Brighton & Hove Albion 2:3 Manchester United

Got to say this hurt. But it was a great game of football to watch.

You looked better than you did against Palace, but your defence needs to get up to speed quite quickly, we were at times able to cut you open at will and if it wasn’t for the fact that you somehow made your goal slightly smaller, we might have scored a couple more rather than hitting the woodwork so often!

Just seen the BBC reports no that that was the most times a team has hit the posts/crossbar since opts began.

Bot one thing that stood out for me that no one seems to be mentioning is Rashford. His goal was fantastic, he put White on his arse twice before taking his shot and even though he was offside for a couple of others, he looked sharp, I thought he was your best player on the pitch.

To be fair, I didn’t expect to beat you, but it’s frustrating to see us dominate both you and Chelsea for good parts of the match and still come away with nothing.

Whatever happened to the signs of progress we all saw in second half of last season?! The quick, intricate passes, somewhat of a greater intensity to win the ball back, somewhat of improved passing accuracy. Players seemed to finding that bit of more space and seemed to focus a bit more when trying to win the ball back.

Now, you can literally see all of them react a second or two late when an opposition player around them receives a pass. No one apart from defenders really wins the ball back anytime on the pitch. It is almost always a half hearted effort and our attacking players just commit and get dribbled past too easy. It is like they want to have nothing to do with defending. And this bunch cannot string three passes back to back to back without someone over hitting a simple one or without someone just controlling it poorly with a lazy attitude.

The defenders are conceding, yes. But how about midfielders and forwards controlling the game when the team wins the ball back or is out of possession, especially against lowly opposition? Stray over hit passes, low intensity press and poor judgement on every attempt at winning a second ball. After watching this team play this season twice, I have almost always wanted to go on YouTube and watch some decent team play good football just to wash my eyes off of the abomination I have witnessed.

All of the griping on here baffles me, well not all of it. We've been shit, yes, we have. Outplayed a lot of the time - yes, absolutely. Are we fit? No. Have the teams we've played been well ahead in terms of preparation for the season - absofeckinglutely. if you ask me, to be honest, we've not done too bad. No, we're not playing blistering attacking football whilst being tight at the back, but we're gaining fitness. How is Ole supposed to give fitness to the whole squad without giving them first team action? The teams we've played have been well ahead in preparation, give it a few more games and then get back on your high horses.
Bunch of arses on here, don't know why I bother really.

sugar_kane said:

Give me strength, this forum...

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Great ain’t it, people not wanting us to score and feeling gutted for Brighton because we didn’t play well, as if they were disappointed Bruno put that pen away

Verminator said:

Pogba was the worst player on the pitch, by some distance. I gave him a rating of 1. He has recently recovered from Covid-19, and he should be cut a little slack.

He isn't close to form and fitness yet.
If he is as bad in a few weeks, I'd be inclined to agree with you.


Really disappointed by some of our "fans", writing off the manager, team and players, after 30 minutes of our second game.
What would they think if they were watching us 1- 0 down, get hammered by Bayern, constantly hitting the woodwork, for 90 minutes?

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Some people have very short memories.

The Boy said:

Got to say this hurt. But it was a great game of football to watch.

You looked better than you did against Palace, but your defence needs to get up to speed quite quickly, we were at times able to cut you open at will and if it wasn’t for the fact that you somehow made your goal slightly smaller, we might have scored a couple more rather than hitting the woodwork so often!

Just seen the BBC reports no that that was the most times a team has hit the posts/crossbar since opts began.

Bot one thing that stood out for me that no one seems to be mentioning is Rashford. His goal was fantastic, he put White on his arse twice before taking his shot and even though he was offside for a couple of others, he looked sharp, I thought he was your best player on the pitch.

To be fair, I didn’t expect to beat you, but it’s frustrating to see us dominate both you and Chelsea for good parts of the match and still come away with nothing.

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You'll be fine this season, a top half team I'd say.
Thought we rode our luck but this is what happens when you have quality up top, as you say Rashford was very good today.

Verminator said:

Pogba was the worst player on the pitch, by some distance. I gave him a rating of 1. He has recently recovered from Covid-19, and he should be cut a little slack.

He isn't close to form and fitness yet.
If he is as bad in a few weeks, I'd be inclined to agree with you.


Really disappointed by some of our "fans", writing off the manager, team and players, after 30 minutes of our second game.
What would they think if they were watching us 1- 0 down, get hammered by Bayern, constantly hitting the woodwork, for 90 minutes?

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I would say AWB was the worst player for us. How many times did he leave the door completely open?

As to Pogba, yes he couldn’t handle the pressure. Whether that was down to match sharpness/COVID effect or tactics, I would say both. Bruno was also struggling under pressure, even worse than Pogba in certain situations. Ole needs to learn quickly to make adjustments to our tactics when things are this bad. There needs to be a plan B, perhaps even a change in formation.

We played poorly today and deserved to lose but miraculously we weren't punished due to the woodwork, and some good saves by DDG. I thought we got the tactics wrong today, and since this is our best starting 11 this season, we are going to be in big trouble unless somehow we start playing well again. Pogba was bad today, I was watching him move around the field and he looked like a lost kid out there. He is a player who likes to play with the ball, and his strength lies when he is facing the goal and our players are making good runs. That's where his advantage lies, but otherwise his weaknesses clearly showed today.He was playing with his back towards the goal and that's where he makes most of his mistakes. I cannot count the number of times he lost the ball. In the 30th minute, I noted he lost the ball 2x times, because simply he tries to play with the ball and gets tackled from behind. He needs to learn to get fouled in such positions instead of losing the ball when being tackled from behind. I don't know how and why Ole has not addressed this because I remember he lost the ball like this many a times after the lockdown(Southampton goal @ home). Rashford, Greenwood and Martial were similarly playing with their back towards the goal especially in the first half and that's where they are weak as well. I felt the gap between our midfield and forward line was too short and I felt it could improve if there was a much wider gap between them and if we tried to play our forwards at the line of their defense meaning our midfield was much closer to our defense then forwards. It showed when Bruno played a good ball from a good distance(that's where our strength lies) and Rashford managed to score. Luckily, he didn't try to cut inside immediately like he does in other games to get a good shot in and managed to keep his composure. Matic played really well, and I feel like we'll need his experience a lot this season. He knows when to make a pass, draw a foul, and play short and is in the right positions at the right time. Our defense was absolutely out of position today. I cannot count the number of times AWB left his player and tried to go towards the center of goal when the crosses kept coming in. I don't know how and why Ole didn't address anything about this during the game, as it was clearly visible. Shaw was completely out of order as well, he left his LB position so many times to win the ball back and couldn't manage, hence Brighton were able to cross at will. Maguire had to move left and cover for him and we are simply going to get punished soon if we leave Lindelof and AWB in defense for the crosses.

Let me address this, I think our fitness levels will improve and we are going to start playing much better. We will win games at home, and away. But I feel like we are going to be in big trouble this season and I fear Ole might get sacked by December. Bruno was our catalyst last season and he was the reason we managed to get top 4 back. This time we need something else, I don't know how much of a difference Sancho will make, but he will give us better options and make our RW position stronger. We mostly tend to play through the left these days leaving no attack coming from the right (The teams know this). Greenwood ain't gonna cross from the right, he is simply going to try to dribble and get a shot in( The teams will know this this season and will be prepared better). We really need to play to our strengths, this season. It will be possible if our forwards play at the line of our opposition's defenses and if they are one on one and we have runners coming in(which is how Liverpool play as well). Pogba and Bruno are good at making those long and through balls. It doesn't work if Pogba and Bruno play short and if Martial and Rashford
and Greenwood are receiving the ball from them with their back towards the goal which is what happened today. At the end, goals and results will be more important than playing possession and good football.

Had the match recorded and just watched, wow, nuts. We were crap again, so so lucky to get the win. All you can hope now is that we get 2 or 3 good players in to give us the well needed boost.
I’m thinking we could nearly do with a good ball winning midfielder and a center back more than a right winger, but tbh we really need that too.

Red71 said:

Me and my lad went ballistic when that winner went in...the ABUs in the pub were giving it the big one when the equaliser went in, loving it, and so we had no choice...haven’t celebrated one like that in a long while! It’s what United do...no matter how shite we’re playing, we never give in until the final whistle blows (& now after the whistle too heh!). At least Ole has reintroduced that to the team. He’s reintroduced the team to their testicles and it took big ones to rescue that game today.

After that arrogant pr*ck Maupay thought it was appropriate to take the p!$$ out of United, early doors too the bell, this result was karma, big time...I hope he’s still drying his tears now!

I don’t get all this “I feel sorry for Brighton” and “I’m embarrassed to win that” nonsense on the CAF tonight either...feck Brighton, diving cheats! If they're not good enough to bury the chances they had, too fecking bad. You don’t get bonus points for hitting the woodwork.

We don’t owe Brighton anything. United is my club and they come first, second and third! I couldn’t give a shite if they dominated us for 89 minutes and we score off Martial’s left arse cheek. I will happily take the 3 points all day long. We’ve had plenty of those over the years and we’ve been robbed plenty over the year’s too (beat West Ham to win the league anyone...?)

Yes we were poor but it’s early days and so we move on and will improve, no doubt...

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Love it, that’s what it’s all about, celebrate the last minute winners and enjoy it. In fairness, our front 3, especially greenwood and rashford looked good in parts and we did score two marginal offside goals with good play.
For me, this is a massive win because we’re still getting up to speed and hopefully to feck Woodward and co actually buy a couple players now to take advantage of the luck.

If this continues, Ole will not last till Xmas, regardless of whether it is his fault or not. And once he goes, we start all over again.

RedDevil@84 said:

If this continues, Ole will not last till Xmas, regardless of whether it is his fault or not. And once he goes, we start all over again.

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It won't. Of course we'll improve.

RedDevil@84 said:

If this continues, Ole will not last till Xmas, regardless of whether it is his fault or not. And once he goes, we start all over again.

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It´s easy to see that the guys are not up to speed yet. It´s like they´re half a second late in every situation. I trust we will see different performances in not so long.

Fantastic result. Brighton look a really good side, well balanced and very well coached. United look completely unfit and currently incapable of playing with any kind of tempo or intensity.

It was a big 3 points. Gets the team off the mark for the season and gets more minutes in their legs.

It wasn't a good perfirmance by United by any means but the "luck" element is being slightly overplayed. The 2 that hit the post in the 2nd half were really unlucky but if Brighton scored with any of the 3 that hit the post in the first half you would ask some serious questions of De Gea.

Also, United had 2 goals disallowed. Yes, completely correct decisions but incredibly naive by Rashford on both occasions. He gained no benefit on either occasion and if he'd shown a modicum of awareness it would have been 2 more goals for United and a very different game.

Even with a poor lethargic performance, United could easily have scored 5 goals away from home. Once they get fit, there could be a decent team in there.

We played badly today following last week I admit and our manager and players are deserving of much deserved criticism, but reading through the match day thread, it is toxic and full of immature brats, and I really don't know how some of these particular members consider themselves United supporters resorting to calling our manager and players 'cnuts'.

As soon as another member questioned why one of these particular members was calling one of our players a 'thick cnut' , the poster in question replied with, 'Lighten up!'

The manager and players are open to criticism of course, but to resort to these types of dirty cowardly insults is an absolute disgrace and that match day thread is disgraceful.

Anyone calling our manager and players 'cnuts' is disgusting, disrespectful, and needs to be called out:

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Absolute garbage. Not one even semi decent performance from any of the useless cnuts.


Just before Rashford scored a great goal to take the lead he seemed to be targeted by a lot of these types of members for a hell of a lot of criticism:

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Slevs said:
Wish Rashford would stop wasting 5 seconds on the ball every time he gets it.

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This, arrogant cnut thinks he's Messi.


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What bothers me the most is our fitness lacking that much and how little our pressing game has evolved under Ole. These are two of the things Ole himself mentioned when he took over.

arthurka said:

What bothers me the most is our fitness lacking that much and how little our pressing game has evolved under Ole. These are two of the things Ole himself mentioned when he took over.

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I agree. I'm hoping it's a fitness issue because United are still really in pre season in terms of preparation for the season.

Last season, it definitely dropped off as the players tired late in the season. Comments by Ole pre game and Bruno post game show that they do want to play with more intensity.

Hopefully with a few more additions to the squad allowing Ole to rotate and as fitness levels improve they can get there.

It was an entertaining match. Dreadful defending, penalties, VAR, woodwork, but was it really luck when they touch 5 times the woodwork and not a lack of efficiency from their part?

A win is a win, I won't complain it wasn't deserved when United also had matches they were by a lot the better team than their opponents but lost.

I am now hoping the team will improve since it isn't likely to happen often. Even if this match also showed the team was still trying to score until the end.

We were all over the place. Defending was terrible. Maguire lucky not to give away a penalty. AWB was terrible, so was Pogba. He's had a terrible start to the season. Martial has been quiet but devoid of any proper good service.

Positives was De Gea and Rashford for me. Matic played well again and kept things tidy. We need invest in the next week, and the players need to get up to speed.

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Thats what champions do

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It’s to Maupay... And Bruno has won it! Manchester United have reached the promised land.

Seriously worried about how we are going to defend when it comes to facing the likes of Everton, City, scousers, Spurs & Arsenal

soapythecat said:

Does Ole watch Netflix on his screen? Can’t be watching the game as there is zero in game management.
Gaps all over the place and never, never addressed them. This team is so, so much better than this.
Horrible to watch. When did we last play well?

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I think Ole is just watching replays so he can give the right answers in the interviews that he does so well - talk about all the things we need to do in the future, the game that's actually being played, not sure how bothered he is in actually managing because rarely see tactical adjustments when certain aspects are clearly not working in our game.

VAR is not killing the game. It’s killed it.

Vaibhav Raj said:

Whatever happened to the signs of progress we all saw in second half of last season?! The quick, intricate passes, somewhat of a greater intensity to win the ball back, somewhat of improved passing accuracy. Players seemed to finding that bit of more space and seemed to focus a bit more when trying to win the ball back.

Now, you can literally see all of them react a second or two late when an opposition player around them receives a pass. No one apart from defenders really wins the ball back anytime on the pitch. It is almost always a half hearted effort and our attacking players just commit and get dribbled past too easy. It is like they want to have nothing to do with defending. And this bunch cannot string three passes back to back to back without someone over hitting a simple one or without someone just controlling it poorly with a lazy attitude.

The defenders are conceding, yes. But how about midfielders and forwards controlling the game when the team wins the ball back or is out of possession, especially against lowly opposition? Stray over hit passes, low intensity press and poor judgement on every attempt at winning a second ball. After watching this team play this season twice, I have almost always wanted to go on YouTube and watch some decent team play good football just to wash my eyes off of the abomination I have witnessed.

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Its fitness. Honestly only Matic and Maguire had a somewhat passable performance and Fred comfortably looked a lever above everyone else when he came on, which is understandable since he played much less than many others at the end of last season

Can't believe those who said we didn't deserve to win.
Brighton have only themselves to blame for not taking any of those chances they created.
The handball is clear and I'll be livid if it wasn't given.
United deserve to win on the account that the other team didn't do enough to win, while United did

The United Irishman said:

We played badly today following last week I admit and our manager and players are deserving of much deserved criticism, but reading through the match day thread, it is toxic and full of immature brats, and I really don't know how some of these particular members consider themselves United supporters resorting to calling our manager and players 'cnuts'.

As soon as another member questioned why one of these particular members was calling one of our players a 'thick cnut' , the poster in question replied with, 'Lighten up!'

The manager and players are open to criticism of course, but to resort to these types of dirty cowardly insults is an absolute disgrace and that match day thread is disgraceful.

Anyone calling our manager and players 'cnuts' is disgusting, disrespectful, and needs to be called out:

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Absolute garbage. Not one even semi decent performance from any of the useless cnuts.


Just before Rashford scored a great goal to take the lead he seemed to be targeted by a lot of these types of members for a hell of a lot of criticism:

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This, arrogant cnut thinks he's Messi.


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My word, Pogba is absolutely horrendous. fecking sell the cnut.

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Lighten up!

United492 said:

All of the griping on here baffles me, well not all of it. We've been shit, yes, we have. Outplayed a lot of the time - yes, absolutely. Are we fit? No. Have the teams we've played been well ahead in terms of preparation for the season - absofeckinglutely. if you ask me, to be honest, we've not done too bad. No, we're not playing blistering attacking football whilst being tight at the back, but we're gaining fitness. How is Ole supposed to give fitness to the whole squad without giving them first team action? The teams we've played have been well ahead in preparation, give it a few more games and then get back on your high horses.
Bunch of arses on here, don't know why I bother really.

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We were completely battered. We weren't bad, we were atrocious. You cannot put these performances down to fitness.

Bournemouth had two friendlies before they dominated Chelsea. We have had one friendly and one PL game; why are we not up to their level of fitness?

We have had a month of rest, which is plenty to get over any form of exercise. Enough excuses; we were awful

Lucky McLuckerson said:

Brighton 2:3 Man Utd - Bruno (90' + 10 pen)

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Bruno took the ball and went to the penalty spot despit the referee ended the game

Red71 said:

I don’t get all this “I feel sorry for Brighton” and “I’m embarrassed to win that” nonsense on the CAF tonight either...feck Brighton, diving cheats! If they're not good enough to bury the chances they had, too fecking bad. You don’t get bonus points for hitting the woodwork.

Yes we were poor but it’s early days and so we move on and will improve, no doubt...

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Not only diving cheats, but fouling cheats - they niggled all game and spoiled several of our potential atacks.

Totally agree about missing their chances, our disorganised defence gave them plenty of opportunities to score and they fluffed them - the only one I'd consider near 'unlucky' was the shot that hit the inside of the post and rebounded across and out, the others were just plain misses.

Top 5 teams ride their luck and get streaky wins, teams who may be fighting relegation don't.

Next five.

Spurs home
Newcastle away
Chelsea home
Arsenal home
Everton away

Ouch.

Red71 said:

Me and my lad went ballistic when that winner went in...the ABUs in the pub were giving it the big one when the equaliser went in, loving it, and so we had no choice...haven’t celebrated one like that in a long while! It’s what United do...no matter how shite we’re playing, we never give in until the final whistle blows (& now after the whistle too heh!). At least Ole has reintroduced that to the team. He’s reintroduced the team to their testicles and it took big ones to rescue that game today.

After that arrogant pr*ck Maupay thought it was appropriate to take the p!$$ out of United, early doors too the bell, this result was karma, big time...I hope he’s still drying his tears now!

I don’t get all this “I feel sorry for Brighton” and “I’m embarrassed to win that” nonsense on the CAF tonight either...feck Brighton, diving cheats! If they're not good enough to bury the chances they had, too fecking bad. You don’t get bonus points for hitting the woodwork.

We don’t owe Brighton anything. United is my club and they come first, second and third! I couldn’t give a shite if they dominated us for 89 minutes and we score off Martial’s left arse cheek. I will happily take the 3 points all day long. We’ve had plenty of those over the years and we’ve been robbed plenty over the year’s too (beat West Ham to win the league anyone...?)

Yes we were poor but it’s early days and so we move on and will improve, no doubt...

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Well bloody said!

It’s a massive result for us as realistically we should be on 0 points from 2 games which would have amplified the dejected atmosphere already surrounding the club during the transfer window.

Firstly, well played to Brighton. Fully deserved the win and anyone who disagrees didn’t watch the game. They hit the woodwork FIVE times (new PL record?) and outplayed us comfortably in both halves.

From our side there were actually a few “good” performances that are worth a mention. Bruno has balls of steel and yet again decided the match for us with his contribution to all 3 goals. Rashford scored a brilliant goal and could have had another and an assist if not for some lazy positioning, hopefully the 2 goals in 2 games can be the beginning of some form for him that we haven’t seen since Christmas last year. Also think De Gea played well, nothing he could have done for either goal and made a huge point blank save late on regardless of whether it was straight at him.

The bad performances... well too many to go into detail today but AWB and Pogba were particularly dreadful. AWB is becoming a bit of a concern to me now as he’s a liability for crosses coming into his post time and time again. Pogba isn’t ready to start, hopefully it’s match fitness, bench him until he is. I also thought Martial was very poor, was dribbling into tackles and ignoring or misplacing basic passes.

I’d like to see VDB start with Bruno to offer him some support in energy levels and also runs to pick out. We could really do with closing the gaps between the front 3 as well as the distance between them is so big that any meaningful moments of link up are few and far between.

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Next five.

Spurs home
Newcastle away
Chelsea home
Arsenal home
Everton away

Ouch.

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Need to improve quickly or we could easily fall away from the pack. Although that said, we normally do better against teams that give us opportunities to break.

Rio's analysis of our defending was spot on.
It’s not just the responsibility of the back 4 (or 5) either.
As Rio said, Brighton were able to easily cut through our midfield time after time, with almost no resistance from our midfielders. He also criticised our forward players for a complete failure to press and do the defensive work higher up the pitch.

Non of this is new, or just down to poor fitness and match preparedness.
It’s become an inherent weakness in the Utd side over a number of years and has been a regular problem even when we winning games by a few goals.
We simply don’t have enough players who are capable of doing the hard work, when the opposition has the ball and are building up attacks, meaning we end up camped in our penalty area, or the edge of our own box, trying to defend against so- called “lesser teams”.

It doesn’t help if your back 4 are playing badly, or aren’t the best in their positions.
Whoever the defenders are, we are still going to be put under pressure time after time with the midfield and forward options we currently have and with the apparent lack of coaching to get them to do their defensive jobs properly.

The United Irishman said:

We played badly today following last week I admit and our manager and players are deserving of much deserved criticism, but reading through the match day thread, it is toxic and full of immature brats, and I really don't know how some of these particular members consider themselves United supporters resorting to calling our manager and players 'cnuts'.

As soon as another member questioned why one of these particular members was calling one of our players a 'thick cnut' , the poster in question replied with, 'Lighten up!'

The manager and players are open to criticism of course, but to resort to these types of dirty cowardly insults is an absolute disgrace and that match day thread is disgraceful.

Anyone calling our manager and players 'cnuts' is disgusting, disrespectful, and needs to be called out:

On shaw:

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Why has Ole never pulled Shaw aside and bollocked him for not closing down crosses? Lazy cnut costs us every game ffs.


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Please coach, change something you cnut

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Absolute garbage. Not one even semi decent performance from any of the useless cnuts.


Just before Rashford scored a great goal to take the lead he seemed to be targeted by a lot of these types of members for a hell of a lot of criticism:

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Good post. I always thought of doing a post like this but was too lazy

These people need to be called out.

Just realized, surely, surely, this is the first time in history that a team wins a game after the initial final whistle?

I'm surprised seeing so many people wanting Ole out after 2 games. I thought we actually made decent progress last season in difficult circumstances. Yes we should have lost yesterday, and we're looking ropey at the moment, but it's only 2 games in. We were never going to win the league this year, but I'm still confident of a comfortable top 4 finish, and this will be further progress.

nokillingmoths said:

Next five.

Spurs home
Newcastle away
Chelsea home
Arsenal home
Everton away

Ouch.

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Good, we need to test ourselves against these sides that we will be battling for position for with. This will show us what Ole and this team is made of this season and we will know what sort of a season its going to be.......

RedRoseTyke said:

Not only diving cheats, but fouling cheats - they niggled all game and spoiled several of our potential atacks.

Totally agree about missing their chances, our disorganised defence gave them plenty of opportunities to score and they fluffed them - the only one I'd consider near 'unlucky' was the shot that hit the inside of the post and rebounded across and out, the others were just plain misses.

Top 5 teams ride their luck and get streaky wins, teams who may be fighting relegation don't.

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Agreed, they were at it most of the game. There seems to me to be a more of a prevalence amongst the so called smaller teams in the PL to practice the “dark arts” and general shithousery. I see this as something Pep, and to a lesser extent Klopp, have brought to our shores although I know it was probably there before...just not as obvious. It is undoubtedly making them more competitive by spoiling attacks early doors.

We were not at the races today no doubt but play badly and win is the mark, as they say. As long as it isn’t going to be the standard for United over the course of the season of course, it’s a much needed 3 points in the kitty.

We can look back over any season you like and will find a game where a top 5 team played badly and escaped with a win. It’s not the first time and won’t be the last either.

Who knows, we may even look back on this game at the end of the season as a defining moment. We shall see but there’s a long way to go yet so we’d better buckle in...