United Thread - 2021/22

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Didsbury Dave said:
No way did they batter us second half. They had three chances and scored all three because we switched off. OVerall we had 65% posession and 20 shots and they had 35% and 5 shots. It was a smash and grab, a lucky victory and we also played a weakened team. Totally agree we are due to smash them though.
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There's a real need to factor Atkinson's performance into that second half as well, no penalty for us and as many soft free kicks as grains of sand on the beach for them to throw balls into the box.

One thing that did strike me at the time was 0-2 at HT, us seemingly about to win the league and the raggy fans didn't fuck off home, fast forward a couple of years and they were on a HT fire drill. Now that could be the away rags are all local so stayed but, I've always puzzled why they went nowhere.
 
JASR said:
Maguire also seems to do a lot of manhandling/holding inthe box which doesn't get picked up or VAR'd.
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In the Leicester game as the last defender he did the most blatant bear hug on Iheanacho you're ever likely to see to prevent him passing him and getting through on goal... no foul.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
No way did they batter us second half. They had three chances and scored all three because we switched off. OVerall we had 65% posession and 20 shots and they had 35% and 5 shots. It was a smash and grab, a lucky victory and we also played a weakened team. Totally agree we are due to smash them though.
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I agree with all of this, except it wasn't lucky. Sorry, but it wasn't. It was clinical, rather. It was what we should do in so many games we play, and so often don't.
And incidentally, most of their victories, if not all, since then, have been of that ilk. Seem to remember a match in more recent years when they beat us 2-0 at the Etihad, purely on two counter-attacks in which, if I remember correctly, Rashford outpaced our defence. We had dominated that match, too.

Hate to say it, but the only domestic team that has ‘battered’ us for many a long year is the dippers, if by that, we mean: dominating possession, creating far more chances, converting some of them, winning fifty-fifty tackles all over the pitch, winning the second ball, and generally running rings round us. I don't see anyone else who has done it.
 
DrBlueBob said:
I agree with your last sentence, albeit I await the not in Manchester pile on.

Having said that, I don't agree re the owners. They have taken money out of the club for sure but then it is a commercial enterprise not a charity, however they have funded the team to the tune of a billion quid or so and IIRC they oversaw great success with Ferguson at the helm, so I would not say that they are anywhere near the worst an owner could be. It's easy for their fans to point the finger of blame but in reality it is the people that the owners have appointed to run the club that are more the problem IMO. Of course I do understand that ultimately that's on the Glazers but as I see it there's a deeper malaise than the owners.
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Yeah the glazers have invested and bled the club dry. They’re money men so the latter is fair enough
 
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