I am... And I realise compeltely irrationally annoyed considering it was just a free kick...Still annoyed?
Fred and Set Plays
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If that was a “bench” decision, I’m flabbergasted. Mata has literally scored about 5 or 6 of those for us, at least two in the dying minutes! I can’t even remember seeing Fred hit the target. Shambolic club.
Fred taking that free kick was bizarre. It was Mata’s all day long I can’t understand why Mata wasn’t taking that. If it came from the bench then that is the only mistake Ole made tonight. Bad mistake mind you
Fred has only scored 1 goal
Mata screamed at the bench when he had to walk away from it.
@GifLord do you have a clip, please?
That's the level of decision-making that Solskjaer has. The type that makes Juan Mata scream at the bench in rage.
@GifLord do you have a clip, please?
That's the level of decision-making that Solskjaer has. The type that makes Juan Mata scream at the bench in rage.
I don't think it was at an angle enough for mata to do anything there tbh. Fred has a shot on him and it was a gamble but gambles are there to be done. Mata will feel disappointed but it wasn't at an angle enough for him.
You'd have thought Mata was on literally for those sort of moments, just weird. Mata was too nice if anything, should have demanded the ball.
I am raging about this as well.
We had Andreas AND Mata on the pitch but fecking Mr Row Z takes it.
We had Andreas AND Mata on the pitch but fecking Mr Row Z takes it.
He does!?
Even if it wasn’t a “bench” decision and the players made that choice, I’d expect him to go berserk and assert his instructions on the players (which should have been “Mata takes the FK”). It’s shocking either way.
How many of Mata’s free-kick goals for us have you seen? How many were “at an angle”?
Good thing we just bought a guy who is fantastic at set pieces.
For all my reservations about his live play, his foot is world class
For all my reservations about his live play, his foot is world class
Mata should demand that free kick. I guess he is too nice. Such a shame.
It had to be Mata that took it, then Pereira. I swear Fred hasn’t even got one on target before yet time and time again he gets the nod to take it. Really don’t get it.
yeah no, on both accountsSorry I'm talking BS and trying to justify that decision. It's the only thing I can think of because they can't be stupid enough to not give it mata because they think Fred's better.
Mata’s one of the best I’ve seen from those close range positions and it was on his side. Major error to let Fred take that.
It's the only justification I could think of
When we got the free kick I was envisioning mata scoring that. Was shocked when I saw Fred and pereira over it.
Lack of leadership.
It looked like DDG was moaning about it to Mata coming off the pitch.
It looked like DDG was moaning about it to Mata coming off the pitch.
Fuming he took it. Worst decision ever. hes a shocking shot. 100% misses. Just stupid.
Diabolical management to make Fred take the free-kick over Mata.
You should go to the Ukraine with him and help him find it. It must still be there, since neither I nor anyone else has seen it with him since he's joined United.
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I'm still fecking fuming. I accepted it was probably beyond us and that we rode our luck a bit to still be in it, but when we had the chance and we had Mata there it's fecking idiotic to let the man with shooting ability of Anderson take the freekick. There's no excuse for it.
Yeah really poor decision. Thsg position is practically tailor-made for Mata. He had history of doing it and in big games. Why let Fred who had never taken a decent one the entire time he was here? And this isn't just to bash him as I thought he had a good game but he's awful at Free Kicks.
Shocking decision, whoever made it. I'd be confident of Mata working the keeper at the very least. Fred??? Nah thats just bollox.
It may appear like a minor detail but is where the really good managers make the difference...the small detail! Given our shocking conversion rate from set pieces, it's a get out to always blame individuals when the collective isn't being taught properly.
Our social media channels literally posted a video of his free kick against Juventus either today or yesterday. That situation was a carbon copy.
If not Mata then why not Pereira who's actually not bad at free kicks? I mean he's got less players to get it up and over for a start as long as he can get enough whip on the ball.
Mata is like Ole: too much of a nice guy and easily argued away. He should've stood his ground as the most experienced outfield player on the pitch and demanded the ball.
That arguably cost us the tie, as I'm pretty certain Mata would've got that up and over the wall, and on target. With how shit Bravo is too.
Gutted.
That arguably cost us the tie, as I'm pretty certain Mata would've got that up and over the wall, and on target. With how shit Bravo is too.
Gutted.
I was like screaming at the TV, please don't take it Fred please, I was telling my mate that he would probably smash Otamendi in the face. And bang, expected.
It’s so obvious though that it isn’t even a minor detail, it’s major! Look at how many people on here are talking about it.There was a great possibility it would have won us the tie in the end. Why can we see that and Ole can’t?
I mean, it's bleedingly obvious that when Mata is on the pitch he takes all the free kicks at close range. Long rangers are for Rashford.
If Mata is not on the pitch, Andreas takes them. If neither Andreas or Mata are on the pitch, sure anyone can have a free go EXCEPT Fred.
Fred should be behind De Gea in the free kick taking priority. Madre mia.
If Mata is not on the pitch, Andreas takes them. If neither Andreas or Mata are on the pitch, sure anyone can have a free go EXCEPT Fred.
Fred should be behind De Gea in the free kick taking priority. Madre mia.
Baffled that Mata didn't take that.
Absolute insanity. He's shockingly shit at shooting from that range, why would he get a shot at the freekick from there? He should be point blank refusing it, unless he's blissfully unaware how terrible he is at it.
I'm not gonna lie, he's been one of our best players recently no doubt, but he pisses me off. Stop shooting you idiot. Just stop it. Please.
I'm not gonna lie, he's been one of our best players recently no doubt, but he pisses me off. Stop shooting you idiot. Just stop it. Please.
Looking at the clip again I'm not convinced the bench made the decision to let Fred take it. Mata shouts to them then walks over to speak to Fred, Fred responds and Mata walks away then starts responding angrily to the bench shouting at him again. I think the bench might have told him to take it and Fred said no. I could be wrong, but I don't understand the angry response to the second round of shouting if they had already told him not to take it. What would they have been shouting after that to get the angry response? I think they were telling Mata to take it and he was angry at Fred refusing to let him. He didn't get angry until after he spoke to Fred.
Thing is, I genuinely thought that was what he was being brought on for!?
I mean it's not like we were going to get much time on the ball to carve them open... So yeah, I figure he's there as he's the best set piece taker we have
But if that isn't why he was brought on... We might as well have shoved Jones on so we could go long and win headers.
He’s just said on BeIN sports that “the lads have been practicing that and I let them take the decision between themselves on the pitch”.
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
This FK was by far the most annoying aspect about today's game. Still can't get my head how the feck he got this while Mata didn't even stand on that FK. It was only Fred and I think Lindelof ? Crazy. That's Mata's favorite position for feck sake. He pretty much always get it on target from such position. That was our chance and we fecking threw it away.