Manchester United vs Reading Match thread. 16/3/2013 K.O 17.30 ESPN.

Cantona's Collars

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Lineups subject to change but with morale at an all time low at Reading after McDermot's shock sacking,I can only see a United win & possibly a hiding for the away side.

sReq | uTeK

I wouldn't say a hiding is in the making, 2-0 to us

jaykay74

I would have thought when Reading sacked their manager that they had some kind of replacement in mind to take over immediately for one last push to try and stay up. Doesn't seem to be the case. Hard to see them getting anything here.

shrewdness

RVP to end his barren spell and score 2+ here, usually I'm cautious but this should be relatively straightforward (hopefully).

Cantona's Collars

I don't like us kicking off late,for some reason we seem to be lacklustre in these games.
Don't want any drama and cliches of "we always seem to do it the hard way".
Reading are there for the taking so I want a ruthless performance.

Paul Tergat

De Gea, Smalling, Ferdinand, Vidic, Buttner, Welbeck, Giggs, Anderson, Young, Rooney, van Persie

Unearthly

That team should be enough to win.

Paul Tergat

Subs; Lindegaard, Evans, Valencia, Hernandez, Carrick, Powell, Kagawa

Cantona's Collars

Giggs & Anderson in midfield makes me nervous.

adox

Lets hope Ando turns up this match. Totally anonymous in his last match.

DwightSchrute1

Should be a good game for RVP to get his goal scoring form back

Rayne Wooney

That midfield 4 is pretty poor, I'm slightly nervous about this game now.

Will I Amnt

Interesting team selection. Should be good enough, hope Ando can turn it around and put in a decent shift.
These are the sort of games Ashley Young should thrive on, expecting a good game from him.

The_Kew_Tour

We should be beating Reading at home.

Good chance for fringe players to shine.

Professional Griefer

What a day its been. Decent side, hopefully few goals to nil.

Mars Bar

Readings caretaker manager is a Galway man? News to me.

Liam O

Mars Bar wrote: »

Readings caretaker manager is a Galway man? News to me.

Explains why he thought Noel Hunt up front on his own was a good choice :P

Reading to win and yer man to get the job full time and be sacked when they're relegated.

Paully D

Mars Bar wrote: »

Readings caretaker manager is a Galway man? News to me.

Pat Dolan's twin brother, believe it or not.

dfx-

Paully D wrote: »

Pat Dolan's twin brother, believe it or not.

You could see the similarities between them in the pre-match interview..

Paul Tergat

No Carrick, no rhythm

Mars Bar

Paully D wrote: »

Pat Dolan's twin brother, believe it or not.

:eek:

*goes to google images*

Ah they do look alike alright.

Boring 10 minutes so far...

Your Airbag

No urgency at all from UTD here. I hate it when we play like this. The crowd is quite enough at OT at the best of times without giving them nothing to cheer about.

IvySlayer

Well this is enthralling.

Mars Bar

Finally, quick tempo passing

Jax Teller

Smalling just doesn't offer the same attacking threat as Rafael . Couple of times he should have been pushed on further than he has .

Professional Griefer

Super Rio!!

IvySlayer

Rooney

Professey Chin

Boom! Some run by Rio :pac:

Paul Tergat

Awesome Rio

lucky deflection though. lovely

Mars Bar

Rio!

Your Airbag

I dont think it was a great shot from Rooney without the deflection but who cares. On the way to being 15 points clear and the title. There I said it.

Mars Bar

Imagine if young put his shot in the corner, Rio would have two assists today.

mrkiscool2

Your Airbag wrote: »

I dont think it was a great shot from Rooney without the deflection but who cares. On the way to being 15 points clear and the title. There I said it.

To be fair, we only need 4 wins and a draw for the title, or 2 wins and 7 draws. Not the hardest thing to achieve to be honest. Rio is having a great game so far though.

Your Airbag

It looks like UTD are happy to do this in second gear. I've seen this too many times this season. Its only an equaliser or going behind that seems to wake us up.

Mars Bar

RVp is in a bit of a funk lately. Even his all round play has been poor by his standards.

Liam O

The defensive line need to push up. Far too much space between defence-midfield-attack, leads to too many risky balls that get given away.

Jax Teller

Buttner just goes where he likes .

Will I Amnt

Good Jaysus, this is boring as f**k.

Your Airbag

cambo2008 wrote: »

Good Jaysus, this is boring as f**k.

Muck from UTD tbh. The players look like playing reading is beneath them. We are lucky to be ahead.

Hopefully Fergie will get them motivated for the second half. You know its a poor game when your looking forward to half time, I just feel sorry for those who paid into OT to watch that.

rebeve

Welbeck is not a Utd player ,just not good enough .

Professional Griefer

rebeve wrote: »

Welbeck is not a Utd player ,just not good enough .

Has it come back to this already? What about RVP so? Hes been ****ing muck today, and recently as well.

Hank Scorpio

RVPs loss of form is worrying, hopefully he`ll nick a goal in the second half

Rubber_Soul

Mars Bar wrote: »

RVp is in a bit of a funk lately. Even his all round play has been poor by his standards.

Pretty sure his form dropped around the same time last season, although he was still putting a few away.

mrkiscool2

Can we all just calm the fcuk down?? United are the better team, and are taking it easy. They don't have to do anything special, they are winning and thats the point. They don't have to sprint to the finish, just remain calm and get the 3 points.

Hank Scorpio

mrkiscool2 wrote: »

Can we all just calm the fcuk down?? United are the better team, and are taking it easy. They don't have to do anything special, they are winning and thats the point. They don't have to sprint to the finish, just remain calm and get the 3 points.

You're the only one who needs to calm down, people agreed it was a boring match nothing more...

Mars Bar

Bloody hell Vidic. That's a dangerous game to go playing in the box.

Mars Bar

Ando likes to put a lot of pace in his passes doesn't he? It must be a nightmare trying to control one of his passes.

Professional Griefer

Hes not right in the head. :pac:

padd b1975

This needs to be put to bed.

Professional Griefer

They're seeing way too much of the ball. Changes needed.

Mars Bar

Dolan loves his "claw" hand gesture.