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Man United predicted line-ups & matches to play

Man United predicted line-ups and team news

The predicted Man United line-up for each of the next matches, with the players ruled out and why. Pick your own starting XI on any of them and play the match.

How each predicted Man United line-up is picked: the strongest eleven for each position from the current squad, with injured and unavailable players left out and the reason given. Every page shows the date its squad information was checked. The confirmed Man United line-up is announced about an hour before kick-off; until then, the prediction is the guide. Each fixture page comes down once its match has been played, and new fixtures are added as the season goes on.

United built a reputation on refusing to accept a result until the whistle, and their most famous nights are the ones that were lost with two minutes left.

Take the touchline for Man United in 1 match that really happened. Pick your eleven, make the substitutions and the tactical calls, and find out whether you could have changed how it ended. Free to play in your browser, with no download and no account.

Two goals in stoppage time to win a European final. League matches turned around from positions that should have been beyond saving. The pattern repeats often enough that opponents used to talk about it openly.

Replaying those matches means deciding when to abandon the shape and go. Too early and you concede a third; too late and there is no time. It is the most interesting decision in football, and United have faced it more than most.

You are the manager, not a player. That means naming an eleven from the real squad and then making the decisions a manager actually made — when to change it, who to trust, whether to settle or go again. Each one comes before you know the outcome.

United's matches carry an expectation that sits on top of the football itself. Some of the games on this site are ones the club would rather forget, and playing them from the inside is a different experience from reading about them.

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