL and failure to qualify for 2 consecutive seasons will also result in a 30% deal cut in the sponsorship with Adidas.
Tonight’s Premier League fixtures:
Everton vs Aston Villa. 10:30 pm IST
Leicester City vs Sheffield United. 10:30 pm IST
Late-night games:
Southampton vs Brighton. 12:45 Am IST.
Crystal Palace vs United. 12:45 Am IST
What do you think?
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Until yesterday the Reds were buzzing and were confident with regard to the top four finish.
Chelsea and Leicester both had dropped points and we were just a win away from grabbing the 3rd position.
But all went down after United failed to seize the golden opportunity and gave away last-minute goal ending the match with just a point.
It’s always a tough fixture against Southampton and the pressure of winning the game for top 4 finish was pressing upon the players
We need dept, quality and plan B for situations like these. Just having unbeatable streak is not gonna get us anywhere.
Ole need to do smart signings which will help us in places we lack composure.
Bruno was a fantastic signing, we needed a personality who would handle the front line with Pogba and that place was filled by Bruno comfortably.
Dave made some amazing saves yesterday I wouldn’t blame him for the goals.
both the goals were defensive errors.
We were down to 10 men after Willams and Luke Shaw had to be taken off.
It was heartbreaking to concede in the closing minutes of the game.
Even though Ole’s men failed to take more than 1 point yesterday, the top 4 race continues to be as tight as ever.
United are just 1 point behind Chelsea and head-to-head with Leicester.
We have just 3 games to go and one of them is against Leicester.
Crystal Palace vs United- Fri 17th, 12:45 am IST
United vs Westham- Wed 22nd, 10:30 pm IST
Leicester City vs United- Sun 26th, 8:30 pm IST
SHAW AND WILLIAMS INJURY UPDATE
Shaw twisted his ankle, it was a dangerous sight considering his brutal leg break back in 2018.
Luke: “I was close to losing my leg” he said when he got injured PSV Eindhoven in 2018.
Yesterday Shaw twisted his ankle when he dove in the box to collect Rashford’s pass and Brandon Williams suffered a nasty gash after he collided with Kyle Walker-Peters
“Luke twisted his ankle,”
said the manager, at his post-match press conference. “Hopefully, we can have some good news on him after we’ve done a scan.”
“In a separate interview with MUTV, Ole added: “I can’t say [really], I’ve not seen Brandon because he was with the medical staff and I think he was getting some stitches with a gash over his eye.
“So let’s see how he is.”
Post-match interview
Ole believes the players will learn a harsh lesson from not seeing the match out but it will stand us in good stead for the challenges to come.
“I have to say the mentality of the boys has been brilliant,”
said the manager. “We’ve had a few setbacks over the season, of course, and this is another challenge for us. I’m very confident in the mentality of them.
“I’m very disappointed of course, but you have to take the disappointments, as well as the positives when you win games. Of course, the disappointment with this is when it’s one of the last kicks of the ball and you concede a goal and you lose two points.
“That’s part of football and we’ve learnt a hard lesson, hopefully. We’ll make it right, we’ll put it right. I trust them in that respect.”
The boss would not accept the suggestion that United have failed to handle the pressure after rivals Chelsea dropped points on several occasions this season.
“Absolutely not,”
he replied. “I don’t think any of our players have been thinking about: ‘Oh what have Chelsea done this weekend.’ Not at all. It’s just the way the games go.
“We all play against the same teams and we all have 38 games to go through and it will even itself out during the long season. You’ll deserve the position you get in the end.”
“We have to keep our head up, we have three games to go. The next one is Crystal Palace on Thursday, if we win the last three games we are in the Champions League,”
Nemanja Matic
Yet another wonderful display by United who started off well, dominating the game for a few minutes but the look of the games changed completely as Villa took charge.
But that did not last long, they gave away the ball easily and Ole’s men who were calm and composed made some threatening moves in the opposition’s box.
Bruno who was fouled by Konsa, gave United a breakthrough after VAR gave a penalty in their favour.
Our wonder boy Greenwood scored yet again, 22 yards away from the goal he moves it away from Douglas Luiz to his right foot and simply blasted it past Reina.
The dreamy duo (Pogba x Bruno) are rather getting on well, Bruno dragged the corner ball back to Pogba edging pass the D line who converted it into an outstanding goal from the outside of the box.
Manchester United broke a couple of records after they won with 3 goal margin against Aston Villa yesterday night.
Here are all the records that were broken by Ole Gunnar’s men.
The Reds became the first in the division’s history to win four successive matches by a margin of three goals or more as they extended their unbeaten run to 17 games in all competitions.
Yesterday’s penalty was incredibly United’s 13th in the league this season, and no team has ever been awarded that many penalties in a Premier League campaign before.
Mason Greenwood is the second teenager to score in three consecutive PL appearances for United after Wayner Rooney in 2005
No player has scored more PL goals from outside the box than Mason Greenwood this season (4).
David De Gea played his 399th game breaking the record of most number of games played by an over seas player for Man Utd. (which was previously held by Peter Schmeichel)
With Bruno Fernandez well settled in and the Reds have once again are on the winning streak, Paul Pogba looks likely to extend his contract.
Pogba started the 19/20 season in good form but had to be away due to ankle injury since the end of September.
“Just being back training, touching the ball and doing what I love is amazing; I missed it so much,”
he declared.
“You realise when you’re out for a long time how much you really enjoy playing football and how much you love it. So obviously I’m really, really happy and so blessed to be back and be fully fit now, and I’m enjoying being back with the team.”
“I feel great, I feel much, much better now. I’ve been training well and they [the club] have been looking after me very well. I’ve been doing some extra work and treatment on my ankle and the rest of my body. And my team-mates as well, they’ve helped me to come back and feel confident. It’s like I never left, the guys still trust in me and always believe in me and that’s helped me a lot as well.
The arrival of the Portuguese magician Bruno Fernandez has uplifted the team spirit and has lead to the unbeaten run of 16 games.
Both of the players (Pogba and Bruno) were not present the last time we played Aston villa- our next opponents.“I was in the stadium watching the game and I remember Victor [Lindelof] scoring for us,”
said Paul.
“We know what we have to do there [at Villa Park]. We need points so honestly, we have to think about ourselves. We need to get the win and carry on with what we’ve been doing in the last few weeks.”
“You can tell that the team is improving a lot, We play more as a team than we did before, we enjoy it,even more, we defend together, we attack together, and this team is stronger as well. The players who are on the bench or who don’t play every time, when they come on they help the team so the mentality is good and is right. All this together has put us where we are today.”
Match Facts:
Ole and team will look to strengthen their top-four chances, if they are able to take all 3 points against their next opponents (Aston Villa) then they will be just 1 point behind Leicester.
Villa hasn’t won any of the last 15 games against United in all competitions, including the 2-2 draw between the sides in December.
The Reds are also unbeaten in the last 20 away league clashes with Thursday’s opponents, a run that stretches back to 1995!
It’s actually the longest unbeaten away run one team has had against another in top-flight history.
The top scorer in this fixture in the Premier League is Wayne Rooney with 12 goals – four more than Cristiano Ronaldo.
Four current Reds have netted for United against Villa – Phil Jones, Juan Mata, Marcus Rashford and Victor Lindelof, all with one goal apiece.
United are looking to become the first team in Premier League history to win four consecutive matches by a margin of three or more goals.
Aston Villa vs United, 10th July 12:45 AM IST.
