Manchester United Teamtalk/Transfer Rumours/Gossip 2020/21- Mod Notes OP [06/11/20]

Quandary

Bruno Fernandes is like a solitary beautiful flower growing tall amongst the weeds in the marsh that is Manchester United.

He is so far ahead of every other player at the club it's not even funny. The man is carrying this team.

Insect Overlord

Harsh free against AWB there.

Dave0301

Cavani is making a stake for a starting role just on his movement alone.

y0ssar1an22

maguire in the wall...is that not odd?

Insect Overlord

Quandary wrote: »

Bruno Fernandes is like a solitary beautiful flower growing tall amongst the weeds in the marsh that is Manchester United.

He is so far ahead of every other player at the club it's not even funny. The man is carrying this team.

Ah, here. We have plenty of talent in the squad.

Father Hernandez

yourdeadwright wrote: »

Shows how assist stats can be pointles
First one is a bad corner headed out to Bruno and second he crosses into the keepers hands

Will he actually get credited with assists?

He won't 'officially' get those 2 assists.

On the flip side, you could say his under lying stats because of the 2 non assists show the value he's bringing to the side from an attacking point of view. He's a serious threat whether he's getting the stats or not.

pjohnson

This front three is brilliant.

El Gato De Negocios

yourdeadwright wrote: »

Shows how assist stats can be pointles
First one is a bad corner headed out to Bruno and second he crosses into the keepers hands

Will he actually get credited with assists? I dont think he will

Who cares?

He is delivering balls for our forwards to attack which has resulted in 2 goals. His crosses are creating the scoring opportunities.

Quandary

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Ah, here. We have plenty of talent in the squad.

I was a bit harsh with that analogy tbf

Drumpot

Cavani chasing everything down.

This is a solid team performance aswell, no passengers. This is a team you can get behind.

DM_7

Good man Lindelof.

Pipmae

C'mon Rashford

A Dub in Glasgo

Peno and Rashford takes it and scores

Mantis Toboggan

Lovely ball over the top

Drumpot

Ah Bruno, unbelievable team player. I don’t mind that, he knows rash needs a boost

Father Hernandez

3-0 lovely.

Bruno obviously told Rashford was taking it prior to the game.

On for the hat trick and no fuss or anything kicked off about it. Love to see it. Love Bruno.

Great half.

kerplun k

Even as a utd fan I have to laugh at the amount of penalty decisions going our way.

billyhead

How did this crowd beat us?

Bruno is a leader too

El Gato De Negocios

Just give Bruno the fcuking armband, ultimate team player.

Loafing Oaf

Is there any law that a player has to keep moving in the run-up to a penalty? Rashers came close to stopping dead there...

wanderer100

Job done in 35 mins !! Love to see it

Smart from Rashford to get his body across the defender and win the peno. Cool finish as well.

luketitz

I don't recall ever seeing a player as selfless as Bruno giving the ball to teammates for penos to help with their motivation at the expense of his own goal tallies/scoring bonus etc, some man, real leadership at play.

El Gato De Negocios

billyhead wrote: »

How did this crowd beat us?

That's the sickener, we should now be home and hosed and in a position to rest the main players in the last two games but cant for at least one.

KH25

billyhead wrote: »

How did this crowd beat us?

Honestly I think the team were too cocky last time and just assumed they would win. That and crap defending.

DM_7

Seemed like a soft pen decision but smart play all round with ball over and Rashford in behind. Such a high line from the defence is very risky though.

PARlance

Waited all this time to see Telles, VDB and Cavani start. Makes such a difference.

Zeek12

billyhead wrote: »

How did this crowd beat us?

First goal is always crucial for us.
We score first, game opens up and it suits our gameplan

Other way round, the opposition can sit in and we really struggle to create openings

Drumpot

El Gato De Negocios wrote: »

That's the sickener, we should now be home and hosed and in a position to rest the main players in the last two games but cant for at least one.

I can’t even play a CL game on fifa without feeling sick, since the loss away to this crowd. I suppose one consolation is that from here we only need one draw to qualify regardless of what happens in other game tonight

KH25

PARlance wrote: »

Waited all this time to see Telles, VDB and Cavani start. Makes such a difference.

Arguably this is our strongest 11.

El Gato De Negocios

Donny back making slide tackles, love the cut of his jib. Its very fcuking obvious who the leaders in the team are, you'd hope OGS can see it too.

All_in_Flynn

Super ball by Lindelof. It's something we should be trying much more. Liverpool best team around at those passes.

I'm against the chopping and changing of peno takers. It creates uncertainty I feel. Bruno should be taking every peno whilst on the pitch.

Cavani deserves a goal for his work rate alone. Occupying both centre halves.

Not sure on VDB yet. He is really good at one and two touch passes but I'm really not sure he can play the role he is in tonight. Wait and see I suppose.

Pipmae

For once I don't want the half time whistle to go. Great stuff.

KH25

KH25 wrote: »

Arguably this is our strongest 11.

Probably see Matic and James playing the weekend.

Quandary

KH25 wrote: »

Arguably this is our strongest 11.

I'd worry about our lack of physicality against powerful combative midfields.

That being said, it's nice to see Utd playing with this type of aggression and work rate.

Question marks still linger over our back 4 though.

Annabella1

I have seen very little from VDB so far this season

nullzero

Best 45 we've had in a while, particularly at home.

Drumpot

Exactly wrote: »

Probably see Matic and James playing the weekend.

pjohnson

Quandary wrote: »

I'd worry about our lack of physicality against powerful combative midfields.

That being said, it's nice to see Utd playing with this type of aggression and work rate.

Question marks still linger over our back 4 though.

McTominay in for VDB

PARlance

KH25 wrote: »

Arguably this is our strongest 11.

I would swap arguably for obviously.

3 proper players.

Liam O

Annabella1 wrote: »

I have seen very little from VDB so far this season

I seen him go in for a committed tackle there a couple of minutes after Martial showed his cowardice yet again. So he's on the right track. I also didn't see him give the ball away 5 times so that's good.

Quandary

pjohnson wrote: »

McTominay in for VDB

Definitely an option when more athleticism and physicality are required.

He's still a little bit naive with his positional sense, but hopefully that will improve.

Drumpot

Just realised if the other game is a draw we only need to draw against PSG next week to top the group. Or if we draw against RBL and lose 1-0 to PSG

Insect Overlord

Quandary wrote: »

I was a bit harsh with that analogy tbf

It was a good analogy, but there are a few other flowers in the garden!

0gac3yjefb5sv7

Quandary wrote: »

Definitely an option when more athleticism and physicality are required.

He's still a little bit naive with his positional sense, but hopefully that will improve.

McT should be nowhere near the team if VDB isn't injured. Different class.

ParkRunner

Ole’s doing alright eh :-)

PARlance

Quandary wrote: »

I'd worry about our lack of physicality against powerful combative midfields.

That being said, it's nice to see Utd playing with this type of aggression and work rate.

Question marks still linger over our back 4 though.

I'd like teams to be worrying about our midfield for a change tbh.

If they're good enough, they don't have to be huge.

There would be games that we should be a bit more defensive but they should be in the minority.

VBD having a great game also

No way back for Pogba in this team IMO

Dozyart

Luckhurst saying Tuanzebe coming on,also said it looked like Martial amd Cavani were angling to take the peno 😂

Quandary

PARlance wrote: »

I'd like teams to be worrying about our midfield for a change tbh.

If they're good enough, they don't have to be huge.

There would be games that we should be a bit more defensive but they should be in the minority.

Agree to a certain extent.

If we play with enough aggression, tenacity and work rate then less physical presence is required.