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Manchester United 1:1 Chelsea

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Sun, 28 April 2019

GwilDor

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If DDG thought he had a bargaining chip in negotiations.... he singlehandedly ruined the chance we thought we’d never get at finishing top 4.
 

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Very good in the first half. Terrible in the second half.

There was a point there i think it was 91 minutes when mctominah got the corner and Lukaku and Sanchez were just walking into the box instead of bursting a gut to run in. Sickening really. Just not trying hard enough.

Pogba was very good in the first half but terrible in the second half. Wish he would just pass the ball instead of free styling. There is a bit on 82 minutes where he tries this trick and it goes out wide. Just pass the fecking ball for fukcs sake.

Just want this season to end quickly.
 

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I'm usually not a reactionary type of person but man I can't take it today, we're so fukin shiiit! Top, to bottom, shitt. All due respect to the common people working for UTD, don't want to call them shiit. DDG should not be the highest paid player and if he's got any decency he should apologie and lower his demands, significantly. He's killed us this year, let us down in every game that mattered to us.

We're playing for CL football next season, by some wild luck we keep getting chances to get back into top4 race and we always blew it! No fukin urgency in this team, absolutely shocking subs by our manager.

CEO enjoying the spotlight whilst screwing us sideways, manager who's way over his head and professional footballers that cannot be bothered ffs!

We don't deserve top4 because we're shiit and we'll continue being shii until that twatt Woodward is making the football related calls.

Apologies for the rant but it just hurts ffs, we had a chance to get into CL football next season but we're just shiit. 2nd half absolutely no fekin urgency, no fekin desire!
 

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This result had nothing todo with Ole. He actually made logical choices for subs. Sanchez for more energy and fresh legs upfront. Martial has been very lazy and needed to be left out. McTominay again was because Ander was on a card and the game was getting scrappy with tiredness.

He did everything right today. De Geas mistake, a lack of fitness and the outfield players lack of ability to make up for De Geas mistake are why we have the result that we do.
Jesua christ he did everything right... he is not good enough, he is no better than Moyes
 

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I'm beginning to think we are in for a decade of mediocrity or even worse.

Rotten from the Boardroom all the way down to the playing and coaching staff.

Club is in perpetual decline.
 

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Very very poor. Threw away a good first half with another bad goalkeeping error and a pathetic second 45. Did we create anything other than the Rojo header? We're throwing fourth place away without a whimper. A United team playing for long periods in the run-in with such a lack of poise and intensity is sickening to witness.
 

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Ole's subs once again were idiotic as well.

Why are we finishing a game we absolutely have to win with the two biggest turds up front? Why was Mata, our best attacker by a mile, taken off?
 

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Knew when we didn't score a 2nd when we were on top we'd be made to pay, it was almost a certainty we'd come out and play like utter shite in the 2nd half.

Horrible performance, horrible season, at least there's not much point watching the last two games.
 

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What was this?! We needed to win to go in CL, our last chance and we stayed back whole second half.
No plan at all, shit subs, shit general play... depressing
 

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1.5 months I was sure very sure Ole is the right appointment but the performance in the last 3-4 weeks hasn’t convince me that he can lead us to glory. Rojo? Bailly? Sticking to Rushford? De Gea? Young? Matic? Really?
To be fair he has inherited a shockingly poor squad of players , let him get a few of his own players in and judge him them
 

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Good first half. Played with the right intensity and desire. Bit of a lack of quality but we made the pressure count. De Gea's mistake at the end of the half really knocked the stuffing out of us and we never recovered.

This team's confidence is so fragile and we have so many players making individual mistakes that it just can't recover.

Second half was a return to "form". ie rubbish.
Useless subs but then we don't have anything to bring on.

Stick a fork in us. We're done
 

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4 goals this month in 7 games? Subpar. Bring in Vardy. Seems an absolute nutter but imagine how hard he would play for us.
 

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Blaming this draw on one blunder by De Gea is harsh. We didn't show enough attacking intention, not after the 1-0, and not after the 1-1. Poor tactics is the real blame. Also if not for De Gea's save in the 96th minute on the Higuian shot, we would have lost 2-1.
United dominated the game up until Chelsea scored and the DDG mistake right before half time killed the confidence which is already frail.

Usually it wouldn't be as much of a problem but under the circumstances it was the worst possible thing to happen and at the worst possible time.
 

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I'm sorry, but Martial has to come on. I dont care how shite he has been. You need a goal and your best finisher has to come on.

Instead we had Lukaku amble offside time and time again. A static and lazy Martial would have been better. At least he would trap a ball.
I thought Lukaku was one of our better players today.
 

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We're so shit at building and maintaining attacking pressure, that last 15 should've been us camped in their half yet we hardly created anything apart from a blatantly offside chance and a corner, it's painful to watch and I don't know if we're going to fix it, absolutely gutted.
 

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So frustrating to watch. Absolute shocking in the final third. Brainless, clueless, technically inept. Still should have won. De Gea let us down massively this season.
 

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Seconds after his team having lost out on the chances of CL football next year, having just played an atrocious half of football, Ole walks straight out there joking and laughing with David Luiz. Seriously, what is happening to the game? Where's the passion and caring?
 

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Ole is not the man for us. He was lucky for all those victories. It was luck, not talent.

And now his luck has run out. I will be slated for this view but if we are going to stop the rot we will have to appoint someone who is actually talented. A sign of this is consistently doing well in their managerial career.
He’ll be sacked a few months in to the season and we will be back to square one.
 

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Aside from the title battle, there is actually a more fierce fight to stay out of top 4, unbelievable.
 

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Can we just end this season already? Or if possible, can we just hit a reset button and bring us back to 2014 before we made some truly horrible decisions and started this downward spiral.

So sick of this bunch of heartless spoofers.
 

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We needed to win so our GK made a feck up.
We needed to win so our great players decide to drop a stinker the entire second half and play as if draw is enough.
We needed to win so our manager put in Scott for Mata.

Supporting United is so fecking hard these days.
 

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That game could have gone on for another 90 mins and we wouldn't have scored the way it was going in the second half...This team is going NOWHERE
 

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It's a poison chalice for teams. Get the youth team and fringe players to rack up the air miles going to Azerbaijan and Ukraine, main squad concentrate on the league.
It is the other way round. Get players who has desire play in the league and the highly paid unmotivated players in Europa league so they don’t influence our youngsters.
 

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Has that piano been thrown out of a high window yet?

Martial clearly already played his last game for us. At least we'll get some cash for him.

Same for Lukaku. Time to cash in while he still has some value left.

Sanchez got a last little game today. That's his last game for us hopefully along with...

Young,
Matic
Rojo
Jones
Bailly

Mctominay showed up a lot of people today. If you can't run for the team get out of the club.
 

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I was expecting a draw - but the way it came was infuriating. Played well first half until de Gea’s mistake - then it was like we had forgotten how to play.

The subs were fecking woeful. We needed a win, he acknowledged that - why the feck didn’t we gamble.

Lukaku didn’t need to be offside for most, if not all of them.

Worst of all, there was no desire. 7 mins added and there was nothing. We wouldn’t have score if there were 20 mins added. Jogging back and not wanting to win the ball back - no gut bursting runs. Disgusting.

The fastest sprint I saw was from the ball boy
 

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United dominated the game up until Chelsea scored and the DDG mistake right before half time killed the confidence which is already frail.

Usually it wouldn't be as much of a problem but under the circumstances it was the worst possible thing to happen and at the worst possible time.
The worst possible thing to happen was trying to defend a 1-0 lead, instead of looking for a second goal
 

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Jesua christ he did everything right... he is not good enough, he is no better than Moyes
He did everything right. The squad isnt good enough and has a fitness issue. Those things together is why we couldnt recover from De Gea's mistake. It was nothing todo with Ole. If you think differently then you should watch another sport.

Subs were okay with the options we had. If it wasnt for DDG mistake everyone would be saying we did well. The team played well overall and showed alot more passion than recently. We get tired around 60 minutes and the fitness issue needs to be addressed as does the lack of quality options.

None of those are problems that Ole could have fixed today.

Sort it out
 

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Played quite well first half and better than Chelsea during the whole match.
Second half didn't get going with so many interruptions and injuries. but Chelsea were there for the taking.
Lukaku played well first half but poor in the second half and Rashford was poor in the first half.

DDG gifted the goal with another mistake.

Should have won that but seem to run out of steam and no rhythm to the second half.

Contest between Higuain and Lukaku who could be offside the most. Higuain won hands down.
 

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Just a nothing result at this stage of the season. All those saying we don’t want oil money blah blah then just except this is our level for the foreseeable future. Football is a business now. Ruthlessness with management, players and in the transfer market is what’ll get us back to the top.
 

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With no Herrera and prob no Pogba next season we'll need serious midfield reinforcements . That leaves us with Fred, Matic, Periera and McTominay... Yikes !
 

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Score Predictions

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  • Man Utd win
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Detailed Results

  • 24% Man Utd 2:1 Chelsea
  • 15% Man Utd 2:0 Chelsea
  • 10% Man Utd 1:0 Chelsea
  • 8% Man Utd 1:1 Chelsea
  • 8% Man Utd 0:2 Chelsea
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  • 1% Man Utd 4:0 Chelsea
  • 0% Man Utd 4:1 Chelsea
  • 0% Man Utd 2:3 Chelsea
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Possession
52% 48%
Shots
7 16
Shots on Target
5 3
Corners
6 6
Fouls
9 14

Referee

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