Manchester United v Swansea - BT Sport 12:45pm- Mod post in OP

ScummyMan

No Welbeck?

Blatter

Man.UnitedLad wrote: »

No Welbeck?

He's injured.

shrewdness

Surprised with Lingard at RWB, thought Young would be there with James at LWB.

redbaron_99

VG obviously felt we needed as much pace at wing back as possible.

Alfred Borden

Weakest United team in the league I have seen in a while.

Professional Griefer

Yaaaaay, football.

djPSB

Copper_pipe wrote: »

XI titular del #mufc contra el Swansea: De Gea; Jones, Smalling, Blackett; Lingard, Fletcher, Herrera, Young; Mata; Rooney (c), Hernandez.

A nice bit to be done in the transfer window yet.

PhlegmyMoses

Raf32 wrote: »

Weakest United team in the league I have seen in a while.

I've heard this comment every season for the last 20 years.

Cypher_sounds

#mufc subs: Amos, James, M Keane, Fellaini, Kagawa, Nani, Januzaj

Kiwi_knock

Is Blackett only in the team because of injuries, or has he shown any kind of form over pre-season. He was atrocious any time I saw him last season for Birmingham.

kevohmsford

Swansea XI: Fabianski, Rangel, Amat, Williams (C), Taylor, Ki, Shelvey, Dyer, Sigurdsson, Routledge, Bony

redbaron_99

No cleverley in the line up or the bench. Thank f*ck!

Crimson King

2-0 United

UnitedIrishman

Lingard, that's a bit of a curveball thrown in there. Can't wait to see how the young players perform.

bluefinger

happy new season everyone. great to see some live footie. intrigued to see how united do this season. van gaal couldn't have had a better opener imo. 2-0 united.

Nalz

Do us proud Tyler and Jesse

3-0 or 3-1, Herrera to impress

Nolars

Kiwi_knock wrote: »

Is Blackett only in the team because of injuries, or has he shown any kind of form over pre-season. He was atrocious any time I saw him last season for Birmingham.

Prob best defender in pre-season

Lovely Bloke

PhlegmyMoses wrote: »

I've heard this comment every season for the last 20 years.

it's true this time but.

that's a disgraceful XI for any Manchester United manager to have to pick on the opening day of a season.

At least when Ferguson had the "fledgelings", but that was his own doing, this is different.

weisses

redbaron_99 wrote: »

No cleverley in the line up or the bench. Thank f*ck!

He plays on midfield I thought

Cypher_sounds

A lucky fan getting a photo with a champions league winner.

Lord TSC

Kiwi_knock wrote: »

Is Blackett only in the team because of injuries, or has he shown any kind of form over pre-season. He was atrocious any time I saw him last season for Birmingham.

Column A, Column B.

There's no denying he got his chance on the back of injuries, but he's been good in the pre-season. Him, Jones and Smalling only conceeded (iirc) 5 goals in pre-season; three were penalties, one was a shot from the halfway line and one was cause Cleverly basically assisted the other team. Well deserves a chance for the debut today.

Agent Coulson

BT must have to the two most boring voices in football now with Scholes and Owen.

Scholes in less than an hour has said "it's very difficult to say & draw a line through it" about a dozen times.

MagicIRL

Think IF Swansea are to score, it'll come against Lingard.

Alfred Borden

Agent Coulson wrote: »

BT must have to the two most boring voices in football now with Scholes and Owen.

Scholes in less than an hour has said "it's very difficult to say & draw a line through it" about a dozen times.

Keeps contradicting himself too. BT's coverage is just dire.

Chagan

2-1 United.

I don't think it will be the gauntlet laying start we're all hoping for but I'd fancy our attack to cause too any problems for Swansea in the end.

Ganymede Glow

LVG. What a genius

dahat

Utd to win but fancy Bony to score for Swansea.

Stuck a wager on Hernandez first goal at 9/2,thought it was a big price.

Maximus Alexander

Chicharito!

Fr_Dougal

4-0

LostBoy101

Hopefully a good game from Blackett and Jesse Lingard today!

madcabbage

3-1 Chicarito and Mata to score. :cool:

dubmick

Why is lingard playing? Did he even start in pre-season?

Fescue

That's not a bad Swansea team at all.

That_Guy

Did Van Gaal press 'randomise' on his team selection today?

I completely forgot that Gomis signed for Swansea. Not a bad option to have coming off the bench.

Morzadec

The confidence and assuredness of Van Gaal compared to Moyes is so evident from the interviews alone

"Do what we agreed and we will win"

I wonder if Moyes ever felt that degree of confidence in his gameplans?

And that must transmit to the players

TheTownie

Ha. Looks like Moyes is doing punditry on the match today.

Will I Amnt

That_Guy wrote: »

Did Van Gaal press 'randomise' on his team selection today?

Injuries are decimating the team already. It's the price you pay for leaving a squad thin on numbers in certain areas.
Hopefully the young lads can step up.

Nalz

TheTownie wrote: »

Ha. Looks like Moyes is doing punditry on the match today.

Would love to hear that

That_Guy

Will I Amnt wrote: »

Injuries are decimating the team already. It's the price you pay for leaving a squad thin on numbers in certain areas.
Hopefully the young lads can step up.

Yeah, I thought as such. Wouldn't really know much of Man United's squad depth so it looked a bit strange to me.

Will I Amnt

What's the craic with the names on the shirts?

Edit: Must be the mascots.

whatawaster

What's with the names on back of jerseys?

Chagan

I'm so bloody excited for this! Come on!

Mr_Red

Squeaky Bum Time

Woop Woop

Will I Amnt

Come on Anna, bang a few in today...

That_Guy

Jim Beglin on my stream.... Sweet jesus.

madcabbage

AHHHH!!! It's like Christmas Day!! C'mon Utd!

Knex*

Football!

googled eyes

The game hasn't even started and they're on about a new era ?!

Give the kids a chance.

Obviously I wish ye the worst of luck today.


:pac:

Crimson King

Come on United!

Talib Fiasco

They're could be a meltdown here in a few hours...