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Southampton 2:2 Manchester United

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Sat, 01 December 2018

Mark Armstrong

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I'm void of emotion watching United at the moment, how long can this go on? Our style of play is insipid.
 

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Just too many players in the team who can't control football when their lives depends on it. Young, Fellaini, Herrara all can't be on the field and you expect to win a game. That throw at the end was as disastrous and telling for any coach he wants to win to see. I think Jose is interested in not losing than in winning. He takes zero risk, you are shite anyway.
 

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Jose has got go NOW. No if and buts. Woodward has to sack him and to hell with the pay off. Even fat Sam is better than this.
 

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The manager and the players both to blame. Massive clear out needed from top to bottom. This is worse than Moyes. The fact that the board has allowed the team to sink to these levels is beyond disgraceful. Feel like scratching my eyes out after watching that.
 

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Southampton decided to set up more defensively in the second half, with periods where they chose to patiently probe. We had no plan or penetration in attack, and we had no pressure on the ball in defence. Very comfortable for Southampton, if they had players with better decision making than Redmond, they could have nicked a win.

A close match between two mid table teams. Deserved draw.
 

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Pogba as well, what a fecking joke of a professional footballer.

At least Young, McTominay, Fellaini, Lukaku, Jones, Matic, Lingard etc all have the excuse of being fecking abysmal footballers.
 

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Jose's fault Pogba is sleeping all game

Jose's fault Lukaku injures himself trying to control a ball

Jose's fault Young can't cross to save his life

Jose's fault all our CBs are injured (exclusing Jones)

Jose's fault we have no real genuine winger who can beat a fecking man.

Get an attacking manager in and we'll smash every team 3-0.

Am I doing this right? @Ban
 

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Take off your best player and start with that 11, what do you expect. The board had there chance an they blew it. He needed sacked a long time ago. It's about keeping our best players and getting rid of Jose now.
 

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Disgraceful all around. From the manager to the players and to the clowns who are running this club. Everyone is responsible for this.
When everyone's responsible, no one takes responsibility, it's the perfect situation for failure
 

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Jose still in no danger of losing his job, hilariously. Having said that, I’d also support the sacking of most of those first team players. Utterly nauseating stuff.
 

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Can’t beat Crystal Palace or Southampton. The board will continue to do nothing.

As supporters, what is there left to support about this club until the necessary changes are made?
 

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While chasing (although were we even chasing?) the win against Southampton... Jose keeps playing with a back five until the final whistle with no one from that central defence (including 2 actual midfielders) being capable of making a good first pass.
 

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First half was a right laugh. Second half was a return to type. Didn't even try. We only play when we're behind. One we're level, we don't bother. If we're winning then we go suicidal and defend on our own 6 yard line. If we'd have scored early in the 2nd half, it'd have been even more painful to watch I suspect.

Even if we'd have snatched a stoppage time winner, the man's still gotta go. This isn't just going to magically get better without some sort of change. It's just dull, slow, sloppy, very reminiscent of LvG's 2nd season when he seemed to throw his system out of the window and there was no clear plan of what we were doing on the pitch.
 

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What's the chance Jose gets the sack after this?
No chance, won’t go until top 4 is impossible, wait far too long like with Moyes (should have been sacked after losing to WBA) and LVG (should have been sacked after losing at home to Norwich)
 

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Jesus christ first the unforgiving draw and shit performance against palace at home and now this. -1 goal difference with 14 games played.. I'm afraid I have to speak the truth and say that under the current ownership this club is dead.
 

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Jose must have said/done something at half time to hobble us.

We were going for it before HT, then a totally different team came out for the second half

We fecked up by getting the second goal before Jose could talk to the team.

Also, 3cbs for 90 minutes against Southampton!? Jesus Christ.
He must have reminded them of the tactics/strategy. The one they probably fecked off after going 2-0 down.
 

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Gruesome, we didn’t create a single chance in the second half. Painful formation, all the players not trusting the others. Soton have won one game at home in 2018 and fielded a second-string team.

Lukaku’s miss and comical fall, McTominay’s insane pass, Fellaini’s control... lots of moments summed up Manchester United today. We just don’t have enough quality players and have absolutely no chance at the top four without significant strenghtening, and even then it’s a big stretch. Embarrassing.
 

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A team with our apparent ambition should not be going to a bottom 3 team and playing with 3 defensive midfielders. Simple as that really. Get some players on that actually have an interest in moving the ball fwd quickly. Unfortunately that’s just not the Mourinho way. Man I really dislike this squad. Young, Darmian, Valencia, Jones, Rojo, Matic, McTominay, Fellaini, Sanchez, Lukaku could all go as far as I’m concerned. 3 managers since SAF and still no right winger. Still ageing converted wingers at full back. It’s woeful
 

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I saw no discernible difference in quality between the two teams today. A scrappy draw between two poor teams.
I was just about to say something like this. It was two mediocre sides slugging it out and it's a sad sight indeed.
 

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At least we have got back above Leicester to the dizzy heights of 7th. Shame about our negative goal difference.
 

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Well, we let Everton off the hook. They can lose to Liverpool tomorrow and still be 6th. If results don't go our way tomorrow we could be 8 points away from 5th. Eight points. From 5th. Eight. EIGHT.
 

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Considering we fought back there and grabbed a point, he definitely is not going after that.
 

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Not having a go at Lukaku
But that was comical when he trod on the ball and injured himself.
I don't think he injured himself. Yes it was hilarious but I am sure he will be back against Arsenal and do more comical stuff like not able to control the ball at all.
 

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Lifeless football game with clumsy players cannot control a bloody ball. I think I am going to stop until Jose is gone. It just suck the joy out of my life along with my sleep.
 

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What's the chance Jose gets the sack after this?
At what point do you think prospective managers would look at this and say, 'no thanks'?

The players remind me of the mighty ducks, except they're not mighty, not ducks, and have no will to win. They're slow, they can't jump, they can't pass, they can't score, no style, no finesse, no drive, no teamwork.

How can it be that no one walks up to AY as he tees up for his 15th bad free kick and says, 'get away from that ball, I'll take it'. Do they just not care? Are they all worse at free kicks than that?
 

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Jose's fault Pogba is sleeping all game

Jose's fault Lukaku injures himself trying to control a ball

Jose's fault Young can't cross to save his life

Jose's fault all our CBs are injured (exclusing Jones)

Jose's fault we have no real genuine winger who can beat a fecking man.

Get an attacking manager in and we'll smash every team 3-0.

Am I doing this right? @Ban
Maybe get out of Jose's backside once in a while, then you would surely be doing it right.
 

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Decided to watch a game of United today. I see them play without any system at all. Midfielders not linking up plays, not even attacking open spaces or creating spaces (why would you even play midfield if you don't do that?). Lukaku falling over the ball, can't even get a decent first touch in. Young? uh what the hell was he doing. Whining all game, while making horrible crosses, any 15-year old youth player would make better crosses than him. Southampton looked like a really good team, just because they played a normal football system. What the hell have I just been watching?
 
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mu4c_20le

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Jose's fault Pogba is sleeping all game

Jose's fault Lukaku injures himself trying to control a ball

Jose's fault Young can't cross to save his life

Jose's fault all our CBs are injured (exclusing Jones)

Jose's fault we have no real genuine winger who can beat a fecking man.

Get an attacking manager in and we'll smash every team 3-0.

Am I doing this right? @Ban
I just hope you Jose fans follow him to his next club when he leaves at the end of the season
 

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Never mind top 4, keep up at this rate and we'll be dragged into the relegation dog fight :lol:
 

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Jose till now can not pick the 11 right? Till now ffs? Still playing players out of positions and still while we mostly need the win sub and attacker for another instead of attacking more. Still Matic Lukaku and Young on the pitch who slow everything. Still Pogba who dosen't give a feck for Jose anymore. What else should we be waiting for?
 

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Dire stuff, for the umpteenth time. Top 4 basically impossible, football awful, players look like they dont know what they're doing. Terrible stuff.
 

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Mourinho seems to be just doing enough to avoid being sacked
 

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  • 25% Southampton 0:2 Man Utd
  • 19% Southampton 1:2 Man Utd
  • 13% Southampton 0:1 Man Utd
  • 11% Southampton 1:1 Man Utd
  • 9% Southampton 0:0 Man Utd
  • 5% Southampton 0:3 Man Utd
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  • 4% Southampton 1:0 Man Utd
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  • 1% Southampton 3:1 Man Utd
  • 0% Southampton 2:4 Man Utd
  • 0% Southampton 2:3 Man Utd
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Fouls
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