Northampton V Man Utd - EFL Cup 3rd Round 21/09/16 19:45

Really not to sure about the team selection on this one

Dodgy pitch - risk of injury with an enthusiastic  Northampton wanting to take us out - Players needing to build confidence - Players needing to score goals - a defense that needs settling

Shaw definitely out, Micky expected back 24th Sept - Martial hope he's okay but I'm not sure if he needs rest or game time

Jose wanted September to come to give players a run out - well it's here -------- but not as we would have liked it
My team selection


                       
"Rest" the (misfiring) big guns for Leicester on Saturday

I think we will win this 2 or 3 nil would be nice

I'd still at this stage like us to use this competition to get players up to speed and give the youth a chance. Win here and build the confidence for Saturday getting a couple of players sharp for that match as well.



Saw Rojo was at the train station but please Jose anyone but him

I hate playing these League one teams - you never know what to expect - you can either win 5-0 or they can defend like their lives depend on it and at the end you lose 1-0 by a random goal. I think I'd go with a mix of experience and youth



Also saw that nice article:

George Best stole the show when Manchester United thumped Northampton 8-2: 'We got free steaks and sherry, but Bestie put six past us'

Manchester United will have superstars in abundance when they take on League One Northampton on Wednesday night — but not one can match the magic of George Best.

And no performance better sums up the star quality of the Northern Ireland genius than the six goals he scored in an 8-2 FA Cup fifth-round victory over Northampton 46 years ago.

Best was not even in the list of United players in the two-shilling (10p) match programme — now regularly changing hands for more than £175 online — having been out of the side while serving a four-week ban for knocking the ball from referee Jack Taylor’s hands at the end of a Manchester derby.

‘Once we knew we were going to play against United everyone came out of the woodwork,’ Ray Fairfax, the man deputed to mark Best, told Sportsmail. ‘The butcher offered us steaks free of charge, somebody supplied all the sherry, then the farmer supplied all the eggs so we were living a luxurious lifestyle while trying to build up our strength. It was a nice build-up but it didn’t pay off.

‘For Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Paul Pogba now, then we had Bobby Charlton, Paddy Crerand and George Best. All the names were there. At half-time it was only 2-0, but then Best spun into action and there was not a lot we could do about it from there on in.
‘He was brilliant with his speed of thought and he would always catch you unawares. When he had gone, you had to make every effort to catch him which was nigh-on impossible.

‘He made his mark by proving to the world that he was still one of the greatest players of all time and he was pretty good on that day.
‘For the final goal he took it around Kim Book the goalkeeper and just stood on the goalline, waved to the crowd and then put it into the net. It was one of those magic moments in time, even all those years ago, that nobody will ever forget.’
www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3799003/George-Best-stole-Manchester-United-thumped-Northampton-8-2.html

Rooney's up front :lol:

Man Utd forums explode...

Ohhhhhh I almost got it right. But yeah, Rooney up front is strange

Yep, great time to play them so soon after, be interesting to see what time they put it on.