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Showing lots of good signs in that 90. Haaland was tremendous, and many other players were decent. Doku showed what he has, but I echo many on his player thread in that he needs to show this level more often than not. Donnarumma had a great debut. I think my main player criticism would go to Reijnders who was poor in possession and even poorer in non-possession. Put unnecessary pressure on an unfit Rodri. Anyway he'll get there.

We've still only got 70 mins in us though. I thought this gifted united a number of very decent chances after 70 mins and they had too many big spaces to move into in our half. Onwards.
 
Kinkys Left Foot said:
I'll take any derby win. Nowhere near our best and still should have had 6.
We defended well today and I'm wondering if we set up to do that as opposed to dominating the ball.
I was frustrated by the amount of times we gave it away unnecessarily in our defensive 3rd and better teams will punish us for doing that.
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I'm not normally one to criticise after a win but I have to agree, much better, far more dynamic but we were giving the ball away an awful lot which seems to becoming a bit of a trend with this "new" team. I'm not sure that would have been good enough to beat the likes of the current Liverpool or Arsenal teams. That said, I think we would have won more convincingly with Bobb in the starting lineup. I guess we'll know more next week.

Early doors though, and I still think we have the makings of another fantastic side that can go on and do what we've done in the past decade all over again.
 
Good performance not great, but players fighting for each other again was great to see.

BIg Erl's first goal looked like vintage us again. Foden looked like he enjoyed that, he's the man now and he needs to pick up that KDB torch run with it.
 
I enjoyed that!
There was some dodgy passing at times, but a great performance from the forwards.
 
Great to see a stop to the slow slow build-up and the constant backwards and sideways passing. Counter attacking was quick and incisive - Great improvement! Still early days and there's loads of room for improvement, particularly in midfield, but can't not be happy with today's performance overall. Very pleased for Khusanov - I always rated him even after his nightmare debut mistake vs Chelsea
He's going to be immense for us!
 
One of those days when we were relatively clinical against a fairly forlorn opponent, so rather like opening day at Wolves. Couldn’t read too much into then and can’t read too much into today. We need to play more games and against better opposition before we can determine any progress.
 
Excellent result, compounded by the very fact it is against 'them'.

For me personally very average performance against a terrible team - why on earth they let Rashford and Garnacho leave i beyond me, although I don't give a feck anyway - that will see us struggling against better defensively organised opposition and suffering against really top teams.

Even with injuries I don't see where this team goes.

And yet hugely positive is that Phil is back, Erling is back to scoring and that goalkeeper, we all knew he is top 1% shot-stopper, but effect it has on our defence is like 300% improvement.
 
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