Match Thread | Man United vs Man City (14/01/23)

[AdamMarrett]

Our pace is ZERO.Most players seem to be fatigue. World Cup effect? Who knows....
KDB and Foden are unbelievably bad!! I mean come on!
Silva not too sharp either.
Our concentration is poor also. Too many wrong passes for no reason.
As for the formation, I don't see any problem with it, its normal.

The line up, the formation etc are what we usually it's on the players to lift their level. Rodri has been superb, Ake & Akanji look solid but Foden, Bernardo, Kev & Mahrez have offered nothing. Haaland is dropping exceptionally deep to get a touch so he's out of the game as well. Gundogan may offer more then Foden or Bernardo, and maybe Kev off to break the man marking of Fred but for.me the players have to lift.

It's on them from here they have to lift and show what they're capable of.

 

[Kippax77]

This is how Pep's Barcelona must of looked/played when Messi wasn't fit.
We need someone out there to attack them.
Somebody go past a player please. the opportunities that this will create will reap rewards

 

[Blue Maverick]

The false 9 doesn’t seem so bad now does it!

 

[BlueRhubarb]

Zero game plan and same old usual shite

May as well sub Haarland no point him player the way pep sets us up

I think our game plan is clear. It’s the same game plan that has won us two titles in the last two years??!! Think it’s more that a lot of our players are off form or look leggy tbh

 

[super_city_si]

Decent enough team performance hindered massively by a couple of shocking individual showings.

What the fuck is wrong with Kev?

Hes carrying Fred around the pitch

 

[LIBlue]

At some point the players actually have to stop being shit

I say pep has the blame as much as them. There needs to be a point where we give up a bit of control to make chances.

 

[Blu1]

Just looking at Kev in these replays Fook me he looks sluggish. He’s not even tracking back

 

[CityFan1970]

Cut out the sloppy passing and we can win this. There is space in between their box and midfield when we play through their midfield, middle or wide. Should have done better with several good positions we got into.

 

[Thornliebank]

We have become too safety conscious to the effect we are posing no threat up front.

 

[OccupiedPalestineBlues]

The pantomime damery is strong as fuck in here.
A lot of misplaced aggression happening and the ‘know better than Pep’ brigade are out in force.

All square and nothing to cry about as yet so why all the tears?