OleBoiii
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Completely against the run of play.
Yeah would agree with that. We played well until we went behind. But fact remains that you can't give away soft goals like those two and expect to win anything. We need a better coach or better defenders or both.It is on the players and its not great but it happens to every team. We largely dominated them.
Every loss doesn't mean this player and that player are frauds or that the manager isn't good enough. I just think the knee-jerk reactions on here tend to be a bit of a joke.
You have cut through the bullshit - great post.I'm going to make an unpopular post to cut through the inevitable bullshit. A couple of years ago Sevilla played us off the park, today we lost to them but no one who knows anything about football can say we deserved to lose. The progress is very very clear. For 15 minutes they looked like they didn't belong on the same pitch as us and they are a very decent team. For the first time since Fergie we have made clear progress and actually look like a proper side at times. We all know we are 3 or 4 players short and hopefully we get them in, our sub options for instance are horrible. The fact is that the progress made and the signings under Ole have been mostly positive and I think it's honestly the first time in ages to be positive about the future of the club.
I was terrified before tonight that we were going to be given another footballing lesson by a technical Spanish side but the reality is that we've lost a game that we were more than comfortable in and were clearly the better side. Painful yes, but the bigger picture is that we have plenty of reason for optimism. Let's hope the right signings are brought in and progress even further. It's a marathon not a sprint.
Because EL is all about Champions League. As soon as we got it this cup became maningless to me.How can anyone not feel angry after being eliminated like that I don't get this. We missed ton of easy chances and got sucker punched. Feck this, I would have preferred to lose normally or being outplayed. This is garbage.
That’s part of the issue. We are the biggest club in the world. Losing to Sevilla is a poor result no matter where we are. We have far better players and should be beating them.why? they play way better football than we do. you need to realise the level of this club..
Agreed. Unlucky to lose this one. Back Ole.Incredibly unlucky. Not our night. Just objectively not Ole's fault.
Back him in the market.
The end.
I think you answered you own question before you asked it?it's a bit mind boggling that Ole could sit there and watch us lose control of the match until 80 mins
At that point we were dominating the game...
We will now see how seriously Ole is about improving this team further. He cannot show sentimentality.We were the better team, in my opinion. And not just because of those 15 minutes after half time. We just weren't clinical in front of goal - Martial and Rashford both forgot their shooting boots at home. We could have been 3-1 up by the hour mark.
Sevilla by contrast are a nasty, playacting team who hung on for their lives, used the dark arts to con the ref very effectively and then capitalized on two mistakes from our defence.
Defensively, I don't see anything else Ole could have done. Picking Fred over Matic was a brilliant move - he was the best midfielder on the pitch today buzzing around everywhere. Williams switched off for the first goal and Lindelof switched off for the second one. Just one of those days. Pogba was class in some moments and a bit naive in others. Bruno had a better game than his last few outings, but didn't have enough movement in front of him at times.
AWB-Greenwood just doesn't work, they seem to have no chemistry at all. Rashford looks like a much better player when he's got Shaw overlapping, too. We got outdone on the flanks multiple times as a result.
You can blame Ole all you want for making the first sub in the 86th minute, but a tired off-colour Rashford is still miles ahead of James who just doesn't look like he belongs at this level. Mata would have been outmuscled and outrun and Ighalo would not even get the ball since he doesn't have Martial's movement.
We desperately need more squad depth and a starting RW. If we don't get at least 3 players this window, we'll be in trouble going into the next season. Given that insane schedule, we'll struggle to make it to top four if even one of our starting XI is out for a while.
I’d be looking at moving Martial wide left ahead of Rashford and signing a top striker. We can’t afford to let Rashford spend months playing himself into form. We’re just not clinical enough, and it matters in these tight games.Not fecking good enough. This team has a mental block, that game should have been put to bed within twenty minutes.
AWB is the fullback version of De Gea. He's good at one thing and seemingly shit at everything else required of his position. Not good enough.
Rashford needs to learn that when he's not on it, he loses the right to strut around like he's prime Ronaldo.
Pogba improved in the second half to be fair but you think that was a fantastic performance feck me.Award for worst take of the evening.
Pogba was fantastic tonight.
I know they weren't that good? My point was there were a certain few posters attacking people during the week for suggesting they're a good side. I personally thought we would beat them but they would give us a tough game. We only have ourselves to blame for going out as we missed too many chances.They weren’t that good mate but we’ve made relegation fodder look world class in recent weeks. The signs were there when we were outplayed by West Ham and Soton.
Well organised teams that don’t attack full on give us problems
RW, CDM, CB agreed. But I think we need a RB more than we need a LB, OWB needs competition. It was his man and he lost him, that’s why Lindeloff is arguing with Bruno. OWB is often out of position and relies on excellent lunging ability to cover up for it.Over to the board now. Without a quality RW, CDM, CB and LB (to fight with Shaw) this is going to keep happening.
Our lack of squad depth is shocking and some of the starting 11 aren't good enough.
Let's see how ambitious we are... I won't hold my breath.
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