I doubt United's teamsheet will be identical to last night's. Rafael will probably be back in at right-back, which could hurt us rather than help as he's ok going forwards but has a rubbish cross and is nigh on useless as a defender. It's why he gets booked so often, he's just far too rash in his challenges and Ribery will skin him alive. It wouldn't surprise me if he gets sent off against Bayern again.
As for the whole Neuer bromance you've got going on there, I can't agree. United were looking at him after he put in that unbeatable shift against us when we played Schalke (I think) in the CL a few years back and then he followed that up with a string of bizarrely poor performances which put United right off him. He's not the best keeper in my eyes and in any case, even if he was, you still always fancy the forward to score in one-on-ones. The Welbeck chance has so much emphasis placed on it because it was the clearest opportunity either team had to score all night (including the goals that were scored which were arguably harder efforts to convert). He has so much pace, all he had to do was feint to shoot and knock it past him and he'd have had an open goal to tap into. He allowed himself to be closed down too quickly and should have either taken the shot on sooner or gone past him. His disallowed goal was slightly dubious as well and I've seen those sorts of incidents go unpunished by the ref many times.
The team I expect Moyes to field will probably look something like this:
De Gea
Rafael, Ferdinand, Vidic, Buttner
Valencia, Carrick, Kagawa, Januzaj
Rooney
Welbeck
Personally, I'd never give Fellaini another chance to prove how utterly useless he is. 6ft 4in ad he only won 14% of his aerial challenges. Most of those headers won went to opposition players as well I think. He's pish!
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