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Manchester United will host Southampton tonight in a must-win recreation at Previous Trafford.
The Pink Devils discover themselves in fifteenth place after this week’s set of fixtures and embarrassingly solely seven factors above the relegation zone.
Ruben Amorim’s males have began 2025 fairly nicely, drawing 2-2 at Anfield versus Liverpool and knocking Arsenal out of the FA Cup on the Emirates on penalties regardless of taking part in nicely over an hour with ten males.
The United boss has claimed earlier than the match that video games like tonight “will construct the membership’s future id” greater than the outcomes versus Liverpool and Arsenal.
The Pink Devils will doubtless have loads of the ball and can want endurance to interrupt down a Southampton group which are unlikely to be too adventurous.
United have struggled to attain objectives this season as they solely have 23 in 20 matches and have not often seemed comfy making an attempt to unlock a low block.
It’s clear that United miss assault minded wing-backs which are so important to Amorim’s system, however till signings are made, somebody might want to tackle the duty of offering attacking width to assist overload the Saints’ defence.
Amorim will almost certainly closely depend on each Amad Diallo and Bruno Fernandes to carve out areas within the away aspect’s defence and carry the inventive burden that they so typically do.
With Diogo Dalot missing the match as a consequence of his crimson card picked up in opposition to Arsenal, will probably be attention-grabbing to see if the Portuguese coach will choose Amad as a way more attacking wing-back possibility and this may very well be a key to victory.
The away aspect are hardly free-flowing themselves, having solely scored 12 objectives all season within the league, the lowest tally within the prime 5 tiers of English soccer.
Nonetheless, earlier than scoring two fast objectives within the first half at St Mary’s in September, United had been nicely beneath the cosh and Andre Onana needed to make a penalty save as Southampton brought on the Pink Devils’ a bunch of issues.
It’s onerous to think about the opposition being so assault minded tonight however they may very well be a menace from set items.
“9 of United’s 28 Premier League objectives conceded this season have been headers, whereas 9 have additionally come from corners; each league-high ratios of 32%.”
Amorim’s aspect have proven enchancment on this regard at each Liverpool and notably Arsenal, however they are going to want this to proceed tonight to keep away from giving up simple probabilities to threaten their purpose.
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