Did he cross the halfway line once today?
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) was joined by comedian Ali Woods to look back at the best and worst moments of a rollercoaster season with the annual United Hour Awards.
Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
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Thought he looked very nervous and then clearly got very tired
Very surprised he wasn’t taken off
Very surprised he wasn’t taken off
He's not better than Blind either defensively or in providing support. The only argument (and it's not a strong one) is that Blind is super slow (which means feck all when you're sitting deep like we did today).
Darmian being solid defensively is such an odd claim, almost like a myth. You hear it time after time yet he gets skinned every time he goes against a half decent attacker. The guy can't even clear the ball properly, how did he survive this summer's transfer window is a mystery.
Think he's one of the worst players to have ever played for us. Definitely one of the biggest cowards anyway.
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He really fecking didn't. We're just lucky Salah is 50/50 with his finishing.
Such a weird statement.
I won't go that far. I would say he is one of the most boring players to play for us.
Seen that and it pretty much sums up Darmian's terrible attitude. I think i could actually stomach his total lack of attacking effort if he was good defensively, but the truth is he isn't anything special. Add to that his stamina for a player who runs so little is atrocious.
To be fair to both those players, they were both quiet and had little impact on the game due in no small part to the complete lack of support from Darmian going forward. Martial in particular was getting double and triple marked at times all the while Darmian is standing in his own half doing nothing.
It would be great if he made even the slightest effort to get across the half way line and overlap so at least one of the opposition players would have to cover him and take a defender off Martial. But he doesn't as he's probably terrified of receiving the ball, his usual move of wildly hoofing it up the pitch wouldn't really fly around the opposition penalty area.
By Solid they might mean immovable, stuck, monolithic.
He needs to be sold the sooner the better.
Selling this guy for 15m Euros plus back to Italy and signing Ghoulam for free would be the business of the century.
Ashley Young, a former winger is a better LB than him. We really need to sort our LB position.
Needs to learn how to take a fecking throw in.
Stoke's goal was no way his fault, it was mostly all on Bailly but I'm not going into that again.
As a full back he did his job and he was one of our better player this game when you tally up the first 11.
Couldn't care less what Salah is like - he isn't our player; Darmian is & José picked him to do a job & he did that job - if we wanted an attacking display then we would have out young at LB or even Blind; hell we would have seen Valencia doing the same but did we? NoHe really fecking didn't. We're just lucky Salah is 50/50 with his finishing.
Such a weird statement.
Utter dillusional with your emoticons
Clearly wasn't his job to. He was one of our better defenders today, considering how poor Smalling was.
You really are deluded, your initial point was about keeping Mo Salah at bay which he clearly did not do, and now you are saying you couldn't care less about Salah.
He didn't do his job well, we're just lucky the opposition wasn't able to take their chances. He got turned inside out many times by Liverpool's attack. He's had these types of performances quite a few times, the worst being Arsenal away.
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I'm starting to think left fullback is our number one need. If Rose can be snagged, then just do it.
A big part of that is the fact that Darmian is so fecking afraid and useless going forward that there’s no impetus to get forward. Martial and Rashford on the rare occasions they got the ball rarely ever got to double up with Darmian because he gets nosebleeds going out of his half.
Look. L'pool has little aerial threat from open play. Forcing them outwide is all good. L'pool is dangerous at exploiting the gap between our players, pocket of space. Darmian did very well preventing this.
There is a Ox run that pretty much a prime example of this. Ox beat him then turn back only to see Darmian already back cover the inside. Basically Ox was running in circle. He was outwide beat his man and still outwide, creating nothing for their less physical impose attackers.
When Salah runs off the ball in behind trying to finish. Darmian did his job stayed with his man. May sound simple, but how Salah kept getting chance vs every other team like that, it's not easy task. Salah is very good with his off the ball movement.
Going forward is what we can criticize Darmian for.
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Without a doubt it is. We need one desperately IMO. Doesn't look like Shaw will be playing for us again which is a shame.
Other than one Matic run, our midfielders barely ventured out of our own half, forget the full backs. The big games that Darmian plays, even going to back to vs Chelsea last season or the Europa league final, he is asked to stick to the left center back and keep the action ahead of him, read and intercept passes to the right winger and if possible cover for the center backs. That's his role. Saying he is afraid to venture forward is asking him to abandon Jose's plan, which is a good way for him to not see any game time.
By the time Rashford came on, he was already down with cramps and if Jose trusted Blind in this game he'd have been off so that one occasion where Rashford expected him to make the forward run is a bit hard to fault him.
He might be a good defender but he's shocking on the ball that he's a hindrance anyway. Smalling is similar in that regard.
Infuriating whenever he gets possession.
Might as well give the ball back to the opposition right away to save us from the horror of his hoofs.
Might as well give the ball back to the opposition right away to save us from the horror of his hoofs.
Agreed. I'd rather we give a youngster a chance.Someone with a left foot
Never seen a team who has had so many foul throw ins as us. Nani used to be a big culprit if i remember. Fecking annoying, childish and lazy.
He is really diabolical going foward isnt he. Never been a huge fan of right footed players playing at lb and vice versa but he cant even do the basics. No composure on the ball, no vision and absolutely 0 skill. Average squad player at best.
It's even more annoying when a defender doesn't know how to take them.
This guy literally gives me a stress headache. I've never watched somebody so infuriating as a pro.
I cannot understand what Jose see's in him. If 1 of his attackers showed the lack of composure that he does, they would be locked away in the london dungeons.
He looked knackered and had cramp by the 70th minute, why Jose didn't switch young to LB and leave Martial on was really strange to me.
I cannot understand what Jose see's in him. If 1 of his attackers showed the lack of composure that he does, they would be locked away in the london dungeons.
He looked knackered and had cramp by the 70th minute, why Jose didn't switch young to LB and leave Martial on was really strange to me.
This guy looks like he's in it just for the money. No passion or guts whatsoever.
Imagine how bad Mourinho must think Shaw and Blind are that he chooses Darmian and keeps him on despite that performance in a game of this magnitude.
Can come in and do a job against Ajax kids but not in the PL. Mourinho needs to realise that.
What a fecking donkey today. Offered no support for Martial, and was committing to his challenges way too early like a schoolboy playing in the yard. Got fecked over and dribbled past so many times.
Awful on the ball. But he was brought in to stop Salah, something which he clearly did. Was impressed with his speed on several occasions. Salah is fecking rapid.
Starting Blind would have made more sense. Yes, Blind is slow, but that hardly matters when we were defending so deep throughout the match. Blind is better both defensively and in attack. And he can actually pass the ball.
The upgrades for next year is clear. A new LB and a 10 is a minimum. Add a good RW and we would look a very strong team.
The upgrades for next year is clear. A new LB and a 10 is a minimum. Add a good RW and we would look a very strong team.
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He is the one player in football that i watch and think, God i can actually pass the ball better than him. He is just pure shit, Salah got past him easily it was just because after going past him there was a wall of defenders that he ran into, which saved Darmian, hell even the likes of Chambo got the better of him easily. A team like Barca or any possession based side, he would not last a minute in those teams.
And our next step in to compete in CPL, and in-order to compete against those teams we need players comfortable on the ball so we can actually initiate attacks, otherwise a layman like me can figure it out, let them pass on the deck from the back and let darmian have it and then press he will hoof it forward and give the ball back 99%. How can we actually play any football with players like him?
And our next step in to compete in CPL, and in-order to compete against those teams we need players comfortable on the ball so we can actually initiate attacks, otherwise a layman like me can figure it out, let them pass on the deck from the back and let darmian have it and then press he will hoof it forward and give the ball back 99%. How can we actually play any football with players like him?
Obvious both full backs and even wingers were told not to go forward. Martial and Young were supporting Valencia and Darmian rather than the other way around. I think Jose will have been pleased with all four of them today. They kept their men wide and out of the way.
Smalling was our best defender yesterday, I'm not sure we watched the same game.
How can some claim Darmian stopped Salah, it's ridiculous. Salah beat him countless time, if he had a bit more composure it would have cost us.
It's always the same with Smalling. He's great 1v1 but his positioning and decision making was awful.
Salah may have gotten past Darmian but he never completely beat him that I can remember. Darmian always recovered and shut off the angles Salah wanted to play.
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