Manchester United vs Sunderland 26/9/15 k/o 15.00 Setanta HD

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Marcos Rojo misses out for Manchester United with a hamstring injury sustained against Southampton last weekend so Ashley Young could again fill in at left-back, as he did in the midweek Capital One Cup win over Ipswich, with Luke Shaw a long-term absentee.

United are also without Paddy McNair, and Louis van Gaal has already confirmed he will not move Daley Blind from his position in the centre of defence.

Jermain Defoe and Jack Rodwell are injury doubts for Sunderland with respective hamstring and ankle injuries, but Younes Kaboul is available again after serving his suspension in the midweek defeat at Manchester City.

Manchester United have lost only one of their last 26 Premier League encounters with Sunderland (W1 D6 L19).
Manchester United have conceded just two goals in their last five Premier League home games against Sunderland.
Anthony Martial could become the first player to score in each of his first three Premier League appearances for Manchester United.
Sunderland are looking for their 50th Premier League away win but have won just one of their last 14 on the road (D6 L7).
The Black Cats are now on a nine-game winless streak in the Premier League (D4 L5); the longest current run in the competition.
United have scored with all six shots on target in their last two Premier League games (versus Liverpool and Southampton).

Lithium93_

Going with a 4-0 win for Man United.

Bret Hart

Going with this line-up.

de Gea

Darmian
Smalling
Blind
Young

Carrick
Schneiderlin

Mata
Rooney
Memphis

Martial

SUBS: Romero, Jones, Valencia, Schweinsteiger, Fellaini, Herrera, Pereira.

2-0 with Martial getting both goals.

Sand

Bret Hart wrote: »

Going with this line-up.2-0 with Martial getting both goals.

One with his left foot from the right side of the penalty area in the 20th-25th minute, the other by a bizarre deflection after an absurd mixup between the Sunderland keeper and a fullback. The goat entrails were not clear if it would be the right or left fullback, but definitely a fullback.

United seem to be building, dare I say it, a wee bit of momentum and hopefully they can keep it going with a win here. Sunderland are dire, but I'm not confident enough to predict a battering against them. A win with a decent performance from United, don't care what the score is after that.

Nalz

2-0

MythicalMadMan

Martial 5 goals in 8 minutes or 6 in 9

Rayne Wooney

I wouldn't be getting too hasty here with 3 and 4 nils, against a parked bus there are still plenty of question marks about Van Gaal's philosophy

I hope we can give them a good beating but I don't think that's going to happen

Paully D

*Comes into soccer forum, realisation that Sunderland are playing in a few hours hits*

J. Marston

Newcastle was supposed to be an easy 3 points at home too.

ShooterSF

If United could play their part in relegating Sunderland I'll be very happy. My dislike for them is strong enough that this feels like a 6 ponter...

Liam McPoyle

A tonking for Sunderland from little sister midweek should mean that they are ripe for the picking.

Comfortable United win.

Chris_Bradley

Looking forward to this, hoping Martial can keep this run going - superb start to his United career.

3-0 United imo

Lovely Bloke

Should be routine enough for United

Sirsok

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

Should be routine enough for United

Bloody hope so! Last 3 games I've been at we lost two and drew one....looking forward to what should be a 3-0 win

TheDoc

Should be a comfortable dominating performance. No excuses, Sunderland are wretched

Trigger

Sand wrote: »

One with his left foot from the right side of the penalty area in the 20th-25th minute, the other by a bizarre deflection after an absurd mixup between the Sunderland keeper and a fullback. The goat entrails were not clear if it would be the right or left fullback, but definitely a fullback.

Im afraid to know what sort of bonuses this would unlock

mikeym

Easy win for Utd.

Unearthly

I won't be confident til that first goal is scored

LuckyGent88

Should be a comfortable win for us but Sunderland will just park the bus so will probably be hard to break down.

First goal is vital for us to get. Keep the tempo high and keep moving the attack. Then don't give away any stupid chances down the other end.

3-0 win with 2 from martial.

Liam McPoyle

With City getting spanked nothing short of a win is acceptable.

Chris_Bradley

Hard to believe we can go clear top with a win!

Liam McPoyle

Kenny Cunningham and Gary Breen punditry on Setanta.

Uhhh.

GreNoLi

One nil to united.

irishfeen

Come on to fúck and lets go top!

Liam McPoyle

The Sunderland strip is awful.

Have a score on Martial anytime, keep it up please kiddo.

ScummyMan

Valencia :rolleyes:

LuckyGent88

Ah Valencia. Missed a golden opportunity to put in a very dangerous ball

Lord TSC

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

Ah Valencia. Missed a golden opportunity to put in a very dangerous ball

Or, ya know, just keep the ball in play :rolleyes:

MagicIRL

Martial with the magic feet.

LuckyGent88

Good play by martial to earn the free kick

Sand

Valencia did Martial no favours with that last pass

Liam McPoyle

Martial really does look the real day, serious confidence.

sky88

2 terrible free kicks from mata so far

LuckyGent88

such a poor effort by mata.

Pereira was needed there for that free kick!

newballsplease

Boring stuff

Nalz

Need a bit more from wazza

Trigger

Ah Memphis, need to be passing there!

LuckyGent88

Depay did very well but should have got a shot off. Brutal delivery after that.

Trigger

Jaysus, Wayne running away from the pass!

chupacabra

Rooney is absolutely woeful

caviardreams

shot on target \o/

ctrl-alt-delete

Johnson has been terrible so far

LuckyGent88

chupacabra wrote: »

Rooney is absolutely woeful

Very poor so far. Given the ball away very easily a number of times

Sand

Lovely turn by Rooney to create that opportunity.

sky88

Rooney and mata passing has been horrendous so far

LuckyGent88

Go to do better there mata. We have found ourselves in some great positions but final ball has been poor

Fakman87

Painful to watch, as usual.

MagicMarker

Turgid

JIdontknow

Mata hasn't been much better than Rooney so far, 30 minutes gone so far and don't think we have forced a decent save yet. Taking too much out of the ball with Memphis, Rooney has been poor too. Trying to be too clever with the final thru ball.