Ruud will miss this game after having such a good outing in the Champions League. Anyway, the only changes I hope to see is, Smith for Ruud and Giggs for Miller.

I predict a 3-1 win for us.(H)

Smith
Scholes
Rooney

SWP

:hump:

hope we can covert our CL form in league game. beat man city at home. i predict 2-0, smith and scholes finally find the net

Its a home game for us so I can only see Manchester United winning at Old Trafford. Scholesy to give Willo Flood a crunching tackle from behind. (H)(Y)

2-1 to Man City, SWP and Anelka

ManUtd it's very unpredictable nowadays... So...

1-1

SWP, Smith

1-1

Rooney / SWP

4-0
X2 Scholes
Ronaldo
Saha

:mrpimp: :hump:

United are unbeaten at home so far this season. City is MASSIVE club, so yeah we better beat them :D .

1-2 to Manchester's favorites (H)

Saha
SWP, Willo Flood (90) (H)

1-1

Rooney and Wright-Phillips

I think a repeat of last year is in order (H)

City scored 4?

i've stopped predicting United scores any more, this could seriously turn either way or be a dead boring 0-0

United 2 City 0
Scholes
Rooney

:)

United 1-6 City

Brown

Anelka (2)
SWP (2)
Distin
Flood

Man U- Man City 4-2

Rooney 2
RvN 2

Anelka 1
SWP 1

Ruud is not playing.

Apparently Moonchester beat Fred the Red in a hundred meter race :( . Poor Fred tripped over the finish line and fell rolling over.

I predict a starting line-up like this :

---------------Carroll----------------
Gary------Rio----Silvestre---Heinze
Ronaldo----Scholes----Phil---Giggs
----------Rooney-----Smith----------

Miller seems to play quite well in the CL game. hope he will play well in EPL too. So do United. Lets have a big victory in the derby!!!

United 3-0 City
Rooney
Ronaldo
Smith

Man Utd 3-0 Man City

Sahax3

without a shadow of a doubt we have to win.and i think we will.
I hope to see smith and saha play upfront.

Originally posted by houston3721
I predict a starting line-up like this :

---------------Carroll----------------
Gary------Rio----Silvestre---Heinze
Ronaldo----Scholes----Phil---Giggs
----------Rooney-----Smith----------

Miller seems to play quite well in the CL game. hope he will play well in EPL too. So do United. Lets have a big victory in the derby!!!

United 3-0 City
Rooney
Ronaldo
Smith

i thought keane is back? silvestre is fit?

New Nike balls to be used in the Premiership from now until Spring.(H)

http://tinyurl.com/3horj

United team training pics:

http://tinyurl.com/6h7za

(H)

Originally posted by Help?
Apparently Moonchester beat Fred the Red in a hundred meter race :( . Poor Fred tripped over the finish line and fell rolling over.

lol :(



I hope to see Rooney scoring...
2-1 United

1-3 to manc..

MU:ronaldo
MC:Wright phillips, Anelka & rio own goal

Funky balls

Originally posted by syaz_wan03
1-3 to manc..

MU:ronaldo
MC:Wright phillips, Anelka & rio own goal

:rolleyes:

I'd be happy with a 1-0 win, Smith in the second half.

City haven't won at Old Trafford in 30 years, don't see that changing on Sunday. Rooney will see to that.(H)

Originally posted by sky.
:rolleyes:

I'd be happy with a 1-0 win, Smith in the second half.

be open minded....dats my opinion http://soccergaming.tv/images/icons/icon13.gif

Originally posted by syaz_wan03
be open minded....dats my opinion http://soccergaming.tv/images/icons/icon13.gif

Shut it, battyboy.

shut up, rosta mc (H)

smith going 2 break man c heart......
man u 3 - 0 man c
smith 2
saha

Originally posted by manutd4eva
New Nike balls to be used in the Premiership from now until Spring.(H)

http://tinyurl.com/3horj

i saw this ball at the ESPN football focus program opening scence as well which show giggs, okocha and other player juggling the ball. i wonder will it use in EPL. it seems ugly.... :( blue and white are much better

looks good

agreed

my friend told me jens lehmann complain to FA about this ball in an interview :o not sure about the details

man u 3-1 city

Saha
Rooney
Ronaldo

Anelka

Starting XI: Carroll, Neville, Ferdinand, Silvestre, Heinze, Miller, Keane, Scholes, Ronaldo, Saha, Smith,

Subs: Howard, Neville, Brown, Rooney, Giggs

I don`t get it . . . Why a freakin` yellow ball ? :|:|:| I mean it looks like some sort of a rubber ball kids like to kick around in the park. And yellow colours tends to blend with the green colour of the grass, makes it difficult for live audience to see. That ball is crap. They should`ve kept it white . . .

Actually it's much easier for the players to see during the winter months. I watched a program where they explained the whole point behind the design and it's colors. I like it alot, gonna buy myself one.(H)

Yeah, but I hardly see any pitch covered with snow durin` winter in the EPL. Unlike in Russia.

No Giggs... but I hope Miller can put on a great performance... After all, the Old Firm derby is albeit similar to the Manchester derby...

ordered this match on PPV, and it's not even working... better start working soon :kader:

Wes Brown warming up before the start, something's wrong.:(

Silvestre can't be feeling up to playing a whole match

ooooooooooooooooooooooh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! OFF THE LINE!!! SAHA!! SO CLOOOOSE!!!

Saha almost scored.

We're owning City.(H)

Saha bleeding, clash of heads.:(

damn i can't watch the live game here. my dad watching TV :( gonna wait him finish his movie first :(:(:(

Originally posted by manutd4eva
Actually it's much easier for the players to see during the winter months. I watched a program where they explained the whole point behind the design and it's colors. I like it alot, gonna buy myself one.(H)

so whats the reason the FA want this ball as offcial EPL ball? yellow ball on green pitch, sick :|:|

I heard it had something to do with helping the TV viewers see the ball easier through the fog and all.

United are dominating.. we deserve a goal..
btw Newcastle 0 Fulham 3 :o

0-4 actually..

Graeme. :hump:

Edit: 1-4 now. :p

0-0 HT

this isn't a football match, it's an all out war (H)

PS what's the possession count?

MU 94% - 6% MC? :|:| :rolleyes: :kader:

We really have to take our chances. Ronaldo is not having the form of the second half of last season. His crosses have been poor imo.

We should've been up by at least two goals now.:(

Fergie should bring on Giggs and Rooney in the second half. We need a early goal in the second half.

Rooney has a flu, can't play.


And i am confident we can win, however the first half kind of reminds me of the first half at Pompey :( .

Rooney can infect the City defenders then.

Saha has been playing well, it's only a matter of time before he scores.(H)

Radio commentators said we should've had two penalties also.:(

Yeay we won today:bouncy:

btw is swp playing today

Can't even cross the ball. ******* hopeless. We can have as much possession as we want, but we can't do **** all with it. Bring on lazy arse Giggs and Rooney, give a **** if he has the flu.

Giggs on for Miller, we probably won't see Rooney till the 87th minute.:rolleyes: :(

isn't Rooney ill?

another penalty shout turned down.

United so far has 9 goal opportunities to 1 and still 0-0 :kader: . That's were Ruud makes a difference :( .

This match is shaping up to be another Pompey, we better score that ******* goal soon!

Come the **** on United...
We cant lose any points here!

Twelve corners and two freekicks just outside the box for United, and it's still 0-0.:rolleyes:

Rooney warming up.

This is more like FM, it's not gonna be our day... :(

Giggs wide after being through on goal..

OMG, it seems that even the ball doesn't want to fly in! Smith just missed a shot, that somehow did not go in for some reason.

Oh man Giggs! :f***:

giggs has a thing of missing open goals...

:( dude this is just too much 'o bad luck

Rooney about to come on..
15 mins to go.. COME ON UNITED!!!

EDIT: Rooney on for Scholes

Rooney on for Scholes.

Come on you fat ****!:rockman:

Come on!!!
Score a friggin goal.

Please :(

Originally posted by manutd4eva
Rooney on for Scholes.

Come on you fat ****!:rockman:

hahahahaha

dammit giggs, your bluunder cost me fantasy points:f***:

Oh man the funny thing is that we are at the same level as Chelsea and Arsenal in creating chances, but far far off in scoring them :kader: :f***: :kader:

its funny we spent our budget in one more striker, we have 4 amazing strikers but no goals....:confused:

Smith sent off :( :kader:

smith is off :(:(

Why can't we score after al these chances and possession:kader:

4 mins of injury time..

OMG!!! :f***:

What did Smith do to get sent off?

What the f......!!!

Saha misses a header from 4 yards!!!!!!

:(

The win on Arsenal was for nothing

Another ******* draw! ****!

50 million pounds worth of strikers in this match and we can't score to save our ******* lives!:rolleyes:

We play so damn good in Europe and so ******* **** in the league.

This is frustrating.:( :kader:

it's over

oh ruuud... damn FA

We are not going to win anything like this...:( :(

ok, this is ******* amazing!!!! :f***:

It's days like this I miss that baby faced Norwegian.:(

Saha had about 10 ******* chances to score and wasn't able to!:f***:

We are **** without Ruud :(

The strikers can't score, the midfielders can't score and the defenders are not helping the team to score. This is one of the worse starts to a season ever.

Man U can kiss the title goodbye if they go on like this,

Originally posted by manutd4eva
Another ******* draw! ****!

50 million pounds worth of strikers in this match and we can't score to save our ******* lives!:rolleyes:


**** Midfield = No Ammunition = No Goal.

We'd be lucky to get a UEFA Cup spot at this rate.

OMG, i can't believe it :kader: . This feels almost as bad as a loss to City. Rooney didn't do anything in his 15 minutes, Giggs and Saha missed some easy chances, Smith after not having a yellow for quite sometime, got two at once. Great! After the Arsenal game, we picked up less points, than Arsenal themselves. FRIGING HIT THE ******* NET!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE HELL!!!!!!!!!!!1 :f***: :f***: :f***: . 11 points off the first place, great. I don't see anything good happening to us any time soon. If we continue like that, then that will be it for this season.

Originally posted by manutd4eva
It's days like this I miss that baby faced Norwegian.:(

Saha had about 10 ******* chances to score and wasn't able to!:f***:

Ole would be missed today like you said. Saha can't score since he had his haircut. The second-half linesman made 2 wrong offside decisions.

I'm waiting for vanTheman with his 'we needed van der vaart' comment....

Man U need a fresh, creative and young attacking midfielder,

Give credit where credits due. Citys defence was fantastic.

I don't think that we will be able to even get Van der Vaart anytime soon, since the money were spent on Rooney. We can't beat frigin City at OT in EPL for 10 years now!

Good job. What goes around comes around. (H)

Originally posted by Fernandez
I'm waiting for vanTheman with his 'we needed van der vaart' comment....

Now you've spoilt it, he won't say it this time!:f***: :(

11 points behind Chelsea now.:f***:

Why **** do we only play well in the Champions League?:rolleyes:

Originally posted by ladylover
Man U need a fresh, creative and young attacking midfielder,

We need so many things and players that there isnt any point to discuss about it...

Originally posted by SlowSilver
Give credit where credits due. Citys defence was fantastic.

City don't deserve any credit. We were just pathetic.

Originally posted by manutd4eva
Now you've spoilt it, he won't say it this time!:f***: :(

11 points behind Chelsea now.:f***:

Why **** do we only play well in the Champions League?:rolleyes:

That prize we are hungry for it. It seems the Premiership is nothing but a Carling Cup to the players.

how many umpteen 0-0 draw again :kader:

Man U need the creativity, someone who can provide good through passes,

twice now manutd have failed to capitalize on arsenal's downfall..

i m disgusted and down...i sense another silverwareless season

Some of those overpaid twats should piss off! ******* lazy ****s some of them!

Saha is a ******* reincarnation of Andy Cole.:kader:

Originally posted by SlowSilver
Give credit where credits due. Citys defence was fantastic.
Fantastic? United defended better against Bolton, than City against us today. The attack is frigin ****, the penalties turned down. Should have been at least 4-0 :kader: .

Originally posted by soccerbest
how many umpteen 0-0 draw again :kader:

It's actually our fourth this season.

The players aren't motivated. I would rather go for the score more goals but crap performance than dominant but goalless performance.

Originally posted by SlowSilver
Give credit where credits due. Citys defence was fantastic.

No they were not, we are **** in our finishings. No penalties given, we were robbed. :kader:

Well done Man City. (Y)

As for Alan Smith, what a thug :p

We should get Feyenoord's Salomon Kalou,

Ooh aah we were robbed ooh aah. :boohoo:

Dunne and Jordan were class, give them credit.

Originally posted by ladylover
We should get Feyenoord's Salomon Kalou,

Shut the **** up!

Bah.........:(

Originally posted by soccerbest
No they were not, we are **** in our finishings. No penalties given, we were robbed. :kader:

What goes around comes around. The Saha incident in the first half should have been a penalty.

These are my ratings:

Carroll - 6 - Nothing to do
G.Neville - 7 - Did not deliver the balls
Ferdinand - 7 - Nothing to do
Silvestre - 7 - Surged forward and some interceptions
Heinze - 6 - Final ball was poor at times
Ronaldo - 6 - Too many tricks, crossing was poor :(
Keane - 7 - Couldn't inspire Man. United to victory
Scholes - 6 - Had poor touches that could've turned into goals
Miller - 6 - Didn't impress that much
Smith - 6 - Sent off but was determined and had shot blocked off the line
Saha - 5 - Offsides and sitter

Subs:

Giggs - 6 - Sitter and poor attempt at conning
Rooney - 5 - Had a shot blocked

I don't like to bash the players but when the form is poor, I have to do it.

Originally posted by enigma
Ooh aah we were robbed ooh aah. :boohoo:

Dunne and Jordan were class, give them credit.

stfu. :f***:

man........an entertaining game....but man u had no luck....as for giggs...we need 2 find someone 2 replace him soon...coz he missed the chance again like he did against ass-senal.....we dont deserved 2 draw 2day....:kader: :(

Originally posted by soccerbest
stfu. :f***:

Don't see me telling you ****s to stfu when you guys celebrate when we draw/lose. Heh.

Those "penalty claims" were bull****. It seems Refs are growing some balls and since Riley obviously got some extra money of SAF 2 weeks ago Refs are starting to properly referee games instead of giving Man Utd a pentalty at every turn.

60 million strikeforce?? looked more like a 6milllion one

Originally posted by Dreath
Those "penalty claims" were bull****. It seems Refs are growing some balls and since Riley obviously got some extra money of SAF 2 weeks ago Refs are starting to properly referee games instead of giving Man Utd a pentalty at every turn.
Oh really? :rolleyes:

Originally posted by enigma
Don't see me telling you ****s to stfu when you guys celebrate when we draw/lose. Heh.
Not everyone of us tells you to shut up.







We couldn't put a ball in net from those opportunities today and i think everyone has a right to bash United's attack anyway they want, because today it was ****te.

We have the second-best defence in the league but we are in 7th in the low scorers charts.

Originally posted by Fernandez
We have the second-best defence in the league but we are in 7th in the low scorers charts.

True

Sh*t Happens

Originally posted by ladylover
Sh*t Happens
Unfortunately it happens too many times for us this season. :rolleyes:


I can't believe that after 12 games, we are 11 points off Chelsea, with such a team. It's been like that the whole season we do really well, the next game we do bad, then we get angry do really well and then again do bad.

Palace will get creamed in the Carling Cup. Just watch. Then we'll be **** against Newcastle.:rolleyes:

WTF, i dunno what ryan giggs does for united now, he always wasting the good changes in front of the goal. I suggest SAF buy or give change to the young player to replace Ryan Giggs. I dun believe MU reserve team dun have any good player to replave Ryan giggssssssssss.:f***:

Newcastle are low in morale surely. I hope the FA bans Souness from the touchline, then we will beat a Nicky Butt-inspired Newcastle.

I bet we couldn't score against an 8-man Newcastle if we keep playing crap football in the league.

Probably shouldn't have sold Butt also!

Damn I rather lose to Pompey than drew freakin City:|

Gggrrrrrr:kader:

A player like van der Vaart would suit Man Yoo well.

man, Man Utd were so lucky to come away with one point, City completely dominated the match
































(H) :(

I disagree with Fernandez's Ronaldo score. He didnt do too many tricks at all? If anything mate he didnt do enough. I mean sometimes he went down the left wing, nocked the ball ahead and crossed with his left, when we all know he could of easily cut back onto his right. Sometimes I think he doesnt wanna do too much and lose the ball, but he could.

He had a good game but like Andy Gray said he'll have games like that, he's learning.

About United, I dont think it was a particularly bad performance, should of been a pen on Saha, you had a few chances but City just defended the whole match, Carrol didnt have a save to make.

:boohoo:

City's defense has shown an unbelievable amount of improvement over the past few games :o they SMOTHERED Manure today (H)

Looked like City went out with the same game plan they had against us. Only difference is we got the goal.

Originally posted by -Vince-
A player like van der Vaart would suit Man Yoo well.

you really think that united needs any more forwards

Originally posted by modena_10
you really think that united needs any more forwards

vaart is a creative attacking midfielder, he'd play great alongside scholesy, that IS what Man U needs

This was a dull game, IMO, and dropped points for Man Utd. the reason why they are where they are in the table

Originally posted by modena_10
you really think that united needs any more forwards

Originally posted by Fernandez
I'm waiting for vanTheman with his 'we needed van der vaart' comment....

:(

Originally posted by modena_10
you really think that united needs any more forwards He's not an forward, he's an left-footed offensive midfielder.

Typical, how many times did we screw up after a great game this season?

Win Fener and Spurs we then went on to drew Boro
Win Arsenal and Crewe we lost to Pompey
win Sparta, we then drew freakin City

:(

we need robben
we could have had robben
but we dont

Originally posted by rony31
City's defense has shown an unbelievable amount of improvement over the past few games :o they SMOTHERED Manure today (H)

Manchester United's worst midfield for 20 years and you still could not beat us at Old Trafford. 30 years 30 years 30 years 30 years 30 years you blue ****.
(H)
http://img120.exs.cx/img120/5867/images33.jpg
William Flood

Originally posted by shokz
Manchester United's worst midfield for 20 years and you still could not beat us at Old Trafford. 30 years 30 years 30 years 30 years 30 years you blue ****.
(H)
http://img120.exs.cx/img120/5867/images33.jpg
William Flood

http://www.soccergaming.tv/attachment.php?s=&postid=991997

http://img128.exs.cx/img128/4812/keegss4.gif

:rofl:

Originally posted by ladylover
The win on Arsenal was for nothing

Just for bragging rights! (H)

Manchester United are becoming the "Inter Milan" of England.

Too many draws.

:rolleyes:

UEFA Champions League Group D
Club P W D L GS GA PTS
Man. United 4 2 2 0 12 5 8

Peemier League
Club P W D L GS GA PTS
Man. United 12 4 6 2 11 9 18

we are lack of goals now. even man city and crystal palace score more goals that us. what a shame. what for we get 4 strikers but can't score goals. team performance are poor, i can't recall which of our midfielder have score now? giggs? my god, he miss the golden chance of the game. scholes? still can't get his name on the scoresheet and have few poor first touch. Keane? he just can't blast the ball into the net from 20 yards out nowadays. Ronaldo? do score for portugal but keep hitting post for man utd. the performance like this, i'm worrying whether we can finish as top 3 at the end or not :(

I don't think that they will be in the top 3 this season, unless a miracle happens, it is a pity that we could have got both Ronaldinho and Robben, then we would have that fear factor again

Saha was awesome, this is one of his best games but too bad he couldn't finish. He beat the City offside trap many times and don't tell me James wasn't afraid of him.

LOL at some of u Manure fans laughing at us drawing against CP....... It sucks doesnt it?????

anyone have a clip of the two penalty shouts?

not much point asking for highlights since there isn't a goal..
but just wanted to know if man utd was really robbed by dodgy ref twice.. (once i can take, twice in one game is abit too much!)

Originally posted by ladylover
I don't think that they will be in the top 3 this season, unless a miracle happens, it is a pity that we could have got both Ronaldinho and Robben, then we would have that fear factor again

If only if only... the one who f**ked up the deal should be shot! damn that bastard....

Manchester derby. Exactly the replay of Arsenal/Palace. United could'nt have gone any nearer without scoring. If there wasn't such a intennse rivalry between the teams you would say United were doing favours to their fellow mancunians. As for the lady luck, it certainly eas smiling at United but tongue in cheek.