Manchester United Thread [2007/2008]

four words.John O'shea will play.

zero words. .

MiCk_10;2412835 said:

one word.anderson

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Anderson would be too identical in terms of role to Paul Scholes, we need a holding midfielder - and yeah it will probably be O'Shea. Anderson is far too attack minded to be a holding player. Pique I think might be on the list too.

Anderson seemed more of an out an out AM who likes to dribble, can't see him tracking back and making tackles and leaving Scholes to do the defensive work in midfield is a recipe for disaster, O'shea is the only realistic option.

I wouldnt mind Dropping scholes even though he got experience

Nani - Anderson - Pique - Ronaldo wont be a bad Midfield

WTF are you talking about?

Lol

chiboygeorge;2413283 said:

I wouldnt mind Dropping scholes even though he got experience

Nani - Anderson - Pique - Ronaldo wont be a bad Midfield

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Yes it will.

thats like the worse line up ever posted

MikeyM;2412989 said:

Anderson would be too identical in terms of role to Paul Scholes.

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Actually, Anderson would be too identical in terms of role to s.hit

chiboygeorge;2413283 said:

Nani - Anderson - Pique - Ronaldo wont be a bad Midfield

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Yeah of course...thats beacuse it isnt a "midfield"

we will more likely see this

Ronaldo - O shea - Scholes - Giggs/Nani

Injuries suck

According to teamtalk.com There is a real possibility of Anderson standing in for Carrick alongside Scholes. That would be a very attack minded midfield, especially with Rooney dropping deep. I assume Saha will start so we will have an out and out striker at the start this time.

Obviously I'm betting Wigan will go five across the middle and try to stifle us - but with Ronaldo hitting form and Rooney not far off, coupled with Saha getting to 100% we should have enough to breach them. Of course it suits us better if Wigan come out to attack us, and we can hit on the counter with pace.

I'm looking forward to seeing Anderson, but would understand if the boss goes with O'Shea to give more balance defensively.

I'm gonna go optimistic and say 3-0 to us. Although another 1-0 would not surprise me at all.

i really can't see Anderson starting with Scholes. We all thought a Carrick Scholes combination wouldn't be strong enough in terms of defensive abilities...

There is no doubt that O'Shea will pair with Scholesy in the middle. Fergie is cautious and he will not test Anderson from the start yet.

Poor old Darren Fletcher won't get much of a run this season with the purchases of Hargreaves and Anderson. Maybe he'll look to move on?

saha
rooney

giggs
oshea
scholes
ronaldo

simple..

Pique gets his first start of the season at RB

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/match?id=219428&cc=5739

Soccernet says this'll be the lineup with 5 defenders?
I suppose O'Shea will be midfield though. But it also says Pique is playing.

Saha has injured himself during the warm up

are you serious or just kidding?
i didnt expect him to screw himself up until after international duty with france

could be oshea on RB and pique on DMC