Merry Christmas United supporters! Ole Gunnar Solskjaer removed the constraints in his first game in charge, on an interim basis, at Manchester United and the results astounded. United cruised to a 5-1 road win against a newly promoted side and on Boxing Day we should expect a similar result as the Red Devils will face the side that’s second from the bottom in the entire table.
Maybe that’s all United really needed to get this season going in the right direction?
Just stop micro-managing and over-thinking it. Just let the talent do it’s thing and attack, attack, attack. It’s clear now- things are going to be different from here to the end of the season.
While everyone is fired up about the start of the Solskjaer era, (and seriously, why wouldn’t you be?) homage was still paid to Jose Mourinho and the two and a half (I guess, sort of) minor trophies that he won at Old Trafford.
What makes that news worthy is that both Paul Pogba and Luke Shaw paid their public homages. Now we just need Anthony Martial to publicly praise his former boss, and then we’ll have the full hat trick of players who publicly feuded with Mourinho covered.
The Bank MUFC Starting XI Prediction vs Huddersfield Town (4-3-3)
Attack: Anthony Martial, Marcus Rashford, Jesse Lingard
Midfielders: Paul Pogba, Nemanja Matic, Ander Herrera
Defenders: Luke Shaw, Victor Lindelof, Phil Jones, Ashley Young,
Goalkeeper: David de Gea
Huddersfield Town at Manchester United FYIs
Kick-off: 3pm (BST), 10am (EST) Wednesday December 26, Old Trafford
Google Result Probability: United win- 78%, Draw 16%, Huddersfield win- 6%
Odds via Odds Shark: United win 2/9, draw 11/2, Huddersfield 11/1
Injury Report: go to this link
Prediction: United 4, Huddersfield 0
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