Yes but if we intend to finish top 4 we need to be putting the likes of Brighton to bed.
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Brighton & Hove Albion 0:3 Manchester United
The Amex Stadium
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I hate this narrative for the season. By design, any team with a low block is meant to make it very hard for the opponent to find creative solutions in the final third. Some teams are able to beat it regularly (like City) but even they don't end up scoring 3-4 every game. There are games where it is very hard for them to break teams down.
Our issues with the low block became very very obvious because that's where you need quick thinking creative midfielders to move the ball around. With JLingz and Andreas, we did not manage to do that. Against more expansive teams, the pace and running of our forwards did the job (Martial + Rashford mainly).
The jump in quality with Pogba and Bruno cannot be understated when it comes to this. Exactly why I feel we need to make at least 2-3 more quality creative signings, so we are not overreliant on these 2.2-1 to us. We go 2 up and take Bruno and Matic off. Rashford needs to get back on the scoresheet, he's understandably been rusty in front of goal the last few games but we need him back at it tonight. I reckon he'll get back on track here. Im not nervous about this game if we dont rotate too much. Last match was poor but if we had a better squad we wouldn't be in 5th....
ddg
awb maguire lindelof willams
bruno fred pogba
james martial rashford
Good point. Although Brad Friedel always channelled his inner Schmeichel against us.Any spouting lineups for this yet?Anyone know which channel to watch this on TV please?
Yeah, I've thought that Dunk was a good player for a while now.
Only PL matchup played more than 4 times that has a 100 % home win record.
The 'away' disadvantage has been completely negated by the closed doors policy.
The important factor is that we played 120mins 3 days back
They've been over here, too. They've quoted a load of posts from this thread. They didn't take kindly to @Greck 's post
DDG,
AWB, Lindelof, Maguire, Shaw
Matic, Pogba
James, Bruno, Rashford
MartialYour post has ruffled some feathers on a Brighton forum
This one made me laugh
Same
that’s not true. Travel, unfamiliar dressing room, type of pitch and dimensions of pitch make a difference.
yes home advantage has been largely reduced, but certainly not completely.
This is stretching it
Brighton being a new stadium probably has a nice away dressing room, some are awful.
That's as laughable as the 'grey shirt' excusewill Shaw make the starting 11 today? that's the one I want answered asap.
Physically he looks so fit/much thinner than usual.
Brandon and his right-foot should be AWB's understudy not Luke's
maybe not dressing room - but you can’t seriously think the pitch Doesn’t makes a difference? We are talking about the 1% differences here than can be the difference.Think this'll be a seriously tough game and it's really critical that we win. Looking forward to it and I quite like the way Brighton play. Hopefully Bruno looks less knackered than he did on Saturday night.
Who should be Luke's understudy then?I think it's fair to say lose and any chance of top 4 is gone. Might still get 5th, but Chelsea could win game in hand to have an 8 point lead with 6 left. Can't see that happening.
We've done it to ourselves with the scrappy draws and key mistakes. Still have to imagine we're tight favourites for the win, and if we can get Martial, Pogba and Bruno clicking, we'll have chances.If we hope to catch Leicester on goal difference, we need to win many games by several goals. So it shall be 0-3 today
Oh yes, agreed. Lots and lots of tiny factors make - cumulatively a very big difference. The light in the stadium, how the pitch plays, a milllion little things that you miss from the physical familiarity of your home turf.
Sky and Pick.Full team, get out there and fecking beat these ffs. Win this and put the pressure on
FFS, this is Man Utd we're talking about not a non league outfit visiting a PL ground in the FA Cup.
No excuses tonight. We go there to win. If Brighton win on merit,fair enough but 'small pitch, terrible ball boys,sea air, wrong colour leaves etc,' aren't going to cut it for me
You know what the score is going to be.
Luke doesn't have one at the moment. BW (and his right-foot) is a right-back.
Very well said, especially the part about every team finding it hard to break down low blocks. There is this idea on these boards that struggling to break down deep compact teams is only exclusive to us and teams like City or Pool never find it hard.
Like you said the task against low blocks became harder for us due to having to rely on the likes of Lingard and Perreira for creativity which was always going to backfire. Replace them with the quality of Bruno and Pogba and we possess some creativity to deal with them or at least to a certain extend. And the solution to further improve against these such teams is to add more creative players in the team. Once, I said only once that he is good looking man, and you ... Ok, maybe twice.
not sure I want to have 4 of those... :Whistle: (husbands)
of course I know. 0-4 !!!!!
I'm with you, man. Expect the win.
Yes, I didn't think it was a question of an excuse, at all, just about marginal advantage, in the era of closed-door matches. Like, does home/away confer an advantage in that situation? It's nothing in the world to do with excuses.
to be fair to the guy I couldn't even name their best player
He missed, it's not magic unless he scores.I. Am. Worried.
Any sort of win will do tonight don’t care how we get it, but I’m feeling pretty apprehensive.I think we will be fine tonight. That midfield needs to be purring from the start.Tweet
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Agree, hence why I feel why priority should be a back up 10, rather than a defensive midfielder. Whilst its good to have balance, we're a team that should be on the front foot and outscoring teams.
Just look at City's midfield of Gundogan, De Bruyne and Silva the other day against Newcastle.
People may say we don't play like City, but when you have technicians like Pogba and Bruno in your side, you will naturally dominate as we did against Sheff Utd.
Going forward, we definitely need more creative players in our side.
The right-winger we get whether it be Sancho or someone else will need to be creative, and a back up 10/8.- Status
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Score Predictions
225,7,21
- Man Utd win
- Brighton win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 29% Brighton 0:2 Man Utd
- 20% Brighton 1:2 Man Utd
- 13% Brighton 0:3 Man Utd
- 10% Brighton 1:3 Man Utd
- 8% Brighton 0:1 Man Utd
- 7% Brighton 1:1 Man Utd
- 5% Brighton 0:4 Man Utd
- 3% Brighton 1:4 Man Utd
- 2% Brighton 0:5 Man Utd
- 1% Brighton 1:0 Man Utd
- 1% Brighton 2:2 Man Utd
- 0% Brighton 0:0 Man Utd
- 0% Brighton 3:0 Man Utd
- 0% Brighton 3:1 Man Utd
- 0% Brighton 5:0 Man Utd
- 0% Brighton 1:5 Man Utd
- 0% Brighton 2:0 Man Utd
Match Stats
- Brighton
- Man Utd
- Possession
- 38% 62%
- Shots
- 8 12
- Shots on Target
- 2 6
- Corners
- 4 5
- Fouls
- 10 9
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Andre Marriner
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