Match Day Thread Manchester United vs Southampton EFL CUP Final Sunday 26/02/2017 Kick-Off 4:30PM

It's the weekend that's really going to drag for me.

 

How is everyone getting there? I'm planning on driving and getting a train to Wembley. Which station are people using? Can't remember where I went and parked for the JPT.

 

I travelled down to Stanmore for JPT. Large cheap car park at Tube station and four stops to Wembley. Mind you that was against Carlisle, Manure will have hordes travelling south, or maybe not. Perhaps they already live in London.

 

I'm debating on staying up there on Saturday night. If I don't will be getting national express at around 7am.

Been offered a lift but need to see what time they're leaving before I decide. Want to be in London by 10 absolute latest really.

 

Surely you'd be better staying Sunday night?

Vin

 

Nah I'm thinking of doing Sat night to save the hassle of travelling up in the morning. Will be much easier.

Plus if I'm hungover, I'd rather wake up hungover at home

 

blah blah blah how will I be getting to the final? well I'll walk to the living room earlier in the day and check if the match is showing on Serbian TV. If it's not, I'll go down to the local sports / bookies bar and see if they have it on, then I'll go back to my computer and try to find a crap stream. ENJOY YOUR DAY PEOPLE!
I should be so lucky, lucky lucky lucky!

 

Coming down from Loughborough into St Pancras, spend the weekend in London and meander my way over to Wembley on Sunday midday.

 

https://southamptonfc.com/news/2017-02-16/gallery-southampton-training-february-16

Forster's haircut makes him look like a capuchin monkey....a very large capuchin monkey.

 

41 years ago this would have had a totally different meaning...they were both alive for a start: (ignore the first name)

Stokes ordered to pay Elvis impersonator 230,000 euros

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38999105

 

Think cacares will feature?

 

No point in worrying about them, they have a load of talent and are the clear favourites, let's just enjoy it and focus ourselves !

 

Bench I reckon. I wouldn't start him anyway.

 

In our five game march to the EFL Final we have played almost our entire squad totaling 27 players, including nine academy players:
McCarthy x2
Forster x3
Martina x2
Soares x2
Stephens x2
Fonte x2
Yoshida x5
van Diijk x2
Bertrand x3 (1 goal)
Targett
McQueen x2
Romeu x2
Reed x3
Clasie x4 (1 goal)
Ward-Prowse x4
Hesketh (1 goal)
Højbjerg x5
Davis x3
Isgrove
Tadic x3
Sims x2
Redmond x3 (1 goal)
Boufal x2 (1 goal)
Olomola
Long x4 (1 goal)
Austin (1 goal)
Rodriguez x3

Lewis has not featured but has been on the bench in every game.

Only Højbjerg and Yoshida have participated in each game, with the latter the only one playing all of the game time. There are going to be some disappointed players who don't make the final squad, even taking out the injured van Dijk and departed Fonte. We have also added Gabbiadini and Martin Caceres.

 

No, too much of an unknown. Just don't want Stephens and yoshida to get torn a new one.

 

Interesting CB conundrum for the final then. Risky to play him and risky to not play him.

Stephens and yoshida against zlatan hmmmmmmm.

New CB hasn't played in months hmmmmmm.

Decisions decisions

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Same back 5 as Sunderland for me.

I have been saying completely unchanged but unsure about Davis in the pivot against a better side, he's struggled in the role before so it's a tough one. JWP wide right will have to work bloody hard too.

With our break though there's no reason not to start bright and press the hell out of them.

 

Getting so excited already! Really quiet at work so been reading through the Inter away threads... making me even more excited. Still can't believe I'm going to the San Siro and a Wembley cup final in the same season

Don't know how I'm going to cope in the next 8 days

 

Oh come along TLL. You're going to have to get used to all this in the coming years.