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PL W FA Premier League

Leicester City 0:1 Manchester United

Post-match discussion


Sun, 03 February 2019

Sir Scott McToMinay

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Poorest performance under OGS as of yet.

Herrera, Matic, Young, Lingard, Sanchez have all been horrendous.
Though Lukaku did well when he came on.
Very important 3 points.
 

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I'll take a 3 pt grinder. I know (or hope) it won't be the norm.
 

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Very big win, the difference in class between Pogs, Martial and the rest of the team is too big.

Young & Matic looked amateurish at times.(even though, big props to Matic for running like a mfecking animal)
 

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Woeful stuff - we look knackered. Really think Ole needs to introduce some fresh legs from the academy to give the first team some more juice in attacking positions.
Not the best time to introduce them right now.
 

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Great 3 points but really highlighted our weaknesses.

It's obvious where we need to strengthen in the summer.
 

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Poor game. Usual suspects did well, i.e. Pogba, Lindelöf, Young and Matic
 

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Hopefully Ole and Phelan gives some of the players a proper wake up call. The first 5 minutes after the break was zombie football and it set the tone for the whole half. The fitness of these players is seriously a big question mark.
 

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Well that was mostly terrible. So many poor passes, so many poor decisions. Lingard and Sanchez were awful, the midfield never clicked and the less said about Young, the better.

Great win though. City lost here, Chelsea lost to them at the Bridge, Liverpool couldn't beat them. So I'll take it.

Stamina wise we look awful though. We look gassed way too often.
 

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Great win that. Had to dig it out in the second half but good performance against a tough opponent.
 

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Not really liking how we're slowly starting to look a bit like a Mourinho team again, but massive three points.

Kudos to Matic though for the hard work in the second half. Had to run back a lot.
 

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Great win against dangerous opposition, we won many games like that under fergie in our premiership winning years.

Ole played 10 won 9 drawn 1 lost 0

And still people moan and whine.

Great 3 points. Well done united.
 

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Mourinho is back? I thought we were using the Mourinho handbook this game. If the Burnley game was slow, this is worse. Park the bus after the 1st goal?
 

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If we're tired now, then what about when the CL games kick in? We'd be fecking dead
 

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Worse performance under Ole but a great result. Take the points and move on.
 

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Performances have dropped off sharply last few games. No reason for the players to look so knackered with 1 game a week. Probably not having Martial fron the start limited us going forward and we absolutely need the second goal if we are going slack off so much towards the end.

How bad was Sanchez and how good is Herrera?
 

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Terrible performance really.

Luckily Leicester were shite too so our good opening ten minutes was just enough.

I can only assume Lukaku has given up and will want to go in the Summer, only that can explain how fecking lazy he is when he comes on
 

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3 points and I'll take it. Wasn't a good performance though. Sanchez, Matic and Young pretty bad. The rest were ok.

On to the next game.
 

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A good three points. Leicester are no pushovers as shown against City and Liverpool this season. When we beat them earlier in the season the game played out pretty similarly. Considering how we panicked when we lost our momentum away at Leicester last season I'm very happy. Of course the performance wasn't perfect but they're only human they'll have off days. Its just important to keep putting points on the board.
 

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Ugly performance but dug in well! Onwards and upwards. DDG on that save... bugger me softly with his touch.
 

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Players looked knackered in the 2nd half.

But so did Lukaku from the moment he came on.


Win is a win. They ran us ragged and we didn't fold. There's some serious pace in that Leicester side. Barnes is rapid and fit as hell. He was everywhere, and always at full tilt.
 

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Three points, away game, brilliant goal, Ole on 9 wins and one draw in his first game. Happy days, bring on the next game.
 

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I wonder what our pass percentage was. Expect less than 80%.
 

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Sanchez is finished, but nevertheless a strong result, this is just proof that the squad players aren't good enough.
 

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Not a great game, but 9 wins out of 10, 10 games without defeat. Ill take it.
 

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We got away with that one. About time we did though, Liverpool have been doing it all season.
 

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They’re a tough side to play against as shown by their record against the big sides so it was never going to be easy.

However it’s our worst performance in a while, certainly under Ole, some of the passing was dreadful.

It’s a positive to grind out 3 points and win ugly though, that along with the late fight back against Burnley are good signs that we can still get something when we don’t play well.

Just hope these 2 games are a blip and not a return back down to Earth after the new manager bump.
 

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Love how people complain that the players look knackered, and last week they complained that Ole rotated players.

Caf logic is awesome!

Important 3 points, Leicester is a tough team.
 

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Our quality is really not up there. Need to really go for it in summer window. Should be making more counter opportunities when we broke their attack but was often missed due to crap pass or dilly-dallying on ball. Matic partly very good but also responsible for many of our missed counter chances. Pogba meh. Bailly..wtf? Weirdo.
 

Player Ratings

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Score Predictions

386,34,48
  • Man Utd win
  • Leicester win
  • Draw

Detailed Results

  • 36% Leicester 1:2 Man Utd
  • 18% Leicester 1:3 Man Utd
  • 12% Leicester 0:2 Man Utd
  • 6% Leicester 2:3 Man Utd
  • 5% Leicester 1:1 Man Utd
  • 4% Leicester 2:2 Man Utd
  • 4% Leicester 0:1 Man Utd
  • 4% Leicester 0:3 Man Utd
  • 4% Leicester 2:1 Man Utd
  • 1% Leicester 1:4 Man Utd
  • 1% Leicester 0:5 Man Utd
  • 1% Leicester 1:0 Man Utd
  • 1% Leicester 0:0 Man Utd
  • 1% Leicester 0:4 Man Utd
  • 1% Leicester 2:0 Man Utd
  • 0% Leicester 3:2 Man Utd
  • 0% Leicester 5:0 Man Utd
  • 0% Leicester 3:0 Man Utd
  • 0% Leicester 3:1 Man Utd
  • 0% Leicester 3:3 Man Utd
  • 0% Leicester 3:4 Man Utd
  • 0% Leicester 2:4 Man Utd
  • 0% Leicester 1:5 Man Utd
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Match Stats

  1. Leicester
  2. Man Utd
Possession
45% 55%
Shots
17 10
Shots on Target
6 6
Corners
7 2
Fouls
14 9

Referee

Mike Dean