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Swansea City 0:4 Manchester United

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    ivaldo

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    Hopefully the assist allows Pogba to calm down. Rashford needs to stop acting like Ronaldo and improve his decision making.

    One more goal will kill this game. Hope Jose mixes it up in the 2nd half. Bring on Martial at '60.
    Acting or not. He's been fouled at least 3 times without getting a decision. Moss has been dreadful in that half.
     

    Summit

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    Loved that Pogba took no shit that half. Everyone calling him stupid blah blah, but I don't care. Something rattled the lads and Pogba took no shit. Reminded me of a typical Scholes tackle.
     

    Offside

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    Way tougher match than I expected given how bad everyone said Swansea were last week. Also, they're a bunch of cnuts.
    They still haven't had a shot on target have they? They've been buying fouls like West Ham were last week and playing with everyone behind the ball. Huge that we scored right on half time. They will have to come out now.

    They did defend well though Swansea.
     

    el3mel

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    Rashford is too selfish and stupid imo, but he's not the problem. Our fullbacks are the most disappointing thing today, liability in both attack and defense. Valencia is always backpassing in every dangerous position and Blind can't put a right cross.

    Good that we grabbed a goal as the second half would have been more difficult.
     

    BIGbadBOO4

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    All premiership teams leave a boot in against us and fall over and roll around all the time. The refs caused this because they let it go on.
    Great scoring before half time.
     

    BluesJr

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    Still no idea what Mata's role is in this formation. We are in need of a more dynamic right winger. Apart from the miss, Rashford has been most likely to make someting happen. I still never feel confident seeing him 1v1 though.
    Should be Rashford on the right and Martial left.
     

    prtk0811

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    Rashford shoots it when he should chip it, and chips it when he should shoot.

    Lacks strikers instinct.
     

    Hugh Jass

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    Sturdy performance. Rashford should have hit that chance on his left.

    Would not be surprised if Swansea nicked one back.

    Pogba has to be careful but we also need him more in the game.
     

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    With the sheer height in this team we need to be doing more with corners.

    Up at half time. Great time to nick it.
     

    Stack

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    Have to say that we have been needing a player like Matic for so long, have been watching his work this half and he does all the simple stuff so well.
     

    Adnandos

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    Rashford (and potentially Martial) will rip these feckers apart even more now that they have to come out. We should really try Rashford on the right more imo.
     

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    Swansea are playing good though even if we have been bad, have to give credit to Swans.
     

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    Awful first half. We need to go 4-3-3. Sub Mhki for Herrera to lighten the defensive burden/risk of a red card on Pogba, then bring on Martial for Mata and get men running in behind. Switch Rashford to the right.
     

    Jed I. Knight

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    Great time for a goal, that! Want us to go out there guns blazing for the second half, and put this beyond doubt before 60.
     

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    A little worried about how vulnerable we have looked defending their set pieces. Need to sort things back there or we are going to concede from a set piece , with such a big powerful team as we have now this should not be an issue.
     

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    Apart from being a bit wasteful it was a fine performance against a clearly well drilled Swansea side out for the point
     

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    The ability to score from set pieces is massive, particularly in matches such as this where we are finding it difficult to break down opponents. Great to have that threat back.
     

    BringNaniBack

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    We could do with Herrera and Martial coming on for Pogba and Mata. Won't happen though.
     

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    Swansea made that a very frustrating half and our movement wasn't great, but that goal should hopefully see things open up in the second.
     

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    Jesus and people call Jose park the bus or anti football and other such nonsense. Would really like to credit United for pushing Swansea back into their own third, however, I think Swansea's game plan is 11 men behind the ball. Awful awful on the eye.
     

    Jazz

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    Loved that Pogba took no shit that half. Everyone calling him stupid blah blah, but I don't care. Something rattled the lads and Pogba took no shit. Reminded me of a typical Scholes tackle.
    I like that he takes no shit. However, we don't want to go down to 10 men. You can see the ref is just itching to create his own headlines... but this is no good for the team.

    Controlled aggression is what the lad needs to have...
     

    Scorpy

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    Put Herrera on at half time, one more foul and Moss will send Pogba off.

    Also put Martial around the 60th minute mark for either Mkhitaryan or Mata.

    Rashford is extremely wasteful with his finishing, but at least he's trying to make something happen.
     

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    Swansea are playing good though even if we have been bad, have to give credit to Swans.
    They've defended well but defending well is pretty easy when you have so many in midfield.
     

    Buchan

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    A well organised home team battling for any sort of a result. It was always going to take a patient approach. Let's put it to bed now early in the second half. Three points is all that matters now.
     

    LoneStar

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    Swansea have defended really well. But Rashford should be at least testing the Gk on 1vs1. Poor finishing from him. Lukaku getting no good service.

    I added Baily to my FPL team yesterday ! :devil:
     

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    Hate that the coverage is not showing any replays of the potential fouls on Rashford, I'd like to see some again to see how bad they were.
     

    Inigo Montoya

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    Pogba needs to calm the feck down or get Herrera on, don't want to see red. Mata or Mkhi needs to be benched and Martial needs to get on.
    He's been very controlled since the talk from Moss( good refereeing BTW) and looked our most creative player so all he needs to do is avoid those 50/50s.
    Mata and Mkhi have been difficult to dispossess so don't see the need to change
    Matic: superb again:drool:
     

    SoCross

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    Expect us to score 2 more now that Swansea have to come forward more. Mikhi will revel in the space; hes not getting any at the moment.
     

    Offside

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    Blind stands out as such a weak spot. In this system the full-backs are the only wide option so when he fails every time to put in a good cross it's absolutely detrimental to our attack.
     
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Man of the Match

Paul Pogba image Paul Pogba 39% of 1161 votes

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Score Predictions

880,22,25
  • Man Utd win
  • Swansea win
  • Draw

Detailed Results

  • 38% Swansea 0:2 Man Utd
  • 27% Swansea 0:3 Man Utd
  • 10% Swansea 1:3 Man Utd
  • 8% Swansea 1:2 Man Utd
  • 4% Swansea 0:4 Man Utd
  • 4% Swansea 0:5 Man Utd
  • 3% Swansea 0:1 Man Utd
  • 1% Swansea 1:1 Man Utd
  • 1% Swansea 1:4 Man Utd
  • 1% Swansea 0:0 Man Utd
  • 0% Swansea 2:2 Man Utd
  • 0% Swansea 3:0 Man Utd
  • 0% Swansea 5:0 Man Utd
  • 0% Swansea 2:0 Man Utd
  • 0% Swansea 1:0 Man Utd
  • 0% Swansea 5:4 Man Utd
  • 0% Swansea 2:1 Man Utd
  • 0% Swansea 2:3 Man Utd
  • 0% Swansea 3:1 Man Utd
  • 0% Swansea 1:5 Man Utd
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Match Stats

  1. Swansea
  2. Man Utd
Possession
41% 59%
Shots
5 17
Shots on Target
0 8
Corners
3 5
Fouls
12 11

Referee

Jonathan Moss