Manchester United v Middlesborough 31/12/16 k/o 15.00 SS5 Irl.

Cantona's Collars

Possible lineups:

niallo27

2 nil maybe 3 nil. Boring and clinical for a neutral.

xerces

Didn't know this was on SS5, thanks for that.

adox

Be interesting to see what team Jose puts out. Possibly a more difficult away game on Monday but this is also a must win.

newballsplease

Carrick is out I hear.
Hope Schweinstieger starts. But I'm thinking he will play Fellaini in that role unfortunately.

limnam

newballsplease wrote: »

Carrick is out I hear.
Hope Schweinstieger starts. But I'm thinking he will play Fellaini in that role unfortunately.

Oh yeah?

Where did you hear/read this?

Hope not.

RobertKK

newballsplease wrote: »

Carrick is out I hear.
Hope Schweinstieger starts. But I'm thinking he will play Fellaini in that role unfortunately.

Happy to have Carrick out if he is resting him for the West Ham game.
I would also have Schweinsteiger in to replace him.

Bridge93

3-0. United could do with closing the goal difference gap with those above them. It's like an extra point they can whittle away

mikeym

Zlatan will score no doubt.

happyoutscan

mikeym wrote: »

Zlatan will score no doubt.

Will he definitely start?

ceegee

happyoutscan wrote: »

Will he definitely start?

Would imagine he'd get a shot at catching Messi for top scorer in 2016.
Hopefully he won't play all 90 with such a short gap between games

TheFullDuck

Man Utd XI vs. Middlesbrough: De Gea; Valencia, Smalling, Bailly, Blind; Fellaini, Herrera; Martial, Pogba, Mkhitaryan; Ibrahimovic.

ceegee

Lot of changes to the starting 11, Smalling, Bailly, Fellaini, Martial and Mkhitaryan all in

RobertKK

https://twitter.com/ManUtd/status/815195818953150465

RobertKK

https://twitter.com/Boro/status/815195831280300036

raze_them_all_

What a slide for poor fabio, Had such potential but his body never held up

Carrick rested which makes sense but hope the team can do well without him

Haley McQueen good start

A win today to sort out the hangover

Comic Book Guy

Top pundit work by Boateng "Negredo didn't have the best of success at Tottenham Hotspur"!!

Dwarf.Shortage

Sky must be hard up for a few pound, only one pundit?

And his English is cat, just called Zlatan a chauvinist when he meant he was macho.

yabadabado

Jose after saying Carrick isnt playing because he is ill.

PhlegmyMoses

Quite worried about this. Boro don't concede many and we don't score a lot. Be delighted with a 1-0

Mars Bar

Where did they find this pundit? Germany and Armenia are both in Europe and he keeps saying Mkhi has come from a different continent.

yabadabado

Mars Bar wrote: »

Where did they find this pundit? Germany and Armenia are both in Europe and he keeps saying Mkhi has come from a different continent.

He is brutal .Competition winner :pac:

RobertKK

Mars Bar wrote: »

Where did they find this pundit? Germany and Armenia are both in Europe and he keeps saying Mkhi has come from a different continent.

Yeah, he left me thinking too that his geography leaves a lot to be desired.

He must think England has literally left Europe :pac:

yabadabado

One thing thats noticeable is how big the team is now.A few huge men playing,not many teams would bully United on the pitch.

RobertKK

I hope Schweinsteiger gets some minutes today.

RobbingBandit

Come on United, Mkhitaryan to get another cracker

Cantona's Collars

yabadabado wrote: »

One thing thats noticeable is how big the team is now.A few huge men playing,not many teams would bully United on the pitch.

The Monster Squad.

limnam

Although Rojo can be a liability I'm not overly happy breaking up a central two that's been playing well together.

Hopefully it won't bite us in the backside. Hopefully the crowd stays of mou's back and he plays well

wanderer100

What on earth was that by Traore!!!!!!

limnam

Two awful corners.

We got away with murder there...

yabadabado

Missing Carrick already thank **** Traore was clueless

RobbingBandit

Missing Rooney for the corners there both dreadful.

wanderer100

Martial looking sharp

RobbingBandit

Good presure so far just need to watch boro on the hop.

wanderer100

That would have been glorious

Lord TSC

Pogba pls

RobbingBandit

Ah Pogba should have hit that.

Mars Bar

Ah Pogba has to be doing better with that pass

Trigger

Blind getting exposed big time here

Fs blind

He's got to win that ball

RobbingBandit

Traoré having a good game so far. Mkhitaryan too.

limnam

Pogba needs to be more precise there with no pressure on him

MD1990

Wouldn't be too harsh on Blind. No defender can cope with Traore 1v1. Needs help.

RobbingBandit

Crowd are dead so far.

wanderer100

Not liking the look of this. Feel like any moment Boro will catch us

yabadabado

MD1990 wrote: »

Wouldn't be too harsh on Blind. No defender can cope with Traore 1v1. Needs help.

He had plenty of time to deal with it before Traore muscled him off the ball.

PhlegmyMoses

Ref needs to give them a yellow soon to discourage the fouling around the box.

Cantona's Collars

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Missing Rooney for the corners there both dreadful.

Not sure if serious...

limnam

Pogba having a stinker.

RobbingBandit

zerks wrote: »

Not sure if serious...

Posted after two bad corners nearly 20 minutes ago not sure why you are quoting this now...