Capital One Quarter Final
Venue: Britannia Stadium
Live at: http://www.ja606.co.uk/articles/viewLiveArticle/244645
Team
United XI:
----------------De Gea
Rafael, Smalling, Evans, Evra
Valencia, Jones, Cleverley, Young
--------------Anderson
--------------Welbeck
Subs: Hernandez, Nani, Fletcher, Büttner, Zaha, Kagawa and Johnstone
Stoke City
Stoke: Sorensen, Cameron, Shawcross, Wilson, Pieters, Palacios, Whelan, Walters, Ireland, Assaidi, Crouch.
Subs: Begovic, Muniesa, Pennant, Jones, Arnautovic, Adam, Wilkinson.
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Club Form
Last 5 games
Stoke City: WLDWD
Manchester United: DDLLW
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Last meeting at Britannia Stadium
Stoke City 0-2 Manchester United
Michael Carrick got an early goal with Van Persie effectively killing the game with a penalty in the second half.
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Statistics
Stoke City have never lost a home cup tie against United, and beat the Red Devils on their run to the 1972 League Cup final.
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Stoke City v Man United Match Thread
posted on 18/12/13
Fair enough. There must be a weak link somewhere considering the difference in the defensive records though.
posted on 18/12/13
Zab is probably the better defender by a tiny margin then
posted on 18/12/13
posted on 18/12/13
Evra is the weak link
posted on 18/12/13
Capital One Cup final is on March 2, same weekend as Man United are due to play Man City at Old Trafford.
That's tense
posted on 18/12/13
Our weak link is that the old guy in the directors box isn't in the dug out any more. Same when Busby retired I guess, you can't get that continuity unless you've got a Bob Paisley waiting in the wings and a squad that doesn't need major overhauling without
pisssing everyone off.
posted on 18/12/13
City without konpany are no better than us defensively. They just have better midfielders who can control the game taking the pressure off the defence
posted on 18/12/13
Fair point post mate.
posted on 18/12/13
The difference is the midfield, both offensively and defensively.
posted on 18/12/13
Good game, patrice evra goal was a perfect swing into top right hand corner.