Deserved win but we can't be as open as that first half. We'll get punished especially as the team tends to capitulate after it let's in a goal or 2 nowadays.
Erik ten Hag - Manchester United manager
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Even with their dodgy form, when you think how we've not exactly been great, its mental.3 points behind City
Job saved. He'll have that cushion for whatever happens in europe, and anfield
ETH haS lOsT dReSsInG rOoM
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Good performance.
Let’s do this again next please 
Chelsea being weak, bad in passing and generally weird in terms of attempting to play has helped quite a bit. We were good but the opponent helped a lot. It was more or less the exact opposite to Newcastle
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He isnt saying it is amazing to beat this Chelsea. He says it shows that players arent 'downing tools' or that 'ETH lost the dressing room'. Claims that the experts on this site have been making. Most players are still willing to run for ETH and still want to play for him.
We had far more control which was pleasing compared to the first half. Limited them to very little
Dominant performance. Should have scored more goals.
Still not a fan of McTominay in midfield despite his 2 goals.
If we had more performances resembling this, I'd happily give him more time, but I worry this is an anomaly vs a dire Chelsea side.
Still not a fan of McTominay in midfield despite his 2 goals.
If we had more performances resembling this, I'd happily give him more time, but I worry this is an anomaly vs a dire Chelsea side.
Hopefully a sign of things to come rather than Chelsea being Chelsea.
Was always a nonsense claim.
Delighted for him tonight, looked much better with his signings Amrabat, Höjlund & Antony in the side. Big move too taking out Lindelöf who was shite on the goal, much more commitment from Serge.
Think he’ll need to build on this as more players return in order for the INEOS cree to keep him. Fingers crossed for him.
He completely owned that game today. Pitch didn’t have an answer
Our players don't down the tools anyway. As I said few weeks ago, I don't see lack of efforts on the pitch.
It's just the player either not being able to follow the instructions or they're straight up poor. You can blame our lack of intensity but that doesn't have anything to do with efforts.
We were terrible because we were terrible, not because of some conspiracy stuff people want to force on our players.
Well done ETH dropping the lazy pair up front who forgot how to run.
I'm not talking about the result. I'm talking about the energy and passion that you saw from the players out there. Everyone was trying. That's not the mark of a team that has given up on the manager.
Aye. They'll have to wait a bit. Maybe we can reset the poll next time we lose.
Pitch looked okay to me.
pLaYeRs dOwnEd tOOLs
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I guess the players haven't quit on him.
I want to believe in him. But we've still got so much improving to do.
These "haters" are actually United fans with different opinion on the manager than yours, which doesn't make then any less of a fan than you or any other "top reds". Good job trying to start a pointless argument on a good night we won. If we lose an upcoming game and someone quoted your post you'll claim they're not real supporters.
Poch is lucky that autocorrected to a P after that showing!
A great step forward for ETH. Well done.
Buzzing for him. Desperate for him to be a success here.
Yep. Clearly tools are nowhere near downed. The team fought like crazy today.
You constantly come in here causing arguments when we win as well though.
If all of our games were like that and we occasionally ended up on the end of a bad result I don't think people would have any complaints.
Clearly hasn't lost the dressing room, plenty of effort on show tonight. Hope he doesn't change the team too much for the weekend
Clearly hasn't lost the dressing room, plenty of effort on show tonight. Hope he doesn't change the team too much for the weekend
This is what we need, first and foremost. Bin off the players that aren't willing to fight, regardless of what they have won in the past or done in previous seasons. We need players willing to fight now.
Tonight was a great showcase of the promise we have under Ten Hag, and a lot of the positives we've displayed are ones we've demonstrated a lot this season - brilliant high press, creating loads of chances - but one of the differences about tonight was that, in the second half at least, we had a bit more control and dealt with their counters well.
When we barely scrap win while being crap and someone like you come and try to convince us we're doing well.
Today was fun though.
He did well today with a much improved performance albeit against a shite Chelsea side. Still not convinced by him but hope he proves me wrong.
We definitely looked more in control of ourselves today than Chelsea did. But they still had a few dangerous moments. Our good outlook came from us being very engaged up front and Chelsea didn't really try to exploit the space that opened up. It is always difficult to distinguish, were we good or was the opponent bad. I think, the opponent was really bad and we, while certainly being better than in probably all our other games this season, weren't fantastic but good enough to not get under too much pressure.
There's definitely a team in there, so to speak. The desire to win and fluidity amongst our attack was impressive. Chelsea may not be that hard to play against but we have shown signs that we can be very good under certain conditions.
Explicit praise there from McSauce directed at EtH in his post-match interview. Good to see that sort of public show of support, sends the right message.
He’s said before in interviews that if one player doesn’t press or give it their all the whole thing collapses and tonight everyone worked their socks off and lo and behold we play well.
Get in! The players no longer need binning off and our DoF produced gems in Antony and Amrabat
Absolutely.