[UnofficialDevil]

Should have been 1-1 at half time
I told you Weghorst was a bloody Donkey.

 

[flameinthesun]

Rashford is playing RW because Sancho is not match fit. Garnacho never played RW and must be reason for that.

I just don't think anything can be done about it in current circumstances.

Yeah this, reality is we have Martial, Antony, Casemiro, Eriksen all key figures for the first 11 all out and we don't have capable backups. Having played every couple of days as well. Ten Hag needs to find a way to grind out a win here. But there a lot of things against us.

 

[Davie Moyes]

For all the shit Antony gets in almost every thread, the right hand side of our attack just doesn't exist without him.

Absolutely this.

 

[Waynne]

Can someone help me understand why we pass the ball between Varane and De Gea about 6789 times when we are 1-0 down?

Leeds front 2 are on top of Varane and Martinez.

Their midfield push up to squeeze the space between our CB and midfield which is why you're seeing Varane go long. Our wingers are too high up the pitch. We need more to drop back to create triangles so we can bypass their press.

If we're going long we need someone with pace to give their backline something to think about. Currently Wout offers nothing in that regard. Put Rashford central and bring Sancho on for Wout.

 

[Sandikan]

Not watching the game but is it as simple as no Casemiro no party?

Well, no Casemiro, Eriksen, Antony and Martial yes.
Plus Rashy on the wrong side, utterly nullifying him ourselves.

 

[pratyush_utd]

Weghorst is not giving me any confidence. Not see what some people see in him. His first touch is a lottery and he is either not getting any service or he is not making himself available

 

[James35]

It's just one of those games; they'll keep inching to 90 and blocking us. Can't see us scoring as it won't fall for us.
Leeds are showers and I hope they get relegated

Yep and me too, hate them but they came to old Trafford today with a plan and a spirit that we can’t match, we have bottled it so far and I see them scoring again.

 

[FriedClams]

Our best player Rashford is not involved and wasted on the right. Garnacho is a bit greedy. Not sure why we are ignoring the right side when it is clear that it is not working from the left. We miss Casemiro and Eriksen badly. Fred and Sabitzer are not helping much with the build up play which results in hopeless passes form our defenders. We are too casual. It is fecking Leeds lads.

we are ignoring the right because Dalot is playing way too conservative

 

[Josep Dowling]

Is Ighalo a joke to you?

Ighalo scored a couple of good goals.

 

[Lecland07]

United fans are incredibly arrogant and think we're better than we are.

Could barely scrape a win over shite like Palace over 2 games, we can't win a game comfortably.

We may turn this round 2nd half, but we're always on the edge of dropping points. When you can't win any game convincingly you have to go into every fixture knowing poor performances will catch up with you eventually.

We controlled the Cystal Palace game. What are you on about? Crystal Palace only became a threat when we went down to 10, which is hardly surprising.

We haven't been playing poorly. Not sure where this is coming from? Are we the finished article? No, there are clearly deficiencies, particularly in attack. We are effectively operating with only 1 attacker at this time. The others need to pull their weight.

 

[DWelbz19]

How much chance has he had tonight?
He's seen the ball twice ?

Yeah, and that’s mostly because he’s so slow and immobile. We aren’t some magical side who can create chance upon chance for an immobile no.9 who lacks attacking positioning.

 

[kouroux]

A game like this shows you Antony's value despite his lack of goals and assists. He brings a balance to the team

 

[justsomebloke]

Think we'll take this. Awesome half by Bruno. Garnacho off, Rashford over to the left? Weghorst not much use today, Fred not having a good game either.

 

[JagUTD]

To buck the downbeat trend, the half was very entertaining. We played well after a rocky first ten minutes but could and should have at least equalised.

Last season we'd be down and out already. If we keep playing out game, we'll get back in and hopefully turn this around.

Don't get the doom and gloom tbh.

 

[Stadjer]

Isn't it just typical of half this forum when we aren't winning? Immediately claim it's all falling apart, everyone's rubbish etc etc?

Then we score and everything is great again. If the forum was a movie it'd probably be Split.

Concede equals season over in this place

 

[Tom Cato]

Worse than Igalho?

Ighalo had some good performances and an absolute worldie goal in the EL, he was certainly alright in the first half of his spell here. Wout has been flat out invisible. Both him and the team has to share blame for that.

Edit: He was also probably the single most happy-to-be-playing-for-the-club player we ever had, complete feelgood story all around.

 

[Borys]

Wasting a chance means he is "dangerous". Same as when player does reckless tackles mean that he is a warrior. And so on...

Watching that second chance right now. Two players were wide open. Garnacho should have pass there.

Our attacking players never pass. I was 100% sure he will go for a shot. Strange but everybody does that.

 

[Wednesday at Stoke]

We’re the only club in the world that insists on playing an arguably top 10 in the world player on current form out of his favored positions to fit in a 19 year old rookie and a Dutch never been.

 

[RedDevil@84]

Michael Owen offering his views.

"If United can get couple of goals in the second half without conceding, think they'll win this easily"

 

[Sandikan]

Isn't it just typical of half this forum when we aren't winning? Immediately claim it's all falling apart, everyone's rubbish etc etc?

Then we score and everything is great again. If the forum was a movie it'd probably be Split.

Easy to fall into this at times.

And it's certainly easy to forget they pinched an early goal then watched Garnacho miss 2 great chances.
If we score early, we can easily go and win it.

Trouble is, i'm not confident at all.

 

[Edwards6]

Weghorst is surely our Moyes version of a striker. Completely out of his depth here.

Would be better if we created chances for him, there was a couple of times he was open in the middle but Garnacho went for goal instead

 

[Sarni]

I don’t rate Sancho at all but he cannot be a worse as a winger, in current form, than Weghorst is as a striker.

 

[Dempsey19]

It just looks like one of those games. We might get an equaliser very late and that be it.

Rashford is invisible and he looks frustrated out on the right. He needs to go left or through the middle.

 

[Godfather]

Should have started some crowdfunding in the winter window to get us a proper striker.
Can't wait till the Qataris buy us. Weghorst is an abomination.

 

[Rightnr]

For all the shit Antony gets in almost every thread, the right hand side of our attack just doesn't exist without him.

Not just that, he's rock solid in possession and allows us to exert and maintain pressure on the opposition

 

[git_united]

I had a feeling about this game. Really need to step it up second half to have any chance of getting back into it.

Predicted 3-1 but not in this fashion. Thought it’d go more like Reading.

 

[Todd]

I think we're in store for a very frustrating second half.

 

[evil_geko]

How much chance has he had tonight?
He's seen the ball twice ?

You are one of the rare people on here who actually used their head before spouting shit about Wout. "Like playing with 10 men" well mate, maybe if they tried to find him from time to time, it wouldn't feel like it.

 

[Redfrog]

Frebitzerno is killing it !

 

[A-man]

Doubt Leeds can keep this intensity for more than 60-70 minutes, especially since they already lost two players.

 

[sizzling sausages]

United fans are incredibly arrogant and think we're better than we are.

Could barely scrape a win over shite like Palace over 2 games, we can't win a game comfortably.

We may turn this round 2nd half, but we're always on the edge of dropping points. When you can't win any game convincingly you have to go into every fixture knowing poor performances will catch up with you eventually.

This is nonsense, since the World Cup we've won 8 games by more than 1 goal. 6 if you take out games against lower league teams. Our first 11 is very good, our issue now is tiredness and back up players not up to the required standard.

 

[Ace of Spades]

We have had some good chances, just need to be more calm in those crucial moments.

The midfield looks unbalanced, which was expected tbh.

The carelessness at the beginning is the biggest disappointment. Should have rode the opening pressing a bit more smartly, play long if you don't see a easy pass.

 

[mu4c_20le]

A game like this shows you Antony's value despite his lack of goals and assists. He brings a balance to the team

He'd bring another brawl given the heated environment

 

[Sandikan]

Whoever these nobodies on Bein Sport are, they're trying to make out Martinez should have seen red for the accidental and then light tough of studs on big tough Bamford.

 

[Dinghy]

If this Weghorst guy weren't dutch he'd be nowhere near this team. Absolute fecking joke of a player, compared to what we should be aiming for.

 

[Nicolarra90]

Don't think some commenting here even watch the match. Not a preferable scoreline but we have played well. Like LVG? What a joke.

No way. It's a chaotic game. No control whatsoever. We could be winning 3-1 or losing 0-3.

 

[Offside]

Fred against teams like this is useless. When you’ve got a player who keeps gifting them the ball back and fouling them when he loses it you lose so much time and opportunity and that’s how we end up dropping points to crap teams with crap players like him in the team.

 

[justsomebloke]

Shaw, Varane and Fred have been well below par.

Fred yes, but Shaw?!

 

[ti vu]

Please move Rashford to the left.

Garnacho for all his dribbling with that kind of end product isn't worth it, now that we're one goal behind, and only have a half left.

Sabitzer and Fred are too alike and not able to control the midfield. Fred is never a no6.I am thinking pushing Lisandro into midfield. Sub one of Sabitzer or Fred out (pragmatically Sabitzer, because Fred energy is guaranteed, and he has more experience in PL).

Antony may not be explosive, but he does the tactical side so well. Helping to take the ball from the back line. With Rashford, who prefers to position himself closer to defender to compete for those run in behind, our right wing basically non existent, and our play overall become more predictable with tendency to attack from left wing. Familiar issue pre Antony.

 

[acnumber9]

A game like this shows you Antony's value despite his lack of goals and assists. He brings a balance to the team

It means not wasting Rashford in a position he’s never played well in.