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

[havefaith]

Sadly we are.

If we make Anthony look good then fair enough

 

[super_city_si]

with the way Pep tactically sets us up is easy for opponents to create high xG chances and hard for us to create the same.

understand he wont want to change our style and give the defence bit more help by not being pushed up and order midfielders-wingers to track back, and attacking players to press better, but in return we press nothing, we dont track back ,and still use high line which is asking for trouble as as above said Palace, Brighton, Bournemouth, Sporting, Spurs, Feyenoord, dippers, Juventus all knew what to do. because its not rocket science, and Amorim and Emery also not bad coaches to understand it certainly not worse than Glasner, Motta, Postecoglou etc

we need to stop with the Lewis experiment, he aint helping us. the extra man in midfield is not an advantage in attacks but a disadvantage at the back. no purpose.we cannot have Gundo as the number 6 he cannot run, certainly not without the ball defending quick runners in midfield.

Every opposition team talk. Hit the ball in the space behind City left back. runner to back post as City right back wont be in position. Repeat.

 

[blue by birth]

New manager bounce for them means this will be tough. Also, Amorim showed he has Guardiola's number in the CL recently when his team owned us.

Anyone at this moment in time would take Hojlund over Haaland, Martinez over Dias, Fernandes over KdB......and yes, Amorim over Guardiola.

Rashford will run riot against our defence and we have to hope they don't start Antony as he'll destroy us. Both would walk into our starting 11 right now.

Take 1-1 right now and move on.

Martinez over Dias...fuck me that's hilarious..the little **** can't jump.. constantly fouls and is slow as fuck.
Antony can't control the ball FFS..he's gash..
Rashford only has pace and yeah that's our kryptonite but he's not exactly a world beater.

 

[simon23]

OK, how can we be non-stagnant now with the injuries we have? What should we do differently?

drop the defensive line (ie the fullbacks) slightly deeper...stop asking them to sit half way inside the opponents half....
Play anyone in midfield accept Gundo and Rico - our two weakest defensively players that we could possibly put there out of the choices he has....nether can tackle or cover the ground required. Hehas had Nico OReilly sat there for two months.....he has had two months to at least give the lad a go...he is physical and he can tackle and play box to box...yes he is young but he could not do any worse than what we have seen and int he last two months or so it should have been at least tried.
Play Nunes in there - at least he has some legs - again a better option than Gundo as the 6.

Thats 3 other options at least he could have tried as well as playing Grealish in there when he has been back - none.of thosse has been tried and the frustration with fans is that it is blantantly obvious that the Gundo rico experiement is and abject disaster.....

 

[simon23]

If we lose this may aswell give up the league and focus on FA Cup.

the league is already gone.....we aint turing this around this season...the fight is top 4 at very best.....keep playing the way we are and we will finish midtable at best

 

[simon23]

Ortega, Walker, Dias, Akanji, Gvardiol, Kovacic, Bernardo, De Bruyne, Doku, Foden, Haaland

I rarely say this but Id play grealish over either Doku or KDB.....KDB is a liability at present...he cannt run ...now we might just get away with him vs Utd....but maybe not

 

[Xhavenjoe]

If we make Anthony look good then fair enough

The head " stuffing artist" at Madame Tussauds couldn't make Antony look good

 

[Djibrilshairdo]

Taylor is Ref and Attwell on VAR. We will get nothing from them in this game.

Despite our current woes, I’d still fancy us against this lot - on a level playing field. You just know these two shithouses along with having their lord and master Webb in their ears for the duration, will conspire to let the rags kick lumps out us unpunished. If there is a sending off, dollars to donuts it will be one of ours for a non event.
Just hope the lads can find something extra, avoid another one of those mistakes and put away a couple of chances early doors.

 

[Jwoody19]

If Kovacic is back, we will be better.

 

[Ilovehappyendings]

Lewis is suspended