Ultimately though, if you concede three goals in the manner that we did today, you won’t win many games of football. Straight away you’re asking yourself to score four goals, away from home, to win and it happens too often at this club. Bailly and Linderlof will obviously take the criticism but some of the work done in and around them was really, really poor as well, not just with regards to the goals but in general play. For one of the goals, someone played a ball into Fred (I think) when had half a team around him, we lose the ball and they score. The goal from the corner comes about because we lose the initial ball and can’t react. Shooting our selves in the foot.
Going forward, just really, really poor. Some of the passing today was a disgrace: too short, not too the feet, poor decisions being made. Rashford, Lakaku, Pogba, Young, Lingard to name five just seem incapable of making the correct decisions with the football. There were chances there today that didn’t even look like chances because we didn’t play the ball into the space, or we have the ball away. I honestly think that for us to get anything out of this season, Mourinho is going to have to babysit some of them because they aren’t good enough to play off the cuff.
Didn’t see many positives, thought Fred showed a few good signs but not many. Shaw was 6/10 at best but was probably our best performer because he didn’t make any drastic mistakes. That said, he made plenty of errors defensively but Brighton weren’t good enough to exploit them.
What hurts about today though is that the opposition didn’t need to play well to win, we handed them a couple of goals. For a team of that ilk to beat Manchester United, without playing particularly well, is really disappointing. They’ve scored three goals there without doing a great deal.