Win on Thursday and tonight means nothing to me.
PL L FA Premier League
Manchester United 1:2 Leicester City
Post-match discussion
Tue, 11 May 2021
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
Disappointed in yet another corner goal conceded but the result is expected. Matic had a Jekyll and Hyde game, at fault for both of the goals but was our entire midfield at times. If we had the option of starting Fred, we'd have at least drawn this game as Leicester's only tactic was to give Tielemans the ball and none of our midfielders had the speed to catch up to him. To be fair to them, it worked.
The young lads showed their qualities and I think Amad has earned a few more appearances. Cavani or Bruno should've scored, lovely play from Telles.
One last match on the gauntlet, win that and this result will be trivial.
The young lads showed their qualities and I think Amad has earned a few more appearances. Cavani or Bruno should've scored, lovely play from Telles.
One last match on the gauntlet, win that and this result will be trivial.
But the answer to why is clear?
Yeah. Think this is Ole's statement about the fixture schedule. Hope Leicester lose the cup final now. Bring them back down to earth after beating Manchester United reserves.
Gave City the title today, which is miserable in and of itself.
Then I look at that starting XI and I’m inclined to think that team would not crack top 10 in the league (defence and midfield, not talking about the forwards).
It is what it is, threw away the league with our home form and terrible patch of draws.
Looking forward to next season, need 1-2 starting XI players and need to beef up the squad. The fall off between the first team and the bench is steep.
Then I look at that starting XI and I’m inclined to think that team would not crack top 10 in the league (defence and midfield, not talking about the forwards).
It is what it is, threw away the league with our home form and terrible patch of draws.
Looking forward to next season, need 1-2 starting XI players and need to beef up the squad. The fall off between the first team and the bench is steep.
Result doesn't matter in grand scheme but i had hoped for a little better.
Matic by far our best player. Especially in the first half when he started splitting the defence who were playing like a pair of strangers. Tuanzebe improved massively second half.
Brandon needs a loan. Hes in poor form and we can't afford to give him the minutes.
Amad impressed me though.
Matic by far our best player. Especially in the first half when he started splitting the defence who were playing like a pair of strangers. Tuanzebe improved massively second half.
Brandon needs a loan. Hes in poor form and we can't afford to give him the minutes.
Amad impressed me though.
It wasn’t a pass back, he played it nicely into Greenwood after doing well to win it from a long ball in the first place imo. Just because Greenwood does well to make space for himself it doesn’t mean Amad didn’t do well too. Negativity being seen as realism is a bit of a fallacy imo that’s used quite a bit. Your opinion being a negative one doesn’t mean it’s correct, I think you’re too harsh.
Not going to draw any wild conclusions from this game but the fact that we are still so inept at defending corners gives me pain and makes me question the coaching.
Surely we should expect to see some basic improvement there, notwithstanding the many changes tonight.
Surely we should expect to see some basic improvement there, notwithstanding the many changes tonight.
Think it was the other 34 games myself mate.
Except for when you want to stick it to Klopp I guess
Im not at all. I got attacked a few weeks ago for saying he’s well off it and we would play a lot better without him as a focal point in the attack. I think that’s slowly been proven correct with Pogba on the left, Cavani hitting similar numbers with minimum fuss and Greenwood suddenly coming to life. Our overall play has improved and our attack is a lot more unpredictable and hard working without him. I get a lot of you guys really love him but he shouldn’t be nailed on as he was for most of this season if he’s not fit and he was poor again when he came on today. I’m not looking for another Rashford argument with anyone but where’s the harm in pointing out what I was saying is correct?
That's a real downer alright
why can’t we defend corners? It’s gotta be a coaching thing?
Rodgers looks absolutely relieved
Well who is getting relegated is sorted, top four could be soon, last day of season might be either who gets a EL spot or absolutely nothing.
Disagree.
Watch the entire match; Being beaten on the post by Soyuncu can happen and yes can do better but Rashford had him.
The rest of the match he was our midfield and did very well, shielding, passing, driving and covering.
The first goal is a combination of 3 players pushing high all together and a very credit worthy ball into the space.
Horrible heading by Greenwood and Rashford. +
No proper aerial service for Cavani, Rashford and Mata should be flogged.
No proper aerial service for Cavani, Rashford and Mata should be flogged.
So what did you want Ole to do, play the full strength team in three games in six games ahead of a final?
Eh? He was the one player breaking up play and also not being sloppy with the ball. I think only our two centre backs, Matic and Greenwood from that starting eleven were any good at all. Amad worked hard closing down and you can sense ability, but he doesnt look ready to step up at the moment. Elanga looks absolutely rapid and also looked very nervous, good experience for him though.
Our full backs were poor, especially WIlliams who looks to have lost confidence, VDB was anoymynous
Can we just lock the thread and move on. Almost everything that happened is pretty irrelevant. Tough to even judge the likes of Matic and Mata as they haven’t played any kind of regular football, and they were playing with a completely disjointed and thrown together team.
BT keep repeating the fact that Leicester’s team cost less than ours at £210 million. I added ours up to £190 million
BT keep repeating the fact that Leicester’s team cost less than ours at £210 million. I added ours up to £190 million
I hope they win the cup. I like trophies being shared around smaller teams. It’s what makes the league great.
Of course they were happy today, the relief must be huge. They have been imploding again but it’s hardly surprising when they have a much smaller budget than the bigger teams and less chance to rotate throughout the season. They looked gassed and sloppy. Hopefully with less pressure on them, they’ll be able to properly express themselves in the cup final. They deserve a top four finish.
Matic was a game of two halves, and thats how it is when his stamina/legs are what they are.
Diallo showed glimpses, VdB was just ... poor.
Ironic how they scored because Rashford not following a man when we just got on our heavy hitters.
Leicester were shockingly poor, their nerves must be of glass. Really hope we get a result against Pool now or it will be a torrid week.
I want to secure 2nd!
Diallo showed glimpses, VdB was just ... poor.
Ironic how they scored because Rashford not following a man when we just got on our heavy hitters.
Leicester were shockingly poor, their nerves must be of glass. Really hope we get a result against Pool now or it will be a torrid week.
I want to secure 2nd!
Henderson catches that corner.
You'd be wrong to think I'm one of those that love him, it's just about time you spoke about something else, first comment in the post match thread from you was unsprisingly a negative comment about Rashford.
To anyone who can do maths. They’d have fecked it up even if we’d won, they’re that shit.
No chance. United fans want to beat Liverpool more. Now lets just hope we do.
Sad to have lost against Leicester but what can we do... let's win against Liverpool, and then focus on the EL. My hope is that the win against Liverpool secures more the 2nd place.
Decent Line up !? And then that decent line up play against Liverpool after 48 hours? Rotation doesn't rest a lot in quantity and quality with a decent line up.
We have a the toughest fixture in a toughest season.
If we don't rest in this toughest fixture, we would be easy to lose those games in row.
We lost a Start XI last game, we cannot afford to lose another one because of fatigue to play our final in cup competition.
Well what did he do when he came on? Lost his man for the corner and ran around dribbling into opposition players. The young lads did more. It is what it is.
Considering the team put out was the second string (bar DDG), thought they did ok first half. Nice to see a couple get some decent PL minutes.
2nd half poor, lost the midfield and looked tired. Mata and Matic is not a good idea when need legs.
For all the talk about RWs (we can play Greenwood there), CF (Cavani re-signed) and CH, if it was just ONE big signing, it'd be Def Mid for me... swap Ndidi and Matic tonight and we'd win that.
Would've preferred the win but bright spot is Liverpool less likely to get CL
2nd half poor, lost the midfield and looked tired. Mata and Matic is not a good idea when need legs.
For all the talk about RWs (we can play Greenwood there), CF (Cavani re-signed) and CH, if it was just ONE big signing, it'd be Def Mid for me... swap Ndidi and Matic tonight and we'd win that.
Would've preferred the win but bright spot is Liverpool less likely to get CL
Thank you.Can we just lock the thread and move on. Almost everything that happened is pretty irrelevant. Tough to even judge the likes of Matic and Mata as they haven’t played any kind of regular football, and they were playing with a completely disjointed and thrown together team.
BT keep repeating the fact that Leicester’s team cost less than ours at £210 million. I added ours up to £190 million
I don't know exactly a) what people were expecting and b) why people are judging or overly criticising... This was a nothing game.
Yeah he was beating the “Matić is terrible” drum all match, when he was clearly the best of our midfielders. Huge agenda on this one.
I know what you mean. They have never won the F.A.Cup have they? Actually not sure I fancy a Chelsea double, because I hope they win the CL.
First goal Matic gets completely dragged towards the ball, let's the man completely run off him to make a cross. That is Matics only job to stop that happening.
Second goal, it's not massively on him but he is incredibly weak considering he sees Soyuncu coming and doesn't try jump.
He let Ihaenacho completely run off him to get in a goal scoring opportunity.
Other than that there were at least two times he put us under massive pressure giving away a simple pass.
When the worst of the chances conceeding come from mistakes from the CDM in the team, he can't have had a good game.
The only positive I'd give him is that he didn't hide from the ball like Mata and VDB seemed too
Exactly right. No they’ve never won it. And I find them winning less offensive than Chelsea. Especially as, as you say, a Chelsea CL victory is better than City.
I thought Matic played well.
I think that dropping to your knees at full time to celebrate a win against some reserves that had already been sewn up around half an hour ago is embarrassingly small time.
Don't get me wrong, it's a much needed win for Leicester, and I'd much rather they get top 4 than Liverpool, but the celebrations were way over the top - they have an actual cup final coming up this weekend, let's hope they aren't too emotionally drained for it.
But we dont get to put the nail in the coffin on Thursday if we won tonight. Im in the lose tonight camp, especially after the news about Liverpool wanting Sancho broke yesterday and Salah likely going to PSG.
It could set the club back years and signal the end of Klopp at Liverpool. If Leicester lost v our reserves tonight it would have killed them
Shame we lost but we couldn't play best team. We did ok. Matic was best player.
Man of the Match
Runners-up
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21%
Axel Tuanzebe
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18%
Nemanja Matic
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4%
David de Gea
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3%
Amad Diallo
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1%
Juan Mata
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1%
Alex Telles
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1%
Anthony Elanga
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1%
Donny van de Beek
Player Ratings
Total Average Rating
Highest Rated Player
Lowest Rated Player
Compiled from 198 ratings.
Score Predictions
69,50,54
- Man Utd win
- Leicester win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 20% Man Utd 1:1 Leicester
- 17% Man Utd 2:1 Leicester
- 12% Man Utd 1:2 Leicester
- 12% Man Utd 2:0 Leicester
- 8% Man Utd 2:2 Leicester
- 6% Man Utd 1:3 Leicester
- 5% Man Utd 0:2 Leicester
- 5% Man Utd 1:0 Leicester
- 3% Man Utd 0:0 Leicester
- 3% Man Utd 0:3 Leicester
- 2% Man Utd 3:1 Leicester
- 2% Man Utd 3:0 Leicester
- 1% Man Utd 5:0 Leicester
- 1% Man Utd 0:1 Leicester
- 1% Man Utd 1:4 Leicester
- 1% Man Utd 3:2 Leicester
- 1% Man Utd 4:1 Leicester
- 1% Man Utd 0:5 Leicester
- 1% Man Utd 4:2 Leicester
- 1% Man Utd 4:5 Leicester
Match Stats
- Man Utd
- Leicester
- Possession
- 53% 47%
- Shots
- 4 12
- Shots on Target
- 1 3
- Corners
- 3 4
- Fouls
- 9 12
Referee
Craig Pawson
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Edinson Cavani
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replaced by Bruno Fernandes
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replaced by Marcus Rashford
