Telles and Fred out due to Covid
FA Premier League
Burnley 1:1 Manchester United
Turf Moor
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No Telles or Fred due to Covid. Cavani and Lingard are back.I'd like to see:
That's hard work in midfield and tons of creativity there for Ronaldo
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Dalot Varane Lindelof (If fit) Shaw
Matic
Fernandes Mctom
Sancho__________Pogba
Ronaldo
Embarassing postHopefully we go with Elanga and Sancho on the wings but have a feeling Pogba will get a run on the left with Bruno McT and Matic through the middle.Think it will be:
De Gea, Shaw, Maguire, Varane, Dalot, McTominay, Pogba, Fernandes, Sancho, Ronaldo, Rashford.Matic is bound to play, because he's tall.They are going to be rough as feck on our players, that much is guaranteed. Draw is my opinion
It’s time we move on from the calamity v boro but I’d like to point out that those chances as not actually being all that glorious.
When Sancho hit the crossbar it was an attempted chip from outside the box. Hardly nailed on to score.
The Ronaldo overhead was well inside inside the box, but an overhead attempt is never considered a glorious chance.
Elanga had a free header but he was positioned too wide to beat the keeper. (Not a criticism.)
Ronaldo had a penalty, which was rightly awarded, but he missed the penalty. That plus the actual goal by Sancho and the open net miss by Bruno were the only chances one can argue we truly should have scored on. Even the Sancho goal, which was in point blank range, required a big deflection to beat the keeper.
It’s important to nip in the bud the mythology that we performed brilliantly against boro. We actually didn’t. We did enough to win, and we were robbed by a horrifying referee decision, but that was in no way a brilliant performance.Telles and Fred out. Brilliant !! We have 6 games this month.
Can't believe our luck!!Burnley made the most Burnley signing of the season in Weghorst.
I smell a one goal win for Burnley, with Weghorst scoring. He will do nothing for the rest of the season, Burnley will be relegated and he will show up in the Champion's League in a couple of years with some random team.
You are a hard man to please my friend. 30 shots and 22 in the box not good enough for you?
Don't get me wrong, we faded badly after Pogba went off and Sancho was knackered, before then though, I thought we were brilliant.We'll dominate this game 0-0.
Settle down. We'll go again next game.
In the absence of any other PL football I watched the entirety of the Burnley v Watford game which has to count as one of the most stupifyingly boring experiences of my life. I would have to say that as has been obvious for much of this season, Burnley are completely finished as a team and are many levels below Boro for example. Weghorst, who looked pretty crap on international duty, is truly the slowest and least skillful carthorse to grace the PL in many years. On the evidence of his first game he would make Maguire look like Linford Christie and I would not be at all surprised if he fails to score a single goal before May, he even looked awful in the air.
Of course we may well feck this up because that is the theme of our season but this mob are nailed on for relegation and play like they know it.
I agree. I personally think Elanga started on the bench because he is a more natural 9 than Rashford. And we needed one on the bench in case we lost CR7
Ill be surprised if he keeps his place with Cavani back.
They are back in 5 days.Great improvement last game. Can’t deny it even though the finishing was poor. I always figured finishing could be the last to come when rebuilding. This time we’ll hit it. Go on, guys. Gutted I’m at work for this one
I highly doubt that Pogba will ever play on the wings for RR. That’s a failed experiment under Ole and should never be tried again. He will compete either with Fred or Bruno.
We will play two out of Sancho, Rashford or Elanga on the wings. And if Ronaldo keeps stinking it up, all three of them will be starting with Ronaldo on the bench. I get a strong feeling that the manager doesn’t give a feck about big names and shite performances from big name players is only making it easier for them to be dropped.
I actually liked pogba on the left wing, by the end of last season anything was better than Rashford. but in a gung-ho setup like the start of this season he’s still just too languid. I’m intrigued to see if Ralf can get him pressing in a unit and if that will have any noticeable knock on effect with his overall game. I really hope elanga can keep his place. This team still badly needs runners and pressers, especially if he keeps playing Ronaldo
Ps : thanks for helping make up my mind on what to cook for dinner later
Oh he's shite and they are.
Just get that Afonso Alves feeling every now and again. Do nothing, score against Utd, do nothing, disapear.I actually liked pogba on the left wing, by the end of last season anything was better than Rashford. but in a gung-ho setup like the start of this season he’s still just too languid. I’m intrigued to see if Ralf can get him pressing in a unit and if that will have any noticeable knock on effect with his overall game. I really hope elanga can keep his place. This team still badly needs runners and pressers, especially if he keeps playing Ronaldo
Ps : thanks for helping make up my mind on what to cook for dinner later
Red Caf poster gives you wings?Burnley are a dirty diving side.
It's just COVID, they'll be back next week.
And bringing on Elanga in a new position To where he was playing well for usWeghorst is nailed on to score hereSuper exciting times; will we see progress and a strong performance from RR and the lads, or another embarrassing stumble...
I for one, am on tenterhooks.
Seriously though, I'm expecting a strong response after the Middlesbrough result, with a convincing win and goals taken with aplomb!
rather what's it important to get rid of this ridiculous notion we didn't have a top performance vs boro. All that lacked were the goals due to strangely rubbish finishing. Not the performance. We should have hit them for 7
Surely this must be a parody post. If so, well done. But if this is a serious post, oh my.
First, finishing is a crucial element of scoring. You can create all kinds of glorious chances (very few of our chances were actually all that glorious) but if you can't finish you can't score, and if you can't score more than one goal in 120 minutes against a Championship side (that's not even a good bet for promotion) it can't be said that it was a "top performance".
But even if you put the lack of finishing aside, the chances that we did create were far from clear cut. Sancho's chip was a punt of a chance and not a chance anyone would say should be finished most of the time. Ronaldo had the beautiful overhead shot, but overhead shots are rarely ever scored.
Bruno did have the glorious chance on an open net and we all know what happened. Praise is deserved for the pressure on the back line that led to the chance, but at the end of the day missing on an open net cannot be included as evidence of a "top performance".
The missed penalty is what it is, and praise is warranted for Pogba drawing the foul in the box. But again, missing a penalty kick cannot in any way be submitted as Exhibit A for the defense against the charge that we actually did not put in a "top performance".
The goal against us that was wrongly allowed was the result of poor defensive awareness and reaction. The failure to keep a clean sheet against a midtable Championship side should never be described as part of a "top performance". Boro had another chance, a half chance to be fair, but they did have us on the back foot for a while in the second half and great concern was expressed on the match day thread that Manchester United might be turned over by Middlesbrough in the 90 minutes of normal time.
Was our performance better than our recent performances? Yes. Was our opposition weaker than most of our recent opponents? Yes. But was it a "top performance"? Not a chance. If we put in a similar performance against Burnley they'll butcher us.
We had 4.2 xG created in that game which is really good tbf (Boro had 1.5). Think we only surpassed it in 9-0 Southampton last season over the past few years. Liverpool against us earlier this season was 4.05 - 1.36 for example. A 5-0 win, or 6-1 win were easily possible in fact more likely than a 1-1 draw based on chances.
The reason people can look at it with some optimism is because finishing is flukey, whereas creating chances and preventing them is what the general team play/coaching/systems do. Room to improve still, but it was just poor execution in front of goal (and we've generally been dead on with xG this season, so it's not like underperforming finishing is a norm for us).Maybe this time we can take some of our chances.We will piss this 4-0.Oh great, another fecking game.
Why am I not surprised about what is lost on you about that game...
This is just a nonsense argument. The fact United missed so many clear cut chances due to shocking finishing is an obvious anomaly. Its not hard to understand! CR7 missed the entire goal from the penalty spot for crying out loud. Which he probably hasn't done his entire career.......
This is factually and objectively incorrect. Whoscored.com confirmed after that match United missed 7 clear cut chances over the 90 minutes of normal time.
Still more ridiculous arguments. Conceding one goal vs a championship side does not take a single thing a way from how you performed over all. Especially when their breaking of your clean sheet should never have stood in the first place. be serious please.....
A number of ya'll are just letting your anger at getting knocked out cloud your judgement about what actually took placeWe won't win.
Can't he save it for the liverpool game? Obviously not, Utd is still the cup final.Have a very good feeling about this. We will hammer them. Our lads will want bounce back after the Boro shitshow.All strikers have something to prove after the last match, it can be a good driving force, and I think (hope) we win this one with a couple of goals.Feel weirdly optimistic about this- Status
Man of the Match
Runners-up
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25%
Paul Pogba
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8%
Raphael Varane
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6%
David de Gea
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Bruno Fernandes
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Diogo Dalot
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Luke Shaw
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Scott McTominay
Player Ratings
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Compiled from 223 ratings.
Score Predictions
151,28,28
- Man Utd win
- Burnley win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 21% Burnley 0:2 Man Utd
- 19% Burnley 1:2 Man Utd
- 13% Burnley 0:1 Man Utd
- 9% Burnley 1:1 Man Utd
- 9% Burnley 0:3 Man Utd
- 7% Burnley 1:0 Man Utd
- 6% Burnley 1:3 Man Utd
- 4% Burnley 0:4 Man Utd
- 3% Burnley 0:0 Man Utd
- 3% Burnley 2:1 Man Utd
- 2% Burnley 2:0 Man Utd
- 1% Burnley 5:0 Man Utd
- 1% Burnley 1:4 Man Utd
- 1% Burnley 0:5 Man Utd
- 0% Burnley 2:2 Man Utd
- 0% Burnley 2:5 Man Utd
- 0% Burnley 3:0 Man Utd
- 0% Burnley 5:5 Man Utd
Match Stats
- Burnley
- Man Utd
- Possession
- 36% 64%
- Shots
- 9 22
- Shots on Target
- 3 5
- Corners
- 2 10
- Fouls
- 11 10
Referee
Mike Dean
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Anthony Elanga
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replaced by Cristiano Ronaldo
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