Everton v Manchester United Aug 20th Goodison Park

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So what's the actual team?!

Vertigo100

Pissed raf isn't starting

iMuse

MUFC; De Gea, Valencia, Vidic, Carrick, Evra, Scholes, Cleverley, Nani, Kagawa, Welbeck, Rooney.

#EFC; Howard, Hibbert, Baines, Distin, Jagielka, Neville, Osman, Fellaini, Pienaar, Gibson, Jelavic.

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De Gea Val Vidic Carrick Evra Nani Clev Kag Scholes Rooney Welbeck

Jimmy Iovine

Would have been very surprised to see RVP start this. Likewise I'd be very surprised to see him remain on the bench.

Paul Tergat

Vertigo100 wrote: »

Pissed raf isn't starting

Its mental he cant start ahead of a winger in a tough game. Makes no sense

G.K.

This latest team is the one.

Everton:

Howard, Hibbert, Jagielka, Distin, Baines, Pienaar, Osman, Neville, Gibson, Fellaini, Jelavic

Chancer3001

rooney better not be out left. If he is through the middle, then Young would have been better out wide than Welbeck...


Wonder is Valencia happy playing right back? He's a beast of a winger

Red Crow

I'll go for a score draw. Everton away is always tough.

MagicMarker

De Gea
Valencia Vidic Carrick Evra
Cleverley Scholes
Nani Rooney Kagawa
Welbeck

Can't believe Rafael isn't starting.

Liam O

Chancer3001 wrote: »

rooney better not be out left. If he is through the middle, then Young would have been better out wide than Welbeck...


Wonder is Valencia happy playing right back? He's a beast of a winger

I reckon it'll be Kags on the left, hopefully it's Welbeck but I've a feeling Kags will be the one to take the bullet.

Mocha Joe

It must be this.

Scholes Clev

Kagawa

Nani Welbeck

Rooney

MagicMarker

Subs: Lindegaard, Rafael, Anderson, Berbatov, Young, Van Persie, Wootton

Good to see Berbatov on the bench, Wootton also.

No Hernandez........ injury?

The_Kew_Tour

Subs, Lindegaard, Rafael, Anderson, Berbatov, Young, Van Persie, Wootton

No Chico and Berba on bench.

Chancer3001

neville and gibson in centre mid. haha. Pantaloons.

Liam O

Paul Tergat wrote: »

Its mental he cant start ahead of a winger in a tough game. Makes no sense

The fact he had a horror show in his last game might have something to do with it.

Chancer3001

interesting, could indeed be a 4-4-2, hadnt even thought of that :pac:

Liam O

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Subs, Lindegaard, Rafael, Anderson, Berbatov, Young, Van Persie, Wootton

No Chico and Berba on bench.

Different people? :P

edit: I feel I may have read this wrong...

double GG

I'm soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo excited!

Vertigo100

What's going on with Chico?

The_Kew_Tour

Liam O wrote: »

Different people? :P

edit: I feel I may have read this wrong...

Copper_pipe

Kagawaaaaaa

TheDoc

Going for a United win.

3-1

RVP to make appearance for last 20 mins

J. Marston

Valencia and Carrick at the back, ignore all our attacking power, we're not winning or even getting a point with that ramshackle backline.

Fúcking injuries.

markc1184

I'll take a scrappy 1-0 United win now. Anything just to get off to a good start.

Nailz

I'm actually quite happy to see Dimitar get a look in on the bench, he must be saving Hernandez for one reason or another, no news with regards an injury or something like that anyway.

TheDoc

Those are some very interesting stuff there on #MNF

The change in crosses to goals ratio and passes from the last 5 years.

Vertigo100

A scrappy win tonight is the best we can hope for with that back 4 I think!

Copper_pipe

Id take a 1-0

double GG

Have a feeling Shinji will be key tonight. We have 3 very good passers in midfield tonight in Cleverley, Scholes and Kagawa so we should be able to keep the ball well. Doubt there'll be many chances but I'm pretty confident we can go there and win tonight. Won't be an easy win but I think 2-1.

Kagawa and Rooney to score after Jelavic opens the scoring.

Vertigo100

double GG wrote: »

Have a feeling Shinji will be key tonight. We have 3 very good passers in midfield tonight in Cleverley, Scholes and Kagawa so we should be able to keep the ball well. Doubt there'll be many chances but I'm pretty confident we can go there and win tonight. Won't be an easy win but I think 2-1.

Kagawa and Rooney to score after Jelavic opens the scoring.

I hope they don't score first. We didn't come back from a losing position once last year.

Nailz

TheDoc wrote: »

Those are some very interesting stuff there on #MNF

The change in crosses to goals ratio and passes from the last 5 years.

What's up with the hash tag? I'm not being smart, but what's its use outside of Twitter?

Nani, Welbeck, Kagawa and Rooney, they will be so hard to track because they can all swap around with each other, this is the game plan I hoped Ferguson was developing.

Valencia is the only one that can't swap positions like the other 4 and he's playing RB. This is such an aggressive line up, especially for an away game.

cloptrop

I reckon itll be 0-0 up until the 70 minute, rvp will come on and united will win 60 billion - 0 .
I wonder what odds Ill get on that.

Jelavic to score anytime is 9/4. Good value.

Everton generally give utd a decent game. Hard to predict this one as it's first game of the season.

I'll say 1-1.

The_Kew_Tour

cloptrop wrote: »

I reckon itll be 0-0 up until the 70 minute, rvp will come on and united will win 60 billion - 0 .
I wonder what odds Ill get on that.

show me the money and i will give you whatever odds you want;)

Jimmy Iovine

Gibson is playing for Everton so I fear that this will end in a draw or a win for Everton. Hopefully his pretty incredible record comes to an end tonight.

DanTheMan91

This is going to be a tough game I hope United can come away with 3 points, also looking forward to seeing how Kagawa plays.

Kylo Ren

Can't believe he's playing Valencia at RB...

Blatter

Keno 92 wrote: »

Can't believe he's playing Valencia at RB...

Can't say I'm shocked, he's been playing there a lot pre season and has been solid enough.

Mont

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Cleverley is gonna show himself to be a quality player this season. Not as good on the ball as the very best, clearly, but his use of the ball and movement are superb.

As for creativity - I do think Cleverley will help here but Kagawa is going to be a freaking star for United in this regard, quality player.

Cleverly will prove himself to be an average player this season as he has shown thus far in his career. A definite weak link.

cloptrop

Vidic will be key stopping Fellaini bullying about the edge of the box.

double GG

Rafael played 6 full games in the olympics in the space of what 18 days? An extra week break will do him the world of good.

Chagan

Ruud. Ah the memories

Mont

Mont wrote: »

Cleverly will prove himself to be an average player this season as he has shown thus far in his career. A definite weak link.

Hard to say he's a weak link when he has played so little.

He has been over-rated by some though.

Jame Gumb

Difference between Giles and Neville...

Giles: "X is a disgrace - He never tracks back or chases opponents"

Neville: "World class forwards like X shouldnt track back or chase opponents - They should conserve their energy for doing damage in the final third of the field"

Neville is incredibly good as a pundit

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Good Jaysus, it's Kaga-wah, not Ka-gaw-wah

Kylo Ren

Blatter wrote: »

Can't say I'm shocked, he's been playing there a lot pre season and has been solid enough.

I know but when you have Rafael it makes no sense.

He played bad in the Olympics final but he's vastly better than Val at RB.

double GG

baz2009 wrote: »

Good Jaysus, it's Kaga-wah, not Ka-gaw-wah

Still better than Kawaga.

Jax Teller

We should see plenty of the ball tonight with Scholes Cleverley & Kagawa in midfield .