UCL 18/19 [Quarter Finals] - Manchester United vs FC Barcelona

Wait is over folks. World's best Vs Manchester's second best.

Not excuses but missing two of our key midfielders and having to start Pereira/Mctominay/Fred is pretty scary

Fully behind Ole and his boys to pull off a surprise success here

Firenze wrote:Not excuses but missing two of our key midfielders and having to start Pereira/Mctominay/Fred is pretty scary

Keep calm, Barca have guys like Artur and Sergi Roberto in there.

I think Barca will underestimate you and get hurt

Pff. I lost all my hopes of any good result tbh, I just can’t see us good enough to put up a fight with Barca. Hans, drop your expectations if you don’t want to get hurt when Messi scores the third goal tonight.

Why would I get hurt? I hate your club, basically? I also hate Barca though so this is a clear win-win for me

The things that would hurt me this round is Ajax getting beaten badly, or Spurs failing to kick City out.

Mostly interested in Smalling's plan vs Messi

Suarez hates English teams so expect him to score like 3 or 5 goals.

Lol @ still hating on Arthur. The guy has had an incredible debut season.

saw earlier that Suarez hasn't scored an away goal in the CL in 4 years or something, maybe it was knockouts but I think it was overall

also for as much shit I was talking prior to the game, I'm not gonna back out now, but I need to reiterate that my expectations have changed now that Matic and Herrera are out

And now it starts

You talked the big talk Frenzie. Own up to your reckless words and see if your bet pays off.

Trust Ole's driving

Hapless_Hans wrote:Why would I get hurt? I hate your club, basically? I also hate Barca though so this is a clear win-win for me

The things that would hurt me this round is Ajax getting beaten badly, or Spurs failing to kick City out.

You’ve just said you are FULLY behind Ole and his boys. And, I was kind of joking with getting hurt. Not sure anymore tbh what’s on your mind considering your ambiguous posts.

Getting excited about this, interesting to see this time most obviously rating Barca way above Man U. Only thing worries me though is they have improved overall and our defense can be slow if we come across a counter with Martial or Rashford, or from set pieces, apart from that Im hoping for a good result, which we are really capable of Time to watch Messi rape Man U again

Interested to see how good a game Pogba will have, if we do dominate, perhaps he will wanna join us at Barca

Too bad the game for me will be like 3am, not sure if I can keep up, even though getting really excited

BarrileteCosmico wrote:And now it starts

You talked the big talk Frenzie. Own up to your reckless words and see if your bet pays off.

my words were contingent on us having a very strong/strongest 11 available.

Herrera and Matic being out is like Suarez and Busquets being out tbh. Whole dynamic of the team changes.

I think we still get a result tonight, but it won't be pretty.

United XI: De Gea, Young, Smalling, Lindelof, Shaw, Dalot, McTominay, Fred, Pogba, Lukaku, Rashford

Subs: Romero, Jones, Rojo, Andreas, Mata, Lingard, Martial.

Martial on the bench

elite midfield of McTominay and Fred

Young (c)

we got this

Firenze wrote:Martial on the bench

elite midfield of McTominay and Fred

Young (c)

we got this

E L I T E team tbh.

De Gea
Young
Lindelof
Smalling
Shaw
Dalot
McTominay
Fred
Pogba
Rashford
Lukaku


Ter Stegen
N. Semedo
Piqué
I. Rakitic
Sergio
Coutinho
Arthur
Suárez
Messi
Lenglet
Jordi Alba

RealGunner wrote:Mostly interested in Smalling's plan vs Messi

Implies Smalling actually thinks.

3 at the back with Young as the RCB basically.
Not sure Herrera is even injured . He might have been ostracized, Ole could have gone all bad cop on him sigh.
Fred and McTominay will get roasted and Pogba is gonna do a Pogba of fluffing in a big game again.

I mean, all I want personally is some desire. Please not make any silly individual errors, don't earn a red card and make them at least work for that obvious win.

United fans still red from their team getting outplayed two finals in a row by Barcelona they still think it is that team and anywhere but despite Valverde being incredibly underrated, from a tactical point of view.

So such defeatism whilst to temper expectations or expecting a lot from Barcelona while understandable, underestimates what United is capable of even if the galvanisation of Solskjaer is gone.

Biggest disadvantage I see from of course the depleted midfield is also the second leg being in Camp Nou where even in a win Barcelona seem to turn it up to bring a comeback as seen on many occasions.

That being said, United to go through.

How the hell does this have 5 pages before the match?

Young being our captain in 2019 is actually concerning about the mentality of the team tbh

how you gonna let a numpty like that be a leader and alpha male within the team? OUT

Wish we had someone with Van Dijk's mentality at CB

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:

RealGunner wrote:Mostly interested in Smalling's plan vs Messi

Implies Smalling actually thinks.

All this doubting...

Smalling has A PLAN.

You all need some GODDAMN FAITH.