[AngliaRed]

Pogba and Matic into CM

VDB -> Bruno
Fred -> Cavani

 

[Hughie77]

AWB looks shot, the ball is moving slow across the ground imo, Pogba doing ok getting isolated at times no pass on for him, Bruno on to control a bit, and put in some tackles or bring Cavani on

 

[tomaldinho1]

Predictably ropey first half, usually we’re better 2nd half so here’s hoping.
Stick Greenwood up top with Tony and just go 4222, might as well try something a bit more offensive.

 

[United Hobbit]

Hope Chelsea and City get other in the draw

They won't though, I predict we get City

 

[Dante]

Mason
1-1

Moronic by Telles to pass the ball to Pogba when he's being marked. He should have passed it backwards to somebody in space.

 

[diarm]

How can people seriously blame Maguire for that? That's 100% Fred's fault.

The only thing I'd blame Maguire for in that is being a shite leader.

Fred had given the ball away 3 times before that incident. Keane would have floored him after the second one but our current captain passes it him on the edge of the box.

 

[snk123]

Best thing Donny has done with the ball is letting it go to Greenwood

 

[Dobba]

If you're defending a pass at the edge of your own box by pointing out the options for the receiver are to knock it back to the goalkeeper or boot it out of play, I'm not sure why you're pretending it's a good ball.

 

[Murder on Zidane's Floor]

A new low for Martial - getting outpaced by Johnny fecking Evans.

Martial is the slowest, "quick" player I've ever seen.

 

[FrankDrebin]

The BBC punditry team is really awful. Zero analysis just telling us the bleeding obvious in clichés.

Shearer is the worst. Literally explains step-by-step what I can see with my eyes.

 

[mancan92]

Fred getting far too much stick. Maguire gets most of blame for a daft pass to a marked player

No he doesn't. If tielemans is there instead of fred that doesn't happen.

 

[Litch]

Massive mistake by Fred but this performance is shocking. Prime Kante doesn't change that performance......

 

[rooney2009]

Unforced errors is part of football and passing out from the back but we’ve been poor
We surely can’t play any worse
They look fresher than us as we played on Thursday night
We are a better team than them so we have to do better in the 2nd half

 

[Longshanks]

That was a poor half, but despite that leicester have only created from individual errors from us.
Van de beek needs to move to get more involved and play some forward passes when he does get it.

And martial just needs to actually move.

 

[mitchmouse]

You don't get to play the "marked man" card as a midfielder once you start showing that you are available to receive the ball. If you feel like you cannot take the ball, don't get in the stance, don't show you are active. Fred literally hinted that he wanted the ball with his body language and stance. As a midfielder you always give signals to the person in possession around you where to pass and, if you are not willing to take the pass, you signal the same.

none of that makes maguire blameless. fine if it's 30 yards from goal but it wasn't

 

[Adisa]

We have too many of these type of games...simply too many.
How long are we going to continue like this?

 

[VidaRed]

I just saw the goal we conceded, what shambles. We screw up nearly every game playing from inside our box, it was bound to happen.

 

[Judas]

Shearer tearing apart Martial's entire existence.

 

[acnumber9]

Ok, stupid question time. Could that dummy by VDB be classed as an assist? I mean, by leaving it he created the chance!

Who cares?

 

[MattofManchester]

VDB has no ability to play the 10. He's another one who carries the ball from deep.
Take off Matic or Fred, replace with Bruno and drop VDB deeper. The midfield passing is atrocious.

 

[Mickeza]

I thought Fred on Thursday in the first half was bad. Managed to outdo himself today so far. Hopefully he recovers the same way in the second half that he did then.

 

[Dan_F]

The anti-United punditry here is fecking mental

It was quite funny, because as they were saying how shit we’ve been, it flashed up at the bottom saying we’ve had more shots on target.

We haven’t been great, but take out the 10 minutes after their goal and it’s been even.

 

[Classical Mechanic]

Passing to someone facing the wrong way, with a player already on him, is an unique way of beating the press.

Fred should have turned it round the corner with a single touch pass from his right foot.

 

[TMDaines]

Shearer couldn’t be more critical of Martial and rightly so. Hiding where he’s never going to be found with a pass, making no runs, and just looking for the foul everytime.

 

[Judas]

How often do we have a good 90 minutes? It's nowhere near enough for me.

 

[Murder on Zidane's Floor]

I actually think xhaka.

Fred's never been given the keys to his parents house.

 

[laughtersassassin]

Clear as day CDM/CM and an attacker are our two biggest issue.

If we are on a budget forget about CB it'll be a waste.

 

[Buster15]

Martial is the slowest, "quick" player I've ever seen.

He moves like a slug on heat..

 

[Dobba]

Fred should have turned it round the corner with a single touch pass from his right foot.

Ah, so Maguire was passing to a Fred from an alternate dimension. I see why he made the pass now.

 

[Sassy Colin]

You could argue that Fred, Martial, Greenwood (apart from his goal) have had poor games, but you can't fault their effort. Fred is, perhaps, over compensating for his error for the goal and trying too hard.

VDB just anonymous, doesn't appear to be putting much effort in. Not creating anything. What is his role? ffs, man, this is your big chance to show us what you can do and shut the doubters up. It's a really important game against a good team, just, nothing.

 

[bsCallout]

AWB looks shot, the ball is moving slow across the ground imo, Pogba doing ok getting isolated at times no pass on for him, Bruno on to control a bit, and put in some tackles or bring Cavani on

I thought he's had his best game on the ball

 

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Is Fred too sexy for his shirt, though?

 

[Kag]

That analysis of Martial’s movement is woeful.

Had he come short every time instead of stretching the back three they’d be kicking his arse for not making runs in behind.

He’s had a shit season but he’s far from the problem today.

 

[flappyjay]

If Maguire was wrong for passing to a teammate, we'd might as well just end football and move on to rugby.

United play out of the back. That's our strategy. Maguire did the right thing. Fred dropped a bollock. You can't blame the former for that. It's a slippery slope if you think the game works that way.

It's alright to have a bit of bias and favouritism. But, feck me, some of you come across as utter morons sometimes.

There is a reason why coaches instruct their players to pressure players who are waiting to receive the ball, its not a pointless instruction. Maguire in this instance passes the ball to Fred who has a man on him. I have seen even Matic mess up in that situation. Should have went long or to someone outwide. Fred obviously handled the situation the worst way possible and will get the majority of the blame.

 

[Litch]

No he doesn't. If tielemans is there instead of fred that doesn't happen.

Tielemans has never made a mistake on a football pitch or miscontrolled a football

 

[Cpt Negative]

I think people need to chill out a bit.

We’re away to third in the league on the back of 1 full rest day compared to their week off.
We’ve been sloppy but Leicester haven’t really created much.

Bruno and Shaw on and we take back control

 

[Drainy]

Is Fred too sexy for his shirt, though?

too shit for it

 

[Rustyspider13]

I'm livid with that half. Every Leicester attack has come from our own mistakes. Everyone is just losing the ball willy nilly. Fred has been shocking. Matic, AWB, Lindelof all have been sloppy. Martial has covered ground well but anonymous in attack. Donny needs to pass forward even if it takes more than one touch to do so. Pogba needs to realize this ref isn't going to give him anything.

Greenwood is the only player who can say he has played well, good finish. Lovely from Pogba and Donny played his part too. Ole needs to pour cold water on these lads' faces because they need to wake up.

 

[90 + 5min]

People need to relax. We have control over game. No need to worry. We are one individual misstake from being infront. If We just step up little We will go through.

 

[bsCallout]

Good Analysis from Shearer explaining the poor movement from Martial.