Once a proud attacking club.
Preseason Tour Game 6: Bayern v Man Utd (Friendly, Sunday 05 August 19:15 BST)
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
The people who wear these are apprentices of the Deutsche Telekom (thats why they form the "T")
Hugs.
I expected shit attacking football and league titles under Mourinho. So far we've only seen one of those two (in abundance) and no threat of the other.You expected different?
It really is baffling how, in all these preseason games, we have played like some second division team trying to hold out for a draw at the Bernabeu
We're defending so deep might as well call it 9-0-1.
Our midfield can't string 2 straight passes. That's crap.
Defensively very solid, dreadful going forward.
Fred, apparently, turned down City........Bet Fred (see what i did) is wondering if its going to be like this all season.
Sanchez has been on the ball since then, he did good work in the build-up to Shaw's ball through to Mata. He's also had a few other bursts but to be fair looks isolated on our left side, as does Rashford in the middle.
In a game where the oppostion has the bulk of the possession, nothing.
We need quick ball carriers if we're going to set up like we are.
How can they say Neuer is the best keeper in the world?
He's done feck all this half!
He's done feck all this half!
Don't worry guys. Signing yet another centre back is the key to unlocking this team's potential.
Would be nice if Bayern let us have a kick second half. Back 6 working a treat.
Highlights of the half.The paper plane, Paddy knocking over his coke.
Genuine question here. Why are you surprised? It's how we played for most of last season. Unless we change manager the way we play isn't going to change.
That was bad
Bailly looks good
Really disappointed, is Jose becoming outdated? Why do we seem to want hoof balls to the target man that doesn't exist, Rashford is not target man like Lukaku, Sanchez is small.
Bailly is doing great. So long as the ball in not in air, he's amazing.
Mata is past it and shouldn’t be used in the games were we will see little of the ball as he doesn’t have pace to hurt opposition.
Can’t wait fir Pogba and Lukaku to cone back
Absolutely zero threat in attack offered up here. Alexis is trying but nobody else is.
Absolutely zero threat in attack offered up here. Alexis is trying but nobody else is.
Very solid defensive shape by United but little intent going forward. That's how I'll summarise the first half.
When is United going to play Bayern?
LMAO Paddy.
"Not been great has it?"
"Not been great has it?"
Desperately need a RW more than a CB. I hav't seen Mata since first 5 min
Well if Man City weren't so good we would have won the title no? Or are you not buying that?
I can accept football like this when we are missing so many players, and we are playing away to Bayern Munchen. The problem is that this isn't the exception - it's more like the rule
Nah, we struggle to produce something meaningful just the same as the last few years.
Parking the bus in a pre season friendly.
Not Jose’s fault though...
Not Jose’s fault though...
Which is expected. Jose hates coaching and he barley had time to do any.
very ordinary. our attack is non existent
At this point, it's useless to blame the players. Mata was a brilliant player for Chelsea. As was Alexis for Arsenal, Herrera was good for Athletic Bilbao, Martial and Rashford for LVG's United etc.
Sooo.. enligthen me, folks. How's adding Toby/Maguire would make us score goals again??
Paddy, think he thought he was off-air: 'it's not been great, has it..'
Agreed. Besides, we are defending well. Not too bad at all that first half.Can't wait for the actual match threads given it's like this in here for a friendly
Bayern are better than us and basically have their strongest team and are at home. We want to win and trouble the opposition better than this but there's really no point us destroying ourselves in this temperature 5 days before the PL starts.
He’s like a shit Inzaghi now. All the offsides, none of the goals.
We've set up the counter and, for the most part, we've done the defensive bit well. However, we've had a couple of chances to counter quickly that have been snuffed out because of holding the ball too long. If we can release it from midfield just a bit more quickly we could probably get at this Bayern defence. Still, its only preseason I guess. Fortunately, since the water break, Darmian has improved a bit. Sadly, Shaw and Mata are still playing at 5/10 level.
We can't play possession football
We can't play counter attacking football
What is it that we can do again?
We can't play counter attacking football
What is it that we can do again?