Thats why I hope ETH grows a pair and puts Hannibal in the starting lineup.
FA Premier League
Manchester United 0:3 Manchester City
Old Trafford
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- Sun, 29 October 2023 @ 3:30pm 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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Thats why I hope ETH grows a pair and puts Hannibal in the starting lineup.No protests against the Glazers no hope................:Onana............
...Varane.Maguire.Lindelöf......
Dalot..................................Reguilon
...........Amrabat.Casemiro................
.................Bruno.......................
........Antony.......Rashford...........
A team set for counter attacksI really hope we actually look trained and practiced for this, I actually would love to see a game plan in place, even if it’s a defensive one, don’t care. I’m sick of us looking disorganized and flat.
Don't we hope for all that before every game?
Yeah, and those hopes are dashed 20 mins in
No, today is the first time for me. Fingers crossed it’s my hope that’s been missing and changes things.
20 mins is quite optimisticYeah, and those hopes are dashed 20 mins in
Yeah, you will settle in quick with the rest of us.At least this time they don't have fecking Gundogan. I wonder who will step up in his place.
Swap Antony for Hojlund surely?
I’d go for that but Hojlund and Martial up top - our two ‘best’ finishers.Team vs City last season at Old Trafford:
Martial
Rashford Eriksen Bruno
Fred Casemiro
Malacia Shaw Varane Wan-Bissaka
De Gea
We have more intensity on paper this year, especially in the final third.
HojlundPotentially Eriksen for Mount or McTominay for that added bit of quality, but that's probably the team I'd go with. We have players like Garnacho, Antony and Hannibal to come on and continue that intensity if/when needed.
Rashford Mount Bruno
McTominay Casemiro
Reguilon Maguire Varane Dalot
Onana
Hoping Højlund bags a goal today. Can see us edging this 2-1 or a narrow 1-0.
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Regardless of whoever in charge any professional team would always have a plan and practice for it before a match.
With ETH imo his plan is often simply too complicated and our players can't execute it properly. Hopefully yet.
So for this match all I hope is he could keep thing simple like sit deep and counter really fast. Really hope he can see the fecking obvious result of his football atm against a team like City.
Better to have Hoylund. He is rapid and perfect for a ball over the top.
Plus you need a Hannibal in the middle to provide the energy to win the ball back for a counter. Amrabat and Casemiro will be too passive.1-0 win, Hojlund first premier league goal, I will be there!casamiro probably wont be ready. Erikson along side amrabat. Bruno at 10. Rashford and Mount wide. Hojlund 9.
Garnacho on as super-sub… cant fail.It'll be 3 or 4-1 to City. The most depressing thing is that they won't even have to get out of first gear and treat it like a training game.To start Maguire here would be a grave mistake, let's be honest we've been playing cannon fodder as of late.
Could get even uglier. They are not as good as last season but we are complete shambles. If only we made progress over the summer.Who the feck is aitchWe must get off to a good start today - even if that means we park the bus for the first half and go into HT level at 0-0.
Early City goals is going to mean a record PL win today...just got that horrible feeling.
Honestly I don’t buy this narrative. It makes out that Ten Hag is too advanced and/or our players are just incredibly stupid. Doesn’t make sense to me.We've won few games recently but were far from convincing so think this is is where our mini winning row ends. 3-1 City (hopefully nothing worse as we tend to have our embarassing defeats usually in the month of October). Loss that'll make finishing top 4 difficult even though it's not even November.OK, way too much negativity on this thread. I know they are big favourites but we do have a chance. We won the last league meeting between us! A chance for the likes of Amrabat, Onana and Hojlund to announce themselves. Come on United!!
We will let in 2 goals in the first 25 minutes. But we will have a spirited comeback and score 2 goals in the 2nd half. A moral victory.
That's all that's left to you if you refuse to recognise that Ten Hag is an average coach.
Enjoy - full report afterwards no matter the result!The first 5 mins will show if we are up to it, teams usually love going at United full throttle from the go to catch United sleeping which works 80% of the time or so and I expect City to do just that, the hope is our players hold it together and not be weak cnuts.
And for the love of god I hope Bruno and Rashford keep it simple and ticking, no Hollywood passes or running into blind alleys, I would love a game where those 2 don't try to force it and I know it's necessary but not from the get go pleaseI have no expectations from this fixture to be honest. It will probably end up being a tame loss for us. We have been horrendous even against cannon fodder so City will probably just walk over us.The Manchester Derby rarely fails to deliver as a spectacle regardless of the winner. I prefer this more than the NorthWest Derby. Just hope we can do the business today.
It's more like this kind of football is too complicated and demanding imo. Just look at how many CBs and FBs Pep had to buy to implement his football and the time it took and you'd see I think.
Starting Lindelof instead certainly doesn't make us better.
The other alternative is that he is a good coach regarding tactics but the players are not listening. However that could mean his man-management skills aren't great, so I guess it would be back to square one, if the players are not all a*****.Just don't get fecking hammered again. Please.
Sad day when a narrow loss would almost feel like progress.It'll end up being ugly, I don't have any confidence. We've not played well in months, defensively frail with little attacking quality. It'll be bad.Prediction: we will start slowly, not look threatening then be surprised when we concede. Some time in one half we might threaten to actually look as if we are indeed a football team and then concede some more.... I fear the game could be over long before we have a shot on targetWe will be destroyed in CM with Amrabat.
City can win this by a cricket score if they want. But I suspect they will just score 3 or 4 and see out the game.- Status
Man of the Match
Runners-up
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4%
Rasmus Hojlund
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4%
Jonny Evans
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3%
Harry Maguire
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1%
Christian Eriksen
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1%
Diogo Dalot
Player Ratings
Total Average Rating
Highest Rated Player
Lowest Rated Player
Compiled from 255 ratings.
Score Predictions
54,174,29
- Man Utd win
- Man City win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 13% Man Utd 0:3 Man City
- 13% Man Utd 1:3 Man City
- 11% Man Utd 2:1 Man City
- 7% Man Utd 0:4 Man City
- 7% Man Utd 1:2 Man City
- 6% Man Utd 1:4 Man City
- 6% Man Utd 0:2 Man City
- 5% Man Utd 1:1 Man City
- 5% Man Utd 2:2 Man City
- 4% Man Utd 0:5 Man City
- 4% Man Utd 1:0 Man City
- 3% Man Utd 2:0 Man City
- 2% Man Utd 0:9 Man City
- 2% Man Utd 0:6 Man City
- 2% Man Utd 1:5 Man City
- 2% Man Utd 1:6 Man City
- 1% Man Utd 2:4 Man City
- 1% Man Utd 3:2 Man City
- 1% Man Utd 0:7 Man City
- 1% Man Utd 0:0 Man City
- 1% Man Utd 1:7 Man City
- 1% Man Utd 3:1 Man City
- 0% Man Utd 3:9 Man City
- 0% Man Utd 2:3 Man City
- 0% Man Utd 4:0 Man City
- 0% Man Utd 4:1 Man City
- 0% Man Utd 3:0 Man City
- 0% Man Utd 1:8 Man City
- 0% Man Utd 3:3 Man City
Match Stats
- Man Utd
- Man City
- Possession
- 39% 61%
- Shots
- 7 21
- Shots on Target
- 3 10
- Corners
- 7 12
- Fouls
- 9 4
Referee
Paul Tierney
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Sergio Reguilon
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replaced by Mason Mount
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replaced by Antony
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replaced by Anthony Martial
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replaced by Alejandro Garnacho
