Bournemouth 0:2 Manchester United

Harry190 · Apr 17, 2018

Not even gonna make an effort to watch it on a workday.

That's how bad it feels.

minoo-utd · Apr 17, 2018

Jose seems fed up with some of the players. Wonder who?

R'hllor · Apr 17, 2018

sunama said:
Poor motivation - a player should not need any more motivation. He steps into the stadium. 75k fans shouting at the top of their voices. Wearing the shirt. What other motivation is required?
Tactics - do you honestly believe that Jose tells our players to play with low intensity and not to worry about scoring goals?
1 goal advantage? I don't think that's enough. I think we need to go 2 goals down before our players think to themselves, "right lads, it's time to score goals".

Jose needs to sort this problem out this season, so that we can hit the ground running next season. We can't afford to wait for an opponent to score 1-2 goals, before the players decide to "play".

Think he was talking about Manchester United and OT

Red4Ever · Apr 17, 2018

sunama said:
Let's score 2 OGs, in the opening minute. Then watch as our players chase 3 goals.

For whatever reason, unless we are behind, the players can't score goals.
Against Sevilla, we didn't score for 150 minutes (I think it was). They score 2 goals and within 10 minutes we scored.
Similar with CP. Similar with CFC. Similar with MCFC.

Worked well v spurs...

nemanja15 · Apr 17, 2018

Expect something like:

de Gea

Valencia
Jones
Smalling
Shaw

Matic
McTominay
Pogba

Lingard
Lukaku
Martial

SUBS: Pereira, Young, Bailly, Herrera, Mata, Rashford, Sanchez.

Although can see Rashford starting too.

oLeSoLsKjAeR20 · Apr 17, 2018

Play the kids

sunama · Apr 17, 2018

roonster09 said:
Think many players will be rested for the FA cup game, so can see Rashford, Martial starting together.

Nobody's being "rested". That isn't how Jose functions.
He'll be playing all his favourite players for every single match, which is the way it should be.
I remember when we were going for the treble and playing lots of matches. The starting XI were almost identical in every match (usually 1 or 2 changes due to tiredness or injury).
The more a set of players play together and win together, the better the team morale. Which is why it is perplexing that we lost to WBA a few days ago.

roonster09 · Apr 17, 2018

sunama said:
Nobody's being "rested". That isn't how Jose functions.
He'll be playing all his favourite players for every single match, which is the way it should be.
I remember when we were going for the treble and playing lots of matches. The starting XI were almost identical in every match (usually 1 or 2 changes due to tiredness or injury).
The more a set of players play together and win together, the better the team morale. Which is why it is perplexing that we lost to WBA a few days ago.

That's now how Jose functions? How many players were rested in the league games when we had Europa league KO games?

Now I don't think players will be rested going by what he said, they will be dropped.

jderbyshire · Apr 17, 2018

De Gea
Young Bailly Smalling Rojo
Fellaini
McTominay Pogba
Lingard Lukaku Rashford

Surely Valencia and Matic should be rested - they've played so many games in a row - need a bit of freshness for Saturday (why are we playing Wednesday and Saturday btw??)

Anyway... I've put Rojo at LB simply because it seems like Shaw is out of the picture at the moment.

ZupZup · Apr 17, 2018

sunama said:
Nobody's being "rested". That isn't how Jose functions.
He'll be playing all his favourite players for every single match, which is the way it should be.
I remember when we were going for the treble and playing lots of matches. The starting XI were almost identical in every match (usually 1 or 2 changes due to tiredness or injury).
The more a set of players play together and win together, the better the team morale. Which is why it is perplexing that we lost to WBA a few days ago.

He's already came out and said that he is dropping some players who didn't perform at West Brom... but that it isn't 'rotation' because if the players who come in do well against Bournemouth, then they will start against Spurs too.

Inigo Montoya · Apr 17, 2018

Maybe he should drop himself?

Inigo Montoya · Apr 17, 2018

jderbyshire said:
De Gea
Young Bailly Smalling Rojo
Fellaini
McTominay Pogba
Lingard Lukaku Rashford

Surely Valencia and Matic should be rested - they've played so many games in a row - need a bit of freshness for Saturday (why are we playing Wednesday and Saturday btw??)

Anyway... I've put Rojo at LB simply because it seems like Shaw is out of the picture at the moment.

Spurs playing midweek too.

Bet they rest players

.Rossi · Apr 17, 2018

RedDevil@84 said:
"If I play a player against Bournemouth and the player is phenomenal, he will play in the semi-final, so it is not rotating, because rotating looks like a player that plays against Bournemouth is to give a rest to somebody that is going to play against Spurs in the semi-final."

Sounds like Jose is desperately asking his players to show something

“What is the criteria for a manager to choose a team? I only know one criteria, the way they play. It is the only way I can select players, or do you want me to go for the price they cost, or their salary, or their beautiful face, or... [no], the only way is to go with performance.”

“Consistency has nothing to do with age. It has to do with personality, with the way you live for football, what your priority is in your life, what your ambition is. It has not to do with age,” he replied.

“I met players who are 30 years old, not consistent at all, and I found boys of 18, 19, 20, real men, real pros, so it is not about the age.”

"This is Football Errrritage"

Zlatattack · Apr 17, 2018

For the rest of the season i want to see Bailly and Lindelof play together. We need to know if they can get as a pairing, we have nothing left to play for in the league, so give them a shot.

I also want to see Luke Shaw start each of the remaining 5 games. Lets put him in the shop window at least.

Also we should start Rashford on the right for the next 5 games and give McTomminay game time in the league.

For Bournemouth i'd like to see.

DDG
Valencia Bailly Lindelof Shaw
Herrera Mctomminay
Rashford Pogba Sanchez
Lukaku

Siorac · Apr 17, 2018

James Peril said:
Losing the final and it counts for a much as losing all games in the group phase and heading out in shame. Nobody remembers who finishes 2nd.

08/09 or 10/11 are definitely more pleasant memories for me than, say, 05/06...

sunama · Apr 17, 2018

James Peril said:
Losing the final and it counts for a much as losing all games in the group phase and heading out in shame. Nobody remembers who finishes 2nd.

I wouldn't mind being in the CL final.
Of course losing the CL final would be gut wrenching, but it's still a good achievement.
I think LFC have done well this season. 3rd place and CL SF. No LFC fan can complain about that.

extincti fugax hominum · Apr 17, 2018

Don't care about others but play Martial - Sanchez - Rashford upfront. Maybe change centre-backs too.

Alabaster Codify7 · Apr 17, 2018

Zlatattack said:
For the rest of the season i want to see Bailly and Lindelof play together. We need to know if they can get as a pairing, we have nothing left to play for in the league, so give them a shot.

I also want to see Luke Shaw start each of the remaining 5 games. Lets put him in the shop window at least.

Also we should start Rashford on the right for the next 5 games and give McTomminay game time in the league.

For Bournemouth i'd like to see.

DDG
Valencia Bailly Lindelof Shaw
Herrera Mctomminay
Rashford Pogba Sanchez
Lukaku

Nightmare partnership.
Bailly is a madman - to be a top-class CB, he needs a calm, composed CB alongside him with presence and leadership abilities.

Not a single one of those things describe Victor bloody Lindelof.

It'd be the blind leading the blind.

KGBhoy · Apr 17, 2018

Absolutely unacceptable that some fans say this is irrelevant. This isn't the last season when we couldn't get top 4 and bet everything on the Europa league. This season we are still in the driving seat to finish second. In addition, we don't want the gap between us and City to be any bigger. And we want to finish above Liverpool. If players don't give a sh*t about this, they don't deserve to be here.
Losing this and then somehow lifting yourself up against Spurs won't be easy. I hope Jose's threats to drop players work here. This is almost a must-win game!

Zlatattack · Apr 17, 2018

Alabaster Codify7 said:
Nightmare partnership.
Bailly is a madman - to be a top-class CB, he needs a calm, composed CB alongside him with presence and leadership abilities.

Not a single one of those things describe Victor bloody Lindelof.

It'd be the blind leading the blind.

Do we really want to keep either of them then? Mourinho bought him a thousand these players. He should play them or sell them. They didn't come as squad players.

edgar allan · Apr 17, 2018

KGBhoy said:
Absolutely unacceptable that some fans say this is irrelevant. This isn't the last season when we couldn't get top 4 and bet everything on the Europa league. This season we are still in the driving seat to finish second. In addition, we don't want the gap between us and City to be any bigger. And we want to finish above Liverpool. If players don't give a sh*t about this, they don't deserve to be here.
Losing this and then somehow lifting yourself up against Spurs won't be easy. I hope Jose's threats to drop players work here. This is almost a must-win game!

it is close to irrelevant. the success of the season will be hugely influenced on the FA cup.

Canagel · Apr 17, 2018

Zlatattack said:
For the rest of the season i want to see Bailly and Lindelof play together. We need to know if they can get as a pairing, we have nothing left to play for in the league, so give them a shot.

I also want to see Luke Shaw start each of the remaining 5 games. Lets put him in the shop window at least.

Also we should start Rashford on the right for the next 5 games and give McTomminay game time in the league.

For Bournemouth i'd like to see.

DDG
Valencia Bailly Lindelof Shaw
Herrera Mctomminay
Rashford Pogba Sanchez
Lukaku

The centre back pairing looks a bit shaky but I too want to see how that partnership works. Bournemouth are probably the best opponents to try it against because they don't have any physical strikers and they're a team that generally play on the ground anyway. And Martial instead of Lukaku upfront. I want to see Martial tested upfront and with Rashford on one side and Sanchez on the other they can interchange more freely.

Random Task · Apr 17, 2018

4-0 United etc etc

DomesticTadpole · Apr 17, 2018

edgar allan said:
it is close to irrelevant. the success of the season will be hugely influenced on the FA cup.

It is, but don't want to go into the semi on two bad performances.

Havak · Apr 17, 2018

Never realised how shit the Bournemouth crest is until now.

The loss against West Brom just fluffs things up for sure. Would have been so much more comfortable coming into this game on 74 points, resting players for the FA Cup game and be happy enough taking a draw most likely. Regardless of the result here and against Spurs, I think we'd bounce back and do Arsenal in again anyway, but we're going to end up making the 'race for 2nd' way closer than it ever needed to be. Might even slip up and not finsh 2nd...

Seven Seas Sardines · Apr 17, 2018

LawCharltonBest said:
Post Sir Alex it seems that when it rains, it pours.

Bournemouth will win, the teams around us will win and suddenly finishing 4th or higher won't look so secure

Expecting WBA performances in all our remaining games bar a tired Arsenal at Old Trafford. Hoping for a replay of LVG's last moments with us, win the FA Cup unconvincingly and keep playing shit in the league, barely getting CL. Should be possible that SAF and the board might want to make United entertaining again for the Summer.

Zlatattack · Apr 17, 2018

abdo99 said:
The centre back pairing looks a bit shaky but I too want to see how that partnership works. Bournemouth are probably the best opponents to try it against because they don't have any physical strikers and they're a team that generally play on the ground anyway. And Martial instead of Lukaku upfront. I want to see Martial tested upfront and with Rashford on one side and Sanchez on the other they can interchange more freely.

Yeah it might well be but I wonder what the point of Lindelof is.

pauldyson1uk · Apr 17, 2018

7% Bournemouth 5:0 Man Utd
kneejerk much.

peridigm · Apr 17, 2018

This is usually the saddest part of the year for me with games coming to and end. Haven't felt that way since, eh, 2013.

Castia · Apr 17, 2018

oLeSoLsKjAeR20 said:
Play the kids

They’ve just been relegated, they’re wank.

Swift Football · Apr 18, 2018

If POgba, Sanchez and Mata happen to start, can somebody please fly a plane with the message " Dont play holding each others hand."

Seriously though, these 3 should be strictly directed that they cannot go within 10 yards of each other.

Marcus · Apr 18, 2018

Jose is going to rest players. Just like Poch did. The smokescreen excuse is that some of them don't deserve to play after the last performance. I fully expect Pogba to be dropped but appear against Spurs because he trained well despite not playing. Martial will start because Sanchez will also be punished/rested .

Swift Football · Apr 18, 2018

Marcus said:
Jose is going to rest players. Just like Poch did. The smokescreen excuse is that some of them don't deserve to play after the last performance. I fully expect Pogba to be dropped but appear against Spurs because he trained well despite not playing. Martial will start because Sanchez will also be punished/rested .

He dint sound like he was playing any mind games. It would be interesting to see who he thought played poorly against West Brom. I might not watch the game tomorrow but I will make sure to check the lineup right an hour ahead of kick off.

Henrik Larsson · Apr 18, 2018

Alabaster Codify7 said:
Nightmare partnership.
Bailly is a madman - to be a top-class CB, he needs a calm, composed CB alongside him with presence and leadership abilities.

Not a single one of those things describe Victor bloody Lindelof.

It'd be the blind leading the blind.

Makes me curious about what it would be if Blind was included in that defense instead of Shaw...

Lawman · Apr 18, 2018

Inigo Montoya said:
Maybe he should drop himself?

I don’t get this, he’s doing a very good job. We are second and going for the FA Cup. Last season shows exactly where we were and we were struggling big time. Jose has still a very unbalanced squad in full backs and midfielder required with a right winger.
He’s actually bought well with Matic Zlatan Lukaku Bailey all successful and Pogba and Lindelof needing to step up. Sanchez early days and will not judge to next season but he looks a good buy on previous seasons.
No doubt we are tumescent to watch and this definitely needs to change but will once we have 2 functional fullbacks a right winger who can actually attack his side and a midfielder. Jose is currently playing Mata Young Valencia and Herrera and hopefully next season these guys will be upgraded.

TMDaines · Apr 18, 2018

I’ve got no idea of the team tonight. Mou will want to drop players and freshen it up and we have good depthin theory, but he’s made Blind, Darmian, Shaw and even Carrick almost unpickable.

De Gea in goal. Rom up top. Smalling plays, but struggling after that.

DomesticTadpole · Apr 18, 2018

United squad.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.c...l-news/man-utd-team-news-bournemouth-14543041

Oldham · Apr 18, 2018

Surely Rashford and Martial will start this one and Shaw if not injured?

JoaquinJoaquin · Apr 18, 2018

Not got much excitement going into this match I must admit. Feels a bit like those dead rubbers in Van Gaal's final season.

sunama · Apr 18, 2018

Alabaster Codify7 said:
Nightmare partnership.
Bailly is a madman - to be a top-class CB, he needs a calm, composed CB alongside him with presence and leadership abilities.

Not a single one of those things describe Victor bloody Lindelof.

It'd be the blind leading the blind.

So.... are you suggesting that we try out Daley Blind?

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