Porto -v- Man Utd.

eirebhoy

What do you think of this one? TBH I would have put a bet on Porto to win if United had their full team and now United's two number 1 centre halfs are out and Porto are at 2/1 I'm definitely sticking a few quid on them. If Keane plays at centre half, the midfield will be too weak and if he plays in midfield the back four will be two weak. I can't see United getting a thing from this game.

Pepe LeFrits

I dunno... United traditionally play well when they are up against it, they haven't always done that this season though. I'm not going to make a prediction, i really have no idea where this one is gonna go.

Aliminator

iffy. i think Porto should get 3. but they are without Constinha, and Derlei. their two majors...
i still think Wes Brown will be embarrassed badly and goals will flow in from porto.

Pacifico

John O Shea is dropped acording to the sun............

shepthedog

He couldnt be, that doesnt make sense, your two top central defenders are out so then you counter that by dropping another first teamer???? No way

Pacifico

Its the Neville sisters;) ,Brown and fortune in defence.

Again acording to the sun

TwoShedsJackson

Porto to win by the odd goal.

cournioni

Score draw... Hopefully...

kida

United are at their best with their backs to the wall

I think you will see a very determined United tonight- a lot of the problems lately have been caused by a weakened midfield.

I expect to see a team of.

Howard
Brown G Neville O Shea Fortune
Ronaldo Keane P Neville Giggs
Scholes Van Nistelrooy

Keane & Neville will play deep as a buffer in front of the back 4 and leave the other 4 & 2 full back attack. Fergie to the best of my knowledge has not mentioned Keane in defence.

A comfortable 2-0 win tonight. Scholes and Van Nistelrooy.

jank

you cant underestimate porto at all, they are a strong outfit and will cause united problems

they will score that im almost certain off, the big question is can utd score an important away goal

ill go for a close one here but porto to come out with the win

James R

Henry you put too much trust in the Sun

Theres a totally different team in the Star for example. Its just pure speculation

Thanx 4 The Fish

Have put a few quid on porto.

Is ferguson resting Saha at the moment ?

cournioni

Doubtful... I'd say Scholes will be in midfield if Keane is playing CB and Saha will be playing up front.

BKtje

i think it will be 2-1 to porto.

Ill take a stab at the team as the following:

Howard
O'Shea G. Neville Brown Fortune(would prefer p neville tho)
Ronaldo Keane Scholes Giggs
Saha RvN

Tho AF may go 5 accross the mid in which case drop Saha and plop in P Neville or Kleberson.

sleepwalker

porto to win first leg

mr_angry

3-1 to United. I think people will be surprised.

bdiddy

i agree surprise on the cards, united to win comfortably.

tomED

I have been looking forward to this match since last night.... which isn't a good thing... whenever I look forward to a match we always lose... So i thought i'd say it to everyone so that that theory is jinxed and it won't happen! lol

It will be tough to get a decent result with our terrible form of late, but I think we can do it....

LoneGunM@n

I wouldn't be surprised if United put in a great performance, with Wes Brown scoring 40 goals, Saving a penalty & getting Man of the Match tonight :rolleyes:

I also wouldn't rule out a 2-0 win to United either!!

Hopefully Ronnie does the business against his old team :ninja:

bdiddy

Originally posted by LoneGunM@n
I wouldn't be surprised if United put in a great performance, with Wes Brown scoring 40 goals, Saving a penalty & getting Man of the Match tonight :rolleyes:

i'd be surprised if he did the rest and didnt get the man of the match award.:eek: :eek:

AthAnRi

Hopefully Ronnie does the business against his old team

I think your getting mixed up with Sporting. 2-1 to Man U. Hopefully.

ZENER

2-2 draw I reckon.

Tinky

Pepe LeFrits

Originally posted by LoneGunM@n
Hopefully Ronnie does the business against his old team :ninja:

I didn't realise Sporting Lisbon are in the CL!

The Muppet

United to win by the odd goal in 3 .

Johnny_the_fox

G'wan Porto

phenom

2-1 to united.

BaZmO*

Can the match be seen live on the net??


B.

eirebhoy

I wonder how the Sun found out the team news.

FC Porto: Vitor Baia, Paulo Ferreira, Jorge Costa, Ricardo Carvalho, Nuno Valente, Pedro Mendes, Maniche, Deco, Alenitchev, Carlos Alberto, McCarthy.
Subs: Nuno, Pedro Emanuel, Ricardo Costa, Jankauskas, Bosingwa, Ricardo Fernandes, Bruno Moraes.

Man Utd: Howard, Phil Neville, Gary Neville, Brown, Fortune, Keane, Butt, Scholes, Saha, Giggs, van Nistelrooy.
Subs: Carroll, Ronaldo, Bellion, Kleberson, Djemba-Djemba, Forlan, O'Shea.

1-1 at half time. Fotune and McCarthy with the goals.

qwertyup

2-1 now to Porto. Benni McCarthy scores again.

sikes

was it a sendin off?

jank

keane off for stamping!

utd are utter ****E!
should be way more to porto

zAbbo

Keane deserved to go

L5

That should never have been a red card, he couldnt really get out of the way, its not as if he stamped on him or anything

elbow316

rofl

Creamy Goodness

utd's worst performance.

judging by tonight's version they don't deserve to go into next round and looking at the premiership they don't deserve to win that either.

The Muppet

Can't complain with that result. Too many united players didn't perform at all.
portos goals were class , the second one in particular was unstoppable.
Keano deserved to go IMO he could have avoided making contact with the keeper.

On the optimistic side a win at home will see us through.

jank

he ran over him like
he should have jumped over victor bia to avoid stamping him and the ref had no choice what so ever

he will be out for the next leg too which is bad bad news for utd

should have been 3 or 4 to porto and utd are in with small chance with the away goal

ill say it again and ill say it now too many average players at utd
the new players fergie brought in are not up to imo

european cup!? ha ha the fa cup is the only option united have this season


rofl

NeVeR

as a utd fan i have to say they played crap...

Didnt proform at all.

As for Keane he should know better... look at the reply he pushed down on the keeper..

TwoShedsJackson

United were absolutely abysmal. Scholes needn't have shown up, which is extremely rare for him, Van Nistelrooy seemed to be out doing Giggs' job on the left, and Giggs himself was nowhere.

They should play a lot better at Old Trafford and will probably still go through over the two legs, but that performance tonight was shocking. Long time since I saw Keane being sent off too. Very foolish.

mike65

Excuse me while I intrude...I saw the second half and I dont think I've ever seen such a lethargic disinterested Man Utd performance. Scholes was notably poor. Looking at the team and the bench, I'd be a bit worried if I were a fan.

Mike.

PHB

I thought they were bad but I was actually not as worried defensivly as I normally would be.
The two goals scored were absolute class, amazing header espically.

Otherwise that was terrible.

Van N got no service, thats why he went out on the wing which he nearly never does.
Butt and Keane might aswell have not been in midfield.
Fortune is a winger, not a defender.


Tonight Fergie was obviously scared about his defense, and the way his team played showed that.
They sat back, and didn't look for anything.

I still think they'll win 3-1 or so at home

talla

one word sums up that performance by united - spineless!! :mad:

mike65

Originally posted by PHB


Van N got no service, thats why he went out on the wing which he nearly never does.
Butt and Keane might aswell have not been in midfield.
Fortune is a winger, not a defender.

I'll whisper this...does anyone here think they're really missing one D Beckham? :ninja:

Did Fergie have a go at the Porto manager as they
"shook" hands....?

Mike.

talla

yep he had a go at him. Im guessing it was over the keane incident, i'd say fergie though that keane did nothing wrong, i'd say it was practically impossible to see what happened from the bench, i was convinced keane had jumped over the keeper until i saw the replay.

jank

Did Fergie have a go at the Porto manager as they
"shook" hands....?

yea i saw that too, was giving out ****e to him,
typical fergie

anybody remember the stopwatches back in 1998

talla

Give it a rest jank

smemon

didnt see the match cuz of work but im pretty happy with that result.
i was dreading a 1-0 porto win, 2-1 makes our job easier.

at old trafford we should win, however i wouldnt bet on a 1-0. could go to extra time or peno's.

anyway, it'll be an interesting match in manchester, utd dont usually lose big games at old trafford, it's usually to the minnows like m'boro etc...

i think utd are in a much better position than porto. its always nice to get that away goal.

talla

Originally posted by smemon
didnt see the match cuz of work but im pretty happy with that result.
i was dreading a 1-0 porto win, 2-1 makes our job easier.

at old trafford we should win, however i wouldnt bet on a 1-0. could go to extra time or peno's.

anyway, it'll be an interesting match in manchester, utd dont usually lose big games at old trafford, it's usually to the minnows like m'boro etc...

i think utd are in a much better position than porto. its always nice to get that away goal.

you wouldnt be saying that if you saw tonights performance. No heart, passion or commitment from most of the team. every cross that comes into united box at the moment looks like a goal.

smemon

yeah, i can tell it was a poor performance but you can get away with that away from home. at home, the crowd demand wins and let you know that if your poor.

result in any 1st leg is really crucial, performance doesnt matter so long as you make up for it in the 2nd leg, which utd have to do to win. with the pressure on and needing to get a result, thats when utd are at their best, especially at home. like madrid last year.

3-1 and i think utd would have struggled however even that would be achievable for utd. they only way i can see utd losing is on penalties.

talla

Just a reminder, if the result was the same as Madrid last year, united are out.

PHB

I think Fergie should just forget about defense

He's got a **** defense atm and he knows it, he should put everything he has into scoring goals.

Nobody will argue that Man Utd. have a world class attack, and they are really gona have to take a Real Madrid approach, and just attack attack attack