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From Friday to Monday, the third round of the FA Cup will be held in England. A total of 32 games are on the program. It comes on Saturday afternoon at Old Trafford to the duel between Manchester United and the second division Reading Football Club. What a coaching change in football can do anything, is currently shown in the Red Devils. After United’s 1-1 draw with Liverpool on December 16, unpopular coach Jose Mourinho was fired. His successor, initially as an interim coach, was the former professional Ole-Gunnar Solskjaer. And under Solskjaer United plays as if unleashed. From four league games under the new coach, the team took four wins and scored 14 goals. Now you have in the cup even home right against a second division.
The royals from Reading, however, have quite different problems. After 26 matchdays in the championship, the club is with 20 points on the penultimate place in the table. On the saving shore you have already a residue of five points. The FC has been waiting for victory for eight competitive matches. It only took three points. So far, there have been seven duels between United and Reading. With five wins and two draws, the direct comparison speaks clearly for the Red Devils. Everything really speaks for United before the match.
Manchester United:
After the knockout of Jose Mourinho, the Manchester pros seem liberated. They show how fast they can play. The message of the Norwegian, who played as a professional for the Red Devils from 1996 to 2007, was simple. The team should go ahead, smile and have fun again in football. In addition, Solskjaer relies on young, wild players like Rashford, Martial and Lingard. Even Mourinho’s intimate enemy Paul Pogba can finally concentrate on football again and does not have to rub himself in quarrels with the coach. In addition, the destructive defensive football that United played under Mourinho, adopted. In just four games under the interim coach, there were 12 points and 14 goals. Under Mourinho United had won only one of the last six league games, scoring only ten goals. United have made good ground in the Premier League thanks to the success story under Coach Solskjaer. The gap to fifth is only three points. After the last game under coach Mourinho the Red Devils had still eight points behind the first European Cup place in the league had.
On Wednesday, the Red Devils had to run at Newcastle United. In the last two years Manchester could not win at the Magpies anymore. This time, the Solskjaer-Eleven was visually superior, but was especially difficult for a long time, especially in the offensive. In the first round, the guests were often traveling with too little speed and were too playful. At the beginning of the second half, Newcastle’s defense network resisted United’s offensive. But with the substitution of Lukaku and a goalkeeper error by Dubravka in the 64th minute, the spell was broken. The Magpies did not give up, but had in the 80th Minute by the gate of Rashford the final score of 0: 2. With four wins from four games, the new coach thus set the starting record of club legend Matt Busby from 1946. Actually, the contract of Solskjaer runs only until May 2019. But if it continues to run so well, could also be the new coach from the transition coach in the long run. But the club is looking for a bigger solution. Desired candidate is Mauricio Pochettino of the Spurs. Manchester United are expected to be the favorites for betting on the upcoming match against Reading.
Reading:
Reading celebrated only four successes in the first 26 games of the season, but lost 14 games. Thus, the club floats in highest descent risk. Already in the preseason you had to avoid the descent by only three points with the 20th place at the end of the season. It had missed in the season 2016/17 as third in the table under coach Jaap Stam only just the rise in the Premier League. At that time they lost the promotion playoff final on penalties against Huddersfield Town. In 13 away games this season, there was only one victory so far. There are also six draws and six defeats. But even at home it does not run for the royals. With eleven points from 13 home games, the Reading Football Club is the second worst home team in the league.
After the poor season, the coach Paul Clement was released on December 6 in Reading. Two days before Christmas Eve the Portuguese Jose Gomes was hired as the new coach. The coach had up to this time the Portuguese Erstligisten Rio Ave supervised. So far, there have been three games under the new coach. To start under Gomes, the Royals lost 1-0 in Millwall. With a 0-0 at the Queens Park Rangers there was then the first point for Gomes. But on Tuesday followed by the 1: 4 at home against Swansea City in the home debut of the new coach, the next setback. Already in the 2nd minute Reading had to accept the first goal. At break it was already 0: 3. The team seemed extremely unsure. In the current transfer window, the team should be strengthened.
Manchester Utd vs Reading head to head matches
07.01.17 FAC Manchester Utd Reading 4 : 0
16.03.13 PL Manchester Utd Reading 1 : 0
18.02.13 FAC Manchester Utd Reading 2 : 1
01.12.12 PL Reading Manchester Utd 3 : 4
19.01.08 PL Reading Manchester Utd 0 : 2