vs Competition: English Premier League Venue: Old Trafford Time: 16:00 (BST), 11:00 (EST) Channels: Sky Sports Premier League(UK), Sky Sports Main Event(UK), MUTV(UK), Telemundo Deportes En Vivo(US), Telemundo(US), NBC Sports Live(US), NBCSN(US), TSN 1(Canada), TSN 4(Canada), Flow Sports Premier(JA), SuperSport 3 Africa(Zambia!) Manchester United injuries: Rojo (knee), Pogba (hamstring), Ibrahimović (knee) Everton injuries: Coleman (leg), Funes Mori (knee), Bolasie (knee), Barkley (hamstring), McCarthy (knee) Manchester United last 6: L-W-W-W-D-W Everton last 6: W-W-D-D-L-L Manchester United last result: 3-0 home win over FC Basel 1893 Everton last result: 3-0 away loss at Atalanta Manchester United last league result: 2-2 away draw at Stoke City Everton last league result: 0-3 home loss against Tottenham Hotspur Manchester United league standing: 1st Everton league standing: 16th Last League Encounter: 1-1 draw at Old Trafford (Apr 2017) Manchester United last starting XI (4-2-3-1): de Gea, Young, Lindelöf, Smalling, Blind, Pogba(c), Matić, Martial, Mkhitaryan, Mata, Lukaku Everton last starting XI (4-2-3-1): Stekelenberg, Holgate, Keane, Jagielka, Baines, Bešić, Schneiderlin, Vlašić, Sigurðsson, Rooney, Calvert-Lewin ===================== i think we need to get back on track with a win here. an away draw at Stoke is acceptable but our league start is fairly generous in terms of opponents and venues and we need to bag these points early. we also need to do it without Pogba. let's get it
The massive talking point will be Rooney. Given the totality of exigent circumstances, Koeman might be best advised to leave Wayne off the squad sheet altogether. Everton are the inferior club, but they could catch us on a bad day. They don't need the distraction of the former United man IMHO.
I would go with a double-pivot of Matic and Fellaini. Ahead of them put Mata central and Young right. It would be interesting to see how a Valencia and Young right-sided tandem would operate.
What is this 2013? Not that I don't agree that they should start based on their performance yesterday. It's crazy to think we are still talking about Young and Fellaini in 2017.
Given how Mata and Miki have performed on the RW so far, I would be curious as well to see how AY would do in that position. Regardless though, he's shown pretty clearly that for this season, at the very least, he still has a role to play. The fact that he can easily slot in into 4 different positions alone of needed, makes him pretty valuable.
Whoever Jose goes with, Bailly and Jones need to put in a much, much better performance over what we saw from them v Stoke. Do that and we'll dispatch the Toffees. Continue to lapse in concentration and we'll be in danger.
That would be intriguing, but what about Young at LB? I know hes not as strong at that position but we've produced so little from the left because our FBs haven't been up to snuff it might help balance out the play.
i hope we stuff them. i like Everton's progress and ambition as a club but it annoys me to no end when they freely bend over for liverpool and fight like hell against everyone else in the top 6
this is what i would go with. i can't remember (if ever?) jose has tried martial and rashford on opposite wings. i think mata deserves an actual shot in the hole. if he can't do the job there, then we should look to sell in january. he's useless out wide. lukaku martial - mata - mkhi matic - fellaini young - jones - bailly - valencia de gea subs: romero, lindelof, darmian, carrick, herrera, mata, lingard.
Right but didn't Spurs just beat them 3-0 at home? Also they have a trip away to Atalanta tomorrow. Anything less than a 2 goal win on Sunday will be bad.
Just a thought, but maybe this is a good match to give Carrick a run out, if even for 20 minutes as a sub. Everton are slow as hell so the pace of the match shouldn't be a major issue for him. I honestly don't think we need Matic starting on Sunday. Carrick and Herrera can do a trick in midfield. Everton's front three will likely be re-jigged by Koeman after two sound defeats, but Rooney and Sigurdsson will likely start. If he also starts Klassen I don't expect our defence having much trouble. Calvert-Lewin can stretch the back, but there don't have runners capable of filling the gaps he makes. I fully expect Lukaku to have a field day.
"He is injured and cannot play on Sunday," Jose Mourinho tells #MUTV on Paul Pogba. "It is an opportunity for others and they are ready." pic.twitter.com/IvSOyujG1r— Manchester United (@ManUtd) September 15, 2017 On @LukeShaw23: "He is not injured anymore. He has recovered." Jose also says Marcos Rojo "still needs, probably, a couple of months." #MUFC pic.twitter.com/Od6HcWRSa7— Manchester United (@ManUtd) September 15, 2017
Jose press conference recap. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/man-utd-press-conference-live-13624906
Koeman called a "crisis meeting" prior to Everton's visit to OT. www.theguardian.com/football/2017/sep/15/everton-ronald-koeman-crisis-meeting-wayne-rooney
Everton: Pickford, Keane, Jagielka, Williams, Martina, Schneiderlin, Gueye, Baines, Davies, Sigurdsson, Rooney. Subs: Sandro, Mirallas, Klaassen, Besic, Stekelenburg, Calvert-Lewin, Holgate
Haha...called it. I said back the day we signed Matic, wait until Jose pairs him with Fellaini. This should be fun.