[SalfordRed1960]

3 pts, but garbage. Really poor performances from nearly every player.

Lost every 50-50 ball, attack was really poor in terms of decision making. Passing and control worse than Sh*te.

But another local away game done.

 

[Dash247]

I am glad we got those 3 points.
Pogba made some bad decisions in the final third. We could’ve won this 2-0, had he passed to martial. Overall an average from everyone.

 

[UpWithRivers]

If Ferguson was in charge.... Ground out result. Good job. That's what premiership winners do.
After Ferguson...dreadful. Boring. Clueless. Sell the lot of them.

 

[Reyoji-Utd]

Very very bad decision making when attack, need more composure.

Aren’t we one of the hardest, toughest, tallest but a bit of rough up from them made us looks amateur at times.

 

[Kostov]

5 minutes of extra time and 1 on top of it. feck you Mike Dean you useless piece of shit.

 

[simplyared]

Phil Jones's match. Chris Smalling was great too. We owe the 3pts to them!

 

[R'hllor]

Win is a win but some moments when we passed half line were laughable.

 

[ClosetDevil]

Mata is past it.

 

[BluesJr]

Think we really need someone who can control and dictate the pace of the game a little better. Sign Seri.

 

[Icemav]

Lukaku had no service whatsoever. Sanchez can’t come sooner.

Pogba was dissapointing.

We should just call it what it was, a dreadful performance. He was our worst player in the first half.

 

[Donut]

Our decision making and selfishness in the final third was quite incredible. Sanchez can't come fast enough.

Important win though, and it was always going to be a tough game.

 

[Geekie]

Seeing a bunch of self-centered attackers play like this tonight makes me miss Rooney and his selflessness, poor Lukaku (that assist to Martial was glorious)

 

[Jaap]

Did Rashford do anything right during his short cameo?

 

[kouroux]

Happy it's finally over. I cannot state enough how much I hate Burnley and Dyche. They really believe their hype with their decent first third of the season. Slowly getting back to their true level now.

 

[hn4manunited]

Good tough 3 points for us. Our young players up front have made it harder than it had to be.

All of our young players have shown their immaturity in decision making in goal scoring areas. Lingard, Pogba, Martial, Rashford, and Lukaku all showed bad decision making. These immaturities cost us those few draws during the Christmas period. A few better decisions would have seen us kill those games off easily. Most of these chances were lost from either not making shot instead of a touch, one touch too many, one pass too many, one pass too few, trying to have a go instead of finding an open man. Frustrating to watch.

Mike Dean was definitely trying to give Burnley as much time as he can give them to get a goal! 5 extra minutes and he didn’t even blow his whistle until almost 6 mins!!!

 

[kundalini]

Pogba was the worst player on the pitch by a mile. Lost possession again and again. Not interested in helping out the defence. Decides to shoot when he has 2 players in better positions.

Smalling and Jones don't have the confidence to play out from the back when pressed. Smalling was terrible on the ball in the first half. Jones' defending was impressive.

Young had a couple of nice moments, a pass to Poba who volleyed over and the shot just wide.

Mata useless again. Lingard's best moments were helping to stop counter-attacks.

Martial brilliant shot for the goal. Lukaku did well to find him with the pass.

 

[TimScoreboard]

Hard fought win; we looked to control the game, rather than kill it, which could have cost us. But... a good 3 points, because they make you work for your points

 

[DatIrishFella]

The wastefulness was disgusting tbh.

Hate Burnley, shitehouse team with a shitehouse forward who loves to fling himself to the ground. Ashley Barnes is a cnut.

 

[KirkDuyt]

3 points.

That is all.

 

[Icemav]

Burnley were real crap. No surprise that their results have regressed because you can’t expect the wins they were getting with their limited chances.

We made hard work of that. We are so poor at converting dangerous attacks, for example with a man advantage on the counter, into clear chances and therefore goals. We can’t bang them in from range every match. We need to make smarter decisions and remain composed.

Learning how to pass the ball would help.

 

[Bastian]

Based on todays game its shame we are not shipping Mata to Arsenal insteed.

Note: First win in gray kit.

I want us to retire that gray kit.

 

[Random Task]

Another one of those "would have been a draw last season" games.

Average performance but a valuable 3 points all the same.

 

[Man-United]

All about getting results away from home. Great win.

 

[The Man Himself]

Second half showed we can still create some good moments and dictate play in such games, if not for the inexplicable lack of chemistry, overhit passes & wrong decision making in last 3rd.

 

[Freak]

Our Attack does become brainless at time. It’s like everyone decides to take the one option they should not take and the move just breaks down. Very frustrating that the final ball is usually missing.

 

[Djemba-Djemba]

Great win that.

Not all of our rivals will go there and win.

 

[RedPed]

Last season, I would have stressed over games against Stoke and Burnley but we get 6 pts, 4 goals and 2 clean sheets. Can't ask for anymore than that. Sanchez ready for the Spurs game too. Happy days!

 

[Morpheus 7]

Great result, hard place to go. We made hard work of it but job done. Sean Dyche should feck up and go eat his worms too.

 

[Jazz]

Burnley players and staff sure have mastered that look of incredulity when a decision doesn't go their way haven't they?

Definitely!

 

[LLMU]

Three points in the bag against a real organised team.

 

[Icemav]

Amazes me at the top level how many times shots and crosses are just drilled into the defender time and time again.

Been happening for years

 

[DickDastardly]

Unnecessarily difficult.

Our last third decisioning in this game was woeful. Selfish. Stupid. Just bad.

Pogba, Matić, Mata, Lingard - all bad.

Jones was fantastic today. Lukaku was great, Martial with a beauty, and some really nice touches and passes.

Three points in the bag, and let's all just forget about this one.

 

[Havak]

Poor performance, but got the result. It's a weird one as I don't think Martial, Lingard, or Lukaku were exactly terrible, just wasteful. On another day we'd have easily scored, three, four, maybe five goals when we had all three of them in the box or thereabouts on a counter attack. So many times they took on the shot when they should've passed to someone in space, or vice versa. Smalling and Jones I think were excellent at the back and the reason we didn't drop points today. Mata was especially poor and I believe he should've gone off earlier than he did for more security in midfield. Matic & Pogba needed a bit of support as they were treading on eggshells for much of the second half and looked very frustrated.

Overall, just happy to win, avoid injuries and get another clean sheet for Dave. Onto the FA Cup and hopefully continue the good form ready for Spurs away!

Also, I fecking hate Burnley now. They're one of those teams that you love when you're not playing them, but as soon as you do you realise what utter cnuts they are. Barnes especially falling all over the show, they go down more than Man City and moan more than anyone else when the opposition do it. So many times they are touch tight on our players, make a foul and it isn't given. Just get to feck, you lost.

 

[noodlehair]

Pogba is an embarassment.

It was a really poor performance. Lukaku was good. Jones was decent. Martial was hit and miss. The rest looked like they'd been out drinking all night.

Pogba looked like he'd been out drinking all night AND didn't care if he won or lost as long as he could show off and do some backheels. Can't remember a United player ever having such a laughably shite attitude towards games. Its like Gerrard if you took away the goals and desire to actually win the game.

 

[MonkeysMagic]

Delighted with 3 points but depressed with our forward players attacking play. There can't be many teams in OK with worst decision making than us!

Burnley...one of the worst diving performance throughout 90 min I've seen. Will it get highlighted on MOTD? Nope, they are a 'hard-working honest' team!

 

[Jazz]

Great result, hard place to go. We made hard work of it but job done. Sean Dyche should feck up and go eat his worms too.

 

[Fully Fledged]

9 points come on Newcastle.

 

[mazhar13]

Our players wilted under Burnley's pressure from the start of the match. The first half was a real slog for us as our players couldn't settle into the game. Burnley were aggressive and physical, and Mike Dean was a bit friendly to them in the first half. I'm surprised that our players didn't take the physicality on board and responded. Spurs and Man. City experienced the exact same thing, and both responded to it well (Spurs with their own brand of aggression and Man. City with their quick passing tempo). We, however, responded to it by falling back and hoping to not concede a goal.

The second half was continuing in a similar fashion, but thank God for Martial's goal. That came off a great counterattack with Lukaku showing the right attitude (he did so throughout the match) and responding to the physicality positively. With that goal, the whole team became more confident and assured, and it was Burnley's turn to be on the wrong end of the ref's calls whilst we played with more assurance. It was too bad that Pogba, Martial, Mata, and Rashford were wasteful (Lingard was surprisingly not too involved in the match), else we could have seen the game off sooner.

You can tell that our midfield was quite disjointed in that match. Pogba and Lingard wanted to press up, but Matic and the defenders wanted to drop deep. The second half showed signs of improvement in that sense as our midfield played with more unity. That gave us the platform to forge better counterattacks and that Martial goal. Matic was really struggling in the first half as a result (we all know that he's slow at covering the ground and struggles at putting in tackles), but he was more effective in the second half.

Mourinho was surprisingly quite slow with his subs, I feel. I think he sensed that we were starting to grow into the game and becoming more dangerous on the counter, but honestly, I expected Mata to have been subbed off much sooner. Martial was struggling to be effective on the counter as well, preferring to drop back and look to receive the at his feet, but Mourinho's faith and belief in him rewarded us with a goal and more of a counterattacking threat later on.

Defensively, Jones basically carried us. His immaculate positioning and excellent anticipation kept Burnley at bay. Smalling was dropping deep way too early as usual, and Young was positionally very poor himself. We really missed Shaw's defensive and attacking assurance on the left side, but in the end, we still saw the game off. Oh well, I'll happily take the 3 points particularly when we were mentally beaten by Burnley for much of the match.

 

[Ace of Spades]

Glad for the win, but we were shit. The decision making was terrible and there was no team cohesion at all. I don't want to blame one or two individuals as everyone was guilty of some poor play today at least once, just brainless stuff from all of them, at times not even doing the basic things right.

 

[Zexstream]

Not the most exciting of games but its 3 points and a win away from home.

Where did 5 minutes of injury time come from?