Burnley v Manchester United: Premier League – live!

02 September 2018 02:52
Latest updates from the 4pm BST kickoffWatford v Tottenham Hotspur: Premier League – live!Email tom.lutz@theguardian.com or tweet @tom_lutz 3.52pm BST Before we kick off at Burnley, the East Anglian derby was played earlier in the day, and you can peruse the report here: Related: Norwich’s Moritz Leitner extends Ipswich’s long wait for derby victory 3.44pm BST Here’s some hot protest banner action. Kudos to the United fans for using a long word like “specialist”, which probably cost more to get on the banner (I assume you pay by the letter). Apparently there was a decent - but not huge - amount of applause as it zoomed over the stadium:The protest banner which we can’t see from the press box but has just shown up on the monitor. #mufc pic.twitter.com/ZVKMFdon1O 3.39pm BST Mourinho has spoken about his decision to include Fellaini in the starting XI. “We hope [he helps in both attack and defence] . we hope he helps us to play against a team with a certain style of play [mild dig at Burnley. We are going to try with [Fellaini] to cope with the problems that Burnley bring to every match,” he says. 3.29pm BST Protest news: no one is bothered about boring old protest marches anymore. Nowadays it’s all about aerial discontent - whether it’s Trump as a big baby or London mayor Sadiq Khan in a fetching bikini. United fans have gone for something a little zippier and plan to perform a flyover (or pay someone to perform a flyover) to show their support for Mourinho and their contempt for vice-chairman Ed Woodward. For his part, the Guardian’s Daniel Taylor things both men share the blame. 3.20pm BST As you may be aware, José Mourinho is under a little bit of pressure for this match. United have three points from three games and are 14th in the table. It is, of course, only three league games into the season so we’re not very high on the crisis-ometer just yet. But a bad result today will change things. It’s lucky, then, that United are playing Burnley, who have bumbled along at the start of this season and have yet to win (from a massive sample of three league games). Fellaini’s introduction looks like Mourinho is going for solidity rather than firepower after the embarrassment against Spurs. 3.11pm BST Hello, the teams are in. Mourinho has had made a few changes after the Spurs unpleasantness. Sanchez, Lindelof and Fellaini return to the starting line-up:Here's your #MUFC starting XI for #BURMUN. pic.twitter.com/RY8sTS69ZRTEAM NEWS: Here's the Clarets side to face @ManUtd in the @premierleague at Turf Moor.A full Premier League debut for @dwight_mcneil99 pic.twitter.com/gTPbaacNCC 1.33pm BST Tom will be here shortly, in the meantime here’s Daniel Taylor on the problems at Old Trafford:What do you imagine Ed Woodward will be thinking, from his seat in the Bob Lord stand, when a plane flies over Turf Moor this afternoon and the message trailed in the skies makes it clear there are Manchester United supporters who prefer to hold him responsible for the club’s current predicament rather than subjecting José Mourinho to any real form of mutiny?It will need the thickest of skins, presumably, when the plane’s banner will read “Ed Woodward – specialist in failure” on the same weekend, 10 years since Abu Dhabi’s royal family seized control of Manchester City, that so many column inches have been devoted to the shift in power in this divided city. Related: José Mourinho muddles United’s thinking but Ed Woodward shares blame | Daniel Taylor Continue readingreadfullarticle

Source: TheGuardian