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

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First of many???

Well done to the boss.

Also...

Also double winners of beard of the month :D

might be talking the same thing but i read it as intensity more than energy. i don't think the players were tired, I think they 'just' weren't at it. As he said, similar to Brentford. And this is 100% something Amorim has called out - when he said he doesnt know what he is going to get from the team from one game to the next, was it after the Grimsby game?

Not saying Amorim bears no responsibility, but I think you have to look at the players more. I simply don't think Amorim is telling them to run harder vs Arsenal, or Brighton, than he told them vs Forest. Its been a problem with the United side for a long time and it is a mental/attitude problem. Which only becomes more of a worry when you consider Lammens, Yoro, MDL, Amad, Casemiro, Cunha, Mbeumo and Sesko are all 'new' players relatively speaking when looking at the long term mental issues. Only Dalot, Bruno and Shaw were long term United players at the weekend and I generally wouldn't accuse Bruno of lacking intensity in his actions.

I did think Cunha, Mbeumo and Sesko were poor, but then I also dont think it was a lack of effort. I have seen TOTD blame Cunha not closing down for the first goal but I think it was Dalot that was in the wrong position and Cunha got blamed cause he reacted to it so was visually the player getting there late. Can't remember the crossing situation on the second.

If Mbeumo, Cunha and Sesko had been good, our ball control and opportunity execution would have been better. If Dalot had any clue where he was supposed to be either side of possession I think our defence and retention improves a lot.

We could, should and will win as I think Bucketybuck put it best before!

Seriously though, hard one to call and a win / loss / draw wouldn't surprise me. Spurs were impressive during the week but it was only Copenhagen and they were shocking last time out in the league against Chelsea.

Spurs win imo.

They focus on crosses, are good at crosses, and we are bad at defending crosses.

I wonder if we will go for Mount in at 10 and Sesko benched a la Liverpool. I expect Maguire to come in for Yoro tbh, with MDL moving to RCB, though maybe he puts Mazraoui RCB with MDL staying CCB (and Shaw lcb)

I do think Mount comes in to try help Casemiro and Bruno in CM more.

Lammens, Shaw, Maguire, MDL, Dorgu, Mazraoui, Bruno, Casemiro, Mount, Mbeumo, Cunha.

Not the team I want him to pick, but a team I think he will pick.

It's simply impossible to predict a game like this, with teams like Spurs or United who are up and down from week to week.

I do think United will go with an unchanged starting 11, again.

Some would like to see Dalot dropped but I doubt he'll do that.

Away from home it's hard to predict with United. Bring Mount in for Sesko let Spurs have more of the ball with the onus on them to break us down and hurt them on the counter.

Depends which United or Spurs team show up. Last week against Chelsea Spurs were beyond awful I don't think they registered a shot on target all game. They were a different team midweek.

United have had such a poor run against Spurs we are well overdue a win. 3 points here puts us second until at least Chelsea play Wolves at 8pm- Similarly a win puts Spurs second for a few hours.

A game like this is very hard to predict. We have kept only one clean sheet all season and hard to see a second one tomorrow- United well overdue a day where we finish good chances and score 3 or 4- Hard to see either happening tomorrow!

I'll say we will win 2-1 just be the optimist!

No silly mistakes at the back and I think we win. This is a different utd side (much better imo) than they've played from the last 6 games vs.

Cas is in great form along with Bruno. Front 3 are playing very well together imo with still room for improvement.

Dalot playing scares me as he switches off far to often amd I think they'll try to exploit him.

Their injury list is pretty big and their home record is pretty bad. Think its 4 of the last 15 ganes they've won there (open to correction, thought i heard it on the radio)

2-0 win for us with a booing from the home crowd 😆

YeahI think it's a good time to play Spurs away. They've been poor at home and quite a bit of pressure and expectation on them.

But then we've been absolute garbage in all away games this season bar one.

If we go back to hoofing it up the field I think we'll probably win but if we try to play out we'll struggle.

Would like to see the team we put out against Liverpool for this game.

Dalot appears to be our long throw taker so doubt he gets dropped.

Interesting lineup