Reading v UNITED (23rd September)

[Busby Boy]

5.15 Premplus.

I expect United to take the field like this:

Kuszczak

Neville - Ferdinand - Brown - Evra

Fletcher - Scholes - Carrick - Ronaldo

Rooney - Saha

Your thoughts?

[Vidic's Bitch !]

yup that looks more than good enough for me.even if vander sars back kusack should keep his place

[tomo]

I think Kuszczak should play again. Saw this on BBC rumours page.

Reports in Holland have suggested that Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar was left out of Sunday's game against Arsenal because he criticised his side's defence after the recent win over Celtic. United say he was not in the side because of illness. (The Sun)

I know its the Sun but it cud well be true?

[Vidic's Bitch !]

well the defence were crap against celtic,so hes right

[Busby Boy]

VDS isn't the type to start arguments, that's just bollocks.

If he's fit he should play, I only put Kuszczak because at the moment Van Der Sar is not known whether he will be fit for the next match.

[Tatty]

This is gonna be a tough game for us I think.

Reading haven't lost at home for an age!

[Chris]

I think Reading's style of play will help us, they are unlikely to go defensive and like to attack. Have to see how that VDS rumour pans out most likely it's bull but you never know.

[Red Yank]

No defensive slip ups for this match I hope. As was mentioned, Reading have a great home record and they'll come at us I'm sure. We need to get a win here because it's only goal differential that separates us from the chavs.

[7even]

So its Reading up next!!

And after yesterdays game we need to get right back on track against a decent reading team that will fancy there chances as they are at home.

We looked a little overun at times yesterday and badly missed Giggsy I think Fergie should start ole out the right wing and switch ronaldo to the left and drop fletcher and o shea.

I just hope their heads are right and we dont do what we did down at watford where we imo didnt take them serious enough and just about scraped the win!!

I predict reading 0 utd 2 fingers crossed,,

- DerryRed

[7even]

derryred said:

drop fletcher and o shea.

Massive thumbs up!

[redom]

We need to put in a good performance against Reading, they tend to try and play a bit so hopefully it will a good game with both teams up for it, again we're at a disadvantage of having little depth to the squad as we could do with changing things around a bit a bringing a few fresh faces into the team to give us a boost but we can't do that and will have to hope the players available can pick themselves up.

I'd like to see O'Shea and Fletcher dropped too but I'm pretty sure at least one of them will play as I doubt we'll put out a midfield of Ronaldo, Carrick, Scholes and Richardson, again we're suffering from our thin squad (made worse by our injuries admittedly). I wouldn't have minded seeing a change up front too, not because Saha hasn't played well but just to freshen things up but again we don't really have that option.

We should be able to overcome Reading but I'm hoping for a much improved performance aswell as a result.

[Red Yank]

7even said:

So its Reading up next!!

And after yesterdays game we need to get right back on track against a decent reading team that will fancy there chances as they are at home.

We looked a little overun at times yesterday and badly missed Giggsy I think Fergie should start ole out the right wing and switch ronaldo to the left and drop fletcher and o shea.

I just hope their heads are right and we dont do what we did down at watford where we imo didnt take them serious enough and just about scraped the win!!

I predict reading 0 utd 2 fingers crossed,,

- DerryRed

The problem I see with putting Ole on the wing is that we'll have no depth up front if either Rooney or Saha aren't doing so well and we need to switch things up. I'm confident we'll do fine but there's always that little voice that says "keep your fingers crossed" which is annoying because I wish we were out there dominating. I hope Saturday we'll see more of the United we saw against Fulham.

[hyderedphil]

2-1 win for united

[Dizzy]

I think we'll bounce back really well, 3-0 I say.

[Sky Sports 1]

Was impressed With Kuszczak against Arsenal most of the game, aside from the goal which he could have done better on, chose to go low and the ball went underneath him.

But if Van Der Sar is fit, he plays, end of. He just knows he has capable competition from now on.