A game before the final international break of the season sees United travel to relegation strugglers Leicester and take on former player and manager Ruud van Nistelrooy in the late kick-off to end this matchweek.
It isn't the most glamorous of fixtures condering the positions and difficult predicaments of the two clubs but that could actually make things interesting.
Ruben Amorim however, will want to continue his side's momentum after their epic display against Real Sociedad on Thursday. That is something the manager wants after having said so in his press conference.
Let's see what we'll get.
Predicted Lineup
I do suspect we will see changes given the break between the last game and this and that we will be getting players back.
With Dorgu serving his third and final game through suspension after his straight red against Ipswich, I can see Amorim shuffling the back line.
Mazraoui will move into RWB with Dalot to the left and a back three of Heaven, De Ligt and Lindelof. While the manager hinted at a return for Maguire, I have a feeling he won't be ready to at least start this game.
Ugarte is another player I can see returning to the starting XI. He will be partnered by Casemiro who seems to have found himself in recent weeks.
This will push the light of the team Bruno to his preferred number 10 position alongside the ever-improving Zirkzee. Hojlund to keep his place as striker after an impressive showing in that 4-1 win in Europe.
Approach
We should be going to the King Power and look to play as we did on Thursday, albeit with a better start and not needing Leicester to do someothing to kick us into gear.
This was probably the only negative to that win as everything else done by the team was spot on.
Amorim will be wanting his side to get off to a flyer as do so and perhaps score an early and we have the chance of putting the pressure onto our hosts whilst reducing it for ourselves. We don't want to give them any encouragement.
What we have done well is be solid defensively. This is one of the pros of having this 3-4-3 system as you will always have three defenders at the least. A CDM will be ahead of them giving you four at the back and whenever needed, the wing-backs drop deeper to give you two more extra defenders.
This makes things a lot more congested and difficult to breakdown. While we do concede goals, it's not because of poor defending or being carved open by the opposition but rather by individual errors. These cost us more than anything.
The midfield has also looked good with the improved form of Casemiro. Drop Ugarte next to him and we should be a lot more solid in the centre of the park.
Adding Bruno to the attack will obviously give us something more in those forward areas. Having Casemiro and Ugarte behind him will mean that the captain won't have to worry too much about defensive duties. All his focus can be on creating and scoring which can be beneficial for the striker.
I know that Amorim has been using the skipper in deeper positions and he hasn't been too bad there. United's talisman has been deployed as that number 8 in each of the last six games yet has still managed to get 6 goals and 1 assist even though he was further away from the goal. Yes a few of these strikes came from free-kicks and penalties yet even still, those are impressive numbers all the same.
Then it is about trying to get Hojlund to score. I believe this is the part of our game that has truly been missing. The Dane put in his best performance in a long time on Thursday night and even registered an assist which was his first goal involvement since the 2-1 win at Viktoria Plzen in which he scored both goals.
His display last time out lacked a goal as it would've capped off a pretty perfect evening for the number 9. It's also not as if he isn't getting the chances anymore as we have begun to create for the centre-forward.
Hojlund did everything you would've wanted from your striker least of which was good movement off the ball to create space for his teammates. His movement allowed Bruno to score his hat-trick. All these things will give him confidence moving forward.
Form
United in the league have failed to win back-to-back games all campaign. We have been really poor in terms of consistency as we don't know what to expect from the squad.
We drew our last game against Arsenal which was a good result in isolation but we really should've gotten the 3 points.
The last five have seen one win, two draws and two losses, scoring 6 and conceding 7. During this time, we've also failed to keep a clean sheet. In fact, in Amorim's 17 league games, United have kept just the two shut outs. Before the Portuguese's arrival, the Cameroonian was on top of the table for most clean sheets.
Away from home, United languish in 16th in the away table. We have just three wins (Southampton, City, Fulham), five draws and five losses to give us 14 points. The 13 we've scored is one of the fewest on the road but the 15 we've let in is also one of the fewest.
Don't score but don't concede either 🤷♂️.
However, under Amorim, in his eight away matches in the league, United have scored just the 8 goals.
Leicester
Ruud is really struggling at the Foxes as currently, they are the worst team in the league as they boast the unwanted record of having lost all of their last five.
On top of that, Leicester have conceded a staggering 13 goals in these last five. To make things even worse, they have failed to score in any of these matches as well 😳.
Things get even worse as the Foxes have failed to score in ANY of their last six home Premier League matches! They are the first and only team to achieve such a record.
This for a team that has one of the best strikers in PL history as their manager.
Their overall form this campaign sees the Foxes sit in 19th with four wins, five draws and 19 losses. These 28 matches have seen them score 25 but concede a mammoth 62!
They're lucky Southampton are truly shit otherwise this Leicester outfit would be one of the worst in the league's history.
At home, they are 18th in the home table with just two wins, three draws and nine defeats. Only the Saints with 10 have scored fewer than Leicester with 11 at home.
Recent Meetings
We've already faced them thrice this season with United having won all of them: 3-0 (PL), 5-2 (Carabao Cup with Ruud as our manager) and 2-1 in the FA Cup. All were at home as well.
The overall history in recent years is actually very topsy-tervy.
We have won the last five in all comps however, there was a period when the Foxes won three in a row sandwiched between two draws meaning that they didn't lose for five games against United.
Not a foregone conclusion is this game.
Prediction
I don't think we will lose though. I believe we have the momentum and the improved performances will help us in this game.
United to win 2-0.
But if we did lose...
Surely not? Not against a seriosuly crap side, right?
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