[red4ever 79]

This forum is becoming like RAWK. Discussions getting shot down. Mourinho has bottled it here with his cowardly tatics

 

[kouroux]

fecking bunch of divers this City team.

 

[Terminator]

Just stupid to play Rashford on the left and Martial on the right. Thank god they have swapped now.

 

[2mufc0]

I really hope we show some attacking intent second half, they are there for the taking.

 

[rampo]

Is it just me or is 70%+ of their players bald?

They are loyal to their manager a bit wee too much

 

[Member 58925]

Who exactly do we have on the pitch to retain the ball with? Matic and Herrera are out numbered. Look at the gap in quality here unfortunately I'd say the tactics are spot they scored off a break down in defense and so did we.

 

[LuisNaniencia]

Excellent thread closure @Snowjoe, new lows on the caf whinging threads at half time.

 

[Paul_Scholes18]

As soon as they score we start playing. Can’t understand why we don’t start like that.

Mourinhos stupid tactics. He is holding Martial and Rashford back due to his defensive instructions. I guess he has said if they score you can get higher up and attack more.

 

[LLMU]

Good to pull one back before the half. Let’s attack in the second half. We need to be bold and start to take the game by the scruff of the neck.

 

[Bastian]

You can see just how important Pogba is. Herrera has been useless.

Not at all. He's been very busy blocking pathways for De Brunye, Silva and Sterling. He's quicker than Matic so he's absolutely necessary for this game. He's not done badly.

 

[amolbhatia50k]

As soon as they score we start playing. Can’t understand why we don’t start like that.

Because Jose is cautious.

 

[el3mel]

Can't withstand City diving though. They throw themselves on every contact it's ridiculous.

 

[ClosetDevil]

Depressing performance from Utd. Still think City will win this 4-1.

 

[Random Task]

We have the momentum now, it's absolutely essential that we do not step back in to our shells. Keep the back 4 pushed up, get Hererra and Matic forming a link with Lingard and we may just see something happen.

Should Jose order the lads to sit back in the second half I'll be fecking furious.

 

[Baby Groot]

This is 3 league game in row they concede goal in the final minutes of first half.

 

[Android1974]

Young is having a tough game with Sané.

 

[RedDevilRoshi]

We started to play once we went one goal down which is extremely annoying

 

[madzo2007]

More of that last 5mins in the second half please!

Is Rojo going for the long ball record today??

 

[VP89]

Performance wise I think we have shown City a bit too much respect. Would prefer to take the game to them more than we have.

 

[VancouverUtdFan]

And can’t say enough good things about Young’s form recently.

Another heads up play not settling and pushing the ball upfield past the defender which soon after lead to the goal.

 

[jimmyb2000]

Is it just me or is 70%+ of their players bald?

It's all the PED's that Pep forces them to take.

 

[Kraftwerker]

Herrera-Matic just doesn’t work.

We need to sign another box office midfielder.

Expect similar pattern of play in second half. Just hope we can launch at least a few successful counters.

 

[royboy16]

City are just the better team than us.
Lingard winding up Otamendi,Delph and Fernandinho

 

[Murder on Zidanes Floor]

Based on what? He's scored more goals than Hazard in the time he's been at United

...which one would you prefer to have in your team?

 

[Ace of Spades]

We were shit with the ball, but we have equalised. This City team can be got at, just need a bit more composure at crucial moments.

 

[AkaAkuma&]

Just saying, but if Pogs were playing we may have been the better side. Herrera and Matic have almost zero creativity between them( Matic well one can understand, Herrera has forgotten how to pass forward, thanks LVG). We took the game to them in the last 5 minutes and look at them, City began to make mistakes.

 

[JohnnyKills]

fecking embarrassing performance but somehow we’re level.

I want a really jammy bastard win

We've been on since going behind tbf.

I would bring lindelof on for smalling, take Lukaku off and put Rashford up front. Lukaku isn't a good target man and he doesn't offer what Rashford does.

 

[Arka_BleedingRed]

Cower and we lose, and lose badly. Play to win, go for it, if we win, we win. And if we lose, we go down fighting to the end. No shame in that. But such cowardly play, that too, in our home ground, that is shameful and unacceptable.

 

[Manny]

Martial has got to stay on the left. Rashford plays better than him on the right. We really miss Pogba.

I think Rashford was hesitant to take Walker on. He should have more success against Delph and Martial should be able to draw fouls out of Walker

 

[IrishRedDevil]

Young is having a tough game with Sané.

I thought he's done well so far. Sane is in hot form.

 

[Thiim]

Can someone tell Lukaku he can feck off with his "defending" when the opposition crosses the ball into our box. He's just useless defensively (and barely offers anything going forward right now)

 

[DevilRed]

What pisses me off the most is that we conceded from a setpiece to these midgets. otamendi was the only threat and he was able to pressure Lukaku into an error in his clearance which led to the silva goal.

Never should happen. Never would have happened if Bailly and Jones were in there instead of Smalling and Rojo. Its amazing we are level with the greatest attacking team in history considering we are using backup centrebacks and a makeshift left back who is actually a winger

 

[SAFicus]

If City win today I'm done fof

Hope we pick up where we left off. That goals shows their weakness. Don't sit back, grab em by the throat.

Yeah we miss Jaap Stam here

 

[Spoony]

Mental...we're level. I'm no fan of this brand of football but heh we've scored and that felt great. Here's to another 45 mins of pragmatism then a winner from a long ball.

 

[Sky1981]

I’d like to think that with our attacking talent we can cause them problems. City aren’t used to being pressed, neither was Pep’s Barca. Yes, we might suffer for it but just sitting back and letting them take shots is more frightening.

We need the 6 at the back though, without it city are too potent for us.. Pressing means forgoing positions and they have runners all over exploiting that.

For every 1 good chance we got playing attacking football they have 2.

Mourinho learnt his lesson well in spain.

 

[Nucks]

Really? You want to use that to justify continued hoof?

Acting like we scored through clever attacking play, and not by hoofing the ball and City making a mistake is better?

 

[sunama]

We were going to lose anyway. City are by far the much better team nowadays.

Dude, cut out the losers mentality.
In life, is this your attitude? You give up at the first hurdle?
Where is the fight?

So many comments in here are making out as if we are complete crap and MCFC are the best team of all time.
This is not the case.
We defended for 40 minutes and conceded a goal.
We attacked for 5 minutes and they conceded.

MCFC are there for the taking and will go down!!!

As for the losers out there who are giving up when we are drawing 1-1: go support MCFC. It's pretty clear that you don't support MUFC, but support Pep and his band of mercenaries.

 

[Darkhorsez]

This is exactly what Mou has been saying. Hang around these guys - they don’t have the character we have. Sure they have great players but look at how Ashley drove forward with the ball! I had a weird feeling even before they had that breakaway to go 2 up that we would end up level. There is an absolute belief and togetherness in our team. People forget that we are missing Pogba ffs. I am so proud of the team - let’s see how this will shake down now.

 

[Oddboy]

Their defence is dire to be honest. Kompany is not the force he was and Delph is lucky not to be playing championship football.

 

[Spirit of Solskjaer]

I really like Jose and how he's brought the winning mentality back to the club, but I must say I dislike his tactics in these really big games. When we play bravely and have a go at the opposition we have the players to hurt any team. Should've been doing that from the start here.

 

[ValenciasDrilledCrosses]

Otamendi is an absolute joke. Diving twat. Gets bodied by Jesse fecking Lingard and throws himself to the floor