The Official Manchester United Thread (Vol 11)

[Frimley111R]

This is going to be defending and hoping to catch them on the break now.

[LF5335]

Why are we pissing about with the ball at the back when they’re all over us? There must be acres of space up the pitch.

[Frimley111R]

Yeah,it's like we're frightened of taking control

[J6542]

I think he should have took sancho off instead of Wout.

[Big Rig]

He’s lost the dressing room.

[Frimley111R]

Big Rig said:

He’s lost the dressing room.

Haha joker

[Frimley111R]

Young guns coming on...

[57Ford]

I was just posting to say these subs have been needed for the past 15 minutes.

[LF5335]

57Ford said:

I was just posting to say these subs have been needed for the past 15 minutes.

Timing is about right I think. Very fresh legs and Soton getting more nervous about holding out for a draw or going for the win.

[57Ford]

said:

I disagree. Sancho and Antony had the first 15 minutes of the 2nd half to justify staying on but really offered very little value going forward or defensively today. They should have been subbed on the hour.

[57Ford]

Good challenge??? He scissored Garnacho which VAR should report as a red and a pen.
Eta: scrap that, reality says that’s only the case today if it was the other way round.

Edited by 57Ford on Sunday 12th March 15:42

[bstb3]

57Ford said:

Good challenge??? He scissored Garnacho which VAR should report as a red and a pen.

Dangerous play today only works one way. Clear as day.

[Daz68]

Wow. Us and Bottom teams.

[bstb3]

Daz68 said:

Wow. Us and Bottom teams.

To be fair they had 12 men to our 10. 13 if you count Marriner in the VAR booth (remember him? The one who sent off Casemiro for the 'Strangle'). Not the worst point considering how the game panned out, but shocking considering what we wanted. EPL really has to sort out the officiating. Elite level league, amateur level officials. I suppose it makes good drama, so why fix it.

[and31]

Daz68 said:

Wow. Us and Bottom teams.

Two thirds of the game with ten men-
I couldn’t watch it but from what I’ve read on here it sounds like the officials have robbed us…..

[G-wiz]

Well, pick the ''skeletal elastic collagen fibrous, matrix hardened by inorganic mineral salt, calcium phosphate'', out of that.

[Daz68]

and31 said:

Daz68 said:

Wow. Us and Bottom teams.

Two thirds of the game with ten men-
I couldn’t watch it but from what I’ve read on here it sounds like the officials have robbed us…..

We just never matched their intense game. Agreed very poor decisions but still we were terrible.

[and31]

The two extra games against Barcelona have done us no favours.

[G-wiz]

Real Betis kick-off at 17:30 today, if anyone is interested.

[bstb3]

Daz68 said:

We just never matched their intense game. Agreed very poor decisions but still we were terrible.

I think thats a bit unfair. We played on Thursday, they had a week off and we had 10 men for an hour. I'm not sure what we can really be expecting in terms of matching them for energy. The sad part is that we could still have won, but the penalty call was piss poor too.

Without Casemiro, Eriksen we just don't have the players to control the game effectively. Too many erratic passes from Bruno, DDG can't make a good distribution most of the time either - great stopper though. It just doesn't suit playing with 10 men.

Not sure if it's 4 or 2 games now without Casemiro, but it's a big miss again. Frustrating that the same official has cost us up to 7 games of his EPL appearences with harsh calls.