Stoke City v Manchester United - KO 19:45

Maximus Alexander

Emergency match thread since nobody did a fancy one.

Can't see United scoring with that hilarious shambles of a line up, but hopefully Welbeck's goals on the weekend weren't a freak occurance and he can rescue a victory.

#mufc team to face @StokeCity: De Gea; Rafael, Smalling, Evans, Evra; Valencia, Cleverley, Jones, Anderson, Young; Welbeck.

#mufc subs: Johnstone, Chicharito, Nani, Fletcher, Büttner, Zaha, Kagawa.



#scfc Starting XI vs Man Utd: Sorensen; Cameron, Shawcross (c), Wilson, Pieters; Walters, Palacios, Ireland, Whelan, Assaidi; Crouch

#scfc Substitutes vs Man Utd: Begovic, Muniesa, Pennant, Jones, Arnautovic, Adam, Wilkinson

Lord TSC

My face when I read the teamsheet....

Mars Bar

The wind! :eek:

Gonna be a tough one for the players tonight. Should encourage ground football though.

Maximus Alexander

Teamshadowclan wrote: »

My face when I read the teamsheet....

Kagawa on the bench with one Anderson (presumably) in the hole... what the actual ****.

Lord TSC

I kind of feel that with the league position being rather unimpressive, and with Chelsea going out yesterday, we should have been looking to play a slightly stronger team tonight. A league cup win might offset poor league performances in the eyes of some...

Rayne Wooney

You would do well to put out a worse attacking line than that.

I wonder how Cleverley will do against the world beater that is Glenn Whelan

Mr.Micro

The Stoke team does not look too hot. Man utd will win easily, i would say as a neutral.

MagicMarker

I'm happy for Anderson to play his actual position.

Maximus Alexander

On the bright side folks, we're finally going to get an answer to that age old question; "Can they do it on a wet Wednesday night in Stoke?"

Hernandez surely should be getting into the starting line up for a match like this...

supersean1999

Zaha. Nani should be playing. Is fabio alive

Mars Bar

Rooney injured. FFS. What are they doing with the players?!

yabadabado

Nani, zaha, ,kagawa should be starting. No need for those pair of flutes Valencia and Young to be starting, neither have done anything to warrant a game.

mike65

Mars Bar wrote: »

Rooney injured. FFS. What are they doing with the players?!

Keep hearing about Moyes training methods crippling strikers.

deafroadrunner

Gonna go with utd 2-1

The_Kew_Tour

Stoke to win in Extra Time

Rayne Wooney

Welbeck to score a hat trick

onemorechance

Heard on radio that United have never won a cup game at Stoke...

Oregano_State

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Stoke to win in Extra Time

Ah lads. Believe.

I've backed United -1.

I would like to have seen Zaha, Kagawa and Fabio get starts though. Still think that that United team has enough to do the business.

Skylinehead

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

On the bright side folks, we're finally going to get an answer to that age old question; "Can they do it on a wet Wednesday night in Stoke?"

Tuesday. Wednesday is entirely different :pac:

Rayne Wooney

I think Kagawa and Nani will start against West Ham, Valencia isn't going to play 3 games in 6 days surely

klose

Strange how moyes has a different sub kepper every week, one of amos/lindegaard and now this other chap tonight

The_Kew_Tour

I would have rathered if all the bench started maybe not Johnstone

Nalz

Mars Bar wrote: »

Rooney injured. FFS. What are they doing with the players?!

Maybe the same thing done to the CBs in Fergies reign when we had to play Carrick and Fletch there...

or maybe it's just coincidence?

Mars Bar

Thought that was in! Good play there

Nolars

If that went in I wuda spat my beer out

Mars Bar

Can't even play it out from the back properly

Nolars

passing bad as always.

The_Kew_Tour

"We only hate Man United" coming from Stoke End.:pac:

n32

definitely not a night to get too wound up about a players performance. Its a total lottery in these conditions. Attitude is most important thing for a player to show tonight because mistakes will happen

Will I Amnt

This is painful viewing. Please get better soon. Potential for worst match ever.

Paully D

Why and when did Stoke decide to fabricate a rivalry with Manchester United? What a strange bunch of supporters.

Julez

Utd away support class, as usual.

Rayne Wooney

This is shocking stuff so far, passing going nowhere and not causing any problems.

n32

imagine how interested berbatov would look if he was up front on his own tonight

Nolars

we give the ball away so easy its unreal.

Professey Chin

Kill me

Nailz

The weather is probably a contributing factor, but this game is just cat.

It makes me sad when I look at our forward playing 6 and see that Kagawa, Hernandez and Nani are left on the bench.

Rayne Wooney

All Valenica can do is drive the ball as hard as he can, embarrassing wing play

super_furry

Surprised to see such a strong line-up from United - only three changes from the weekend. Not sure they'd need the hassle of a two-legged semi-final either.

n32

at least we re trying to keep the ball on the ground and pass it

Mars Bar

Ref is calling in the players!

Hank Scorpio

weather getting nasty now

super_furry

Soft shiiiiites.

Nolars

get the rain vests out

Fuhrer

Looks like the weathers had enough of this ****

ctrl-alt-delete

Jesus nobody able for a cold wet Wednesday night in Stoke it seems.

castletownman

Imagine Messi trying to play in that

super_furry

Stephen Ireland trying to keep his hair dry there.

Paully D

Walters doesn't seem too happy to have been brought off.

Crimson King

Wednesday night at Stoke................