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Manchester United travel to Chelsea FC on Sunday in a clash of two English giants battling for two of the coveted top four positions in the Premier League. The two sides are also famous for going head to head in the transfer market over the same targets.
With this huge crunch clash coming up, and a few fitness concerns for the Red Devils, let’s take a look at how United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer might shape his first team in this one.
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Chelsea FC host Manchester United in one of the biggest matches of the Premier League weekend. Thomas Tuchel has the Blues moving up the table, getting results through solid defensive play and keeping the opponents off the score sheet.
Yes, there are a few players in his side that are likely angry about not getting more playing time, and justifiably so. However, you can’t argue with results and Tuchel is getting them, so it is unlikely he’ll switch up his lineup at this time.
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Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel said it best about Sunday’s Premier League fixture against Manchester United: “If we win, it will be huge for us and if they win it is huge for them.”
While Manchester City hosting West Ham (first versus fourth) is a slightly bigger game in terms of the standings, this is the headliner match-up, from a brand name standpoint. While both United and Chelsea are out of the title race, there are both part of a really fierce battle to secure a position in the top four.
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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has recently said, he wants a superstar on his side. While they’re obviously doing just fine right now with what they have, and Pep did say, when making those remarks that he’s content with the side he has, who wouldn’t want a galactico?
Obviously, no club, other than PSG, has the financial resources that City do, so it makes sense that they’ll be front-runners to get the biggest and boldest names every summer. Once again there is talk linking City with Lionel Messi, nothing new there, but Thursday brought another big bit of juicy transfer talk.
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The banner headline game in the Premier League this weekend, based off just table position, is West Ham visiting Manchester City. No really, it is! It’s first versus fourth as the Irons, who finished just above the relegation zone last season, are true top four contenders this season.
Of course, Chelsea vs Manchester United is the big brand, headliner fixture of the weekend, but that’s a match-up of second versus fifth. Given what we know of the team news, let’s take a look at what kind of team David Moyes might put out at City on Saturday.
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In the words of a famous ’90s hip-hop superstar “here comes the hammer.” Yes, it looks like West Ham United are truly here to stay, in regards to the Premier League top four race this season.
Sitting two points ahead of Chelsea for the fourth and final Champions League qualification slot, they’re only four points off the pace for second. However, this weekend brings a massive challenge, a trip to league leading Manchester City, who’ve won a record setting 19 in a row.
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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola maintains that the current favorite in the UEFA Championa League are the holders, Bayern Munich. At the same time, he understands why his side is considered the foront-runner right now, after they won their 19th-straight game, across all competitions on Wednesday.
City posted a 2-0 first leg win over Borussia Monchengladbach tonight in the Champions League Round of 16. City have yet to reach a UCL final and Guardiola has yet to lead them past the quarterfinals.
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If you don’t know the difference between a bear and bull market, here’s the etymology, which is really easy to remember. A bull market refers to stocks going up, because that’s how the animal attacks its prey, by driving its horns upward. A bear market is heading downward, because that’s how bears kill their victims- clamping and biting down.
Or you can just remember that in the 1990s the Chicago Bulls were up at the top of the NBA, while the Chicago Bears were down in the dregs, and staying there for awhile. As for the baby bears, the Chicago Cubs, the bull market for postseason possibilities is now over, and it’s going to be a bearish market for awhile.
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Common Goal, the social movement founded by Manchester United midfielder Juan Mata, has announced more American allies today. Common Goal was founded with the purpose of uniting the global football community against the greatest social challenge of our time- systemic racism.
Given the rash of racist incidents in world football/soccer lately, there has been an even bigger push to try and stamp out hate in the beautiful game. Chicago Fire FC today announced that it is aligning with Common Goal to help launch the Anti-Racist Project (ARP), a program to combat systemic racism in football and society.
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When Manchester United host Real Sociedad on Thursday night, they’ll do so in a just-going-through-the-motions kind of contest as this Europa League round of 32 tie is already won.
Up for 4-0 on aggregate from the first leg, manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer can easily afford to play an experimental side, if he wants to. At the very least, you’re going to see lot of end of the bench guys get in, and those who are borderline when it comes to fitness will almost be certainly be rested.
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Manchester United are, for all intents and purposes, already through to the UEFA Europa League round of 16, so Thursday night’s clash is just a mere formality.
United will welcome Real Sociedad to Old Trafford in midweek, having already thrashed them 4-0 last week and thus ended their hex against Spanish opposition. Now the Red Devils will look to get a home win over a team from Spain for the first time since 2013-14, when it was also Sociedad; in that season’s UEFA Champions League competition.
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