United post-match thread

[City Raider]

Fucking hate derby day

 

[aguerrrroooooooooooo]

He wasn't sacked

My apologies you are correct, he still ended up finishing 7th though

 

[purplenose]

This is not the end of the world, but anyone who even tries to justify or take any positives out of losing to them needs to take a fucking good look at themselves.

Tonight we handed them an opportunity to kick start their season and are justifying it with utter bollocks.

Nothing good at all will come from tonight, infact it would not surprise me if we dropped a point at least against West Brom, and given the state of our defence and the currently misfiring attack beating Barcelona would be a huge shock. If we win the league it might justify tonights events or indeed the champions league...but sorry that isnt going to happen.

Pep I have confidence will be a success here, but he has alot of work to do, and alot to learn about the Premier League and judging by tonight about Manchester City.

 

[Tom_mcfc]

tonight wasn't great in last third but we know that navas fernando and garcia aint going to to much in the way of helping that......but we needed to rest silva and kdb is injured.......im not sure what pep could have done different tonight.

Silva, sterling Aguero? Could of done a lot different. Had we equalised they would of played a decent chunk of football given extra time etc so why not start them. Get in a solid position then sub them?

 

[mancity1]

I've seen improvements over the 16 games we've played, definitely. It was a mess and it still isn't great. We've had years of poor purchases and not improving weak areas. Peps a brilliant manager, but he needs time and our support to build a great side here. It seems some fannies are starting to question him already.

i will agree with Waddle on one thing not that I do often if ever that the side he put out tonight isn't able to play a high press and open their defence when they make a poor pass as they often did in the first half especially.

Every thing had to go through Navas out wide or Nacho on the other side and that meant few shots on goal. Ist time in four year we had no shot on target which was the most disappointing thing of the evening along with defeat.

Pep still needs a number of new players to play the game he wants effectively week in week out.

I would be concerned if we were playing this way this time next year but I am not expecting much silver ware this season.

 

[dw7]

Lost to whom???!

Not peps city side

 

[simon23]

We had no shots on goal?? Have you watched the game?? How did we cut through them when we created nothing at all!

we created numerous chances where the last ball failed us......thats what pep has been saying int he last couple of games...we need to be more clinical in this area ...nolito failed on a couple of attempts where he should have done better (one particular occasion where it was quite a simple pass)......navas int he first half should have created loads but didnt as we know his final ball is shit (barring the very early cross)

we struggled against the parked bus in the last 15 mins

 

[CC1]

Not happy with PEP he disrespected 9000 blues by devaluing what a derby means. Not just tonight we have been toothless up front for a while now.They were completely ripe for another defeat under Maureen and we let them off the hook Instead of the journos pinpointing there crisis They will quite rightly look at at our depressing stats

Define "while". Are you talking months, years or maybe just a few games?? Patience.

 

[cookster]

the movement between the lines

the inter swapping of positions

one touch football and the passes to the man beyond the first man with give and goes between 3 players.

possession football even when we have a second string midfield of fernando and A. garcia on the pitch .....

2 kids coming in a doing amazingly well against established internationals like big nose, pogba, mata.

All that amazing stuff and we didn't muster a shot on target. I thought football was about scoring goals and trying not to concede them ;)

 

[Chippy_boy]

I'm not trying to get anything out of it.

We were top of the league at this point last season too?

Numerous youngsters got cup games last season too?

We progressed in the champions league last season too?

Why was it a mess? I thought it was all pellegrini's fault? didn't we spend 150mil this summer to correct the squad?

Have we improved since last season then?

Yes, we've improved massively. The way we move the ball around, the way the players try to get into space to receive the ball, the way we press. We are playing miles better.