On goal difference from 4th, but the football was terrible (though still with a positive goal difference).
Erik ten Hag - Manchester United manager
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Are we though? I suspect a solid proportion of that 23% is just oppos. Or can you set up the poll to exclude them?
Eriksen played deep most of last season, we just didn’t have a defensive player on the bench. If he felt Mainoo was on the edge of an injury, I’m not sure he could have done much else. I’d still think a midfield of Eriksen and McTominay should be able to see off a championship team with a two goal lead.
Yeah my bad, just saw that. Was looking at 2014/15 results.
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Needs to feck off
If they had any ambitions then they’d know sacking ETH could lead to us winning the FA cup. We all know the new manager effects, we’ve been on the end of a few of them.
Only on goal difference, no?
Isn’t that the point of the “new ownership”
Howson is so clueless. I'm glad I don't watch him anymore.
Today just epitomised the shit show he has turned us in to, i wouldn’t have begrudged Coventry in the end and especially Mark Robins. They must regret that first half where they were so cautious, passive and gave us way more respect than we deserved.
He hasn’t learned his lessons all season, he’s getting the sack and can’t really complain. Won’t happen until after the Cup Final now but it’s guaranteed as it’s untenable to continue with him.
He hasn’t learned his lessons all season, he’s getting the sack and can’t really complain. Won’t happen until after the Cup Final now but it’s guaranteed as it’s untenable to continue with him.
It's obvious. This season is more competitive.. Spurs, Villa, Liverpool are better, Citeh' and Arsenal are consistent as they were last season. ETH has been shown up. He's not good enough to compete with top managers.
Thats because its clearly both
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Trying to bee sarcastic is embarrasing.
Any half intelligent person knows that we are mourning about how we play and the totality of this fraud's tenure
Bizarre how he's changed his tune since last season, when good was "not good enough". Now he's protecting the players at every turn. Wonder why.
You can get back in your box as well pal
He’s definitely had plenty of subs come on and win us games so that’s just the nature of substitutions.
Eriksen played in midfield the whole of last year but I know what you mean. I don’t think he really had any midfield options, so if Mainoo was close to an injury, it is what it is.
Yes. 4th would've probably kept him in the job (which is stupid)
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To be honest coaching was not the issue today. Even though ETH should go. Complacency and lack of discipline at 3-0 up was the issue. Players started doing their own thing.
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Alonso, Amorim, or Zidane. Until any of these guys sign on the dotted line, they're still available and we can probably pay much better than most.
The shape is horrible and invites pressure/shots, this isn’t new. He has spent a ton of money on the players you’re blaming for not seeing out the match. Losing from winning positions isn’t something that’s new to him, take the Ajax vs Spurs matches as an example, or Chelsea more recently.
After you go up 3-0, you take off your worst attacker (Rashford) and see out the match in a 4-5-1, get super compact and use Hojlund to stretch.
I don’t know why he went in that direction, it screams for a formation change, right?
There’s a hint of truth to that. It can be both - and there’s clearly a few players who needs to be moved on as well. But overall, accountability ultimately stops with the manager. He’s the one picking these players (albeit, injuries haven’t been kind), he’s the one with the shite substitutions and he’s the one who has us playing like absolutely turd.
I’m not defending him, I’m over it. He has to go. I just hope we send a few of the players off into the sunset with him.
Xavi?
Not watched any games this year?3 out of 4 domestic finals in 2 years. Yet people want him sacked
We're battling to even come 6th this season, and the "style" of the team seems to be a few press while the rest don't, leaving vast spaces in the middle.
Teams are getting huge swathes of chances against us. Coventry had 18 chances today and we just about scraped through.
We've gone massively backwards on last season.
Honestly what character did they show? Scraping through on pens? If any game would show you their lack of character it would be this one.
He needs to go. Now.
I was being sarcastic people.
There is something wrong with squad mentality too. The posture is all wrong and Hojlund was celebrating alone at the end. There are definitely some bad eggs that need to be weeded out.
We need better leadership for sure and players who can set a new tone in the dressing room.
We really need the Saudi clowns to still be throwing insane wads around in the summer.
Otherwise Casemiro has 3 years left on insane wages and is only getting less mobile. Today was frightening, even at the "cigar" position at the back, against a lower league team.
"We want to win more. Its our philosophy".
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Everytime Ten Hag lays an egg (which is nearly every game this season) his defence league come out and say its the players. Yeah we've known from time that the players are not up to it but a good manager would know that upfront and just not play them. The manager would also bring in replacements that make the team better and not contribute to making the team even worse. We have seen coaches go to clubs and rip the team up from day 1. You don't have to persist with shit if you dont like it. That's why you are manager. But if you go ahead and pick those same players regularly then its no longer on the players.
Thank friggeroo for that! We thought you were a dimwit
Talk is cheap motherfecker