Manchester City 6:3 Manchester United

Jazz · Oct 2, 2022

jem said:
ETH strikes me as a sensible guy, so hopefully this will be the wake-up call that tells him that the likes of McTominay and Rashford are nowhere near the required standard. Serious questions also have to be asked about the likes of Sancho and Fernandes.

I'm sure he'll figure it out. Today is disappointing but not really worried, unless we start losing to every dross.
Would like to see some sort of changes made to the system and personnel for the rest of the 45 mins. We won't win bar a miracle, so may as well show some good intent for the rest of match.

DomesticTadpole · Oct 2, 2022

United Hobbit said:
Hopefully they dish out a similar spanking to Liverpool soon

I am not freaking out. This is more about pride than anything, but the likes of Liverpool, Brighton, Spurs dropping points yesterday is some help.

Rajma · Oct 2, 2022

DWelbz19 said:
McTominay played well in games where we’ve been out-possessed in every midfield battle, so he’s been the undroppable starter

British much passion etc. caf seems to love him.

Prodigy24 · Oct 2, 2022

This is absolutely horrible, and it has happened so much in the last few years that I'm not even surprised anymore. But now I'm actually terrified to watch the second half. What a shocker from the players. Everyone having an off day and looking like they couldn't care less.

mav_9me · Oct 2, 2022

Rozay said:
They didn’t ‘keep possession’ - they got from their box to ours with complete ease throughout the game. They are just nowhere near as decisive in the final third. They were passing around us in a similar fashion, but often over passing and picking the wrong final ball.

But that's the hardest thing and biggest difference between City and the rest. And that's why this was or anything close was not happening against Arsenal.

Salus Populi Suprema Lex · Oct 2, 2022

Oh here we go, text messages from Berties. Thanks very much United.

LordSpud · Oct 2, 2022

I can already see it now Ronaldo planting the seeds against Ten Hag and why are he and Casemiro sitting on the bench for these pretenders? Leaks will be starting again for sure.

sdb4884 · Oct 2, 2022

We spent 225 million and still we've barely taken a step forward.

Withnail · Oct 2, 2022

Godfather said:
I mean is there a result so bad it would lead to that? 4-0 down at HT is a joke. Not that I'd get rid yet but this is worrying.

Granted it's been absolutely diabolical but I can't see EtH getting fired for one bad result against this City team. We've just won 4 in a row and he's only been here a wet week.

Irrational. · Oct 2, 2022

I can't wait until KdB fecks off along with Pep.

kouroux · Oct 2, 2022

Freak said:
I hope ETH makes them run a marathon tomorrow. fecking cnuts

That won't solve anything at all. This club needs formatting like you'd do for a computer.

hellhunter · Oct 2, 2022

Antony looking like an absolute waste so far. Not even his work rate has been anyhow noticeable today

Orange Tree · Oct 2, 2022

There is no intensity here, unlike against Liverpool.

Midfield is sliced through like butter. Defense is exposed. Forward toothless.

NewYorkRed · Oct 2, 2022

Bobski said:
This is not all on McT, he hasn't been good but at least he has made a few tackles. The rest of the front 6 are back to observing defensively.

Cas should have started, why buy him if not for these games?

Not changing a winning team is fine but you have to look at whats in front of you. This midfield had 0 chance against this city team. Bruno essentially plays as a striker, Eriksen has done well in a deeper role but he’s not a natural CM and Mcsauce is well, himself. We didn’t have a prayer against these guys with that midfield. It is horrible team selection and I said it in this thread before the game.

Luka Mora · Oct 2, 2022

Didn't like how the ref set the tone, giving out soft yellow cards for first challenges. Dalot had to be cautious from the get go, but the midfield have been wasteful in possession and our defence have been under pressure from the start because the midfield and front 3 offer no hold up player or attacking outlet which have threatened City's defence

Bastian · Oct 2, 2022

Speako said:
Sat the kids down an hour before kick off to tell them their mum has brain cancer (genuinely, sorry for the gloom).

Put the game on hoping for something, anything, some fight, to give us a bit of a lift.

And then they do that. Cnuts. All of them.

Oh mate. My heart goes out to you.

Moston Red · Oct 2, 2022

10 years of dominance from City. Depressing as feck.

DJ_21 · Oct 2, 2022

What score we saying? 6/7-0

devilish · Oct 2, 2022

Eriksen is a natural no 10. He can play in a deeper role in a team were United will dominate the midfield but not in this game. We should have played with a 3 CM formation McT and Casemiro with Eriksen as the most advanced midfielder, Bruno as a false 9, Rashford on the left and Sancho on the right.

Nep77 · Oct 2, 2022

Sancho always feels like he is two second behind everything.

DanielofLeyland · Oct 2, 2022

Unsurprising score. Too nervous so return to default position of playing down the wings and not using the middle of the park.

City have been good. Some sublime passing but my God it's been easy. Foden and De Bruyne have had more space than I care to count. It's easy to move around and ping it sweetly under no pressure.

Is Casemiro injured? I know Eriksen and McTominay have played well recently but this is Man City. Unusual decision.

Damage limitation in the second half. Only one game and City are going to walk this season at least 20 pts above the nearest rival on this form. Keep them from scoring in the second half and focus on next week. And play Casemiro!

Greck · Oct 2, 2022

As bad as our defenders have been they are playing every possession 4 v 7 because the lazy immobile teammates in front of them haven't tracked a single late runner all game. They aren't even doing any defending away from the ball, just watching.

Drifter · Oct 2, 2022

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DomesticTadpole · Oct 2, 2022

Someone said:
Really poor by ETH. Starting 11 are just too soft.

Who else would you put in. Casemeiro. Who else.

Isotope · Oct 2, 2022

DWelbz19 said:
No Rodri and no Ronaldo would be a big advantage our way

You're possibly not wrong, mathematically.

Art · Oct 2, 2022

This is possibly the one of the greatest PL teams of all time we’re losing to. Take the L and move on.

evil_geko · Oct 2, 2022

Godfather said:
I mean is there a result so bad it would lead to that? 4-0 down at HT is a joke. Not that I'd get rid yet but this is worrying.

Firing Manager based on one result, even if it is 20:0 is idiotic, that is why everyone is laughing at that post.

MDFC Manager · Oct 2, 2022

We have lost our heads

Woziak · Oct 2, 2022

NewYorkRed said:
As much as I want to lay this on the players, this one is on the manager. Rather arrogant set up if not naive.

This is only on the Manager,
It’s a derby which requires high intensity
Shaw should have started, Casemeiro and Fred also in midfield, ETH won’t be able to afford too many more thrashings like this he’s starting to show huge levels of arrogance and he has no PL experience, if he doesn’t learn and learn very quickly he might not last the season, you can lose a game sure but it’s how you lose a game, no energy, no intensity, Malacia and Dalot are simply not good enough at elite PL bring on shaw, Cassemeiro, Fred, Martial now bring off Antony, Mctominay, Bruno, Sancho and play 4312 and see if we can have sone respect on the match, I don’t want to hear anything about Mctominay or Mallacia both not good enough !

Lentwood · Oct 2, 2022

Balance is off in midfield. Far too easy for City

DWelbz19 · Oct 2, 2022

Bobski said:
This is not all on McT, he hasn't been good but at least he has made a few tackles. The rest of the front 6 are back to observing defensively.

Cas should have started, why buy him if not for these games?

It’s not on McTominay directly, and he hasn’t been directly at fault, but his glaring deficiencies wear down the side. In the same way that De Gea hasn’t been directly at fault in any of the goals, but his lack of authority and sweeping make City’s aggression in front of goal easier. In the same way that Rashford hasn’t directly been at fault, but his complete lack of intensity from the front makes it easier for City to play out. In the same way Fernandes constantly loses the ball by instantly going for a killer pass.

And so on and so on… our squad from a profile perspective fecking reeks. How can we spend so much but still have a side that knows how to do nothing but counter?

ForeverRed1 · Oct 2, 2022

Camy89 said:
Unfortunately for us, it’s 31

oh yes. Brilliant. :nervous:

The Irish Connection · Oct 2, 2022

Varane injured as well.

pratyush_utd · Oct 2, 2022

Superunknown said:
Can't agree with this. Ok, put in Casemiro and Fred and take out McTominay and Eriksen. The other 9 have also been shite. There are too many individually poor/abysmal performances to place the blame at ETH's door. We still have the same culture of players not working hard enough, players believing their own hype, players not wanting it enough, players not doing their jobs, and players not taking individual and collective responsibility at the club. That won't change right away and it will take a long time to fix that.

I know it may not change everything but we decided to do nothing in this game. Our gameplan is neither here or there.

Waynne · Oct 2, 2022

How many times has the City center backs allowed to run with the ball straight through the midfield unchallenged and laying it off to De Bruyne or Foden that's 2 feet away from De Gea.

Where is the fecking midfield?

mav_9me · Oct 2, 2022

hellhunter said:
Antony looking like an absolute waste so far. Not even his work rate has been anyhow noticeable today

Antony for first goal was criminal. Sigh

rooney2009 · Oct 2, 2022

This is on the Manager
You cant play a 1 man midfield against city
He had to to play Scot and Casemiro/Fred
It’s like he hasn’t watched city play before
We got away with it against Liverpool and Arsenal
The Manager is learning on the Job…not good

Mercurial · Oct 2, 2022

Stacks said:
Completely understand why the fans are leaving. They came here 4 nothing!

brilliant

Raven · Oct 2, 2022

Get Casemiro and Martial on for Rashford and Bruno, try and stop this getting any uglier.

Cassidy · Oct 2, 2022

sammyhol said:
Antony and Sancho will never be top wingers in this league…

just no where near dynamic and athletic enough

Seems that way

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