The FA CUP Quarter Final ** Spoilers ** [11th - 13th March 2017]
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What is it with BT Sport and hiring the most depressing commentators? Sutton's got to be responsible for a few suicides.
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Great result and a goal from Janssen. Good timing seeing as Kane will be out for a while.
I think this is what'll happen. Pack the defence and midfield and try and score from a corner or on the counter attack. This would have probably been the plan anyway but no recognised striker will make it more difficult. Mkhitaryan is probably the best option up front I suppose...
I'm not hopeful.
You should be, you've become quite a good cup side nowI'm not hopeful.
JM will be dying to win this one I think after the hammering we gave you last time and as he thinks we just defend and counter attack he'll probably just try to nullify that and nick a goal somehow.
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Won't even watch, don't care if we win if I have to watch Fellaini up front for 90 mins I'm likely to try garotting myself by half time.
You should be, you've become quite a good cup side now
JM will be dying to win this one I think after the hammering we gave you last time and as he thinks we just defend and counter attack he'll probably just try to nullify that and nick a goal somehow.
Either that or he will throw the full might of our attacking options at you
We haven't got a recognised striker available so we will defend and hope to steal something on the break I imagine. Very little chance of us winning this one.
with no real pace in the side I cant see Chelsea's defence being stretched on a break so its a case of getting as many tall players in their box for any corners (but we will probably hit the first man anyway so wont make any difference).
To be honest we could have done without this game, and as long as its not a draw (highly unlikely) or goes into extra time I really dont care about the result
Focus on Thursday and the weekend before taking stock over the international break.
(I wouldnt "waste" Mkhi's best assets by playing him as a striker, young or Fellaini are the "best" striker options for tonight imo)
To be honest we could have done without this game, and as long as its not a draw (highly unlikely) or goes into extra time I really dont care about the result
Focus on Thursday and the weekend before taking stock over the international break.
(I wouldnt "waste" Mkhi's best assets by playing him as a striker, young or Fellaini are the "best" striker options for tonight imo)
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I expect Man U will pull another 14 year old out of the reserves and he will somehow have an amazing first game (Macheda, Chicharito, Rashford).
Welbeck scored a screamer on his league debut too. Could just be a smokescreen but Mourinho is saying he doesn't want to use the U23 players. Personally I'd go with Fellaini up front and then the question is do you go with attacking fullbacks to get in behind Chelsea's wingbacks and put crosses in, or just lump it straight up to Felli and Pogba to try and dominate Azpi and Luiz and provide knock downs to Micky and Mata? Concern with the former is you can see Chelsea dominating and keeping them penned back in their half.
Will be intresting to see if Conte picks the usual team given Chelsea haven't got another match for ages, or whether he looks to combat the potential MU aerial threat by bringing in a different CB like Terry.
Will be intresting to see if Conte picks the usual team given Chelsea haven't got another match for ages, or whether he looks to combat the potential MU aerial threat by bringing in a different CB like Terry.
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In what way did we pull Chicharito out of our reserves?