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Stoke City 2:2 Manchester United

Post-match discussion


Sat, 09 September 2017

Martial

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Individual mistakes by our centre-backs cost us for each of their two goals.
 

Lennon7

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Martial is our best attacker. Still not amazing but he just brings a lot more life to that side.
 

Ballache

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Shit defending, we practically gave them twi goals.
Not the end if the world though, it's vital we beat Basel and get into a winning habit in this busy month.
 

Minimalist

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Wasn't a great performance and the change to a more cautious approach didn't work at all. Herrera coming in was worse. United were more open than ever despite the change.

Bailly and Jones had nightmares for both goals.

That said, I said I'd take a score draw if needs be and I don't think it'll be much to worry about later in the season.
 

Big Ben Foster

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Acceptable result. Wasn't able to catch the second half so can't comment on performance.
 

Randall Flagg

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Poor all round really

Bailly and darmian at fault for 1st goal and jones for the 2nd

Pogba very poor and in a game where we needed him to drive us forward
 

JG3001

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I'll take that to be fair, we were pretty bad today. Gave them far too much respect in the first half when we should have played them at their own game.

Wouldn't be too disappointed, Stoke away are a nightmare for most teams.

Still a long way to go.

Side note: Butland should easily be above Hart for England Keeper
 

Siorac

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So disappointing. We can't every game but this is not one we should've lost. We beat ourselves today.

Wake up call for the team. Important we focus and win every game till Liverpool now.
We did not lose...
 

txred

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Frustrating, but let that be the worst we play this season and we'll be just fine.
 

Woodenlung

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So poor defensively. Bailly looked very shaky. Pogba, Herrera and Matic took up each others space too often. We had a redundant midfielder and meant we were a forward down.

Martial needs to start more often. Had Diouf on toast.
 

automaticflare

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Why the fook did we stop playing football for the last 20 mins

Might as well have blown it up after subs ffs. We are still lacking some composure.
Also teams must know by now to just leave Valencia free fooking hell how much space and time did he have today and done absolutely nothing.

Chipmunkmoating will never play as well again in his life
 

Revan

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The entire defense bar Valencia sucked. Good at attacking, but Lukaku needs to be better at putting the ball in the net.

Martial should really start.
 

NinjaFletch

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Back down to the earth with a bump.

Looked like a lot of the same problems as last year to me tbh.
 

dwd

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The excitement at the first three games has proven to be a bit premature. Same theme as last season, as soon as we have a tough game it is a total different ball game.

We still have a long way to go. Just hope we win on Sunday now.
 

Man-United

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Also I dislike Fletcher when we play against him. Moan moan moan from him.
 

Jazz

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Don't know what happened to our defence today. Ah well. Need to move on quickly
 

pjaya

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bad defending again
Oh well
100% win have to end sometime
 

Player Ratings

5.7 Total Average Rating

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Score Predictions

769,24,54
  • Man Utd win
  • Stoke win
  • Draw

Detailed Results

  • 32% Stoke 0:2 Man Utd
  • 20% Stoke 1:2 Man Utd
  • 13% Stoke 0:3 Man Utd
  • 10% Stoke 1:3 Man Utd
  • 9% Stoke 0:1 Man Utd
  • 5% Stoke 1:1 Man Utd
  • 3% Stoke 0:4 Man Utd
  • 2% Stoke 0:5 Man Utd
  • 1% Stoke 0:0 Man Utd
  • 1% Stoke 1:0 Man Utd
  • 1% Stoke 2:1 Man Utd
  • 0% Stoke 1:4 Man Utd
  • 0% Stoke 2:0 Man Utd
  • 0% Stoke 1:5 Man Utd
  • 0% Stoke 4:0 Man Utd
  • 0% Stoke 3:1 Man Utd
  • 0% Stoke 5:0 Man Utd
  • 0% Stoke 2:3 Man Utd
  • 0% Stoke 5:5 Man Utd
  • 0% Stoke 2:5 Man Utd
  • 0% Stoke 3:0 Man Utd
  • 0% Stoke 3:5 Man Utd
Compiled from 847 predictions.
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Match Stats

  1. Stoke
  2. Man Utd
Possession
37% 63%
Shots
10 18
Shots on Target
5 8
Corners
5 11
Fouls
10 10

Referee

Neil Swarbrick