Manchester United Thread 25/26 - Teamtalk/Transfers/Gossip Mod Note in OP 26.09.24

Well it does. For now.

How long he survives won’t depend on this one result. And this one result will amount to sweet F A is we lose next week.

He’s still United’s worst ever manager in the league regardless.

If his form to date as manager holds true, we’re probably still going to end up firing him before Halloween, never mind Christmas.

But at least the result is a green shoot, and something positive for once, and something to work from.

Let’s just enjoy the moment. We haven’t had too many of them.

For an experienced player, Casemiro does some brainless things. It is a necessary three points to pick up. Amorim needs to just win football games, anyway, anyhow. If United can pick up 6 points from the next 2 games, then things will begin to look "okay".

I thought Shaw was done at this level based on last week, he put in a very satisfactory performance today.

We played well lads, there was a desire out there and a passion on show. It wasn't beautiful in the second half but it didn't need to be, it got us the result and clearly we were deeper while trying to hit them on the break so not sure the possession stats really matter much with that in mind.

To be fair if they pick up 6 points from the next 2 games things begin to look better than ok. We haven't won back to back league games in a long time, that would be 3 on the spin!

Is the manager still trying to get the sack?

UnitedStrand could start looking for a barber!

We were two up in shite conditions and Chelsea had taken all their best attacking players off bar Pedro, we let them have the ball ahead of us and tbh they caused us absolutely no issues the goal was the first shot on target, possession is fairly meaningless we had more via city and arsenal

A bit crazy how we couldn't hold onto the ball in the last 15 mins. Surely that has to be coached into them. Don't aimlessly hit the ball up the pitch and lose possession.

A decent amount of that has to do with the goalkeeper, you can't safely play the ball around at the back for fear he will **** up if he tries to play it short and then he just goes long and kicks the ball away to Chelsea's big defenders, we won't control games properly untill we have a goalkeeper at least competent with the ball

the players, the fans and the managers know Man Utd throw away victories at the end of games, it has been this way for years. Not a pretty 3 points buts it’s a change in the right direction. A psychological hurdle that was cleared. Hopefully now a pattern of winning can now be established.

Great win albeit a very nervy last few minutes.

Yes Chelsea had a man sent off early but that was only because of our direct play and high work rate. Chelsea making 2 other early subs including Palmer was also because of our high press- I see posters saying we still haven't seen much- At 20 mins the World Champions (😁) were in panic mode- I certainly don't think Palmer was injured when you consider his reaction and surprise at coming off so early. At 2-0 we should have killed the game for a third and that's where we let ourselves down- Liverpool or City would have scored 5 in that first half.

The sending off for Case changed the dynamic again but I think it was a very soft second yellow- That said I would have liked Mainoo and not Ugarte at half time. The players put a shift in and got a much needed win.

Can't tag both responses to my post about possession. Just want to acknowledge both responses and im not saying I didn't expect us to drop off in the second half. I meant that the result could have been a big lift for the manager if we kicked on, but I don't see him coming out of this with a big push.

I'd have taken casemiro off after his yellow, no need for two sixes when ahead and a man up. I felt we could have hit them for five, but falling over the line takes the shine off the result for Amorim.

All that said, obviously happy with three points and we move