United (H) - Sun 15th Dec, 16:30 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

[A590 blues]

The defend properly is the hard bit!

Yeah thought that whilst typing ...summats gotta give thought hopefully clicks back a little on Sunday

 

[John Wayne]

Sentiment doesn't win matches. The past is history.

Put up a statue.

I don't think we should be replacing Pep at all just yet. He has earned the right to rebuild the squad. I think everyone accepts that a rebuild needs to take place as there isn't a manager on the planet who could get this squad to win things in its present state. Why would you not entrust the greatest manager the game has ever seen to oversee that rebuild? The manager who is the biggest magnet for top talent?

 

[Gone for a Burton]

I don't think we should be replacing Pep at all just yet. He has earned the right to rebuild the squad. I think everyone accepts that a rebuild needs to take place as there isn't a manager on the planet who could get this squad to win things in its present state. Why would you not entrust the greatest manager the game has ever seen to oversee that rebuild? The manager who is the biggest magnet for top talent?

The tactics and game management have to be right too....and they wernt last night or for much of this season.

Achieving CL next season will be critical to the rebuild......no CL big problems !!

 

[HypnoticBlue]

Our style of play is f****** us more than he injuries.

 

[John Wayne]

The tactics and game management have to be right too....and they wernt last night or for much of this season.

Achieving CL next season will be critical to the rebuild......no CL big problems !!

I don't doubt that not qualifying for the CL next season makes things more difficult, but in the last three years, Arsenal, Liverpool, United and Chelsea have all had time out of the CL. This has not prevented them from being able to spend big money.

I think Pep has found it difficult to adapt this season and is not exempt from criticism. But we should stick with him, and trust in his abilities and track record.

 

[Ric]

United are absolutely shit, but I still don't have a great deal of confidence going into this. Suspect they'll pick us off quite easily on the counter, as many other teams have. Hopefully Akanji will be available, and Kovacic and Foden fit enough to start. Not sure what team we'll put out, but suspect it will be just more of the same in the blind hope that it suddenly clicks. It won't.

 

[blueste41]

Thing is with these vile set of cunts, they've been absolute dog shit for a decade and still beat us when we were at our very best. I'm hoping for some reversed phycology now that we're playing shite. I live in hope, but the way we set out plays right into their shitty little mitts. GOD I FUCKIN HATE EM!!

Since they last won the league they have beaten us 9 times in 29 attempts (31%). 4 draws (if you count the charity shield this season that we went to win on pens), ironically the other 3 draws were all 0-0!

If you go back to when we were shit (start of the prem to the year we won our first title) we beat them 6 times in 36 attempts (16.6%) 5 draws.

Not surprising as if we're honest they haven't (yet) descended to the level of shitness we were during those years. I say shitness but I personally loved a lot of those seasons.

 

[Gone for a Burton]

He has to be more flexible.

If you dont bend you break.

Our tactics,set up and style have been sussed, arnt working and have to change or, new recruits or not, we'll struggle.

I don't doubt that not qualifying for the CL next season makes things more difficult, but in the last three years, Arsenal, Liverpool, United and Chelsea have all had time out of the CL. This has not prevented them from being able to spend big money.

I think Pep has found it difficult to adapt this season and is not exempt from criticism. But we should stick with him, and trust in his abilities and track record.

 

[Father Paul]

Too many of our players are falling by the wayside. Some just aren't good enough, most are tired, some seem to lack confidence or belief in themselves. Most are simply 'ghosting' through games.

Pep looks a shadow of the man he was. A man in the midst of the worst period of his whole football career, trying to motivate a squad that appears to have lost the ability to perform in his system, or worse still, their belief in his system.

'Credit in the bank' counts for nothing in the modern game. It's sentimental nonsense. If Pep can't turn this around quickly, it's time for a change.

A win against one of the worst rag teams ever on Sunday would be no more than papering over cracks. A defeat like the FA Cup final would be a disaster.

If the team can't get up for this game, there's no bloody hope for this season. If we lose, I won't be bothered at all to see the back of Pep and most of the squad next season.

This is Manchester. This is OUR CITY. Sentimentality goes out of the window if our players give it up on Sunday.
We MUST win.

A tad harsh that. I think the man deserves a chance to turn things round and hopefully rebuild. Now I do agree that your only as good as your last game and no matter how much credit the man has built up over the years he must at least stabilise things over the next couple of months. A win on Sunday is fairly essential for him to achieve this goal I would think. 2 or 3 more defeats in the next few weeks and it could be all over for Pep.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Who’s the underdog in this game hard to tell at the moment