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Manchester United 1:1 Swansea City

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Sun, 30 April 2017

Dolf

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Why even bother going for champions league if we can't even beat Swansea at home !? Seriously so many players out of position not knowing what to do. What exactly was the plan here today? We got no height in the box and yet we're crossing? Slow tempo and barely any good combinations. We don't even deserve the point. :mad:
 

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Terrible game, league season well and truly over now for us, more injuries, just a complete nightmare overall. Complete reserve teams (including Rooney) out there for the rest of our league games please, and just put out whatever remains of our first XI in the Europa and hope for the best.
 

Beachryan

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This game is all down to Mourinho, his subs are the worse. Everyone can see it Rooney should've been off.

Injuries are his fault, everyone can see him not rotating players will come back to bite us and it did.
Can't blame him today. Had to use 2 subs on broken defenders remember? You never make the 3rd until the 75th minute or so in that situation, in case of another injury.
 

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Diabolical. Can't blame defensive injuries for failing to beat Swansea at home. We were just shit
 

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True. Pretty sure we never drew at home this season with ibra playing.
We had 2 players with pace to burn, against a backline that sat deep. Zlatan would have improved us massively today. Scored against them in the reverse fixture too. Anyway, my point is fairly simple.
 

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Bunch of soft cnuts, not talking about injuries now, overall mentality. We don't deserve top 4. At least now we should just field fecking reserves against Tottenhams and Arsenals and just pray we're not that fecking inept in Europa. Bunch of shits.
This. Throw the league and pray to God we win the EL.
 
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It's gutting watching us throw away opportunities so carelessly. There's no consolation for being unbeaten in this manner. Picking up so few points at home is asking for trouble.

We're really pinning all our hopes on the Europa League now and we simply can't fail there.
 

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Utter rubbish, there are some very poor players representing United at the moment and a clearout is a must. Whoever thought Lingard is worthy of 100 thousand quid a week is absolutely deluded, he is to top class football what I am to the 4 minute mile.
No excuses from Jose please, we are simply not good enough and wtf Rooney was thinking of I have no idea.
 

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Decimated by injuries and fatigue so I am not at all surprised with the result.

Rooney and Lingard were garbage and Mkhitryan's cameo was pathetic.
Dude, it's Swansea at home ffs.
 

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I gave Luke Shaw man of the match and I wasn't doing it for a laugh
 

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Not a hope in hell were winning that playing like this. In my mind, we should be looking towards next season.
We've been much better in the Europa League to be fair. But with this many injuries to key players who knows.
 

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It's like they work and work and win and claw the deficit back and as soon as they lift their heads up to see they could potentially be in the top 4, they bottle it against a relegation team at home.

Spineless bunch of cnuts.
 

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So if Arsenal win their games in hand, we are back in 6th? What a fecking joke we are. We only have ourselves to blame. We're a sack of shit and quite frankly don't deserve to play in the Champions League anyway.
 

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We don't deserve CL football.

Europe League is our place currently. We should play in it again next season.
I agree with this. I don't see the point of being in a competition we have not a hope in hell of winning. Leave the 10-2 defeats for Arsenal.
 

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I'm glad that , despite being completely shite, we still managed to miss an easy chance, which would probably finish off the game, and give away a stupid free kick, from which we conceded. It's lovely to see that we learned feck all over the course of this 65 fecking games long season.

Oh, and putting all the eggs in the EL basket does not seem the greatest idea all of a sudden, now that we have 0 CB's which are fit. Albeit it's the only option we have left.
 

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They've the worst defense in the league and we barely created a sniff all game.. at home. Sums us up really.
 

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Mrs: Is your gayball over
Me: yes
Mrs: Was it a draw
Me: yes
Mrs: of course it was, it's always a draw

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Paying the price of 1st part of the season,some playing 24/7 and some doing feck all,while we still had huge squad. I tho after that Chelsea`s pre season which was one of worst,on top 2nd part of season before that,someone might learn something but nope.
 

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When are the players? This was the same group from last season with the exception of Bailly who wasn't too bad and Mhkitaryan who, granted did nothing, but he was only on for ten minutes.

No Ibra, no Pogba. In other words, no one to energise the team. Which itself is pathetic since these are grown men not children.
Their finishing has been rightly criticised all season. But why do we still pretend as if we create chances and play well in an attacking sense? We don't, and I've been banging this drum since the turn of the year.

I think we need accept that Swansea are fighting for their lives, but today just wasn't good enough.
 

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Keeping Rooney for 80 minutes is just another brilliant managerial decision from Mourinho...
 

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Possibly the worst performance of the season as far as I can recall. Top 4 is over.
 

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Second rate performance from our second rate team. Our backups really just aren't very good.
 

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We had a good game plan to soak up pressure and play on the counter, to conserve energy for the upcoming games.

Scuppered by unfortunate injuries to Shaw and Bailly, and a brilliant freekick.

Makeshift defence held up well enough but we didn't have a player to drive the play forward enough.

A fair result, all things considered.
 

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How can the players respond so diligently to Mourinho's instructions for the Chelsea game and yet show so much apathy in these kind of games?

We played at walking pace today.We struggled to even complete the basics.

As a performance, that's a bad as you'll see from any Premier League side, let alone one that has ambitions of European football.
 

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Gained a point on Liverpool!

Seriously though we don't deserve CL spot via the league.
Rooney is a liability. I dunno why Jose didn't haul him off in the 60th minute mark but then we have had to force changes because of chickens like Shaw.

Rooney had a very good chance to make it 2-0 and with a gaping goal, Rooney still hit his own player. Lo & behold, he was the one making a foul at the edge of the box for Swansea to score.
 

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So much deadwood in our squad, still!
My solace is I look forward to Jose being ruthless and bring in quality players, but mainly letting go of players that just aren't good enough.

ps. Martial, wtf, he was awful yet again today.
 

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That's how Rooney repays you for a starting spot. Gave them a chance to use their best and only threat. What a stupid, stupid human.
 

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Keeping Rooney for 80 minutes is just another brilliant managerial decision from Mourinho...
Can't blame that one on him, 2 injured defenders, and you never know when the third injury might come lol.
 

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Really poor game, I think draw was a fair result.

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Eh? Didn't deserve the point, at all. We got a penalty that shouldn't have stood, they missed a few sitters and out-played us, especially in midfield - it's telling we had to change shape twice to try and cope with them even though we were the home team.
 

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We were abysmal. Tbh we looked exhausted and I hope that was the case, because if it wasn't then there are a lot of players who need to go for showing that level of urgency. Swansea deserved to win.

It's all down to the Europa League now and given our injuries and the apparent fatigue setting in, I wouldn't back us. Absolute nightmare.
 

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This has to be the most uninspiring and worst unbeaten league run in top flight football. 25 games unbeaten but stuck at 6th. Have the chance to go 3rd to put massive psychological pressure on City and Pool but as usual, we messed it up. Story of our season. We don't deserve top 4. Period. Never thought we would get top 4 anyway but at least come on man, make it difficult for our rivals. 14 draws in the league jesus christ. I'm fuming. I'm just looking forward to the EL games now, Celta on Thursday to save our season.
 

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A draw + losing 2 players.

Crap. Only one month remaining in this season, please God let me endure it.
 

Beachryan

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Only thing I'm worried about is that the bookies are going to become wise to the home draws and stop letting me make money off them every time we play at Old Trafford.
It really is ridiculous. Got 7-1 right after Rooney's penalty.
 

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  • Man Utd win
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Detailed Results

  • 42% Man Utd 2:0 Swansea
  • 15% Man Utd 3:0 Swansea
  • 12% Man Utd 1:0 Swansea
  • 10% Man Utd 2:1 Swansea
  • 4% Man Utd 1:1 Swansea
  • 4% Man Utd 4:0 Swansea
  • 4% Man Utd 3:1 Swansea
  • 4% Man Utd 0:0 Swansea
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  • 1% Man Utd 3:2 Swansea
  • 0% Man Utd 1:2 Swansea
  • 0% Man Utd 0:1 Swansea
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  • 0% Man Utd 4:1 Swansea
  • 0% Man Utd 5:1 Swansea
  • 0% Man Utd 5:4 Swansea
  • 0% Man Utd 1:3 Swansea
  • 0% Man Utd 0:3 Swansea
  • 0% Man Utd 4:2 Swansea
  • 0% Man Utd 0:5 Swansea
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Match Stats

  1. Man Utd
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Possession
55% 45%
Shots
12 12
Shots on Target
6 4
Corners
5 2
Fouls
11 13

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