we needed a MTOM performance by De Gea to salvage this one point!
I agree, feelings of Deja-vu.
We would have lost today without De Gea. Stoke are not a
brash and brawling team like they used to be, but we still could not put them away. Darren Fletcher had a field day for them, like to know who was supposed to be marking him? Or perhaps we didn't think one of our 'cast offs' could cause us problems, we know different now.
Overall we have improved, but on todays showing not as much as we thought.
Mark Hughes won hands down in the tactical battle today and to add salt to the wounds he told us before the match he had found things about us he could exploit, Jose take note, not everything opposing managers say are part of the 'mind game' contest!
I know they talk of rotation and such like, but why do managers these days change a winning team, surely it cannot be rotation reasons this early in the season? If Jose changed the team today to foil Hughes plan, it clearly didn't work. When Mata came on he was the first United player to continually look for space, Tony Martial also came at the game seemingly more prepared than of late, he looked to exploit space.
I was disappointed in Herrera's contribution and Bailly probably had his worst game since he joined us, he seemed somehow off the pace/out of sorts!.