Barclays Premier League
Venue: Old Trafford
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Team
Man United XI:
----------------De Gea
Rafael, Smalling, Evans, Evra
Valencia, Jones, Cleverley, Januzaj
--------------Rooney
--------------Welbeck
Subs: Giggs, Hernandez, Young, Fletcher, Kagawa, Buttner, Johnstone
West Ham
XI: Adrian, Demel, McCartney, Diame, Collins, Tomkins, Taylor, Noble, Maiga, Morrison, Jarvis
Subs: Rat, Collison, O'Brien, Diarra, Jaaskelainen, Cole, Cole
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Club Form
Last 5 Premier League games
West Ham: LWLLD
Manchester United: DDLLW
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Last meeting at Old Trafford
Manchester United 1-0 West Ham
Van Persie gave Manchester United the advantage 33 seconds into the game, but it turned into a nervy evening as Manchester United could not kill the game.
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Statistics
Twenty wins from 23 Hammers visits since 1986; a current run of six wins in a row; not a single goal from the visitors in the last five.
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Man United v West Ham Match Thread
posted on 21/12/13
mobility is the key.
Evans and jones/smalling more mobile than evans and rio/vidic
jones and cleverley more mobile than carrick and fellani
rooney and welbeck more mobile than rooney and rvp.
the point is with mobility you can attack as a team and defend as a team. When we lack mobility it feels like each player gets isolated too much an ultimately found lacking.
posted on 21/12/13
your football was the same the year before RvP arrived
blaming him seems a bit silly
posted on 21/12/13
Man utd if we keep playing the way we are we could gon a 10+ game winning run in the league quite easily.
posted on 21/12/13
TKT, we played much better football before RVP came.
posted on 21/12/13
Did I say we weren't? You're missing the point.
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I really don't think I am.... Carrick makes the team tick... But as seen today, Jones/Clevs and rooney in the middle was ticking just as well... But also offering more mobility and cover for the defence.
I love Carrick, one of my favourite players of recent years and vastly underrated and misunderstood.... I'd have no issue if he gets straight back in the side, he has earned it...
But seeing that alternatives can prove just as good, possibly better is no bad thing.
posted on 21/12/13
rvp I think only shot against newcastle was slightly offside flagged goal.
posted on 21/12/13
If you have mobile defenders behind Carrick and a mobile midfield partner alongside him, then that's fine but when you're playing with Rio and Vidic behind Carrick, there's a bigger gap between defence and midfield and we run the risk of getting exposed due to the lack of pace.
Playing Carrick still has it's negatives but as has been said, he's still our best midfielder by a distance and I can't wait to have him back playing well again.
posted on 21/12/13
TRS
posted on 21/12/13
But seeing that alternatives can prove just as good, possibly better is no bad thing.
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Aye, if we play a few more games with Clevs & Jones in midfield and they perform like they did today then prehaps I would reconsider. But over the past few weeks we've still had poor performances and been inconsistent. The results are definitely improving though.
posted on 21/12/13
Just listening to the BBC MOTD commentator summarising the game. Highlighting Januzaj diveabove everything. Talking about Morrison, he played 'conservative'. No mention of the red card challenge he made on Cleverley. That wasn't conservative.