Manchester United v Leeds United - Sunday 1pm

Bobalicious93

VS.

Live on ITV1 and Setanta Ireland

Heading over for this, cant wait.

First time we've played Leeds since a 1-1 draw at OT in February 2004. As much as I don't want it, it's going to be an opportunity for SAF to use some of the young lads.

I can see a line-up like this:

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Kuszczak

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---Rafael

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Brown

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Vidic(fit?)

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Fabio---
---Obertan

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Scholes

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Anderson

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Welbeck--

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Owen

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Macheda

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Any Leeds fans want to give us an idea how they might line up?

RasTa

I'm also heading over, hope the airport is alright tomorrow morning.

I also like that team, can see Gibson starting.

Paul Tergat

I cannot ****ing wait for this.


Going to the pub now which will be full of my Leeds supporting mates. Let the banter commence

event

i would expect we'll go full strength. that would be:

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Ankergren

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crowe--Naylor--Kisnorbo--Hughes

Snodgrass--Doyle--Kilkenny--Johnson/Howson

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Beckford--Becchio

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United wont play a weakened team IMO, united have a CC game midweek so the kids will be kept for that.

one of the da silvas will play and i dont think wellbeck and macheda will both play. I wouldne be suprised to see rooney, nani and neville start

if thats the team, i could see us playing well, but ultimately getting beat 3-0 or so

here's hoping we do well, but ill echo all leeds fans and say that promotion is the key. obviously a win would be amazing, but id trade it for a win next saturday tbh

Bobalicious93

event wrote: »

United wont play a weakened team IMO, united have a CC game midweek so the kids will be kept for that.

I think he'll use the kids now and play a full-strength(ish) team against City. City will be playing a full-strength team, we'll need our best team more in mid-week.

How big of an allocation have Leeds got for tomorrow? I read somewhere they got anything up to 11,000 tickets :eek:

Headshot

saf said he'll be playing a strong team against leeds

so i expect the likes of welbeck will not feature

btw op

kiko is out injured atm

Jimmyboss

9000 tickets allocated to leeds fans, I think Macheda and Nani are both injured, SAF will prob play Owen up on his own, pack midfield and hope for a draw!!!!!!

redout

I have always had a place in my heart for Leeds United Football club ever since they were so kind as to give us the King and the rest they say is history.

event

Bobalicious93 wrote: »

I think he'll use the kids now and play a full-strength(ish) team against City. City will be playing a full-strength team, we'll need our best team more in mid-week.

How big of an allocation have Leeds got for tomorrow? I read somewhere they got anything up to 11,000 tickets :eek:

i think officially we got 8000, but i have heard 9000 or so

The Muppet

Strong team for Leeds Fergie won't take chances theres too much rivalry, the kids to continue in the Carling cup.

Bobalicious93

Headshot wrote: »

btw op

kiko is out injured atm

Ah so he is. There've been so many injuries to keep up with some are slipping my mind at this stage.

Mikeyt086

Will be a mix and match strong/weak team i think.

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Kuszczak
--Neville-Brown-Vidic-Fabio
Obertan-Anderson-Scholes-Park

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Owen-Rooney

We all ______ Leeds ______!
We all ______ Leeds ______! (at the risk of breaching the charter)

killwill

Brown and Vidic need to start to be prepared for midweek. Hope it is Berba/Owen up front and Obertan and Park in the wings. Really excited about one.

Zaph

It's great to revive the old rivalry, it's been far too long. However, as event said, I think just about every Leeds fan would trade a win tomorrow for promotion this season. That's our only target, and while I expect the lads to give a decent account of themselves and maybe even snatch a goal, in all honesty I can't see us winning, even if United field a weakened team. No matter how you look at it, it's still first division against third, so I just hope we don't take a hammering. There are far too many United fans to face in work on Monday morning.

anonymous_joe

I'm trying to work out which'd be more satisfying, making a big deal out of this tomorrow to píss off my Leeds supporting friend, or acting as if Leeds were a nothing little team of no real note.

starbelgrade

Is it really on at 1pm? FFS - Sundays are made for lie-ins, not getting up early.

Liam O

starbelgrade wrote: »

Is it really on at 1pm? FFS - Sundays are made for lie-ins, not getting up early.

that's fúckin ITV for ya :rolleyes:

starbelgrade

Liam O wrote: »

that's fúckin ITV for ya :rolleyes:

I didn't realise it was on ITV - that's sound.. I can record it & watch it over breakfast when it's finished!

therokerroar

3-1 to Manchester United

starbelgrade

therokerroar wrote: »

3-1 Manchester United

United to beat themselves by two goals? I bet you'd get great odds on that!

The_Kew_Tour

man united to win this well. 4-0

IvySlayer

starbelgrade wrote: »

Is it really on at 1pm? FFS - Sundays are made for lie-ins, not getting up early.

1 pm is early?

Watch in bed?

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Can't wait for this one.:D
I've missed Leeds.:o

chughes

Mikeyt086 wrote: »

Will be a mix and match strong/weak team i think.

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Kuszczak
--Neville-Brown-Vidic-Fabio
Obertan-Anderson-Scholes-Park

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Owen-Rooney

We all ______ Leeds ______!
We all ______ Leeds ______! (at the risk of breaching the charter)

Looks suspiciously like opposition fan baiting to me.

d22ontour

anonymous_joe wrote: »

I'm trying to work out which'd be more satisfying, making a big deal out of this tomorrow to píss off my Leeds supporting friend,

Nothing wrong with a bit of stick.

anonymous_joe wrote: »

or acting as if Leeds were a nothing little team of no real note.

Don't know how you would pull that off in fairness.

SarahBM

I saw the Man U Hull match and I have to say I wasnt that impressed. Complacency could be yer downfall!!!!

Marching to Together!
Come on Leeds!!!

event

chughes wrote: »

Looks suspiciously like opposition fan baiting to me.

sure tis only baiting if we rise to it

hardly give a shíte what some man u fan says about us on a message board, we know what they're all like

quarryman

CMON LEEDS! MOT!!!

chughes

event wrote: »

sure tis only baiting if we rise to it

hardly give a shíte what some man u fan says about us on a message board, we know what they're all like

Some of us got our wrists slapped when the slagging went the other way.

Rekop dog

Why have united Leeds games always been so early in the day? I know they're close in location but even Manchester darbys don't always start at 12 or 1 but this tie always seems to.

anonymous_joe

d22ontour wrote: »

Nothing wrong with a bit of stick.

True this.

Don't know how you would pull that off in fairness.

It won't be easy, that's true.

Rekop dog wrote: »

Why have united Leeds games always been so early in the day? I know they're close in location but even Manchester darbys don't always start at 12 or 1 but this tie always seems to.

So there are no riots...

PHB

Rekop dog wrote: »

Why have united Leeds games always been so early in the day? I know they're close in location but even Manchester darbys don't always start at 12 or 1 but this tie always seems to.

Because the likelihood of mass-scale violence between the clubs.

I hope we destroy them today, but there's a part of me that would love to go to Elland Road and beat them there, but I don't want them to get the money from the replay.

Eire-Dearg

I hear the midfield is Obertan-Anderson-Welbeck-Gibson in whatever order.

Roo and Berba start.

Headshot

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pig

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nev

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vidic

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evans----fabio
welbeck---ando

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gibson----obertan

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Rooney

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berba

Headshot

****ing brilliant to see Evans back

mike65

Are Leeds taking this seriously?

event

mike65 wrote: »

Are Leeds taking this seriously?

he'll have the full team out i imagine, everyone wants to play, but not really bothered if we go out of the cup, promotion is the goal and its not like we were going to win this

im expecting a hammering but hoping for a draw.

united fans will tell you they would love to murder us "to put us in our place", but sure we are in our place, we are a 3rd division team at the moment.

really looking forward to the game, but not expecting much

if the team posted above is the one starting, with 6 or 7 internationals, they shoild beat us well

MagicMarker

I woke up thinking this was a late kick off, now I'm all happy!

syncosised

Really looking forward to this match, it's really steeped in history. My dad's a raving Leeds fan, so it should be interesting!

PHB

I love it Fergie, love that team.

quarryman

PHB wrote: »

Because the likelihood of mass-scale violence between the clubs.

I hope we destroy them today, but there's a part of me that would love to go to Elland Road and beat them there, but I don't want them to get the money from the replay.

ha ha. Good luck with that.

Also, we don't need your moeny but thanks anyway.

Leeds will get a footballing lesson today.

5-1 united.

Dave!

MagicMarker wrote: »

I woke up thinking this was a late kick off, now I'm all happy!

I woke up thinking it was a 12 o clock kickoff for some reason :eek: Thought I'd missed the start

lordgoat

unusual team but good to see some faces back from injury!

Thomas Kuszczak is still in goal and Dimitar Berbatov and Wayne Rooney are joined up front by Danny Welbeck. Nemanja Vidic keeps his place in defence, with Jonny Evans, Gary Neville and Fabio Da Silva coming in. Gabriel Obertan, Darron Gibson and Anderson form a new-look midfield


from thw beeb

Headshot

Headshot wrote: »

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pig

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nev

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vidic

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evans----fabio
welbeck---ando

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gibson----obertan

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Rooney

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berba

sub bench is

40 Ben Amos
6 Wes Brown
21 Rafael
16 Michael Carrick
11 Ryan Giggs
14 Zoran Tosic
7 Michael Owen

Im shocked owen is starting today

Feeky Magee

Great ____ ^! Come on United, let's smash 'em.

"WE ALL KATE LEEDS THUMB, WE ALL KATE LEEDS THUMB, WE ALL KATE LEEDS THUMB, WE ALL KATE LEEDS THUMB"

3-0, Rooney, Berba, Obertan.

Peyton Manning

I really like that midfield line-up. Looking forward to this.

Rekop dog

I think fergie is showing Leeds a lot of respect with the strength of the team he's putting out! I say there's even a lot of championship teams he wouldn't have respected as much.

MagicMarker

Brown is playing instead of Vidic.

James Forde

Vidic out Brown in

edit hope to god it's only a strain or something

Eire-Dearg

9k Leeds fans