Thought the same myself. ''I didn't sub them as I didn't want to destroy their confidence, even though they were shit,'' would have been more honest.The only thing that will shut them up is our winning the title. In the mean time, let's just chuckle at their squirming.
Mourinho is already on track to implode spectacularly. I thought it was kinda hilarious when he announced to the Press: "I didn't yank Mkhitaryan and Lingard after 20 mins as I didn't want to destroy their confidence". It was like a self-parody.
He also had 2 very similar, even before the goal, it seems like its a worked on tactic to me, and Kolorov is quite capable of that pass. I've no problem with long balls if we have the tools to use it, as the first goal shows we have.Our first goal came from a long ball....the difference being ute's were aimless punts into the area/edge of the box aimed at groups of players...our first goal was an accurate long ball aimed at one player (kelechi) from Kolorov.
I agree with you, what I meant to say is there is no way they only had 32 long balls / hoofs all game.I think you have to think about what it classes as a long ball
Our first goal came from a long ball....the difference being ute's were aimless punts into the area/edge of the box aimed at groups of players...our first goal was an accurate long ball aimed at one player (kelechi) from Kolorov.
Also there were numerous times (again from Kolorov) that he "switched play" form one side to another - they probably count that as a long pass....
The big difference is the class of the long pass...utd - the majority of which (esp in the second half) were just aimless punts up to the big men, whereas ours were more calculated....
Just look at the difference between the short passes though!
Ive noticed since Pep took over (amongst other things) that we have started to mix our game up way more....under the staleness of last season with Pellers we just started to play a to of aimless sideways passes going nowhere...under pep we are moving the ball vertically back and forwards very quickly (like pistons in an engine) as well as side to side when needed...we are also using a far bigger range of passing and are using more "long balls" - its the quality behind that ball that counts..like i said....aimless punts as opposed to calculated passes to change defence into attack very quickly and to get in behind an opponents defence by going over them.....look at sterling...he is now continuously trying to make runs in behind the opponents where as last season him (and navas esp) would come short and backwards for the ball ALL the time
They had ZERO shots on target in the second half, that's how much they deserved a point. KDB and Silva should have scored second half, we should have been three or four up at half time as well. They were lucky it wasn't a massacre of epic proportions.Still making me chuckle that they think they desrved a point did our keeper make a save in that dominant 2nd half ? 2 shots. On Target at home says enough to me they were lucky to lose by just 1 but i hope they think performances like that on saturday will bring points against the top 10 teams in the prem if they do they won't make top 4!