[downxandxout]

Can't believe what I've just seen. United players cuddling and congratulating city players after the game. Bruno, Fred and Maguire. Awful.

 

[Kopral Jono]

Lapses of concentration fecked us over today. I'm not too mad, though, we actually played well enough to win. Ten Hag is a miracle worker.

 

[united for life]

We all agree that we are somehow happy we weren’t hammered. We weee fully dominated, laughable goalkeeping, no options off the bench (except a MoTM garnacho for me). Let’s pray for inter

 

[Barthez]

Hate the result but surely nobody thought we would win it?

League Cup, FA Cup Runners up and 3rd Place is a massive step up to be fair.

All efforts now needs to be getting the Goblins and Boob Job Darcie out this fecking club. Nothing else matters, nothing!

 

[KikiDaKats]

I’m disappointed because the game was played how I expected, we are always capable of nullifying the biggest threats in this City because our best players match up to them. It’s our creative players that cannot handle the expectations at the highest level.
Casemiro and Fred were our most composed players with the ball under pressure in the attacking phase. Tells you all you need to know and what is needed. Players that can keep the ball confidently under pressure and not feel inferiority in their ability.

 

[Big Ben Foster]

It's hard to dislike Grealish when he doesn't seem all there

It's quite effortless for me, funny enough

 

[mshnsh]

Created feck all. First shot on target from open play was 91st minute. Said it all season, team has no bottle

If you ain't got ability, you ain't getting far. That is our story. We lack quality in midfield and attack.

 

[Quagmire Maguire]

Atmosphere from the United fans was dire today.

 

[Gopher Brown]

I'm proud of the effort, it's just too many of our players lack the finesse to make the right decisions under pressure. I'm not sure they are ever going to be able to be coached into it. We can't afford just to have cloggers in the team like Fred and Wan Bissaka to don't really offer anything except disruption,

 

[Nori-]

To those who have been so against Qatari ownership, get used to this post match feeling, it will happen over and over again under the Glazers/SJR.

 

[Wing Attack Plan R]

Reading the comments in here is a bit depressing. Resignation.

I see it more as a sober reflection of where we are. We definitely had patches where we were rampant and we came close to that 2nd goal a few times (Garnacho, Rashford, Varane + McT combo), but in the end, City's team is just at a higher level than ours - even if we had all of our first team players available.

 

[USREDEVIL]

Gundogan has clearly sold his soul to the devil.

 

[Lrf]

Getting outplayed is one thing and expected.. getting outsung by the emptyhadgang is wotse. #bestawayfans

 

[mitchmouse]

I expected it to be much worse but it says a lot when our best player was a substitute. Have to think that if they had needed, CIty could have gone up a gear. we needed to be at our best - at least match the Barca games. but no one besides Garnacho gets more than a 6/10.

The game passed to many of our players by. Sancho just isn't good enough, I still prefer McT to Fred just for his strength and as most of us have been saying for a year now, we need a goal scorer. ETH has to stay in London next week and offer Levy whatever he wants for Kane.

And, as I've said for at least two years, DDG isn't a good enough all-round keeper. Seriously, he barely look interested or fit. Rashford certainly didn't look 100%

 

[Raw]

Gundogan has clearly sold his soul to the devil.

I swear he's always scoring against us.

 

[Murder on Zidanes Floor]

It shows the gulf in class between the two teams when you look at who we bought off of the bench. Laporte, Foden versus an 18 year old and a Burnley reject.

If you looked at our squads on FIFA or Football Manager, you would see 15 to 20 % difference between our squad and their squad. Training, management and tactics can only bridge the gap so far.

Truth is we didn't turn up. I said this and have been feeling this all week, this team is full of bottlers and weak players. To few of them of them have the stones, the determination, or the drive to win.

Our attack was an absolute disgrace, we are unable to apply pressure on teams consistently. Players like Sancho are an absolute horror show, and he is the poster child of our decline.

 

[Kopral Jono]

We lost to a better team. Better everywhere. I think Erik has built a solid foundation and if he is backed I still think he will close the gap.

If city go on to win the treble, they deserve it. Scary team. From their excellent financial doping to their unlikable cnut of a manager.

Yeah, I've resigned to the fact that they will go on and win the treble. Inter are shite.

 

[Eric_the_Red99]

Even with all their billions and all their cheating this City team aren’t fit to lace our Treble winning team’s boots. I genuinely think the Liverpool team of recent years (when they’re not cycling off the inhalers, obviously) are much scarier opposition.

 

[Stobzilla]

Immediate disappointment is followed up sharply by a renewed optimism for next season.

If we get the right bodies in and get a bit luckier with injuries then I think we have a hell of a chance. 2 games on the spin now that we have contained Haaland and City largely looked lost as a result, they had a lot of the ball and were it not for a poor goalkeeping performance ... you can never predict a score based on what ifs like that, suffice to say we would probably still be playing now.

We lack the requisite quality in some areas, we all knew this. But I think we have given City a decent game there given our own context of how many games we have had and how many miles are in the players legs already, One last push wasn't to be.

Are the lads back in training yet ??

 

[red woppit]

It is obvious. We have 3 fast players in the entire team (Rashford, Garnacho and Shaw), and only Casemiro is what I would consider strong. City were much fitter and stronger than us.

Agree. In most 50-50 challenges, city won the ball.
Wan Bissaka is quicker than you think.

 

[NZT-One]

Difficult game to rate I feel... I didn't think, anybody had a particularly bad game but absolutely nobody had even a hair beyond a decent game. This city team as an overall structure is probably two levels above, adding one or two players won't change that in my eyes. What we have to do is develop a plan on how to play the game, recruit based on that plan, choose managers that fit the plan and don't get flippy when results dip along the way. We have wasted so much time during the reigns of JM and OS, probably even before, this was always going to hurt.

 

[Erics_Collar]

I'm so happy the season is over.

The quality of life improvements from not having to watch Sancho, De Gea, Eriksen, Weighorst, Lindelof etc. for another few months will be absolutely fantastic.

 

[Woodzy]

We did a great job against the best team in the world today. Let’s move on.

 

[Kag]

Competed, but beaten by a much better team in the end. No real shame in it.

Lots of work to do this summer.

 

[Matt007a]

Not a brilliant performance but honestly they are a great team on the verge of a treble, cheaters or not. We didn’t get smashed to pieces like earlier in the season and when you concede inside 15 seconds that’s a real possibility.

Compared to the despair this time last season, I feel much more optimistic going forward. ETH is the right man and although he’s made a few mistakes this season, he strikes me as someone who will learn from his first season in a new league and improve.

Recruitment as ever is key! Next season we need to push on and close the gap to the top.

 

[whitbyviking]

To those who have been so against Qatari ownership, get used to this post match feeling, it will happen over and over again under the Glazers/SJR.

Give it a rest, you have zero idea how Qatari ownership would turn out so statements like this are just silly now.

On to the match. We have a real aversion to shooting and it’s costing us a lot of chances. I really can’t understand why the likes of Sancho, Rashford, Bruno etc do not shoot from around the box. We will never score if we don’t maximise, or at least attempt to maximise, chances and half chances. Gundogan had two swings of the boot from two half chances and scored twice, he’s willing to take the risk, we have to be too. It is much better than dancing on the edge of the box and losing the ball.

 

[crossy1686]

A solid goalkeeper saves us at least one of those goals today

 

[Livewire1974]

Disappointing. At least we didn't get totally battered.

I thought we were battered.

 

[Stobzilla]

I'm so happy the season is over.

The quality of life improvements from not having to watch Sancho, De Gea, Eriksen, Weighorst, Lindelof etc. for another few months will be absolutely fantastic.

You could do us all a favour and stop watching and posting beyond just those two months.

 

[Get In Scholesy]

Painful. Absolutely painful seeing those plastic twats gallivanting like this. I didn’t expect much from the game but in retrospect it was 2 stupid goals that determined the result, felt like they were completely avoidable.

ETH has done wonders 62 games should be enough for ETH to know what needs to be fixed. It will be a long overhaul but what he has gotten out of the squad is a credit to him.

If the glazers feck off and the right investors comes in, it will be deemed a good season.

 

[SolskjaerHasDoneIt]

Feck it, definitely will be an unpopular opinion. But why are Manchester United expected to hold moral standards when Arsenal have rapist Partey nearly being the difference winning the league. Benzema & Ribery getting with underage women and winning leagues and City cheating like mad. I'm all in for Qatar at this point when SJR is keeping the leeches on.

 

[Asger]

Can't win finals with a clown in goal.

Neither with clowns that can't create or score goals.

 

[Siorac]

Gundogan has clearly sold his soul to the devil.

If only!

 

[RedTwist]

Only because the parasites have plundered us in massive debt, without their destructive ways we wouldn't need qatar money

Totally agree, we’re going past the point of no return as far as I can see

 

[Erics_Collar]

You could do us all a favour and stop watching and posting beyond just those two months.

Nope.

You're free to continue your little campaign to be a Top Red™ social media fanboy, I won't get in your way.

I'll be too busy calling it as it is, as always.

 

[RuudTom83]

Decent game...going up against the 6-7 times champions or whatever the feck it is and a Pep machine 6-7 years in the making. Its not a club its a country backed machine., which is incredible hard to compete against.

EtH had a choice today to pick between, Eriksen/Fred or Sancho/Garnacho...that tells you all you need to know about the 2 sides.

But United had a good season (for where they are) and I'm happy with the effort and progress they made.

Have a good summer...I'm out

 

[BusbyMalone]

It's hard to dislike Grealish when he doesn't seem all there

It's very easy, actually. Comes quite naturally, in fact.

 

[AdamColeBebe]

We did a great job against the best team in the world today. Let’s move on.

 

[Kopral Jono]

Even with all their billions and all their cheating this City team aren’t fit to lace our Treble winning team’s boots. I genuinely think the Liverpool team of recent years (when they’re not cycling off the inhalers, obviously) are much scarier opposition.

Bolded is correct. Relentless Liverpool of recent years are indeed a force of nature -- scary to think how close they were to a quadruple last season. With this City side I feel we can close the gap in a transfer window or two.

 

[Belisarius]

62nd game of the season ends with expected FA Cup final defeat, City certainly deserved their win though could easily have been 2-2 with the big chance on 92 mins. City's goals on 12 seconds and from their first shot of the 2nd half was Fred and Eriksen switching off and DeGea too slow to react on the 2nd goal.

Without 4 players (Sabitzer,Antony,martinez,Martial) due to injury that would have featured today didn't help matters and when you are bringing on Mctominay,Weghorst to rescue the match it highlighted how short United are on options and need a big transfer window this summer.

I think the injuries made a big difference. Lindelof played as well as he could but Martinez is a level above. I think he would have made a big difference today.

Antony and Martial would have helped as well. Our guys were tiring near the end and I was thinking we should sub. But, the only players I could think who might help were Dalot and Pellistri.

I was disappointed in the lack of effort by Rashford. He was being marked by two players most of the game so it was difficult for him to make an impression, but he could have made more effort pressing and on some of De Gea's high long balls.

Eriksen was just not at the races today. I was pleased when he was replaced by Garnacho.

McTominay always makes the effort, but you could see on Shaw's cross that goes off his shin near the end that he lacks the skill to play at this level.

Sancho had one play at the start of the 2nd half where he ran at the defence and caused them all kinds of problems. Don't know why he doesn't do it more.

In the end, the guys did as well as can be expected with the players we had available.

I won't say anything kind about City because I don't approve of how they operate and have no respect for them as a club.