[ForeverRed1]

Spend big on a midfield. The transfer window is open, go show some ambition.

 

[#07]

Utter disaster. No way of sugar coating that.

 

[Champ]

So the Ole out brigade got their wish, only for the same mediocrity to be handed out by the new incumbent.

How long before Ralf gets the same treatment and they rinse and repeat?

 

[Name Changed]

That was pathetic. Outplayed completely. It was coming. Newcastle should have beaten us easily. We were shit against Norwich. We weren't exactly great against Burnley either.

 

[redcafe_reader]

Our inability to string a few pass together is actually impressive.

 

[bdspeedy]

Jones played fine. Unlucky that his header went right to that feck Moutinho.

 

[antsmithmk]

4-2-2-2 is just 4-4-2 written differently. 2 strikers, 2 wide men, 2 central midfielders. It’s not really worked in the league for about a decade and it isn’t working now. With the limitations of our midfielders we need another body in there. We have to play 3-5-2 or 4-3-3.

Tonight’s scapegoat will be Rashford. I’ve never seen a performance so poor.

positives were Bruno and Jones. Jones especially after such a long lay off was outstanding. Maguire I hope was looking on and taking note…

 

[Beachryan]

McTominay and Matic is not a midfield. Everything stems from that, poor passing, poor organisation and the inevitable frustration.

Until we buy or find a functional midfield, we'll continue to be terrible.

 

[Moston Red]

Toxic club

 

[DavidDeSchmikes]

If you had to guess which of the players hadn't played for two years, you'd go through nearly all of them before getting to Phil Jones.

 

[Triple.Threat]

Not a single manager in the world is capable of teaching professional footballers at this stage of their careers how to pass the ball forward or find a runner. McTominay's passing range is that of a Sunday league footballer.

Hate to admit it but Wolves midfield today had everything we lacked.

 

[choccy77]

Next season our squad.

No Ronaldo (expect him to leave)
No Cavani
No Martial
No Pogba
No VDB
No Lingard
No Mata
No Matic
No Jones (TBD)

No Manager

Shows how much wrong is with this squad.

 

[NewUser777]

Don’t even care we lost.. Phil Jones, two fecking years without a game. My man of the match by a mile!

 

[Livewire1974]

Hello Europa League or conference League. Woooo

We won't even make either at this rate.

 

[McGrathsipan]

No way.

It's true

 

[NinjaZombie]

Had me fooled. Thinking we might give them a running for their money.

Had the Liverpool at OT vibes from the first 5 minutes.

Lucky to have lost by a goal only.

DDG - 8
AWB - 3
Jones - 7
Varane - 7
Shaw - 5
Mctominay - 5
Matić - 5
Greenwood - 6
Sancho - 5
Ronaldo - 4
Cavani - 5

Bruno - 3
Rashford - 1

Strange you gave Scott McTominay such a high score. He was atrocious. Rarely demanded the ball from his centre halves, careless when he gets it and generally was second best to most loose balls. The fact that he's a starting midfielder for us is proof of how shit the squad is.

 

[Murder on Zidane's Floor]

Love how people are having a go at the manager when you have Rashford punting simple passes out for goal kicks and Greenwood kicking passes out for throws, how about Sancho passing to Wolves players for fun, or McTominay giving the ball away, perhaps AWB never finding one man with a cross.

How can you coach players when that's their standard?

 

[Saddy]

19 shots against our 9 FFS !

 

[gearoid]

It’s bad enough going back to work tomorrow without having to watch that shocker. So many don’t have a notion about playing in a team. Fair play to Phil Jones, thought he had a decent game.

 

[carlbcfc]

Shaw & Wan Bissaka cannot pass for the level needed at United

 

[Massive Spanner]

It's true

Are you forgetting our final games under Ole or what?

 

[SirScholes]

Bruno scores the tap in and we probably win the game
De gea wasn’t very busy today.

not sure Ronaldo and Cavani should be playing 90 minutes. We had zero pace to get in behind

rashford is a nothing player, a failed striker, we are going to be saddled with him until he retires.
He doesn’t know how to play wide, no ambition to ever run to the line and cut it back.

 

[Florida Man]

Erm, Phil Jones was good. Until he headed the ball to Moutinho anyway.

Yeah should have done better on that occasion, though a goal was always coming from them sooner or later.

 

[manc exile]

AWB, McT, Sancho and Ronaldo not good enough IMO. overall I see "progress"

But cue the overreactions below.

really, what exactly are you seeing?

 

[Sassy Colin]

Can't really be bothered rating the players after a performance like that.

 

[Frosty]

Phil Jones was great. I really hope he gets a move and enjoys the rest of his career injury free.

I don't see any improvements under RR yet. Worrying.

 

[carlbcfc]

Go & get Lamptey from Brighton

 

[Lecland07]

I said it in the post match against Burnley, and one person said I was miserable, but it was pretty obvious that that performance was not near good enough. And today proved me right.

Manutd need some serious improvement because the last game was mostly about how bad Burnley were, rather than how good we are.

 

[Suv666]

Something is rotten in the state of denmark.

I'm sick of Denmark as well

 

[DomM]

Wrong formation, our midfielders aren't good enough to play as a two, Sancho looks scared and isn't contributing, AWB again offers nothing, it was all too easy for Wolves, they should have won by more.

We need to play with 3 in midfield and get the wingers working more.

Rashford had 20 minutes to make an impact and still looked lazy.

Poor performance from most but for me wrong formation.

 

[VanDeBank]

We’ve clearly got a team of ‘uncoachables’ they have a manager with a clear philosophy and they just can’t play his way

Maybe Mr. Clear Philosophy wasn't a good appointment as an interim mid season?

Koeman would've been better as a pragmatic manager until the next bloke can get a full season and summer transfer window.

 

[sillwuka]

You know it's bad when the board for 5 extra minutes goes up and you don't believe in your heart we will score.

 

[Betson]

[

Gave it our best but wasn't to be.

We did well to keep it to just the one goal to be honest. We're in over our head trying to compete in this league against teams who play actual football.

The stats show we done well to only lose by one , they were a far superior team to us. We can.t compete with teams who play decent football.

 

[git_united]

Poor from everyone. Can’t even really rate Varane and Jones because Wolves isn’t a potent offensive side. Would have kept Greenwood on and taken off Cavani. He’s been shambolic the last two matches. Can’t understand playing AWB with an inverted winger in a 4-4-2. That’s just dreadful from Fletchnick.

 

[TMDaines]

A very disappointing end to the Christmas holidays.

Really poor performance again. Wolves the better team. United continue to always leak a goal, whilst struggling to create themselves. Astonishing, really, when you look at those players out there.

Rangnick now has a lot of training opportunity either side of the FA Cup match, before we play Villa again in the league. It already feels make or break for him, because there is so little cause for optimism out there.

 

[DavidDeSchmikes]

cultural reset needed. Poor attitude, look lethargic

 

[Dr. Dwayne]

I'm so happy.

Happy New Year.

 

[BestRed]

Deserved nothing from that, slow no urgency football from the start, feck me.

 

[steffyr2]

Seems like the script was for the team to look awful and then Bruno and Rashford to come on and save the day. Give them a boost of confidence.

Wonder how much playing less than great wears on players.

Redcafe members should all go offer their services as players, coaches, tacticians.

 

[redzombie]

cant even be annoyed with the score, we got what we deserved