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jayo26

py2006 wrote: »

Is it just me or does Greenwood look more confident in this role. His body langauge and movement

Was just gonna say after that free he got on the end of his movement has relallly improved. Hopefully its the cavani effect

PhlegmyMoses

S.M.B. wrote: »

They removed the "if the ball strikes the hand in the build up to a goal then its automatically ruled out" rule this season anyway. Couldn't exactly tell you what the actual rules are right now though.

It has to immediately lead to a goal. So I'm guessing it nearly needs to come off the arm and either go in or go straight to somebody who then scores. There was too much time between Amad handling and Greenwood scoring I guess

Rossi IRL

Calling it early but Van De Beek will go down as one of our worst ever signings.

Your Airbag

Great save from DDG there. If we could grab all 3 points here with the reserves it would be a great result.

Bleating Lamb

wanderer100 wrote: »

If the game stays 1-1 by 70-80 mins, I wonder whether Ole will bring on Bruno, Cavani & Pogba and go for it

Think he will....good for morale if they could win the game.

Seems Pool fans going mad on Social Media when they saw Utd team and Leicester went ahead....
Had a quick look in on their thread on Boards there,a certain poster who regularly visits and comments on this thread left a few cutting comments....always surprises me that some of the regular posters here actively engage with his trolling here.

Liverpool,Chelsea,West Ham can’t complain about Utd tonight....we look comfortable in the game with likes of Amad,Mata and Greenwood doing well.
Van de Beek not taking his chance to make an impression yet again.

The Big Easy

I like this from Ole, game is there to be won, so bring them on!

Weepsie

517 career goals between rashford and cavani, is just a roundabout way of saying Cavani has scored a bucket load and making it sound like Rashford is some sort of supreme goalscorer.

The Big Easy

Crap!

wanderer100

Bollix

Your Airbag

Well sh*t.

y0ssar1an22

the dreaded curse of making subs on an opposition corner

Whatsisname

A set-piece, how very surprising.

Rossi IRL

Why is Rashford marking their biggest player.

One of Matic, Tuanzebe, Bailly need to take over there

PsychoPete

Could feel that coming but hopefully can at least get an equaliser

The Big Easy

Rossi IRL wrote: »

Why is Rashford marking their biggest player.

One of Matic, Tuanzebe, Bailly need to take over there

He was Elanga's man

Rossi IRL

The Big Easy wrote: »

He was Elanga's man

That makes it even more stupid

The Big Easy

Should've have brought Pogba on as well, he's hardly been overworked and he's skilled at minding himself

py2006

Looking more like my 1-3 prediction

PhlegmyMoses

Tuanzebe aint great either

useless

Should’ve been 3 there!

Would be reaching for Pogba & Fernandes now.

The Big Easy

De Gea is so pinned to his line, it's almost like he's got the yips or something!

Makes it all the more glaring when you've Henderson hopping around the place like he's had too much sugar.

y0ssar1an22

rooney might be relegated after all with derby:

Derby face the possibility of being deducted points after the EFL won its appeal over the club's breaching of Financial Fair Play rules.

downwesht

Donny hasn't shown much.......

paulbok

useless wrote: »

Should’ve been 3 there!

Would be reaching for Pogba & Fernandes now.

Can only bring on 1

The Big Easy

Cometh the hour......

Whatsisname

The Big Easy wrote: »

Should've have brought Pogba on as well, he's hardly been overworked and he's skilled at minding himself

Tbf, he's played about 3 matches while fasting. I'm ready to pass out if I haven't had my breakfast by 11am.

useless

paulbok wrote: »

Can only bring on 1

Brain fart caused by watching united concede yet another goal from a set piece.

The Big Easy

Whatsisname wrote: »

Tbf, he's played about 3 matches while fasting. I'm ready to pass out if I haven't had my breakfast by 11am.

Yes, a cheap shot, same for me here.

He fully observes Ramadan then?

Rossi IRL

This game has been lost because we have played 90 mins with only 9 men

Williams and Donny had a chance today and have offered absolutely nothing

py2006

Dreading a loss on Thurs too :-(

The Big Easy

Need the point, will be a hollow victory against Liverpool without it!

Zeek12

I’ll probably get lambasted for saying this……but that OT protest has not done us too many favours.

Protesting the way the ownership have conducted themselves is of course totally fair and correct – but the manner in which a minority of idiots took it too far that day has screwed up our end of season fixtures.

And Joel Glazer can write all the apologetic letters he likes.....reality is they count for very little

Premier league really didn’t help of course with the crazy reschedule of 3 games in 96 hours ….but no doubt there was some payback on their part there!

Hopefully we can get back on track next day.
But the gap to 3rd place is now just 4 points.

And we hand the title to City :-(

Weepsie

Rossi IRL wrote: »

This game has been lost because we have played 90 mins with only 9 men

Williams and Donny had a chance today and have offered absolutely nothing

Throwing a team of players together, most of whom have barely had a sniff of a football pitch and it's not a surprise to see that this happens. We see it in early rounds of cups where it's 11 individuals rather than a team

Lord TSC

Adamocovic

Sounds bad but not overly stressed about the loss.

9 changes, hectic schedule went in with low expectations myself against Leicester. Wished a few showed more fight given the opportunity though.

4 games left al between 13th and the 26th.
Obviously Liverpool and Villarreal are the big ones.

Adamocovic

Zeek12 wrote: »

….

And we hand the title to City :-(

It was always a matter of when rather than if.

Surprised we made them last this long.

jamesbere

Did van de beek play in the second half cos I barely remember him touching the ball

nullzero

py2006 wrote: »

Dreading a loss on Thurs too :-(

Looking likely tbh.

We should have gone for the points in this game and put the kids out against Liverpool.

Decent chance of finishing third now.

If anything this shows why we need to sign players this summer, our squad is too far too thin for a title challenge next season. One injury and we're in sh1t Street. We're really miles off city and there's no way we're closing the gap with this squad.

Would a fit Martial have made the difference tonight?

channelsurfer2

Was to be expected really. Dvb didn't do himself any favours. Thursday will tell a lot

StringerBell

jamesbere wrote: »

Did van de beek play in the second half cos I barely remember him touching the ball

Yeah got through some decent defensive work but our entire midfield, or really team in general failed to get going in the second half in terms of attacking.

Vardy is a shadow of himself isn't he

S.M.B.

nullzero wrote: »

Looking likely tbh.

We should have gone for the points in this game and put the kids out against Liverpool.

Decent chance of finishing third now.

If anything this shows why we need to sign players this summer, our squad is too far too thin for a title challenge next season. One injury and we're in sh1t Street. We're really miles off city and there's no way we're closing the gap with this squad.

Would a fit Martial have made the difference tonight?

Wouldn't say there's a decent chance of finishing third at all. Outside chance? Yes. Decent chance? No.

El Gato De Negocios

Lord TSC wrote: »

Adamocovic

nullzero wrote: »

Looking likely tbh.

We should have gone for the points in this game and put the kids out against Liverpool.

Decent chance of finishing third now.

If anything this shows why we need to sign players this summer, our squad is too far too thin for a title challenge next season. One injury and we're in sh1t Street. We're really miles off city and there's no way we're closing the gap with this squad.

Would a fit Martial have made the difference tonight?

Can’t imagine Ole would want to play a weakened team against Pool.

Probably United fan coming out a bit.

RobbingBandit

Martial has no intention fit or not he would have been in the way tonight

Very disappointing result as Thursday could have been more about tormenting the other side of town and stopping the pool from top 4 now all that's available is a hollow victory

jayo26

nullzero wrote: »

We should have gone for the points in this game and put the kids out against Liverpool.

I'm not sure people have grasped this but United played less then 48 hours earlier.. After playing nearly 60 games this season. It wasn't a case of saving the players for Liverpool it was a case of not overplaying them in such a short space of time and injuring any of them.

If we were playing pool tonight he would of still rested the players that played Sunday.

S.M.B.

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Very disappointing result as Thursday could have been more about tormenting the other side of town and stopping the pool from top 4 now all that's available is a hollow victory

"tormenting the other side of town and stopping the pool from top 4" sound like hollow victories to me.

skinny90

You’d swear this was a carobo cup round of 32 against Brentford with the squad he put out and not a game that means if loosing that’s city crowned champs and more pressure to defend 2nd place.
I’m all for rotation but I think he could have played shaw and awb.
Can’t see how mata got 90mins, Greenwood could easily have played the full match.

Dozyart

skinny90 wrote: »

You’d swear this was a carobo cup round of 32 against Brentford with the squad he put out and not a game that means if loosing that’s city crowned champs and more pressure to defend 2nd place.
I’m all for rotation but I think he could have played shaw and awb.
Can’t see how mata got 90mins, Greenwood could easily have played the full match.

You say you're all for rotation but then explain that you dont know how it works!

KH25

Only saw the first half, but I thought it was grand considering the amount of changes. Amad looked lovely and Greenwood took the goal well. Elanga looked like he was trying hard but I don’t remember much from him.

Not sure what to say about Donny. I’m all for giving him time, but he hasn’t really stood out in any of his games this year. Hopefully he’ll improve next year.

Zeek12

skinny90 wrote: »

You’d swear this was a carobo cup round of 32 against Brentford with the squad he put out and not a game that means if loosing that’s city crowned champs and more pressure to defend 2nd place.
I’m all for rotation but I think he could have played shaw and awb.
Can’t see how mata got 90mins, Greenwood could easily have played the full match.

I don't think playing Shaw was on the cards. He has historically struggled (or at least not performed near his usual level) with games in quick succession.

But I'd agree the rotation was a little too much tonight.
Rodgers must have been delighted when he saw the teamsheet!