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Manchester United Teamtalk/Transfer Rumours/Gossip 2019/20

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,859 ✭✭✭Whatsisname


    Ole is some man to talk about our need to finish off teams. We get the third and look threatening for the 4th, decides to take off Martial, bring on Tuanzebe and ****ing retreat into our shells. Absolutely spineless.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,436 ✭✭✭✭Father Hernandez


    Liam O wrote: »
    Would ye ever feck off! Fight back to a winning position by overloading the team with attackers. Of course the prudent move is to bring on a defensive player. It didn't work out but it was the right move.

    Why though?

    United played well when they went ultra attacking and got 3 goals.

    Sheffield United looked out on their feet which allowed the goals. Why rest there?

    Ole resorted to the defensive game allowing Sheffield United to attack and deservedly conceded.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,256 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Adamocovic wrote: »
    What have you been watching to think James is useless?

    In defending the final goal, all weak as fûck.


  • Posts: 19,923 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Lingard is toxic. Added absolutely nothing other than being not Phil Jones.

    Lingard was very good. Always available and linked everyone together. Rarely lost the ball. Another case of someone not being able to get any credit no matter what they do.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,028 ✭✭✭✭Headshot


    Ole is some man to talk about our need to finish off teams. We get the third and look threatening for the 4th, decides to take off Martial, bring on Tuanzebe and ****ing retreat into our shells. Absolutely spineless.

    Yap.

    Some may say it was the right decision but this utd team has proven they cannot defend and attacking was the best way to defend.

    We were all over them but when that sub happened, you saw Sheffield utd get a spring from it and knew they had a chance and could drive forward more without worrying about defending.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,040 ✭✭✭✭adox


    Let there be no doubt that Ole needs to go. A great 15 minutes to try and wash over the utter dross of the first 65 but these performances just can’t be ignored.

    Everyone is calling for Emery’s head at Arsenal and they have more points than us.

    The ****show goes on and decisions get kicked down the road again.


    The is is what Manchester Utd have become.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,762 ✭✭✭bmcc10


    Liam O wrote: »
    Lingard was very good. Always available and linked everyone together. Rarely lost the ball. Another case of someone not being able to get any credit no matter what they do.

    He ran straight into a defender 4 times


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,603 ✭✭✭All_in_Flynn


    Great spirit but we were poison for vast majority of that.

    Andreas is really really average. He was worst player on the pitch by a considerable distance. I think Olè has been very unlucky with injuries but I’d like him to go now and get Poch.

    Greenwood will be a star


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,383 ✭✭✭S.M.B.


    Why though?

    United played well when they went ultra attacking and got 3 goals.

    Sheffield United looked out on their feet which allowed the goals. Why rest there?

    Ole resorted to the defensive game allowing Sheffield United to attack and deservedly conceded.
    4-1-1-4 is a high risk formation. There is a reason we don't opt for it for 90 minutes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,192 ✭✭✭✭Kerrydude1981


    Whoever is in charge will need a miracle to get top 4,

    We saw the good the bad and the very ugly today from Utd, my god the first 70 minutes were the worst of the season by a long way,

    Williams goal goes in, and all of a sudden they remembered how to play football and passed the ball and move

    Will gladly take a point because all three would have been robbery


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,054 ✭✭✭wanderer100


    Ole is some man to talk about our need to finish off teams. We get the third and look threatening for the 4th, decides to take off Martial, bring on Tuanzebe and ****ing retreat into our shells. Absolutely spineless.

    Shocking game management. Started off with 3 at the back with that midfield is just asking for pressure which we all know how well Jones can handle. After getting the third we should be looking at the final 10 mins to finish the game off and go home with 3 points. But nope Ole takes off our striker Martial for another defender and like you said we retreat back and invite Sheffield back into our half.

    Ole seriously needs to stop making these same mistakes. Enough with the 3 at the back. Learn how to finish the game off. Stop celebrating the 3rd goal as if we've won the game.

    Another one step forward two steps back. Story of our season


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,436 ✭✭✭✭Father Hernandez


    S.M.B. wrote: »
    4-1-1-4 is a high risk formation. There is a reason we don't opt for it for 90 minutes.

    Completely get that but it worked against a tiring Sheffield United team.

    We opted for the safe option which time and time again has proved it doesn’t work out.

    We played 532 for the guts of 45 mins and lost 1-0.

    We play other formations and look like a pub team.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,256 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Headshot wrote: »
    Yap.

    Some may say it was the right decision but this utd team has proven they cannot defend and attacking was the best way to defend.

    We were all over them but when that sub happened, you saw Sheffield utd get a spring from it and knew they had a chance and could drive forward more without worrying about defending.

    I’d give their manager some credit, like he just said... “here, last 15 throw the kitchen sink at them get beat 5-2 or 3-3....

    James like a headless chicken for the last goal, beaten way to easily, needed to keep his head, containing his man and then tackle.

    SHOULD have been ruled out... fûck VAR


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,475 ✭✭✭Adamcp898


    Weepsie wrote: »
    I know the rule, but it's not black and white. No conclusive way of saying it hit his arm and not shoulder. There's also a get out in the rule for deflections, if it deflected off another part of his body and then hit it it doesn't have to be disallowed, and he was clearly pulling the arm away.

    “Nah”


    There’s no get out. Once the attacking team gains an advantage from the ball touching the arm then that’s the end of it. Or at least it’s meant to be.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 19,040 Mod ✭✭✭✭Trigger


    BDI wrote: »
    I think any top keeper saves the first one and he milked the second one. It would have hit him if he just stood there.

    Oh how the mask slips


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,028 ✭✭✭✭Headshot


    Trigger wrote: »
    Oh how the mask slips

    hmm that reminds me of someone I know, I wonder who...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    Last goal hit the top of his arm but Souness said that player tried to get his hand out of way, is that the rule now? If you try to get your hand out or way it’s ok?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,475 ✭✭✭Adamcp898


    Drumpot wrote: »
    Last goal hit the top of his arm but Souness said that player tried to get his hand out of way, is that the rule now? If you try to get your hand out or way it’s ok?

    Nope. The rule change in the Summer was meant to clear up that. As in once you gain any kind of advantage from the ball touching your arm, no matter how accidental or unintentional, any goal that comes from it is to be ruled out. It’s another mistake imo for VAR.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,573 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Poch's last game was a draw with Sheffield United. Just saying.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 34,995 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    You can blame managers all you like (and agree mostly)

    But Phil Jones has been at the club since 2011. He could not cut it v Basel when we got knocked out in CL qualifiers then and he cant cut it now. But yet here we are over 8 years later with this same guy. And we wonder why we have regressed.

    EVENFLOW



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,078 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    As a football fan if that goal had been ruled out I think I would have given up.

    It hit his shoulder, not his arm, and he did everything he possibly could to keep his arm back from the ball when a natural reaction would have been to try and control the ball.

    Helps of course that as a United fan it didn't matter anyway, that performance was rubbish yet again and the result doesn't change the bigger picture one ****ing bit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,501 ✭✭✭doc_17


    Poch's last game was a draw with Sheffield United. Just saying.....

    Speaking of Pochettino....how much of a break does he need before he’s take the Utd job? Or any other job? I think OGS’s time is done. And Carrick has been sat beside the boss for so long now you’d question what he’s actually offering.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,716 ✭✭✭✭Zeek12


    Some of the back 3 criticism seems a bit reactionary. It's served us well in some games, especially vs Liverpool.

    The key is to play that system with the right personnel.

    Today we missed McTominay giving protection to the centre backs, and being a general nuisance - breaking up the opposition's attacks.
    And Rojo is clearly much more comfortable at the left of a back 3 than Jones.

    What's really apparent is the degree to which our midfield has been decimated. Its taken just a couple of injuries to leave us almost completely bereft in that area. Perreira is way below the standard required.

    Not replacing Herrera and Fellaini in the summer was suicidal - and that will continue to haunt us as the season progresses.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,040 ✭✭✭✭adox


    Does anyone honestly think Ole will be sacked before the end of the year?

    I just can’t see it happening.


  • Posts: 27,583 ✭✭✭✭ Anaya Numerous Six-pack


    Trigger wrote: »
    Oh how the mask slips

    Tbf, Stop biting lads!


  • Posts: 19,923 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    In a way I can kind of understand it as it wasn't totally clear whether it was shoulder or arm. Looked like arm from the first few angles and shoulder from the later ones. I thought it would be disallowed but alas, difficult to judge for sure. Thought DDG could have done better with the hand he got to it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 34,995 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    adox wrote: »
    Does anyone honestly think Ole will be sacked before the end of the year?

    I just can’t see it happening.

    No. He be around till end of season I think

    *ye be all quoting this in morning now when he gets the sack :pac:

    EVENFLOW



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,591 ✭✭✭xtal191


    adox wrote: »
    Does anyone honestly think Ole will be sacked before the end of the year?

    I just can’t see it happening.

    Nope, he'll be here until the end of the season


  • Posts: 27,583 ✭✭✭✭ Anaya Numerous Six-pack


    Headshot wrote: »
    there we go

    Please let that be Ole's last game

    It's not to late to save this season

    That result only prolongs the inevitable
    Adds more weeks of pain


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,406 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    I think he's gone sometime this week.


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