Yeah, feck that. They went to ground at every single opportunity. The most hilarious part of the entire game was when Barnes grabbed the ball after going down for the umpteenth time - and the referee awarded a free-kick for handball. Should have been a yellow, too, absolutely deliberate handball.
PL W FA Premier League
Burnley 0:1 Manchester United
Post-match discussion
Tue, 12 January 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.
Been saying for a while we need more gammy 1-0 wins and this is a perfect text book example.
Pogba saying, that the Maguire goal was a beautiful goal, and the ref made a strange decision. Hope he can`t get banned for that.
Pogba and Bailly excellent, Martial and Rashford were poor.
The disallowed goal was fecking bizarre, as was the furore over Shaw's tackle. He won the ball with a minimum of force ffs.
Big win.
The disallowed goal was fecking bizarre, as was the furore over Shaw's tackle. He won the ball with a minimum of force ffs.
Big win.
Aye... I wouldn't want to watch it or play against it every week... But as a one off game its a good battle for us. Can't say i was bored at any point tonight!
My favorite performance in a while. Everyone giving 110% and fighting for each other until the very last second against Shithouse FC. Building a very good teamspirit and winning mentality lately.
Great win and huge 3 points. We need to start scoring more goals though..
thats the joke ! 21pts from 21, great achievement
I think they do what they need to do to compete. I actually admire them.
Was a pleasing performance from the players. Showed grit and fight in the first half (something we’ve sorely lacked in recent times) and then came out second half settled and ready to play football.
Took the game out of both Burnley and the ref’s hands second half. Good, professional away performance.
Took the game out of both Burnley and the ref’s hands second half. Good, professional away performance.
you watching the sumo highlights on NHK too?
We’re doing really well to grind these wins out now especially with a lot of the front players struggling for form.
Pogba was immense tonight, we’re usually used to Bruno bailing us out but tonight Paul was by far the stand out player and deserved the luck with the goal to win it.
Great job.
Pogba was immense tonight, we’re usually used to Bruno bailing us out but tonight Paul was by far the stand out player and deserved the luck with the goal to win it.
Great job.
Today has been a great day.. Secured PS5 pre order and United top of the league!!
Waste of time playing him on the right, and I'd wonder how much he enjoys it.
That said, great pick out for the assist.
Burley drilled so well as we have to accept. Glad we nailed it.
Fully deserve win despite Burnley got fully support by the reff, and the ABU media is more concern about Shaw's missed red card 
Maguire can also be absolutely class as he has been the last month.
That doesn't necessarily mean it's 'honest', does it? My only hope of competing with Jeff Bezos would be to murder him, probably, but that wouldn't be particularly honest. Though maybe it's a bad example, because we should definitely eat him.
Anyway, if Brighton can play reasonable football and stay in the league, so could Burnley.
Shit game, shit ref and many really shit performances. That said great result. Ole stuffing all these doubters. Now please go and beat these feckers on Sunday.
Genuine 10/10 performance from Pogba tonight. Its a big IF but IF Pogba can keep up his form since Raiola’s last comments we have as good a chance as any team
Yeah 100% we should go there confident, play it right we can definitely get a couple of dodgy peno's from that defense of theirs.
Not a great performance again and I'm not sure we can challenge for the title unless we start being more fluent but the positive is we now have a lot of really good players and a spirit, togetherness and unity (for which Ole deserves a lot of credit) that we haven't had in recent years.
Winning away to Burnley is always a really good result because they're an awkward, annoying team and having a team that can dig out results is always a good sign plus it was one of the more assured games we've had defensively this season.
Winning away to Burnley is always a really good result because they're an awkward, annoying team and having a team that can dig out results is always a good sign plus it was one of the more assured games we've had defensively this season.
Eric Bailly blocking everything put Lindelof there and we let it slip.
Ah I see. Now I feel a bit embarrassed.
Oh give them loads, we've had plenty of abuse the last few years.
Are you really taking this much issue with my use of the word honest? This is a championship level team that have stayed in the PL for a good few seasons now by playing to their strengths. I respect that. They don't roll around on the pitch when they get fouled. They roll up their sleeves and compete physically because they have to
If you look past the opening minutes and some hassle in the end of the game, this was a solid win against opponent that is really difficult to play against.
Loved the way the high press stressed Burnley to be inaccurate with their long balls forward. Especially between the start of the second half and until around the 85th minute. After that I think we became too deep again and then Burnley started to be a threat again. In my view United should have kept the high pressure until the end, but I guess fatigue and a desperate opponent made it difficult.
The decision to start Matic and Pogba was really good as they are strong enough to control the ball in the congested central areas under tough physical pressure. Pogba was amazing at this as he often managed to keep the forward movement while the opponents were clanging into him. He even kept the forward movements most of the times to. To be able to do this is so important against a physical side like Burnley.
Bailly and Maguire was great too. Wonder how Kevin Friend managed to disallow that goal.
On the other side, Rashford looks tired and in need of a rest, he wasn't awful, but not as sharp as he could be. Martial unfortunately had another day of.
In the end I really like that the 1-0 win was grinded out. To be relevant at the top you need to do that.
Loved the way the high press stressed Burnley to be inaccurate with their long balls forward. Especially between the start of the second half and until around the 85th minute. After that I think we became too deep again and then Burnley started to be a threat again. In my view United should have kept the high pressure until the end, but I guess fatigue and a desperate opponent made it difficult.
The decision to start Matic and Pogba was really good as they are strong enough to control the ball in the congested central areas under tough physical pressure. Pogba was amazing at this as he often managed to keep the forward movement while the opponents were clanging into him. He even kept the forward movements most of the times to. To be able to do this is so important against a physical side like Burnley.
Bailly and Maguire was great too. Wonder how Kevin Friend managed to disallow that goal.
On the other side, Rashford looks tired and in need of a rest, he wasn't awful, but not as sharp as he could be. Martial unfortunately had another day of.
In the end I really like that the 1-0 win was grinded out. To be relevant at the top you need to do that.
Forgot how this feels, loving it.
No I just really like arguing, especially when it's thoroughly inconsequential stuff.
I also dislike teams that play shit football and bring everyone down to their level. Don't get me wrong, they have every right to do so, they're entitled to do whatever they want but I'm also entitled to hate it. Also, feck Wolves. feck them even more because they have the money and the players to actually produce something resembling actual football.
it's not though is it? we drew against Leicester like 4 games ago
Too right man, and them the best team to ever play the game, apparently.
Many excellent performances - Maguire, Shaw, Matic, Bruno, Pogba. Bailly was immense.
For now, let’s just take that league table to bed.
Class 2nd half from United. I’m particularly pleased with how Fernandes played. He had a lot more composure and concentration in what he was doing. Rashford on the other hand was a little all over the place again.
His body language wasn't great tonight. Playing him there robs him of most of his tools.
Not for much longer though, because I'm still absolutely convinced for no reason that Diallo is going to light up the team
Excellent win against a real shithouse team, and with a ref giving Burnley nearly every decision going. Pogba, Maguire and Bailly were excellent. First half was ridiculous, thanks to the ref and VAR, second half we dominated, just had to hang on late on. Roll on Sunday!
Eric and Pogba are in red hot form and the key men.
Pogba has been immense tonight. What a turn around in form since the Raiola comments.
Pogba has been immense tonight. What a turn around in form since the Raiola comments.
If we beat Liverpool at the weekend I'm fully buying into the hype
Player Ratings
Total Average Rating
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Compiled from 360 ratings.
Score Predictions
206,10,14
- Man Utd win
- Burnley win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 28% Burnley 0:2 Man Utd
- 23% Burnley 1:2 Man Utd
- 11% Burnley 1:3 Man Utd
- 10% Burnley 0:3 Man Utd
- 10% Burnley 0:1 Man Utd
- 5% Burnley 1:1 Man Utd
- 4% Burnley 0:5 Man Utd
- 1% Burnley 1:4 Man Utd
- 1% Burnley 1:0 Man Utd
- 1% Burnley 2:1 Man Utd
- 1% Burnley 0:4 Man Utd
- 1% Burnley 2:0 Man Utd
- 0% Burnley 0:0 Man Utd
- 0% Burnley 2:2 Man Utd
- 0% Burnley 2:3 Man Utd
- 0% Burnley 3:0 Man Utd
- 0% Burnley 5:0 Man Utd
- 0% Burnley 1:5 Man Utd
- 0% Burnley 5:4 Man Utd
Match Stats
- Burnley
- Man Utd
- Possession
- 37% 63%
- Shots
- 12 13
- Shots on Target
- 0 7
- Corners
- 3 4
- Fouls
- 15 13
Referee
Kevin Friend
Man Utd Lineup
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