Dan James has improved a lot.
FA Premier League
Manchester City 0:2 Manchester United
The Etihad
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- Sun, 7 March 2021 @ 4:30pm GMT
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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?
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that has to be poor coaching, no idea what they do in training but it's clearly not what city do
So you think that passing from the back, which is what we were attempting to do for long periods, works?
At least using my idea of going for a fast counter, everytime we get the ball off them in our third of the pitch, gives us a chance to score. Do that 10 times and the odds are that we'll score a goal.
Taking the ball in our third of the pitch, then attempting to pass through their entire team has failed almost everytime.Heart sunk when I saw Martial and James starting, but both have played really well.
Well that’s where we need to improve. We are just kicking it first time out of the box hoping it falls to somebody.
martial is working hard but ole needs to tell him to stop coming so deep and be patient, we need an outlet.
we need to dribble out of our box, then play a few quick passes. Anything lumped high and long just gets gobbled up.
Don't particularly rate Ole, but City are the best team in the world now. Any team would play like that if they're a goal up against them.Watching McTominay and Fred on the ball is bloody painful. Just waiting for them to give it away. Infuriating when possession is at such a premium already against team like City. Those two with Fernandes in front of them is about the worst trio you can have to retain possession and gain a semblance of control in game like this. We know the latter is capable of moments of match winning brilliance, but the former two are just not good enough I'm afraid.Never comfortable against City. So many times they reach 60 or so minutes and suddenly get a flurry of goals.
TrulyWhat a great start from us but then slowly but surely retreated towards our own box.
It's hard but the best way to play v.s. City is winning it up the pitch and pushing our defence up. I fear it we go into the second half playing the same way as the end of that half we're just asking for trouble. This is where Ole earns his pay, it's his decision as to what we do.Bruno is the worst player on the pitch.
Martial gets a lot of criticism but I think Bruno is the one who needs benching and I would play Cavani and Martial both for a couple of weeks.
I can't think of a single thing Bruno has done well outside of the penalty which wasn't great either.
We don’t intend to park the bus. Our utter ineptitude at passing the ball means it just keeps coming back. Fred and Bruno having the ball literally just means within 2 seconds City will have it.Taking the ability of the opposition into account, one of our best halves in ages?
This is going to be a LONNNNNG second half.Better first half than I could have wished for. Counters need to be in higher quality and quantity, but the dogged defending and score is cause for optimism. Still though, we definitely need to improve in the 2nd half.
Come on lads!Martin Tyler’s horrific, btw. Is he showing signs of old age or something? Constantly hear his heavy breathing and making really random points or things he says. It’s like Neville’s the one carrying him along these daysFair play to Martial and James they've looked good
Rashford looks like he can barely move, he needs to have that operation now otherwise he's going to ruin his career
It's ironic because it's GuardiolaWe need to be much more composed when we get a chance to break. A lot of wasted opportunities.Tweet
— Twitter API (@user) dateRashford, Fred, James and Bruno all have to do better. On the whole, we need to be more composed on the ball. We won't get away with this lead is we carry on like this for another 45 minutes. Otherwise we've done ok considering I was expecting us to get beat comfortably.
Getting battered?
It's the perfect away performance so far. We've had a few decent breaks and shots,. so it's not like we've smashed and grabbed either.Don’t care how we do it, just as long we win or worst case draw.
Very good opening 10-15 mins but City started taking control and it felt like one of their chances were going to get taken. Their fullbacks were starting to get forward to support.
When we do get possession, we need to do much better as we are just handing it straight back to them.The one game Martial shows up and Rashford/Bruno are wasting everythingVery happy to be winning at half time, we had a good first 15min but have been pushed back since. We must start to win our duels, that means winning the 50/50s and getting those quick passes going past their press otherwise we won’t hang on.
I don't think he's wasted possession once.James goes down - no foul
if we had more midfielders who could actually pass, it would help! scholes or beckham would slice them open
No one expected easy or us to dominate possession but there is a real problem with our passing ability. We should be able to keep the ball and use it better when we have it, in fact we were able to against City multiple times last year with the same players.
These comments make me
stalk that cnutFred's work in midfield is crucial to us, but his ability on the ball is so, so poor. Always feel like it's going to cost us a goal.
Martial has been much better than his recent performances.
All in all a good half, and we contained them well. Henderson hasn't been under intense pressure and at times we look dangerous on the break.
People expecting us to come and outplay a team on a 21 game winning streak live in cloud cuckoo landIs there any need for that snoop dogg advert to be any longer than it was?it seems like we are just waiting for them to score before we do anything. Tactical we have been poor but our defense seems solid at the moment.
I feel Bruno really benefits from Pogba being on the pitch when it comes to retaining possession. He seems desperate to get it from Fred and McT and then do something with it.
They’re the same ones posting 10/10 ratings in the Fred performance thread.
He may become a proper footballer yet.They need this breather, need to be on it at start of 2nd half, passing to quick when were on break, its margins of to slow or to quick. Feck I dont know how these city players get the energy from, this season in particular. Keep the ball for a period this half, or get the passing right on the break.We've been rubbish but i won't care if we can keep this result.
You're never going to get out of the newbies posting this gub.
Take the big game changing goal out of it, and it's 0-0. yeah nice one mate. What else? If they'd scored we wouldn't be leading?- Status
Man of the Match
Runners-up
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13%
Anthony Martial
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1%
Harry Maguire
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1%
Scott McTominay
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1%
Victor Lindelof
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1%
Bruno Fernandes
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1%
Dean Henderson
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1%
Aaron Wan-Bissaka
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1%
Fred
Player Ratings
Total Average Rating
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Compiled from 380 ratings.
Score Predictions
57,143,30
- Man Utd win
- Man City win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 20% Man City 2:0 Man Utd
- 17% Man City 3:0 Man Utd
- 10% Man City 1:2 Man Utd
- 9% Man City 3:1 Man Utd
- 7% Man City 1:1 Man Utd
- 7% Man City 0:1 Man Utd
- 6% Man City 4:0 Man Utd
- 5% Man City 0:0 Man Utd
- 3% Man City 5:0 Man Utd
- 3% Man City 1:0 Man Utd
- 3% Man City 2:1 Man Utd
- 2% Man City 0:2 Man Utd
- 2% Man City 1:3 Man Utd
- 2% Man City 0:5 Man Utd
- 1% Man City 2:3 Man Utd
- 1% Man City 4:1 Man Utd
- 1% Man City 2:2 Man Utd
- 0% Man City 4:2 Man Utd
- 0% Man City 5:1 Man Utd
- 0% Man City 1:4 Man Utd
- 0% Man City 0:3 Man Utd
- 0% Man City 3:4 Man Utd
Match Stats
- Man City
- Man Utd
- Possession
- 66% 34%
- Shots
- 23 8
- Shots on Target
- 6 6
- Corners
- 6 2
- Fouls
- 9 12
Referee
Anthony Taylor
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