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Manchester United 3:2 Nottingham Forest
Old Trafford
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Only lucky that Forest are still gash. Otherwise, it's not promising if we play like that against the Arse.How are You feeling?
Can't keep relying on the Get Out of Jail Free card on every single time in this kind of Monopoly game.
Doubt me not. I'm not a masochist.Well, I believe you, but just this time.
I’d much rather us get these crap performances out of our system now. We’ve been awful but find ourselves three points off the top. Get our issues ironed out on the pitch. These silly mistakes and I think we’ll be in a title race this season.My takes: Casemiro man of the match. Bruno and Rashford assisting which is good. Eriksen proving to be more effective than Mount. So so performance, we scrapped a result against Forest, but a serious team would have defeated us.
Why was I quoted?How are You feeling?
Arsenal just drew to 10 man Fulham, also almost received a comeback from forest themselves when they were leading, maybe Arteta should be worried.
Happy we won. Worried by the performance. That said Arsenal could only manage a draw at home to Fulham. Not many easy games left in the PL unless your Man City.How are You feeling?
Pardon, Sir.
Big fingers I guess.We need to do better, 2 goals against forest inside first 5 minutes at OT is unacceptable.
Fernandez the LB and reports also say we would cash in on Sancho
Yeah a better team and there will be no comeback. But from then till the winner we did very well. After that we were absolutely shattered.
What are you even saying? I made a joke about GIFLord being a bit of a cnut. But you might be onto something here. Keep at it champ.
Rashford needed to after Forest first goal, was his fault they scoredWhat was blatantly evident from that performance is that Anthony Martial has totally given up on being a footballer. I mean we all know he’s been abject at best for years, but the apathy with which he plays the game is just beyond a joke. Sancho - another who does not have the heart for any sort of fight, looks petrified anytime the ball goes near him.
The one main positive, apart from grinding out 3 points whilst being shite, was that Antony‘s hair was moderately better and he actually improved in the 2nd half rather than carried on being terrible. I’ve not enjoyed one performance of our’s yet this season and I’m hoping that we get Amrabat in to help Casemiro out and that Hojlund is fit enough to start the Arsenal match. I’m not slitting my wrists just yet.Terrible start to the game for us but luckily Nottingham buckled to the pressure of playing at Old Trafford.
Got away with 3 points this time but those kind of comebacks are few and far between.
Hopefully we can get these mistakes under control and out of our system early into the season so we can look at some form of title challenge.
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0 points.
You are and will be spectacularly wrong about Casemiro.i genuinely have no idea how every season, no matter the manager or the players, we look like we've played 30 games when we are 3 games into a season. On top of that, we seemingly have decided that we've got to make absolute howlers as a regular occurrence. It's seemingly in our DNA now.
Great comeback win, but i can't put my finger on what exactly causes this to keep happening.great character to come back like that. fair playI am a lot less worried after this game than I was before it. Because we actually played quite well for 85 minutes, much better than we did against Wolves and Spurs. And Arsenal look a completely different team than last season so I am not ruling out that we can get something from that game.Work in progress... engine starting up, we'll be friendly fired up after 8 games in I reckon. Why 8? same reason why Jenas kept getting employed by TV stations. no reason.
I watched most of the game on GOTD @Sky. A dreadful start, which is no coincidence, as this happens time and time again. I'll get to that, however, we were at home. against a very limited team and unsurprisingly, we dominated possession.. we weren't great though, and I feel like we haven't really moved on. The quality is just lacking, when I compare to other top, top teams. The good thing is our better players turned up (eventually).. the first time pass by Casimero to Bruno which resulted in the sending off was class... Bruno had some good energy, Rashford has two, genuine clear assists, far happier when playing from the left, Ericksen gets us to play, he passes the ball... Varane and Martinez set an excellent foundation for us. All those things are what we must build on.... but... we lack, really lack quality in the last third. Antony, Martial (who seems like a zombie now, just embarrassing) Sancho.. these guys offer nothing, and it puts pressure on the team, the club really because we do not seem to have a goal in us. We await inspiration.. look at the goals yesterday, two of them just individuals changing the game. No real, ongoing, consistent, clear attacking strategy. I have no idea how we will score, I just 'hope' something will happen.
In regards to why we start so poorly, well, it's because we lack that culture within the club, a driving force, players with the desire the focus or committment to make sure we start games well. We lack focus. I see players who seem to find playing for Man Utd, week in, week out, a little too much.
Forest and Wolves may struggle to remain the Premier League, and yet they gave us v difficult games, and I wasn't even surprised at our performance levels yesterday. I do worry for the season, just not sure how much we can realistically expect. We have one, one decent forward, who needs help.
So the Glazers can't even get that right!Showed some quality to come back and win. Other than that it's still dreadfull in areas of the pitch . Casimero looked out of position again at times Dalot well he's not a left back.
Antony was better Rashford was better , but we still need a Striker. And maybe 2 Martial and the Dane?..
One thing this game showed better balance with Rashford on the left.. that cannot changeMore open goals missed, it can't carry on like this or we will be battered by better teams. We make teams like Wolves and Forest look good. Boly standing still and got hit on the head by the ball to score is a joke. I'd put Jonny Evans in at Arsenal and hope Hojlund gets a run out. I'd take a draw right now.
im dreading game against big team or even brighton, theyd tear us apart.
Brighton are always a tough side, but we saw the potential of our team after the second goal. Hopefully they'll cut out the bad part.
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Man of the Match
Runners-up
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12%
Aaron Wan-Bissaka
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5%
Christian Eriksen
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4%
Antony
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4%
Marcus Rashford
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3%
Casemiro
Player Ratings
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Highest Rated Player
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Compiled from 257 ratings.
Score Predictions
236,21,19
- Man Utd win
- Nottingham Forest win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 31% Man Utd 2:0 Nottingham Forest
- 18% Man Utd 2:1 Nottingham Forest
- 17% Man Utd 3:0 Nottingham Forest
- 11% Man Utd 1:0 Nottingham Forest
- 5% Man Utd 1:1 Nottingham Forest
- 5% Man Utd 3:1 Nottingham Forest
- 3% Man Utd 0:1 Nottingham Forest
- 2% Man Utd 4:0 Nottingham Forest
- 2% Man Utd 0:2 Nottingham Forest
- 1% Man Utd 1:2 Nottingham Forest
- 1% Man Utd 3:2 Nottingham Forest
- 1% Man Utd 0:0 Nottingham Forest
- 1% Man Utd 0:3 Nottingham Forest
- 1% Man Utd 4:1 Nottingham Forest
- 1% Man Utd 2:2 Nottingham Forest
- 1% Man Utd 5:0 Nottingham Forest
- 0% Man Utd 0:9 Nottingham Forest
- 0% Man Utd 2:3 Nottingham Forest
- 0% Man Utd 5:2 Nottingham Forest
Match Stats
- Man Utd
- Nottingham Forest
- Possession
- 68% 32%
- Shots
- 18 9
- Shots on Target
- 9 4
- Corners
- 11 3
- Fouls
- 12 11
Referee
Stuart Attwell
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Jadon Sancho
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replaced by Scott McTominay
