United (A) Post Match Thread

Boring, predictable and like watching a charity game.
For me serious question marks on Sterling, Mahrez and jesus performing in the big games yet again.
That's sterling's 21st match against the Rags and hes never scored. Pathetic.
I've said this before it looks like Pep has a free pass this season with the main aim being his new contract getting signed.

United are shit but yet again Pep doesn't get or understand derby games just like last season.
Awful performance.
 
Saw us lose four times there in the 90s early 00s including the hideous 0.5 so the backs to the wall 0-0 in 2004 was celebrated long into the night. How times have changed.
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hilts said:
happy clapper
a happy clapper is a seriously religious person, most often used in connection with reference to a re-born or new-born christian but also his beloved football team which cannot be blasphemed against. His god is named Pep Guardiola and religion is Manchester City

can also be used as a describtion of someone naive or easy to please.

See also window licker, sky blue duvet,York away,bigblueitis

There you go just googled it for you, lazy sod:-)
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Haha thanks for that. I'm an atheist and didn't go to York away so I'm out :)
 
Looks a slightly better point now with Spurs dropping two against Palace.
 
Father Paul said:
How can KDB be dead on his feet? He is playing only one game a week ffs.
This was neither a good performance nor a good result but we are still in contention even if only just. Can we do it this season in the league probably not but if we can add more goals to a fairly sound defence we might just pull it off.
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Because he was shagged out before last season even finished & has got worse.

It's actually obvious to see.
 
citymad said:
Haha another drama queen. Horrific, awful, terrible, woeful ? I would hate to see what you said if they caught us on the break like they’ve done in the past and walked away with 3 points.
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I get where you're coming from, but i wouldnt say im a drama queen, more a drama princess. However, we were fucking awful and if you think it wasn't then you must live a most happy life and of that i am envious. Its ok to say that bad things are bad and that was bad.
 
Given football is meant to be some sort of uplifting experience and the millions spent by each team this was a very poor game. Neither team is special right now and we have significantly dropped in energy , motivation and flair of late .
 
citymad said:
Not me, we finally have a solid looking defence. We’re about to get Sergio back and hopefully Foden will be a regular. We all know we won’t win the league but the champs league is a definite possibility. Time to give Pep another go. He’s deserved it.
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He totally has deserved it and I was delighted he got a new contract, but yesterday was so disappointing.

Not the result but how we completely abandoned our philosophy of play to control a match against a side with a terrible home record. Yes, it’s true they are good on the counter attack but that never seemed to bother a club of modest resources like Leipzig in midweek, yet for all our investment we are having to modify our method of play.

It is not City or Pep and just highlights there must be some serious structural failings in the side if Pep feels it necessary to play that way. Anyway no doubt we will be back to front foot football against West Brom and Sterling and Mahrez will display there talents, when the gulf in class is overwhelming.
 
Reading this thread you'd think we lost.

Wasn't a great game but we nullified the counter attack and looked solid in defence. Once Sergio returns (IF / When) we'll start to score more goals. We've literally played a 3rd of the season with 1 striker who's not an out and out goalscorer and sit only 6pts - 8pts from top with a game in hand.

It's certainly not all doom and gloom as a few in here think.
 
It feels like, because of covid / 2 games per week / concerns over tiredness & injuries ... Pep has asked everyone to conserve energy, play within themselves & not go gung-ho.

The result so far is too many draws & missed opportunities.
Whether it will pay off by the end of the season, we just don't know yet.
 
laserblue said:
Tyler said that Kavanagh is from Manchester but hadn't declared an allegiance for either side, otherwise he wouldn't be reffing the game, before adding "but he doesn't live there now." Hmm.
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Yes - Kavanagh & Taylor are both Mancunians, so very odd that they can referee City & United regularly, never mind referee Manchester derbies.

What is the likelihood that 2 people really interested in football / who have dedicated their careers to it, who grew up in Manchester ... have no feelings at all about either City or United ?
 
laserblue said:
The cheating twat went down in instalments like Willem Dafoe in Platoon. There was minimal contact and he writhed around as if he'd taken a bullet in his guts. Not a shining example of a role model for all the kids he's helped save from going hungry.
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It was exactly the same tackle which earned Danny Welbeck a last-minute pen against Liverpool the other week.

It was a penalty yesterday and Walker has plenty of form for stupidly sticking a foot out.
 
I'd liken yesterday to exactly the same set-up and performance as the 0-0 at Anfield two seasons ago, when FFS missed a last-minute penalty.

Both teams hardly had a sniff, both Mendy and Walker weren't allowed to go beyond the wide man, and it was slagged off as a spectacle.

Barring that, everybody said Pep had his tactics spot-on.

United's weaknesses are blown completely out of proportion, they will be top six and are currently better set up in the final third than we are.

Spurs drawing at Palace today shows you the playing field has been seriously levelled this season.
 
Bluemanc100 said:
I really hope you are right about the other “contenders” TH.. Don’t see it myself sadly.
I spent time in the military and whilst I was taught you have to pick your battles to win wars there’s another lesson I took into Civvy live that worked well for me which was “always take your chances” i.e. don’t miss an opportunity and that’s what the game was yesterday for me.. an opportunity to put the rags to the sword.. everybody expected it but it didn’t materialise.. I don’t consider the decision to play for a point to be pragmatism from Pep, I saw it as cowardice.. let’s see who was right come the end of the season
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Seems I was right about the other contenders this weekend ;)
 
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