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Juan Mata is happy to embrace the pressure at Manchester United as they look to get their Barclays Premier League campaign back on track against Stoke City.

Mata scored on Friday as United dispatched Derby County 3-1 to move into the fifth round of the FA Cup, and return to winning ways following their 1-0 Barclays Premier League reverse at home to Southampton the previous weekend.

"When you play for Manchester United there's pressure on every game," Mata told MUTV. "You have to win every game and I think we managed the pressure.

"We played good football, and now we're looking forward to the next game on Tuesday in the Premier League."

The Red Devils have mustered just two league victories in two months and face a Stoke side who recorded a comfortable 2-0 win against them at the Britannia Stadium on Boxing Day, although the Potters’ promising form has taken a dip since the turn of the new year.

Defeat at Leicester City, which marked their second successive away league loss, preceded bitter knock-out disappointment this week, as they lost on penalties against Liverpool in the League Cup semi-final before exiting the FA Cup at the hands of Crystal Palace on Saturday.

"It's been a difficult week for us all to be perfectly honest," manager Mark Hughes, who will take charge of his 100th BPL match as Stoke manager on Tuesday, told stokecityfc.com. "I can't fault the players' effort, they gave it a real go [against Palace], but we just lacked that quality that we needed."

United hope to have Bastian Schweinsteiger back from knee trouble and Matteo Darmian is recovering well from a heavy collision against Southampton, but Phil Jones, Antonio Valencia (both ankle), Ashley Young (groin), Luke Shaw (leg fracture) and Marcos Rojo (shoulder) are out.

Stoke's hopes of recording a first league win at Old Trafford were dealt a blow when Marc Wilson suffered a knee injury, which Hughes fears could keep him sidelined for some weeks.

With captain Ryan Shawcross (back) and Charlie Adam (calf) out, and doubts over Marko Arnautovic (back) and Geoff Cameron (ankle), Hughes' hopes of ending an eight-game losing streak away to his old club appear to be slim, despite United's own problems.

Manchester United (from): De Gea, Romero, Borthwick-Jackson, Darmian, McNair, Smalling, Varela, Blind, Carrick, Fellaini, Herrera, Lingard, Mata, Pereira, Schneiderlin, Schweinsteiger, Depay, Martial, Rooney.

Stoke City (from): Butland, Haugaard, Bardsley, Johnson, Pieters, Teixeira, Wollscheid, Afellay, Moha, Shenton, Sidwell, Van Ginkel, Whelan, Arnautovic, Bojan, Crouch, Diouf, Joselu, Odemwingie, Walters.

Match Appointments
Referee: Roger East Assistants: D Cann, M McDonough Fourth Official: A Madley

Match Facts
Manchester United have defeated Stoke City 11 times in the Barclays Premier League, only Chelsea have won against the Potters as often (also 11).
Stoke City have lost all seven Barclays Premier League matches at Old Trafford against the Red Devils.
The Red Devils have scored 32 goals in the Barclays Premier League meetings with Stoke; more than any other team has managed versus the Potters.
This will be Mark Hughes’ 100th Barclays Premier League fixture in charge of Stoke – he has a record of W37 D26 L36 so far.
Current Form
Man Utd Man Utd
L 0 - 1 v SOU (H)
W 0 - 1 v LIV (A)
D 3 - 3 v NEW (A)
W 2 - 1 v SWA (H)
D 0 - 0 v CHE (H)
L 2 - 0 v STK (A)
Stoke Stoke
L 3 - 0 v LEI (A)
D 0 - 0 v ARS (H)
W 3 - 1 v NOR (H)
L 2 - 1 v WBA (A)
W 3 - 4 v EVE (A)
W 2 - 0 v MUN (H)
Last Corresponding Meeting
Tue 02 Dec 2014, Old Trafford
Man Utd 2 - 1 Stoke

Marouane Fellaini (21)
Juan Mata (59)



Steven N'Zonzi (39)

Head-to-Head
Man Utd Drawn Stoke
6 2 2


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Man u,s problem for me has being in dia defence, 5 n 6 ain't compatible but dia is a slow form of revival in dia last match d FA cup. My prediction Man U 2 Stoke 3

what happened today?? No match/thread was moving?



Full Time Man united 3-0 Stoke City

whether you like hate him or like, he is closing in on being Man United's top scorer just as Christiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi is for their repective clubs.







Wayne Rooney is five (5) goals from equaling Sir Bobby Charlton's 249 goals for United

what happen to the moderator of these section (mukina2) pleas

full time result to look like this against Chelsea today come on you RED!
GGMU!!!