FA Cup 5th Round - Man United v Crawley Town - KO 17:15

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The FA Cup sponsored by E.ON Fifth Round
19th Feb 2011
KO 17:15
Ground: Old Trafford
Live: ITV 1 & Setanta Sports 1

Team News

Man United: Ferguson has confirmed veteran striker Michael Owen will be absent for the tie after picking up a groin injury in training this week.

Central defensive duo Rio Ferdinand and Jonny Evans are also unavailable, while winger Park Ji-sung is expected to be out of action until next month with a hamstring problem.

Despite his return to training with the reserves, Antonio Valencia is still a few weeks short of a return from a broken leg and dislocated ankle.

Second-string players Gabriel Obertan, Bebe and Darron Gibson could all be handed a run out.

Crawley Town: Crawley midfielder Scott Neilson will be absent after failing to recover from a foot injury in time for the clash.

Pablo Mills was rested for Tuesday's 0-0 draw against Wrexham but is expected to return to the starting XI at Old Trafford.

Defender John Dempster and midfielder Josh Simpson are cup-tied having played in previous rounds for Kettering and Southend respectively.

abouttobebanned

Have you any opinions on this match or do you just like starting threads?

NUTZZ

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Have you any opinions on this match or do you just like starting threads?

Eh it's a match thread? Take a look around!

abouttobebanned

Nice edit :-)

NUTZZ

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Nice edit :-)

The edit was for team news, not my personal opinion, because I didn't get a chance to finish it off here in work!:p

Kells...

4 or 5 nil to the reds for some reason I can't see Crawley pull a win out here especially at OT but if they do fair bloody play.

PHB

I think the youngsters are going to put in a display to remember.

monkey9

I think Manchester United will win.

NUTZZ

monkey9 wrote: »

I think Manchester United will win.

On paper it's no contest. But this is the FA Cup

NUTZZ

NUTZZ wrote: »

On paper it's no contest. But this is the FA Cup

Manchester United will win

NUTZZ

Deleted User wrote: »

Manchester United will win

Oh sorry I must have misread the exact same comment two posts up...

I'm a United fan and of course I think they'll win. But the FA cup throws up a lot of curve balls

HoPpiE

A win for Manchester United.

UrbanSea

I've backed Crawley to score at 100/30,think they might at least knick a goal. Can see a 4-1 United win.

Johner

UrbanSea wrote: »

I've backed Crawley to score at 100/30,think they might at least knick a goal. Can see a 4-1 United win.

Good price that! Will be shorter when the teams are announced.

dahat

Will only see the second half but looking forward to this alot.
Romance factor of it alone is great.The money Crawley will get from the gate will no doubt help the club immensley.Also being a non league club the feeling the players will have lining up at OT will be immense,once in a lifetime possibly.

Have no doubt we will win,hopefully Crawley play well and not freeze on the day,would be a pity to see this end up 6/7 nil.

UrbanSea

Johner wrote: »

Good price that! Will be shorter when the teams are announced.

Thought it was a great price seeing as many firms were 6/4 on both teams scoring,yet VC gave that price just for Crawley

RandolphEsq

Hernandez to score first, Utd to win 8-0

The_Kew_Tour

United in no win on this one.

I'll go 5-1 to Utd

flahavaj

dahat wrote: »

Will only see the second half but looking forward to this alot.
Romance factor of it alone is great.The money Crawley will get from the gate will no doubt help the club immensley.Also being a non league club the feeling the players will have lining up at OT will be immense,once in a lifetime possibly.

Have no doubt we will win,hopefully Crawley play well and not freeze on the day,would be a pity to see this end up 6/7 nil.

Crawley have tonnes of money though, they're basically buying their way up the ranks, so there's little or no romance in this for me. Their manager is a dodgy character to say the least as well.

I want to see Boom Boom Bebe play through the middle today.

J. Marston

Prediction: 13-1.

LukeS_

Some pretty high scorelines in here lol, I'll go with a 4-0 to Utd. Rooney to score two, Nani and Berba.

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PHB wrote: »

I think the youngsters are going to put in a display to remember.

the way we all remember Exeter?

flahavaj

Des wrote: »

the way we all remember Exeter?

And Burton.

1-0 will do.

Vic Vinegar

LukeS_ wrote: »

Rooney to score two, Nani and Berba.

None of those 3 will be playing...

dobsdave

Didn't realise ITV had chosen this, was looking forward to watching a good game later

Headshot

If its going to be a similar lineup to the west ham in the cc, I would be woried, i look forward to another Gibson debate thou

1-0 utd

partyndbs

might put on a bet for them 2 score more than 7

NeVeR

By any chance is this on the Irish Radio ?.. in work and cant stream.

Sgt Pepper 64

19 Robbie Brady, ex st kevins will be either on the bench or start today for man u

partyndbs

played against him lol

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NeVeR wrote: »

By any chance is this on the Irish Radio ?.. in work and cant stream.

doubtful, TodayFM and NewsTalk only have EPL games contracted afaik.

If you have a radio capable of Medium Wave you can pick up 5Live on that band.

Mars Bar

Dunno if it's confirmed.

Starting XI: Lindegaard, Rafael, O'Shea, Brown, Fabio, Carrick, Gibson, Anderson, Bebe, Hernandez, Obertan

That looks like 4 3 3 to me.

Vic Vinegar

mars bar wrote: »

Dunno if it's confirmed.

Starting XI: Lindegaard, Rafael, O'Shea, Brown, Fabio, Carrick, Gibson, Anderson, Bebe, Hernandez, Obertan

That looks like 4 3 3 to me.

Quite a strong team too if that's definite....



Apart from Gibson

Headshot

God I hate that 4-3-3

amacachi

United better win by more than 3.

Mars Bar

Headshot wrote: »

God I hate that 4-3-3

Can I ask why?

ShooterSF

Headshot wrote: »

God I hate that 4-3-3

Once Gibbo and Obertan are playing I'm happy

Raskolnikov

That team should have enough, however Crawley are going to be up for this.

NeVeR

Crawley have nothing to loss.. they will be right in our faces...

Headshot

mars bar wrote: »

Can I ask why?

because we cant play that formation

look back at the recent EPL

Mars Bar

Headshot wrote: »

because we cant play that formation

look back at the recent EPL

I'm not a fan of it in the EPL either but we should be able to take on Crawley Town with any formation to be honest.

flahavaj

Headshot wrote: »

because we cant play that formation

look back at the recent EPL

It really depends on the players on the pitch. It has served us very well in Europe.

What team would you play HS?

reverenddave

mars bar wrote: »

Dunno if it's confirmed.

Starting XI: Lindegaard, Rafael, O'Shea, Brown, Fabio, Carrick, Gibson, Anderson, Bebe, Hernandez, Obertan

That looks like 4 3 3 to me.

FFS Gibson starting

CantGetNoSleep

Going to throw €5 on the 0-1 after seeing the team

kmart6

Subs: Rooney, Kuzsczak, Fletcher, Smalling, Pogba, Tunnicliffe, King

Jax Teller

reverenddave wrote: »

FFS Gibson starting

If he doesn't run the Show with carrick today he can fûck off

Mars Bar

I'm kinda glad Gibson is starting so that if he doesn't put in a shift, we can justifiably rip the **** out of him. He has no excuse what so ever today.
Also if he is crap, surely Fergie will see him for what he is.

flahavaj

I have no problem with Gibson starting today, he could very well be needed later in season if there's injuries. I do think he'll be gone in the Summer, but you still need to keep guys like this sharp.

MagicMarker

lol at some people's predictions, this will be a tough game and I reckon UTD will come from behind to win.

Sgt Pepper 64

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

19 Robbie Brady, ex st kevins will be either on the bench or start today for man u

Brady got a knock in training, so not playing, gutted for him

adox

Would love to see the likes of Pogba get some game time today.