The Manchester United Thread

So I got my wish; 4-2-3-1. Tbh, delighted with that team.

Mixture of game-changers (Martial & Lingard) & game managers (Herrera & Carrick) on the bench depending on the second half scenario.
 
Need an extra CM on now to manage it more comfortably. Soton as expected, throwing the kitchen sink at this.
 
No idea why Jose hasn't sent on Herrera yet, Soton all over us at the moment.


Edit- Herrera on for Mata to switch to 4-3-3 as I suggested earlier...hopefully see it out now/nick another. Need to finish this like champions.
 
What an ugly, scrappy, vital WIN.

Deserved the first half lead, but no doubt who the better team was in the second half. Southampton absolutely deserved a point. But like champions would do, we dug in ridiculously deep and saw it out.

Lukaku reaction at the final whistle sums it up; massive 3 points. Teams will go there and struggle this season, no doubt.
 
This is the type of dirty, gritty 1-0 wins we need if we are to win the league. Not pleasant to watch but we got the 3 points
 
Big big win that feels like! Defence Defo won us that game. Another goal for big Rom :) Young was good again. Clean sheet for DDG. Though Rashford was quite again.
 
Idk why we invited so much pressure and made it so difficult in that 2nd half, we offered no attacking incentive whatsoever and it just seemed like we were giving them far too much of the ball considering we were much more comfortable first half.

Ill take the 3 pts but think we need to improve, this could so easily of ended with another 2 pts dropped like at Stoke few weeks back.
 
3 points on the board yadda, yadda, yadda.
That was horrible negative football from Jose and United.

That was a really uncomfortable match to watch.
 
Anthony said:
3 points on the board yadda, yadda, yadda.
That was horrible negative football from Jose and United.

That was a really uncomfortable match to watch.
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Yeh, I foolishly thought we’d got past the whole Mourinho shutting up shop and throwing on more defenders as subs at 70 mins.
 
Anthony said:
3 points on the board yadda, yadda, yadda.
That was horrible negative football from Jose and United.

That was a really uncomfortable match to watch.
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I'm sure you've witnessed a few of those on the road to titles.

Give me an off-day with 3 points any day of the week over 20+ shots on target, woodwork hit 4 times & the keeper going home with red hands. Had enough of them last season to last me a life time. This reminded me of the United of old.
 
zzeezzy said:
Yeh, I foolishly thought we’d got past the whole Mourinho shutting up shop and throwing on more defenders as subs at 70 mins.
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More fool you coz that ain’t never gonna stop happening under Mourinho. It’s whats win him god knows how many championships. Difference is this season we have players contributing more in an attacking sense. And a more balanced and better settled team.
 
zzeezzy said:
Yeh, I foolishly thought we’d got past the whole Mourinho shutting up shop and throwing on more defenders as subs at 70 mins.
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You know I was his biggest critic regarding this last season, however, there was clearly no other choice today. They were all over us. Their momentum gradually built from the 46th min onwards. We weren't allowing them, they just simply got in a rhythm and outplayed us man-for-man. It happens.

I think we could've threw on Herrera a lot earlier and try to get back on the saddle, but we left it too late and threw him into a circus. In the end, we had to throw on an extra CB, I saw no other alternative. They were way too confident.
 
We can’t continue to do that though as it will definitely cost us. Just like it did at times last season.
 
What would you have done? They came out firing all cylinders, our worst & most sluggish half for some time. Sometimes there's nothing you can do but commend the opposition; they wanted it more that second half, and unlucky in their efforts to not find a goal. We recognized they were majorly in the ascendancy, and tried to stifle them (which I say we done successfully, as shaky as it was pre substitutes).

One thing I'll say, Pogba is desperately missed.
 
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