Bournemouth 1:0 Manchester United

Andersons Dietician · Nov 2, 2019

Started brightly then it all stopped. Thought Fred was good throughout but we really struggle to create anything. McT still letting people run off him and just watching or jogging back for dangerous situations. He’s needs to eradicate that side of his game.

James just seems to lack a bit of quality, terrible conditions but he always seems to have to control a ball then choose his direction instead of controlling it in to the direction he wants to go. Generally just a lack of quality through the squad. We already knew that I guess.

Dec9003 · Nov 2, 2019

Poor for their goal and poor after it really.
The likes of Pereira, Fred etc have been praised this week but I think it’s fair to say they’re not consistently quality players.
We had a few decent chances but we can’t really say we deserved much more than we got imo.

slored1 · Nov 2, 2019

Good win for Bournemouth in a relegation 6-pointer.

Raoul · Nov 2, 2019

Quagmire of mediocrity is spot on

Cantona in disguise · Nov 2, 2019

You just get that feeling as soon as we lose a goal to the likes of Bournemouth we arent going to score. I never felt we were going to get back into it. Seen it so many times since fergie retired. Weak mentality at the club as a whole.

NK86 · Nov 2, 2019

Jist reinforces the point that Ole has no idea how to set up a team attacking wise to open up closed defenses. He won't magically learn that now either, so either we bring in a top attacking coach to help him and see if that improves or we sack him to get a better choice as manager. I don't think the current set up will be able to turn this around unless we have a once in a generation player like Messi or Ronaldo who will turn defenses over all by themselves.

ManUtd1999 · Nov 2, 2019

sebsheep said:
It's not really surprising anymore, which is probably the worst thing.

Basically, United being United.

Fred shouldn’t be in this team after January 2nd.

dannyrhinos89 · Nov 2, 2019

Just got home from work, I didn’t watch it so I’m not even mad.

Paxi · Nov 2, 2019

I’d love to say I’m surprised but I’m not. Beating Norwich who are the most naive team in the league, Belgrade with 0 shots on target and Chelsea, which was a good win for sure, only gave me a slight glimmer of hope, which totally evaporated today. It’ll be another 10 games for Ole to be sacked and another season down the drain.

Cut him loose now and get a manager who can get us top 4 seeing as Arsenal, Spurs are struggling.

NotoriousISSY · Nov 2, 2019

Back to reality.

But we've struggled against teams setting up like this for as long as I can remember.

The only reason we beat Norwich is because they have a league one standard defence. Chelsea, let's be honest, was thanks to set pieces.

The paper over the cracks has torn unfortunately.

DomesticTadpole · Nov 2, 2019

Judas said:
Special mention to Andreas who continues to start PL games and continues to be shockingly average in every way. If only he was half as good as he thinks he is with his terrible decision making and choosing to shoot when passing is the obvious option.

He can't be Brazilian.

Superunknown · Nov 2, 2019

Too many passes were either overhit or underhit, just like our crosses. Technically, we're not amazing with the ball and we were defensively poor for the goal that we conceded. I think the result is actually a fair reflection of where we are. Bournemouth narrowly beat us, but they could have scored 2 or 3 more.

There's a lot to work on. When your passing game is off, the best teams have that ability to dig in and get a goal from somewhere. They make their own luck. We seem to find it so difficult to create chances and even string a couple of passes together. Our midfielders and attackers were playing so far apart from each other that they weren't able to feed off each other and work their way around the Bournemouth defence. Far too many times, we just lofted the ball aimlessly forward and hoped that it fell to one of our players.

RedViv · Nov 2, 2019

As soon as they got the goal i got a sinking that feeling we were never gonna pull this back. Appalling performance , such a bad start to the morning, hopefully the day has better in store.

BaneIsPain · Nov 2, 2019

We only have 1 creative midfield and he is not even in the squad

mav_9me · Nov 2, 2019

I missed the first 20 mins. That said I don't think we were particularly poor. I would argue Bournemouth were worse.

However 2 things are clear to me:
1. Midfield including No.10 are woefully lacking in creativity.
2. This is not helped by a lack of coaching in attacking third.

Nothing we can do about it. This is our season. I bet you our final results will be W12 D13 L13. We will get 50 pts or so and end up 7-10th.

MDFC Manager · Nov 2, 2019

Williams really should have started.

And having Lingard as the first sub :lol:

iluvoursolskjær · Nov 2, 2019

We showed grit and heart but fell unlucky to a fortunate chest and bounce and flick and kick.

cyril C · Nov 2, 2019

Untd55 said:
Started off well when there was space, but terrible end product and finishing, though

As soon as a team closes that space up behind the defence, we are completely useless. This game epitomised how bad Manchester United actually are. Can only play when there is space, but utterly clueless when it is closed up.

This is because we are 1-trick pony, counter-attack only. Unless the opposition enjoy ball possession, sloppy on ball possession, slow in defence. Well, we allowed Arsenal to equalise.

cfkane · Nov 2, 2019

First time I ever predicted the correct starting line up and all the subs, and they had to ruin it by losing......crap.

chiz2kul · Nov 2, 2019

El Zoido said:
Why are we in the 90th minute with McTominay pushing forward, and nobody is supporting? We need a goal, the players should be steaming forward yet they’re milling around the halfway line. This is not Ole’s fault!! My god are the players idiots? How good of a manger do we need to make players understand to attack when we’re losing with 5 minutes to go? Are they idiots?!?

isn't that down to the manager and tactics?
I personally thought that at least today the desire what there, but the talent is solely lacking.

Worst start for man utd in 33 years. Ole breaking more records.

Fergies Gum · Nov 2, 2019

its just so predictable. Anyone who thought we turned the corner after the last couple of results now has egg on their face.

Mourinhonista · Nov 2, 2019

If Chelsea and Leicester both win, it will be a 10 point gap already. Sack Ole, it has to happen now.

GazTheLegend · Nov 2, 2019

That was hard to take. Didn’t think we deserved to lose.

Fred really is atrocious though, seemed to single handedly feck up absolutely everything we did. Cannot believe we went into this season with that man as a first team footballer for our club. Losing Herrera killed us.

KirkDuyt · Nov 2, 2019

I heard Jaap Stam is free, could be a good successor to Ole..

Random Task · Nov 2, 2019

@ Josh King

Whatever happened to once a red, always a red? You treacherous little swine.

As for the game: we looked good for about 25 minutes, creating chances and playing some lovely stuff, then it all went to shite. In a nutshell.

abailey123 · Nov 2, 2019

We just can’t break a team down who has a low block. Passing is too pedestrian and full backs aren’t offering enough of an outlet going forward.
Desperately need a number 10 as Andreas and Lingard don’t cut it.

Brandon Williams continues to impress every time I see him and surely he’s in line for a start next Sunday with Young being banned?

I’ve sort of accepted that this season is going to be a bit of a yo-yo season so in a strange way, I’m not too bothered today!

Nr.7 · Nov 2, 2019

The usual.

We come with a bit of positive mood playing against a team that hasn’t won in 4 games and didn’t score a single goal in the last 3 games.
We start ok the first 15-20 minutes, fail to take advantage and they start playing with more belief.
Our throw ins and corners are dreadful.
We concede a soft goal.
They sit back and wait for the counter while we play with no urgency playing mostly sideways pass football.
We wouldn’t score in 12 hours of play.
Lindelof is too soft.
Late substitutions.

Like I said, the usual. It’s all too obvious from the first minute. It’s like watching the same game most weeks.

I support Man United, but I really dislike this team.

Red00012 · Nov 2, 2019

Our 3 number 10’s are Pereira , Lingard and Mata. I don’t need to add anymore

Judas · Nov 2, 2019

iluvoursolskjær said:
We showed grit and heart but fell unlucky to a fortunate chest and bounce and flick and kick.

What grit? Or heart? Its amazing what people will accept these days.

eire-red · Nov 2, 2019

One step forward, two steps back. It's just so painful and frustrating to watch. Watch all the top teams and see all the chances they create for their forwards.

We put Rashford and Martial up top expect them to just produce moments of magic every game because we're completely incapable of working clear cut chances.

Martial had a poor game today, Rashford had moments of good play, but at what stage in the match was something created for them? No through balls, poor quality from the wings and just no creativity whatsoever.

Must be an absolute nightmare to play as a forward in this team, and must be a nightmare to be a defender as well. If we concede, we tend to lose. Puts a lot of pressure on the back 4.

Freak · Nov 2, 2019

The culture though.

redshaw · Nov 2, 2019

Very easy for Bournemouth to defend against us like it is for most teams. If we don't get a set-piece or teams regularly leave space at the back we can't fashion anything.

MonkeysMagic · Nov 2, 2019

Like purgatory we watch the team plodding around the pitch pretending to be professional footballers knowing full well what the outcome would be.

There is no escape from this misery, you put incompetent people in charge and incompetence is exactly what you get!

Al-T · Nov 2, 2019

Had money on an England /United double. Pity neither side turned up.

downunder red · Nov 2, 2019

A nice sunny day and we would of won.

Untd55 · Nov 2, 2019

GazTheLegend said:
That was hard to take. Didn’t think we deserved to lose.

Fred really is atrocious though, seemed to single handedly feck up absolutely everything we did. Cannot believe we went into this season with that man as a first team footballer for our club. Losing Herrera killed us.

McTominay was just as bad as Fred. He gave away the ball constantly. Fred and McTominay are just not anywhere near the level we need.

His passing accuracy in the Premier League is now 79%. Awful.

nainaisson · Nov 2, 2019

Pereira has to be the worst excuse for a No.10 I've ever seen. I'd love to know why he was allowed to play for 60 minutes. He should have been hooked at half time or sooner.

Irrational. · Nov 2, 2019

Get the Saudis in. At least if our players don't perform they may get a polite invitation to the Saudi Embassy.

Enigma_87 · Nov 2, 2019

Really surprised we beat Norwich and that Norwich played like they did.

It's really easy to set up against us and pick up 3 points.

A-man · Nov 2, 2019

There is no plan. And if you don’t have a plan you need a big bad box player. There is no big bad box player.

arthurka · Nov 2, 2019

Flat as feck terrible dross.
Pereira isn't good enough and Lindelöf can do one. Hopefully OLE takes Young with him when he goes.

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