United (A) Post Match Thread

[citymad]

haha okay pal.. i’ve cried out for nowt but since pep took charge he’s not arsed about derbies ,, he’s not arsed sterling is a shithouse mahrez is wank and no other attacking options so fuck all this short memory pal !!!!

Wow you really are upset aren’t you? You must’ve been suicidal back in the day. Glad you came through it because you’ve been lucky to witness some great times under Pep.

 

[PhdWave]

I do, he's nowhere near what he was.

I really hope he comes back soon. He is the reason we did not go for another creative mid after David left and now that is one of areas we seem to be severely suffering (To be a creative presence and share the workload with Kevin).

 

[Easy]

Again we didn’t take our chances.

We can’t expect to create 20 clear chances a game. Defensively a solid performance but our attack let us down.

Sterling should have scored when he dribbled past a few players in the box. Then the Mahrez pass to Jesus where he volleyed it over the goal, another clear chance. The Jesus to De Bruyne to Mahrez action, again clear clear chance, Mahrez needs to be scoring there. De Bruyne himself should have scored at one point.

We need to be more clinical. 0-0 after so many clear chances created is poor.

 

[citymad]

KDB has been a bit off all season. No one seems willing to accept this. I prefer playing FOden and Bernado and pressing the opponent. When we started KDB, Rodri and Fern we were saying have the ball at the back and take your time and they did.

No he hasn’t Marvin. He’s our only truly world class player we have. Take him him out and we lose our creativity and driving force. His work rate is sensational. Worryingly he looks like he’s frustrated and it’s affecting him because we just don’t have anyone to take advantage of his speed of thought and passing accuracy. He would be sensational at a team like Bayern with all those technical and pacy players. He needs Bernardo and Phil alongside him and Sergio up top to start seeing the best of him.

 

[kwm1988]

Anyone think this new pragmatic way of playing from pep might be with one eye on the champions league late stages ?
In peps time here mostly we’ve played amazing attacking football, and been knocked out in Europe each time , mostly on away goals (Spurs,Monaco) or conceding too many (Liverpool) or the unexplainable loss to Lyon last season .
This new pragmatic way of playing isn’t very exciting in big games , but I actually think it would suit us well in Europe.
Not conceding then nicking an away goal .
We definitely need to improve going forward but good to see us solid defensively .
As for the game itself , the quicker it’s forgotten about the better .
Quick mention for stones aswell , he was brilliant , I’ll be honest I’d wrote him off .
It’s great to see him playing for us again and hope it continues and he has a future at he club .

 

[Newman Noggs]

It's the way footballers are nowadays mate, all pally pally with one another.

I hate to see it too but then I remind myself that Summerbee and Best were actually in business together off the pitch.

 

[Keeper!]

We have sorted the defensive issues out to a great extent, but our midfield and strikers are way off the pace.

This summer transfer window we have going to have to spend very big or face the fact we won't be seeing the title again for a long time.

 

[Keeper!]

I bet the Rags are happy with the result and their performance

Who cares, I support City and our performance was poor, this is a very poor rag team and we made them look decent.

 

[Keeper!]

We created two very good chances that we should have buried.

It was not long ago we were creating chances for fun and scoring for fun, we are far from that at this time.

 

[dhruvblue]

If people say that it was a good point against a counter attacking side than we can forget even top 4.teams will apply similar tactics and we cannot be happy with a point.

L against Spurs Leicester and a draw against Dippers and Rags. If this record continues against top half of table then

 

[bluemoon32]

Defence has been sorted but it's caused an imbalance in the team, means we're not as threatening going forward now.
Obviously the trick is combining the two and we don't seem able to do that, apart from against poor sides.
The fear factor is long gone & Utd have struggled with that since Ferguson stepped down, sides fear Liverpool and that fear causes games to be won even before a ball is kicked.
A lot of work is needed & yep, god forbid, we need to spend even more money on new recruits in midfield and upfront. We'll come good again but i think we're some way off being the side we were, we're a very stop/start side at the moment and in no way as fluid as we were, we don't overwhelm sides like before and sides now think they have a chance against us & they usually do.

 

[creed]

Anyone think this new pragmatic way of playing from pep might be with one eye on the champions league late stages ?
In peps time here mostly we’ve played amazing attacking football, and been knocked out in Europe each time , mostly on away goals (Spurs,Monaco) or conceding too many (Liverpool) or the unexplainable loss to Lyon last season .
This new pragmatic way of playing isn’t very exciting in big games , but I actually think it would suit us well in Europe.
Not conceding then nicking an away goal .
We definitely need to improve going forward but good to see us solid defensively .
As for the game itself , the quicker it’s forgotten about the better .
Quick mention for stones aswell , he was brilliant , I’ll be honest I’d wrote him off .
It’s great to see him playing for us again and hope it continues and he has a future at he club .

Could well be right - I think he said himself in one of the pre-match pressers that we could do well this year, or words to that effect. I can't remember him saying anything like that before. You've got to think he's really conscious of the criticism about his record in the CL since Barca. Could well be playing the medium (term) game. And there were loads getting on his back about a lack of pragmatism when we conceded crap goals last year.

 

[Brightwell’s left peg]

Who cares, I support City and our performance was poor, this is a very poor rag team and we made them look decent.

I wouldn’t go that far.

We were shite/dire/insipid and they looked slightly worse.

;-)

 

[DT King of all Geordies]

I’ve just seen Roy the dog wanker saying wtf‘s going on when opposition players are hugging each other after the game, I can’t stand the twat but he’s right, it’s a derby!!

Bring back Mike Doyle.

But then you have Summerbee and Best being great friends! John Stones and Maguire gave each other a big hug and I thought that was fine to see two England players doing that. We don't want the cliques back in the England dressing room that were there a couple of years ago.

There is also the issue that United have not been our rival in the League for a few years. I think Roy Keane pointed this out when he was saying that particularly United should be more aggressive.

 

[Mike Cledford]

Ol I think it was called to examine the offside...

Said in a never post it was a soft penalty but thats modern football for you as well.....they are all at it....

I have a hazy recollection back to the olden days when we used to go to watch it used to flash up on the screen why the incident was being reviewed. It seemed that even the commentators were guessing at first.
I will have another look at Rashford Oscars performance soon but if City players start doing what he did l think l won't be renewing my season ticket.

 

[Blumers Bloomers]

Slept on it and woken up still pissed off.

I would have preferred showing some intent and going for the jugular and losing to a sucker punch goal than serving up that shit

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

How on earth have we managed that?

 

[herrock]

Anyone think this new pragmatic way of playing from pep might be with one eye on the champions league late stages ?
In peps time here mostly we’ve played amazing attacking football, and been knocked out in Europe each time , mostly on away goals (Spurs,Monaco) or conceding too many (Liverpool) or the unexplainable loss to Lyon last season .
This new pragmatic way of playing isn’t very exciting in big games , but I actually think it would suit us well in Europe.
Not conceding then nicking an away goal .
We definitely need to improve going forward but good to see us solid defensively .
As for the game itself , the quicker it’s forgotten about the better .
Quick mention for stones aswell , he was brilliant , I’ll be honest I’d wrote him off .
It’s great to see him playing for us again and hope it continues and he has a future at he club .

I think that you are spot on. He has realised that the way we have been getting caught on the break is going to cost us, especially in Europe.

 

[blue61]

I don't understand why we have become so negative unless it was being caught on the counter in the Leicester and Spurs games.

At some stage yesterday we needed to change the shape by removing one of the central midfielders and replacing them with Foden.

When Gundo is in there at least we have someone who can see a pass. Very frustrating, I can only hope that Pep is managing his players expecting a very strong second half to the season with them all fit as can be. Let's hope we are still in touch by then

If we are within 5 points at the turn of the year then we could still win the league

 

[Tb1981]

Our midfield is shite at the moment
Rodri is a waste of space- not good enough against good teams, too slow and offers nothing
Gundogan is same
Ferna is the only one who goes forward and does it quick, but he is 35!
Add to that we have a non existent left side with two right footed players.
mahrez is awful in any game not against bottom teams and keeps being picked
It’s not hard for the opposition really. Just try to stop kdb and sterling and the rest will just pass sideways for 90 mins