Yeah people will blame the midfield and so will I, but at the same time, martial doesn't inspire the confidence in the midfield as if he will get it, or come and help them. He's not a team player, the team have to play for him and that's his mindset.
FA Premier League
Southampton 1:1 Manchester United
Saint Mary's Stadium
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- Sun, 22 August 2021 @ 2:00pm BST
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We need more movement from Martial up front.
This. I had hoped bald Martial would be the sign of his renissance, but apparently not. I forgot he even started at one pointVan de beek on for maticGet Sancho on for Matic and put Pogba into midfield.Martial is literally hiding, no presence at all, barely touched it, barely ran, barely seen him.
No agenda, he’s just been shit.Wan Bissaka is also not at his best. maybe should try Dalot who may be more attacking minded.Subs incoming after the game has ended.
We can't bank on the kind of naivety that Bielsa's Leeds always afford us. Sure, we can score 4 in a snap.........if every team is as reckless as Leeds. For every other team that is somewhat conservative, we have to be more realistic.I have always found Ole too negative away from home with his team selections. Too worried about what opposing teams are going to do, as oppose to what we can do.
Having said that he went unbeaten away from home last season so what do i know.
You've left Fred on?
I see the usual suspects are all making excuses for Martial again.
He has had chance after chance and fails to deliver.Poor old OGS (not an Ole outer, but doubter)! No problem to bench Varane and Sancho but start Martial who didn't play for a while and being shite last season. A year later we don't even know what VdB could or couldn't bring to the team. The midfield performance today is shocking! What a mess!Tweet
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Same cloud looming over us. Why cant we just solve an issue or two out.Martial off for Sancho as we’ve been week from the left as AVB is as useful as a chocolate teapot going forward!
He plays like Berba but he is not Berba. Even in duels you can see how he's not eager to put in an effort to win it. The only explanation other than laziness is that he's not fit or tired as feck. But I don't think that's the case.I know our kit is hideous, but what is Ralf wearing
We're simply not going to win anything of significance with this midfield. Apparently we're only allowed to sign two players, so with that being said as much as i love the signing of Varane i would have preferred a midfielder. Because the ones we have are not good enough and are going to be another huge problem for us this season.
Easily the weakest midfield out of the top 4. Or top 6 for that matter.Statistics show we would be walking this game if Dan James was playing.
bitey biteyBruno showed too much of the ball, just had to move his body a bit to protect.
Fred and Matic are the problem though. It's so obvious Southampton want those 2 to get the ball and then they press. Easy tactics against us
Agreed with the lack of reaction yeah. Seems we like to leave it for the second half to react.
Very rare to get a change by Ole on the start of the new half, but yeah Martial still very rusty.
Hopefully we will see Cavani for the last 20mins or so, or sooner if Greenwoods kicking boots don't click.I'm afraid the issue against the press comes round and round again when we try to play the ball out from the back and are neither accurate nor quick with passing.
There is very little jeopardy for teams knowing they'll win possession on most instances rather than us cutting through.
Thank God he'll be gone next season as part of the Haaland deal.
Small gripe but why do sky end an ad break, return and tell us the score, then go to more ads?Zero changes from Ole. Ridiculous
I’d say the only bad thing about Martial this game in comparison to greenwood is him not pressing aggressively enough.
He scored a great goal and provided an assist for Lingard in our last preseason game against Burnley. Why make things up?
We‘ve been dross and can’t pass or find a person to save our lives and can’t get the ball out of midfield unless it’s punted over the top to the wings? If your CF isn’t getting any good service at all and only little scraps how are they supposed to do anything.Come on United. Don't let me downFeck me, they have put another CB onNo changes….
Dan James plays this, we winning. Simples.No changes... What a fecking suprise. Just feck off.
Not sure he is a problem if he has help in there, trouble is Matic is too slow and hides.You've left Fred on?
He should have made subbs straight away.No subs? Oles in game management as bad as ever?- Status
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Score Predictions
321,8,10
- Man Utd win
- Southampton win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 27% Southampton 0:3 Man Utd
- 24% Southampton 1:3 Man Utd
- 17% Southampton 0:2 Man Utd
- 10% Southampton 1:2 Man Utd
- 6% Southampton 0:4 Man Utd
- 5% Southampton 1:4 Man Utd
- 4% Southampton 0:5 Man Utd
- 2% Southampton 1:1 Man Utd
- 1% Southampton 0:0 Man Utd
- 1% Southampton 2:1 Man Utd
- 1% Southampton 2:3 Man Utd
- 1% Southampton 2:0 Man Utd
- 1% Southampton 0:1 Man Utd
- 1% Southampton 2:5 Man Utd
- 0% Southampton 5:0 Man Utd
- 0% Southampton 1:5 Man Utd
- 0% Southampton 1:0 Man Utd
Match Stats
- Southampton
- Man Utd
- Possession
- 36% 64%
- Shots
- 8 15
- Shots on Target
- 3 4
- Corners
- 7 7
- Fouls
- 12 10
Referee
Craig Pawson
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Scott McTominay
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replaced by Jesse Lingard
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replaced by Jadon Sancho
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