That third goal...

[RRCE]

It was an absolutely brilliant goal. Beautiful. A joy to watch.

I was particularly impressed with Greenwood’s cross. Calm, composed and inch perfect. James, in that same position, likely takes a poor shot or badly overhits the cross.

 

[BestRed]

Was a thing of beauty, pure United that goal. Incisive passing, pace and quality finishing.

 

[Rocksy]

Was there a touch in that goal that could have been even a little bit better? No. It was the perfect counter attack. Greenwood is so impressive, fast enough but you don't need to be lightning when you have that kind of touch and head. He had the hardest job in that move and pulled it all together...

 

[Dante]

It was great.

But we've been scoring counter-attacking goals like that for a while.

Honestly, what impressed me most is the contrast between the first two goals and the third goal. For the first time in years, we're able to score both on the break and also during spells of pressure.

Under Moyes, LvG and Mournho, we only ever specialised in one type of goal or the other. I love the fact we can flip a switch between two different approaches without any drop off in quality.

 

[ExoduS]

Very United like goal. I turned my head for a bit and heard someone scored. I thought they scored but then heard "Fernandes"... That was lighting fast fastbreak. Nice to see and hopefully more of that next season.

 

[Ali Dia]

Sexual.

just goes to show we can batter teams especially if we can turn our usual possession into an early goal and draw them out. We’d have hit them for 4/5 if we’d kept the lads on.

 

[utdalltheway]

I've heard Del Piero being described as 'sex on legs' well that goal was like that.
Not like Del Piero, that hairy italian fecker, but the sex on legs part.

 

[BigWillprunier]

Matic forced a lump into the box by pressing the brighton player then dropped into the space to find Maguires header before he even made that fantastic pass, covers so much ground.
On this form he can stay another 4 years, he was my motm tonight.

 

[RU Devil]

Matic.

We've all gone on & on how slow he is, but he covered a lot of ground, quickly, to get out to pressure that cross that Maguire headed out, then Matic was quick enough to get to that headed ball to get it to Mason. Impressive.

Do you credit Bruno for deliberately hitting his volley down? If he hit it flush instead of slightly down, the defender might have blocked it.

 

[Web of Bissaka]

This thread is NSFW.

Typical United type of goals. Quick brutal counter.

Aah.. so good.

 

[christy87]

Pure filth, from matic passing the ball, Greenwood’s filthy cross it was pin point perfect and Bruno’s finish to the noise I made at the lunch table at work.

 

[tenpoless]

Matic to Bruno "Hehehe"

 

[HarryRedCrumbs]

I love seeing Utd enjoy their football.... What a joy to watch.

 

[Isotope]

Not only sexy but very important in the sense of timing too. Brighton had started sharp in the 2nd half and that really killed them off.

True. It afforded us to rest some key players very early on 2nd half. Otherwise at 2-0, one goal back from them would make the game very open.

 

[Ole'sattheWheel]

My goal of the season. Can you imagine the scenes if that had been at a packed Old Trafford? (I know it was away but still).

 

[Rolaholic]

Tweet

— Twitter API (@user) date

The scream I let out when Bruno smashed it in on the volley

Truly felt like vintage United which I haven't been able to say much over the last 6-7 years

 

[Alemar]

Our First XI may indeed challenge for the title. But the problem is, that our second best XI would have been relegated - such is the difference in quality.

 

[Annihilate Now!]

Our First XI may indeed challenge for the title. But the problem is, that our second best XI would have been relegated - such is the difference in quality.

Not sure what this has to do with the goal, but anyway, this is just hyperbole... our second eleven is easily comparable to that of Chelsea & Liverpool's

Here's Liverpool's second XI

Adrian

???? / Lovren / Matip / Milner

Chamberlain / Keita / Jones

Lallana / Origi / Minamino

Are you saying that that is miles better then ours?

 

[tenpoless]

What a cross from Mason. Inch perfect.

 

[Handré1990]

It was great.

But we've been scoring counter-attacking goals like that for a while.

Honestly, what impressed me most is the contrast between the first two goals and the third goal. For the first time in years, we're able to score both on the break and also during spells of pressure.

Under Moyes, LvG and Mournho, we only ever specialised in one type of goal or the other. I love the fact we can flip a switch between two different approaches without any drop off in quality.

This can’t be stressed enough. Very important to be able to mix it up.

 

[Teja]

Not sure what this has to do with the goal, but anyway, this is just hyperbole... our second eleven is easily comparable to that of Chelsea & Liverpool's

Here's Liverpool's second XI

Adrian

???? / Lovren / Matip / Milner

Chamberlain / Keita / Jones

Lallana / Origi / Minamino

Are you saying that that is miles better then ours?

They had some ridiculously good luck with injuries this season. Maybe fitness itself is an attribute that they select for when they sign players or maybe they're doing some groundbreaking work in sports science to have players keep up with Klopp's demands, in which case fair play to them, but I'll put it down as dumb luck.

 

[AttackAttackAttack]

That goal and game was the perfect birthday present!

 

[Annihilate Now!]

They had some ridiculously good luck with injuries this season. Maybe fitness itself is an attribute that they select for when they sign players or maybe they're doing some groundbreaking work in sports science to have players keep up with Klopp's demands, in which case fair play to them, but I'll put it down as dumb luck.

I've heard people say "What are we going to do if Bruno and Pogba get injured" on here and I'm just thinking, what team actually plans for their two best players getting injured? What would happen to Liverpool if Mane and Salah got injured? They'd be fecked, that's what.

 

[Donald Silverbridge]

Last post of the day, That goal was world-class, The pass from Matic was excellent, It was a brilliant move, That's our goal of the season in my opinion.

 

[USREDEVIL]

Magic from Matic and that one time volley hit was class from Bruno.

 

[AltiUn]

Not sure what this has to do with the goal, but anyway, this is just hyperbole... our second eleven is easily comparable to that of Chelsea & Liverpool's

Here's Liverpool's second XI

Adrian

???? / Lovren / Matip / Milner

Chamberlain / Keita / Jones

Lallana / Origi / Minamino

Are you saying that that is miles better then ours?

I don't think there's an enormous difference, however I can see why people are concerned because as we've seen this season losing players like Pogba, Rashford and Martial for extended periods is a real possibility and should be something worth keeping in mind when we go about our summer transfer business. Ours looks something like:

Spoiler: Man. United

Romero

Dalot / Bailly / Jones / Williams

McTominay / Fred

Pereira or Lingard

Mata / Ighalo / James

Chelsea's next season after they sign Werner and Ziyech could be looking like this:

Spoiler: Chelsea

Caballero

James / Christensen / Tomori / Alonso

Loftus-Cheek / Gilmour / Barkley

Willian (?) / Abraham / Hudson-Odoi

I'd say we certainly lack a bit of depth in the attack and creative midfielder roles compared to some of our peers. That could change should we sign Sancho and then someone like VdB / Grealish for depth.

 

[diarm]

Matic deserves all the credit in the world, not just for the pass but for his general play in the last couple of weeks, but let's not leave out that chipped cross from Greenwood - it was exquisite and perfectly measured at full sprint! No mean feat and deserves just as much credit as the first pass.

 

[Annihilate Now!]

I don't think there's an enormous difference, however I can see why people are concerned because as we've seen this season losing players like Pogba, Rashford and Martial for extended periods is a real possibility and should be something worth keeping in mind when we go about our summer transfer business. Ours looks something like:

Spoiler: Man. United

Romero

Dalot / Bailly / Jones / Williams

McTominay / Fred

Pereira or Lingard

Mata / Ighalo / James

Chelsea's next season after they sign Werner and Ziyech could be looking like this:

Spoiler: Chelsea

Caballero

James / Christensen / Tomori / Alonso

Loftus-Cheek / Gilmour / Barkley

Willian (?) / Abraham / Hudson-Odoi

I'd say we certainly lack a bit of depth in the attack and creative midfielder roles compared to some of our peers. That could change should we sign Sancho and then someone like VdB / Grealish for depth.

Well yeah but that's assuming a) Ziyech / Werner will both hit the ground running/be successes (I think they both will be for what its worth... which is nothing) and like you say, that's their second XI thanks to two incoming players... and as we'll probably have 2 incoming players of our own (and who knows, maybe Sanchez/Smalling to boot?) our second XI should also improve.

So the point still stands that our second XI is and probably will be comparable to anyone else's bar City... and even then, their back-up defence is a bag of shit.

 

[Jeppers7]

Better than Ronnies at the Emirates

 

[Posh Red]

Pretty much all my favourite United goals are counter attacks - Rooney against Bolton, Kanchelskis against Norwich, Ronaldo against Arsenal.

There's a new one added to the list tonight!

Martial vs Stoke was another beauty

 

[romufc]

Love watching football when United entertain.

 

[Rozay]

I think the 3 ellipses in the thread title will be my great legacy on the caf.

 

[Andersons Dietician]

The pass from Matic is filthy.

 

[Walters_19_MuFc]

From start to finish, it was perfect. Reminiscent of the United teams of old. Great goal!

 

[horsechoker]

Lucky hoof from Matic, poor defending of Greenwood's Cross. Fernandes volleys it into the ground and was lucky the keeper didn't save.



And I loved it

 

[USREDEVIL]

Lucky hoof from Matic, poor defending of Greenwood's Cross. Fernandes volleys it into the ground and was lucky the keeper didn't save.



And I loved it

I want to choke you!

 

[#07]

Like rolling back the years...

 

[El Zoido]

It reminded me of that Champions League goal at the Emirates, where Park, Rooney and Ronaldo curbstomped an Arsenal backline.

Yep..

 

[OsloRed]

That pass from Matic is my favourite moment post-break. Absolute peach.

 

[adexkola]

I like Greenwood's cross better than Matic's pass... He could have screwed that up in so many ways