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Manchester United 2:2 Leeds United

Post-match discussion


Wed, 08 February 2023

Nickelodeon

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Lack of midfield hurt us. I’d rather we have taken of Sabitzer for no one than see Lindelof there.
 

The White Pele

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So frustrating. A reminder of the impact the new signings have made. Loss of control without Casemiro and Eriksen
 

Sandikan

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At least the comebacks are back. Missing the clincher.
Also: The conundrum that is Fred
He's like a lot of players. Can work if they have one of the last decade star mids next to him!
 

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Fred kept Leeds in the game both attacking and defensive wise. Truly one of the worst performance i have ever seen any player perform in United shirt
 

Mike Smalling

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I mean, when we are missing both of our starting midfielders and have a striker that is frankly not fit for purpose, these results can happen. Put Casemiro in that game, and we win it 10 times out 10.

Disappointing that we came out so poorly for both halves. Hope we learn our lesson. We go again.
 

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The start of both halves killed United today. Even with that if they had scored during that high energy spell in the 1st they rescue all the points.
 

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Frustrating as feck to not win that. Thrown away 2 points.

Fred horrendous. Varane really bad too. Dalot his worst game in ages. Sabitzer right footed Fred. Garnacho was sloppy. Weghorst invisible.

Sancho positive when coming on, Rashford did well through the middle, Martinez and Shaw very reliable (Shaw finished the game strongly after a shit first half himself). Nobody to blame but ourselves for dropping points today. Hopefully we hammer them on the weekend.
 

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If we want to win games, Weghorst cannot start
 

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Awful result but not that bad overall. Gave away some ridiculously sloppy goals. But we showed a lot of fight, a lot of drive to win that game. We really pushed the game forward in the second half and probably could/should have won it.
 

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Did well to come back but in the grand scheme of things, it's two points dropped.

Hopefully we can get 3 points at Elland Road.
 

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If any other footballer had the chances to win the game then Fred in the last 10 minutes we would have won.

First 50 minutes was terrible though, only change with the subs
 

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Showed our extreme lack of quality in squad depth today.
 

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We are at the part of the season where it is all about results and nothing else , 1 pt is better than none but overall it is a very poor result and 2 pts dropped.
 

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I wonder if people will ever learn to actually watch the full game before moaning? People in the matchday thread thought it was game over at 50 minutes.

We were never going to be in the title race.
 

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One of the best games of the season for a neutral. Not a great result for us but good to comeback from 2 down. I feel that they will believe they can beat us in their home turf next match, so I hope Ten Hag gets the boys ready.
 

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That was a really exciting match. Not our best performance by far, but a really exciting, end to end match with both teams going at it
 

Irwin99

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Didn't see the game but judging by the replies, the gods flipped the Fred coin and THAT version of Fred turned up :nervous:
 

YouOnlyLiveTwice

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Should've won if we didn't turn off both start of the halfs. Lost 2 points today, but i'm still happy with the teams fight.

Fred had too many mistakes in him today, weird because he has been great lately.
 

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One of those nights unfortunately. Can happen against anyone in such hectic schedule with injuries and suspension
 

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Hard match that we made more difficult for ourselves, but more positives than negatives.

We need Sancho to have a big second half of the season.
 

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Like playing with 9 men with Fred and Weghorst tonight. Sancho MOTM brilliant showing from him in the second half.
 

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Fred and Weghorst cost us that game. Weghorst offered nothing for an hour before he was taken off, and Fred was just...abysmal. Can't believe those chances at the end fell to him. Dreadful performance from him.

Amazing that we got back into the game, but so annoying we found ourselves in a position of being 2-0 down. Leeds played well, but we should have won this game.
 

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Vulnerabilities show when we don't have our strongest XI
Good character to come from 0-2 down
Pleased for Sancho,
Fred dropped a stinker
 

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Casemiro's great, but his absence is absolutely his fault today (and for the next two games).

No composure in midfield without either him or Eriksen - although I thought Sabitzer was decent.
 

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Epic game and doesn't feel too disappointing because of the comeback but on another day we win that by 3 or 4.

We'll spank them at weekend.
 

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Frustrating game, wasn’t quite good enough for the 3pts but the comeback was nice and Sancho had a very encouraging return performance

Can’t wait for Casemiro to come back to the side.
 

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Take the draw after being 2-0 down and how shoddily we played at times, but even after coming back to salvage a draw I'm disappointed that we couldn't take the win. We had the chances, they either fell to the wrong players or the right players just didn't have the composure (Garnacho, Rashford and Fernandes all spurned good chances).

Fred was truly shocking though.
 

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Just going to focus on the biggest positive: Sancho back and in style. He completely transformed our attack.
 

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Jesus, I know the result wasn't what we wanted, but if you can't enjoy a game like that why even bother?

Proper derby stuff.
 

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Lost the midfield battle and got chaos as a result. Casemiro getting that stupid red card has cost us 2 pts already. Will do very well to beat these away - can’t see it.
 

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The first 60 minutes were atrocious, reminded me of the worst games with Ole. Sancho and Pellistri brought a second wind, so we might take the point after all. Should have been a win though. Weghorst needs to stay off next game and Rashford should play up-front or on the left. Somehow he's not himself playing on the right side.
 

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Our midfield options past Casemiro and Eriksen are painful. Sabitzer looks promising but we need to shift a lot of this shite off once and for all.
 

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We are not creating enough chances for the strikers. I don't know if it's Wouts problem or teams problem. As soon as Wout went out, we started crossing the ball and scored a goal.

2 points dropped. Passing for the sake of passing it is what caused the first goal. Brentford game mistake.

2 points dropped
 

Livewire1974

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Lack of depth in the squad is telling. That's on the Glazers.

Sancho very good.
 

Player Ratings

5.6 Total Average Rating

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Score Predictions

194,4,15
  • Man Utd win
  • Leeds United win
  • Draw

Detailed Results

  • 28% Man Utd 2:0 Leeds United
  • 25% Man Utd 3:0 Leeds United
  • 15% Man Utd 3:1 Leeds United
  • 10% Man Utd 2:1 Leeds United
  • 5% Man Utd 1:0 Leeds United
  • 5% Man Utd 1:1 Leeds United
  • 4% Man Utd 4:0 Leeds United
  • 2% Man Utd 2:2 Leeds United
  • 1% Man Utd 4:1 Leeds United
  • 1% Man Utd 0:2 Leeds United
  • 1% Man Utd 5:0 Leeds United
  • 1% Man Utd 5:1 Leeds United
  • 1% Man Utd 3:2 Leeds United
  • 0% Man Utd 0:0 Leeds United
  • 0% Man Utd 0:1 Leeds United
  • 0% Man Utd 4:2 Leeds United
  • 0% Man Utd 0:5 Leeds United
Compiled from 213 predictions.
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Match Stats

  1. Man Utd
  2. Leeds United
Possession
66% 34%
Shots
24 8
Shots on Target
7 2
Corners
6 5
Fouls
7 11

Referee

Simon Hooper