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So much wrong about this fixture
1) It should be a CL game
2) It shouldn't be on a Thursday night
3) It shouldn't be kicking off a 6pm
4) It should be a game fans are buzzing over going to see a mid week game under the lights at Old Trafford against European royalty.
Anyway that's my rant over behind closed doors over for now.
Obviously the game was billed as the return of Zlatan but he will miss the game through injury so now it's the return of Dalot who I believe can play despite being on loan from Utd to Milan, not sure if he will actually play he's not a regular starter for them. Dalot did score at the weekend though.
For Milan a great start to the season seems to have hit the bricks a bit 2 recent defeats to Inter knocked them out of the Cup and also possibly knocked them out of the title race but bit like us it was a race no one thought they would be in at the start of the season top 4 was the target. They're currently second 3 points behind Inter who also have a game in hand and a much better goal difference. So it's hard to tell how strong they will go for the europa league game against us will they put out the best XI or will they rest players? They have a tough league game between the two legs at home to Napoli at a quick glance it looks like they might have rested a few starters this weekend against Verona so maybe they are coming fully armed.
For Utd we assume Pogba is out as well as Rashford who took a knock in the derby win plus De Gea who is back in Spain and Mata who sounds like he's also unavailable for personal reasons. Guess it's wait and see on the likes of Cavani and VDB so Ole will be working with a thin squad. Our match between these two legs is a tough one home to West Ham who are pushing for top 4.
Predicted XI
Henderson
AWB Bailly Maguire Telles
Matic McTominay
Greenwood Bruno James
Martial
Ole might not even be able to go that strong I think he'd love to rest Bruno but he's got no real alternatives without putting in kids the decision to loan out Lingard is now starting to look a bit silly.
For Utd the key is to win the home leg and not give away the dreaded away goals so any win to nil is a great result for us.
1) It should be a CL game
2) It shouldn't be on a Thursday night
3) It shouldn't be kicking off a 6pm
4) It should be a game fans are buzzing over going to see a mid week game under the lights at Old Trafford against European royalty.
Anyway that's my rant over behind closed doors over for now.
Obviously the game was billed as the return of Zlatan but he will miss the game through injury so now it's the return of Dalot who I believe can play despite being on loan from Utd to Milan, not sure if he will actually play he's not a regular starter for them. Dalot did score at the weekend though.
For Milan a great start to the season seems to have hit the bricks a bit 2 recent defeats to Inter knocked them out of the Cup and also possibly knocked them out of the title race but bit like us it was a race no one thought they would be in at the start of the season top 4 was the target. They're currently second 3 points behind Inter who also have a game in hand and a much better goal difference. So it's hard to tell how strong they will go for the europa league game against us will they put out the best XI or will they rest players? They have a tough league game between the two legs at home to Napoli at a quick glance it looks like they might have rested a few starters this weekend against Verona so maybe they are coming fully armed.
For Utd we assume Pogba is out as well as Rashford who took a knock in the derby win plus De Gea who is back in Spain and Mata who sounds like he's also unavailable for personal reasons. Guess it's wait and see on the likes of Cavani and VDB so Ole will be working with a thin squad. Our match between these two legs is a tough one home to West Ham who are pushing for top 4.
Predicted XI
Henderson
AWB Bailly Maguire Telles
Matic McTominay
Greenwood Bruno James
Martial
Ole might not even be able to go that strong I think he'd love to rest Bruno but he's got no real alternatives without putting in kids the decision to loan out Lingard is now starting to look a bit silly.
For Utd the key is to win the home leg and not give away the dreaded away goals so any win to nil is a great result for us.