United thread 2017/18

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ancoats said:
thinking hard last night and the manchester city team/squad to face united in a couple of weeks and if everybody fit well its truly a scary line up and bench. good luck jose in parking the bus you must be having nightmares already and the only saving grace for united and jose i can see is anthony taylor being named referee

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Yes we should win but the rags are getting better imo. Probably get a 10 day ban for suggesting anything positive about them though!!!
 
aguero93:20 said:
32 teams qualifying for the Champions League and the teams that fail to do so dropping into the Europa? Really it should be 17th best as 8 3rd placed CL teams drop into the Europa knock out stage.
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yes 17th best would be spot on. Still a piece of European silverware all the same and a useful backdoor to the CL.
 
Father Paul said:
Yes we should win but the rags are getting better imo. Probably get a 10 day ban for suggesting anything positive about them though!!!
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They're getting worse if anything. They're still not scoring enough goals, but have now stopped getting clean sheets as well.
 
domalino said:
Points total from games 1-10: 23 GD: 19
Points total from games 11-20: 22 GD: 8
Points total from games 21-30: 22 GD: 8
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Getting worse, whilst still winning and will comfortably finish 2nd. Dropping 1 point is getting worse now too? I wouldn't use this logic when looking at city then mate, title will be back on.
 
Tom_mcfc said:
Getting worse, whilst still winning and will comfortably finish 2nd. Dropping 1 point is getting worse now too? I wouldn't use this logic when looking at city then mate, title will be back on.
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They won't finish second comfortably at all. Also they're not winning any more than they used to, but they're conceding more and scraping those wins instead.
 
domalino said:
They won't finish second comfortably at all. Also they're not winning any more than they used to, but they're conceding more and scraping those wins instead.
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Scraping a win is winning though isn't it? We can all say they aren't great to watch but last couple of weeks they have beat Liverpool and Chelsea whilst getting what turned out to be a good win at Palace. They are 4 points clear of second with a good run of games minus us to the end of the season. I don't think they will bridge a gap to us by any means for next year but if they win well or scrape through you still get the same amount of points. Many on here had them to drop points against Liverpool and even Palace, same a bit back when they had Watford and Arsenal away after each other.
 
aguero93:20 said:
32 teams qualifying for the Champions League and the teams that fail to do so dropping into the Europa? Really it should be 17th best as 8 3rd placed CL teams drop into the Europa knock out stage.
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Except they didn't qualify to be in the top 32 as they finished 5th
 
Tom_mcfc said:
Scraping a win is winning though isn't it? We can all say they aren't great to watch but last couple of weeks they have beat Liverpool and Chelsea whilst getting what turned out to be a good win at Palace. They are 4 points clear of second with a good run of games minus us to the end of the season. I don't think they will bridge a gap to us by any means for next year but if they win well or scrape through you still get the same amount of points. Many on here had them to drop points against Liverpool and even Palace, same a bit back when they had Watford and Arsenal away after each other.
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Rags are riding their luck , Palace threw a two goal lead away , Chelsea had a perfectly good goal ruled out for offside , and any one of the three Dippers penalty claims could/should have been given , but i do like the fact that some people actually believe they are a good football team with a tactically astute manager , it contributes to the delusion of the average Swampdweller when the reality is they are actually light years behind europes best clubs with a manager basing his tactics on a 1980's serie A team.
 
jimmygrimblesboots said:
Rags are riding their luck , Palace threw a two goal lead away , Chelsea had a perfectly good goal ruled out for offside , and any one of the three Dippers penalty claims could/should have been given , but i do like the fact that some people actually believe they are a good football team with a tactically astute manager , it contributes to the delusion of the average Swampdweller when the reality is they are actually light years behind europes best clubs with a manager basing his tactics on a 1980's serie A team.
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It is certainly papering over the cracks which I don't even mind as they feel there is genuine progression there and long may it continue. They aren't getting worse though
 
domalino said:
They won't finish second comfortably at all. Also they're not winning any more than they used to, but they're conceding more and scraping those wins instead.
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Probably more a case of the piss-easy start they had in the league this year. They didn't play a top half team (maybe one) until October, if I remember rightly. Which, to be fair, they won.
 
hawkhurst said:
How good was Rashford's first goal? I know he's massively overhyped, but Jesus that was a lovely goal. Fully reminded you of Cristiano Ronaldo in his pomp. Sanchez on the other hand... think we might have dodged a bullet there. Doesn't look like his form's improved at all since leaving Arsenal.
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Give it a wipe and put it away mate
 
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