United (A) Post Match Thread

[cleavers]

I have to humbly disagree - inconclusive as to whether he got a nick on the ball, but Jesus definitely didn’t kick Telles.

Jesus moves the ball away from him and is then kicked, doesn't matter if his lace touches the ball, its nailed on for every other club but ours.

 

[Uptop]

LOL the fucking tyler comment after Silva does a fairly common flick to direct the ball onto Jesus who is behind him in space as the defender presses towards Silva (around the 53rd min).

"Maybe a little bit early for arrogance... a fine dividing line between super confident which they are entitled to be and arrogant which they are NOT"

You can bet if that was Sancho or PR7 he would be jizzing about the free flowing football, can tell he was hurting to comment on such an innocuous thing.

 

[The First Earl]

Good - were we watching the same match? Every time a City player blew on a United player, it was a foul. Yet they could kick us with impunity and nothing. That penalty - jeez, if you ever wanted evidence of sheer corruption. It wouldnt surprise me if Oliver received strict instructions beforehand to keep the score respectable. There is no other possible explanation for the no-pen decision and Stockley's refusal to over-turn it.

Spot on. No other explanation other than corruption.

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

Trying to excuse WanB because Penandez wasn’t helping him. Utter bollocks the player should have been much more pro-active.

They need a player to do the work to shield bissaka and penandez so that their flank is safe and pogba can be unleashed.

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

Shaw getting the all-clear from the doctors and then going off with a head injury was a bit dodgy. You'd think that if he was injured enough to have to go off, they would catch that in their initial checks.

Which said all over he just didn't fancy it any more. Just like the rest of the team.

 

[DAGW]

Telles does get a little touch of the ball first, although it's only by luck as he's clearly looking to swipe at it and it brushes the side of his foot. Then he straight up kicks Jesus in the ankle. It's an out of control tackle.

They're given outside the box every time.

I’ve seen a couple of angles and I’d probably err on the same side, that he probably glances it by a hair’s width, but as you say - anywhere else on the pitch (or any other penalty area in Greater Manchester for that matter) and that’s a penalty.

IIRC the laws of the game say nothing about ball first - I believe it’s a careless lash and therefor a foul. If it were the other end of the pitch and Cancelo on Ronaldo you can bet your bottom dollar it’s a different outcome.

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

Get him a SAD lamp, some decent tapas and a bottle of pudding wine and he'll be fine.

Works for me!

 

[mccity]

I’ve seen a couple of angles and I’d probably err on the same side, that he probably glances it by a hair’s width, but as you say - anywhere else on the pitch (or any other penalty area in Greater Manchester for that matter) and that’s a penalty.

IIRC the laws of the game say nothing about ball first - I believe it’s a careless lash and therefor a foul. If it were the other end of the pitch and Cancelo on Ronaldo you can bet your bottom dollar it’s a different outcome.

Exactly. If he'd got the exact same little touch, but it was intentional, then I'd see the argument against a foul.

But it wasn't, so it should have been a foul.

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

Lovely stuff played them off the park

I remember the Mick McCarthy equaliser at Maine Road and some bloke phoned in to Piccadilly radio after the match (quiye justifiably) saying the same thing. Much more comfortable and better result this time round though!

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

Broken Ole is no fun. Give us some United DNA garbage or something.

Hahahahahaha