Match Thread | Manchester United vs. Manchester City (17/01/26)

[burning blue soul]

We are slowly being kicked to death this season, and the refs are to blame

 

[wattle]

Haaland and Foden are doing my head in. What has happened to them? We’d be top of the league and flying if they hadn’t fallen off a cliff. Got to take one of them off for Cherki and get O’Reilly on

 

[yeseye]

A few decent subs now and we can nick this as bad as we’ve been so far.

 

[CΛL]

Get Haaland off for Reinjders, Semenyo up top, Ake off for a left back.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

We’ll be better second half, they’re bang average. 2-0

 

[OrigamiNinja]

That was fucking abysmal.

The concern before KO was all about our RB. We forgot about our LB. That from Ake was one of the worst performances I have ever seen. He can’t move. He is consistently out of position. Every time he gets the ball, he turns inside and passes to Alleyne and puts the young lad under pressure. An absolute abomination of a performance from him.

Other than Donna and Khus, there is very little to be content with there.

Get Cherki on.

 

[PSmyth07]

I think we can win this,

 

[HelloCity]

Nowhere near good enough and that's on Pep. The high line getting rinsed as per but hey ho possession looks good

The back 4 makes a huge difference. It’s the foundation of success.

Build a skyscraper without foundations and it will crumble.

The injures mean United are overrunning us at the back and that impacts the rest of the team, including when playing out from the back and keeping United cramped in.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Easter Island headed **** went straight through Earl there. Intentional and with force and nowhere near the ball. No VAR check for violent conduct?

 

[Paul1970]

Shit shit shit and if ake cones out after the break I give up . Need Mamoush to come back and start as Haaland needs subbing just to be told he is not untouchable. Foden another one who is not at it atm and why the fuck is our £40 million left back not playing

 

[Blue Llama]

In an effort to excuse this so far:
We've not got a first choice defender on the pitch.
They've had the entire week off
Errrrr that's all I can come up with

The defence is getting punished because we have lost in midfield.

 

[dctid]

Does Guardiola do any coaching these days because this is an utter shit show - I just don’t see any pattern of play - slow predictable football and second to everything

 

[I'm Blue]

Nico for Ake has to happen now.

 

[MCFC1993]

Disgraceful performance. Disgusting.

Haaland anonymous.
Foden piss poor again.
The defence, an absolute disaster.

It should be a different game though, to not send Dalot off is an absolute disgrace too.

 

[SaintColin]

1 CM away from complete rebuild some were saying…

 

[dubblue]

Turgid half but dalot is very very lucky . VAR AGAIN not doing its job

Lucky?…clear and organised

 

[SamTheGuru]

If Foden wasn't an academy product there would be calls for him to be sold in the summer.

Could do with a year on loan somewhere. Would make or break him.

 

[avoidconfusion]

Both full backs on a yellow since minute 16 and we haven’t had a run at them once.

This!!! So vexing! And Shaw is clearly struggling against Semenyo but insist on constantly and almost only play on the left via Doku

 

[smevchenko]

Both full backs on a yellow, and absolutely no attempt to run at them. Makes sense.

 

[Gorbachev]

Probably one of the worst 45 mins I have seen under Pep.

That back 4 is Championship level and is making the entire team nervous.

You cannot play Haaland in a game like this with so little control

Foden been gash again