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If this doesn't fire us into signings nothing will.overall today though poor team selection and management.
I hope we don’t sell Smalling. He is still our best defender.Yeah, actually it looks like wan-bissaka is our best defender. I think je does Lindelof work as well !
I cannot believe we spent 80 millions on Maguire. He is not bad but as fast as a stone. It is suicidal to play slow defenders with a high line and we have two ! Apparently they are good on the ball but appart from simple passes even Smalling can make I can't see it.
Lindelof costed us goals today but Maguire looks like a coward who is standing as far as possible from opposing players...it is always Lindelof who is defending so our captain can do no wrong...
I'm very sad when I'm thinking about Rio and Vidic. Rio was a real ball playing defender, he was pure class on the ball and Vidic was just a rock. We now have two scared trees at thé back !
Pogba lost possession 18 times today according to the United app. McTom isn't a DM and the sooner we realise the better but Pogba was a lot worse for me.McT was comfortably better than Pogba.
Might be a bit kneejerk but I think this will be Ole's final season.
Sancho and Telles won't help with disgraceful, gutless performances like today.
Coming back into the new season so unfit is shameful regardless of no pre season, other teams didn't come back so unfit and rusty.
McTominay and James should never play for this club again. Will never get to the level we need to even challenge for top 4 year in year out, never mind back to winning the PL.
Pogba didn't even look bothered and yes on his day he is unplayable but he has far too many games where he is shocking and just looks lazy and uninterested.
£80M for Maguire is madness and Lindelof is worse than Bailly and Smalling, he is meant to be a ball playing cb but he is rubbish on the ball.
Rashford will also never be good enough for where the club aspire to be. Since returning from injury he has been awful. He might play great on a good day but on a bad day he is one of the worst attackers to ever play for Manchester United. This is not hyperbole, I have literally not seen more than five strikers in the history of the PL as bad as him on a bad day. His bottom level is appalling.
Fernandes was shocking today as well.
Martial Rashford Matic and Shaw. Hopefully
Yeh. We have so many new players coming in, and had no time to asses their strength.This lineup won’t be the won’t Ole goes with for the future, seems to me like he was testing the squad.
His job is much more than to pick the team. How they play is also on him as he's supposed to be coaching them week in week out. And definitely didn't look that was being done.It is shocking how quickly people get on Ole. The team he picked today was strong enough to win. At least on paper it was. The players were abysmal. That's not always the manager's fault.
Manchester United with and without Sir Alex is all the evidence any fan needs of how much influence a manager can have on a team apart from the act of selecting an 11. They wouldn't be paid the amount they do for something as simplistic as that. This shouldnt have to be said really.He supposed to move for them? Run for them? Pass for them? Shoot for them? Work for them? This was such a lazy performance through and through. No excuses for any of the players.
DDG coming off his line was the last error I needed to see from him. Hope he's dropped for the next PL match.
Crystal Palace didn't score more than 2 goals last season eitherFunny how we didn’t concede more than 2 goals in a league game in the entirety of last season. Straight in shipping 3 this season. We need a CB.
I'm not a Utd fan but what you said is so obviously true. If Man Utd rewards failure, then they keep expecting failure. If the club keeps renewing contracts for the likes of Lingard, Rashford etc. and telling them that they're doing great then they obviously don't expect to compete for the title, it's that simple. The club are happy with what these players are doing, that's basically what it is. They seem happy with this level.I believe the biggest issue is complacency. All of our players are simply resting on their laurel. They know that even if they don't play well, there will be no repercussion and they can still remain as a United player. Woodward/Ole need to start shipping out players who have not performed. This should hopefully put some sense of urgency in the team.
If that is what is happening then we really are in a world of shit.We need to use this season and take a risk with Mengi. If it's pace we are lacking in defence, he will provide that. I'm happy people can also now appreciate the value of AWB.
I think them having had a PL game, a cup game and a few preseason matches versus us going into this cold was less than ideal, plus the off-field issues we've had led to a slightly under par first XI taking the field (also what was the score with Matic?). However even allowing for those setbacks before a ball was kicked it was a desperately bad performance, and the levels we sunk to today are not explained by our sub-optimal preparations.Lyon beat Juventus away after no games for months.
Holy hell, that's diabolical. He is extremely frustrating.Pogba lost possession 18 times today according to the United app. McTom isn't a DM and the sooner we realise the better but Pogba was a lot worse for me.
They're match fit and we‘re not.That was Palace‘s 3rd game in eight days ....how can that be an advantage?
Aren't some of our players involved in International games also? Lindelof, Martial, Bruno, McTom, etc.I think them having had a PL game, a cup game and a few preseason matches versus us going into this cold was less than ideal, plus the off-field issues we've had led to a slightly under par first XI taking the field (also what was the score with Matic?). However even allowing for those setbacks before a ball was kicked it was a desperately bad performance, and the levels we sunk to today are not explained by our sub-optimal preparations.
-Sounds about right. It's always something on the fitness-fatigue spectrum. Either we've played too many games or we haven't played enough games. Two months ago that exact performance would have been attributed to the boys being knackeredOle blaming preparation and fitness ...that‘s your department Ole
We were playing against ourselves in training.So much pressure for the next one against brighton. We will need to win that or I can see us spiralling downwards.
Frustrating that we don't play like a team. Even the new boy Donny said we were playing much faster and quicker in training the whole week and then somehow we shat the bed completely today.
Performance anxiety? OGS needs to fix it quickly. With or without signings we should be able to score goals like we did last season.
Fixed it for you!AWB wasn't there to cover for Lindelof’s defensive inadequacies . That's the difference.
Also true.Fixed it for you!
I just watched the entire game and I counted 4 or 5 so that app you have may be a spoof.Pogba lost possession 18 times today according to the United app. McTom isn't a DM and the sooner we realise the better but Pogba was a lot worse for me.
Our midfielders kept losing the ball under pressure whenever they were given a pass in the first few minutes, so the defence lost faith in them. They stopped doing that in the second half, but the writing was on the ball by then.Why the feck do our defenders love passing the ball among themselves? I wish we had a Roy Keane in training who would tell them to pass the ball forwards.
So, are you suggesting that if you start prepare to start the season 1 week earlier, that you have a massive advantage over your rivals?Chelsea had over a week more than us. We shall see with City who have had an extra 3 days.
Martin Atkinson