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Manchester United 3:0 Bournemouth

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Tue, 03 January 2023

AndySmith1990

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Normally we'd drop points as everyone around us does too. But we dominated again and won with ease. ETH is the man
 

DJ_21

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Another great performance. The consistency is finally coming! Another good clean sheet. Just need palace tomorrow night to top it off for us.
 

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These games are the ones you need to win. We were not amazing but good enough to win comfortable. Case and Shaw amazing, AWB and DDG also did well. Maguire and Lindelof as expected why Bruno and Rashy only came good late
 

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3 goals in what felt like 3rd gear. It's good to see us beating the lower half of the table teams with ease and comfort again.
 

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Strange how open the game became after the second goal, like Bournemouth decided to just throw the kitchen sink at us and we didn't even try and shut up shop and just went end to end until someone got the third.
 

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Excellent performances from Shaw, De Gea, Rashford, Casemiro, Bruno and Fred when he came on.

The defence was nervy with Maguire and Lindelof who are a combined massive downgrade on Varane and Martinez, however overall we are so much better. We are on the way to be the best I have seen us since Ferguson left. Very promising indeed.
 

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Not our best performance, on another day it could have been 3-3.

The main thing is though we took our chances and got the 3 points. Great streak atm.
 

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We're winning games and keeping clean sheets along the way. Thought we had potential to draw this 0-0 before the first goal went in. Casemiro + Shaw were both first class. Great victory.
 

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Looking good. Got a few players in peak form. If we can get Antony, Martial and Sancho anywhere near their best we'll be fecking ace.
 

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By the time the next league game comes around we wont have conceded a goal in it for 2 months.

Massive, massive two games next though with City then Arsenal!
 

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3 clean sheets, 9 points and 8 goals scored. Best possible return for us, looking much better but you can see we have a mistake in our back pocket which bigger teams will punish. I see that as we are no longer being punished by smaller teams. 5 points clear of 5th, game in hand to Newcastle which would take us 3rd but City next. Its going to be a very interesting few months. If we beat City, 3 points behind second. Who would have thought of that in August after 2 games. MOTM for me was Shaw, so glad to have him back to his best. Casimiro was class again.
 

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Comfortable win to cap off a great restart to the PL season. No complaints apart from Donny's injury and some 10 minutes where we were overwhelmed on the left due to Eriksen tiring. Rested some players, some players got much needed minutes, capitalized on the other teams dropping points-good show all around. Casemiro and Shaw were outstanding. I'd give MotM to Shaw for his double goal contribution.
 

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I loved that period of the game between circa. 75 and 90 minutes. We dominated them and could’ve scored four alone in that timeframe.

We are looking ominously good.
 

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Another comfortable win and clean sheet


Five clear of fifth and seven clear of sixth
Joint with 4th with a game in hand and Chelsea v city before we face city in the league next.

We're looking in good shape
 

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Felt like a tactical masterclass, Bournemouth caused Liverpool numerous issues but didn't really have a sniff aside unforced errors with the players turning over possession. The foward line shape and pressing totally unsettled Bournemouths ability to build an attack from the back. The only threat they offered was set pieces and floating balls in for Solanke and the other tall individual to latch onto. If the players kept their concentration the game could have finished 6-0.

One again credit to the fringe players but more specifically the manager. These types of games the team was dropping points against in previous seasons. United controlled the game.
 

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Another good win. 3 goals, but only gripe is we ought to be scoring more the chances we create. A top CF would remedy this. Everyone deserves credit today.
 

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Good stuff in most areas. Still a few frustrating aspects, Bruno gives the ball away an awful lot, but we’ll not focus on that. Onto Everton now, should be winning that one comfortably.
 

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Good result and some quality performances out there tonight. Can't help but feel like Bournemouth could've got back into the game in parts though. De Gea played well enough to keep them out though luckily.
 

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Great to see. Comfortable win. Wish we'd really batter teams and be more ruthless but anyway, that'll come. Another clean sheet, another comfortable win, we're starting to handle the lower table sides with ease as you'd expect, but something we just struggled with for so long.

Casemiro so good, whatever team is out there we look solid as feck with him shielding. Shaw is quality. Rashford keeps up his scoring run. The backups in AWB, Maguire and Lindelof all performed well today and showing their use too.

Only negatives today would be Martial was pretty meh, and then Van de Beek being injured just sucks for him. Hopefully nothing big there.
 
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Fair play, comfortable win. Casemiro, Shaw and Erickson very good. DVBs injury was unfortunate but Garnacho looked at a different level when he came on. Four clean sheets in a row, onwards and upwards.
 

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Much preferred our ending to this game than some of our others under Ten Hag where we became ragged and dropped off, giving the opposition confidence. Probably helped with being 2-0 and against a fairly limp Bournemouth but I enjoyed seeing us go for more goals.
 

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Hasn't been the case much over the last decade but United are now beating teams they are expected to beat comfortably and if that continues United will reach their season objective of a top 4 finish.

Side note. Warms the heart to see Alex Ferguson looking so happy and healthy.
 

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Good team performance. It's good to have a reasonably competent second string defence, so well done to them. We need a striker in this window without question. I'm a bit baffled by the Viva Ronaldo chants.
 

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Never felt like we shifted out of second gear, rotation by the manager was outstanding, this was a fun one. Was expecting the win, but the weather being like that always makes me worried and sets my expectations lower. Holy cow... we were never truly threatened.

I don't really have any complaints about any of the players - mistakes are gonna happen in all that wet and everyone was putting forth proper effort and made up for errors.
 

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I mean, 3-0 and we could have had more. Hard to argue with that.

On the other hand, we did our best to let Bournemouth back in to the game at 2-0. They had a concerning number of chances and cut through the midfield with ease.
Fred stabilised things - Eriksen couldn't keep up anymore, it seemed - so the last 15 minutes or so were quite nice.

Top 4 looking good but long way to go yet.
 

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Looking good. Got a few players in peak form. If we can get Antony, Martial and Sancho anywhere near their best we'll be fecking ace.
These are the guys we really need now, and we’d be mint for the rest of the season.
 

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First half it looked a little blunt and nervy stemming from defence. But never seemed like we were ever really in trouble. Team just kind of went about it’s job.
ETH might be on to something here. If he can get Sancho firing, get Antony up to song and find Covid Martial we would be in some shape.
 

Man of the Match

Luke Shaw image Luke Shaw 61% of 318 votes

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Score Predictions

199,6,7
  • Man Utd win
  • Bournemouth win
  • Draw

Detailed Results

  • 34% Man Utd 2:0 Bournemouth
  • 31% Man Utd 3:0 Bournemouth
  • 10% Man Utd 4:0 Bournemouth
  • 6% Man Utd 3:1 Bournemouth
  • 4% Man Utd 2:1 Bournemouth
  • 3% Man Utd 1:0 Bournemouth
  • 3% Man Utd 5:0 Bournemouth
  • 2% Man Utd 4:1 Bournemouth
  • 2% Man Utd 1:1 Bournemouth
  • 1% Man Utd 0:0 Bournemouth
  • 1% Man Utd 0:2 Bournemouth
  • 0% Man Utd 1:2 Bournemouth
  • 0% Man Utd 0:4 Bournemouth
  • 0% Man Utd 5:1 Bournemouth
  • 0% Man Utd 0:5 Bournemouth
  • 0% Man Utd 6:0 Bournemouth
  • 0% Man Utd 0:9 Bournemouth
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Match Stats

  1. Man Utd
  2. Bournemouth
Possession
59% 41%
Shots
18 7
Shots on Target
6 4
Corners
6 5
Fouls
13 7

Referee

Michael Salisbury