The Manchester United Thread

Wolves this season have:

-beaten & drew with Chelsea.
-beaten Spurs away.
-took points off Arsenal, one of the likeliest to do us a favour in the run in vs. them too.
-knocked Liverpool out of the cup.

Sometimes, football teams get beat, especially your opponents are tricky customers like Wolves who are built to frustrate & inflict damage to top sides, as they've proved all season, and have in my opinion, a CL level coach.


Was a little bit surprised Ole threw all of Martial, Lingard & Herrera right in from the off coming off a spell out, wasn't like rotation was really needed given it's an international break, maybe Fred and Pereira as fully match-fit & match-sharp players would've been better from the start and just eased the attackers in particular into an open around 60-70 mins.
 
RhQQ said:
Wolves this season have:

-beaten & drew with Chelsea.
-beaten Spurs away.
-took points off Arsenal, one of the likeliest to do us a favour in the run in vs. them too.
-knocked Liverpool out of the cup.

Sometimes, football teams get beat, especially your opponents are tricky customers like Wolves who are built to frustrate & inflict damage to top sides, as they've proved all season, and have in my opinion, a CL level coach.


Was a little bit surprised Ole threw all of Martial, Lingard & Herrera right in from the off coming off a spell out, wasn't like rotation was really needed given it's an international break, maybe Fred and Pereira as fully match-fit & match-sharp players would've been better from the start and just eased the attackers in particular into an open around 60-70 mins.
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Sounds crazy to say it but we badly missed Lukaku badly, our front-line is ****** powder puff last night. No physicality against 3 commanding CB's.... good luck.

I just think the longer than expected honeymoon under a new manager may be over, hope I'm wrong but I'm worried going forward. But it will answer itself after the international break.
 
zzeezzy said:
Solskjaer's tactic yesterday got exposed as well, this whole building through Pogba and going down the left was so predictable now. Teams have worked it out, didn't see any adjustment yesterday either despite seeing warning signs throughout the game from Wolves.

Be interesting to see how we get on in next few games because they are pivotal to any top 4 hope. Have to be beating both Watford and Wolves which will be key to seeing if he learns from a game.
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You can’t make adjustments when you don’t have the tools tbh.
 
Fosu-Mensah having a decent game I think, turned off a bit for their goal however considering barely played the season doing himself justice.
 
RhQQ said:
Wolves this season have:

-beaten & drew with Chelsea.
-beaten Spurs away.
-took points off Arsenal, one of the likeliest to do us a favour in the run in vs. them too.
-knocked Liverpool out of the cup.

Sometimes, football teams get beat, especially your opponents are tricky customers like Wolves who are built to frustrate & inflict damage to top sides, as they've proved all season, and have in my opinion, a CL level coach.


Was a little bit surprised Ole threw all of Martial, Lingard & Herrera right in from the off coming off a spell out, wasn't like rotation was really needed given it's an international break, maybe Fred and Pereira as fully match-fit & match-sharp players would've been better from the start and just eased the attackers in particular into an open around 60-70 mins.
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Took a point of us as well.
 
zzeezzy said:
Fosu-Mensah having a decent game I think, turned off a bit for their goal however considering barely played the season doing himself justice.
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He’s still a good prospect who has been dealt some ****** hands out on loan. Ole will give him a chance.

Extra time in the FA Cup women’s tie. Reading on top though.
 
Get in there! 1-0 Utd. Great dribbling run into the box by Lauren James who is tripped from behind. Captain Alex Greenwood puts homecthe peno.

Oh dear lol. A hopeful ball into the box and calamity stuff as both the keeper and defender take each other out and the soft header goes in. 1-1.

1-1 HT ET.

2-1 Utd good cross from Sigsworth forces the Reading defender to put into her own net.

WTF! 2-2 shocking defending. Another hopefull cross Harris completely miss judges her header and heads it straight to a reading player in the box for a easy finish. Both teams completely shot fitness wise.

FFS :( a really poor taken freekick and the keeper makes a right mess and spills it to the STR for a tap in. Gutted for them!!
 
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Wtf martial pulls out of France squad due to a recurring knee injury, was in severe pain throughout the match. How can we allow him to play yesterday in that case? Baffled. He was awful, now I understand why partly.
 
zzeezzy said:
Wtf martial pulls out of France squad due to a recurring knee injury, was in severe pain throughout the match. How can we allow him to play yesterday in that case? Baffled. He was awful, now I understand why partly.
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Only read the Mirror and Sun saying it’s a recurring knee injury. Reports in France say it happened during the Wolves match. Oh well 2 weeks rest for our Tony :)
 
Theatre of Dreams83 said:
Only read the Mirror and Sun saying it’s a recurring knee injury. Reports in France say it happened during the Wolves match. Oh well 2 weeks rest for our Tony :)
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Yeah but if he is in pain during the game should of subbed him straight away. I think we are trying to rush too many players back like with Lingard against Liverpool. One thing that bugs me about yesterday is why we didn't use Fred at all, I'm starting to think he is being a mistreated here. As soon as he gets some form he is ****** dropped, happened under both managers now. (Mourinho & Solskjaer).
 
zzeezzy said:
Yeah but if he is in pain during the game should of subbed him straight away. I think we are trying to rush too many players back like with Lingard against Liverpool. One thing that bugs me about yesterday is why we didn't use Fred at all, I'm starting to think he is being a mistreated here. As soon as he gets some form he is ****** dropped, happened under both managers now. (Mourinho & Solskjaer).
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Ole won’t rush anyone back. He can only go on the physio and ultimately the players own say on his fitness/ feelings etc.
 
Curious to get Rhqq's thoughts on Nuno the Wolves manager, do you really think he is CL level manager? I'm just asking out of curiosity and why you think he is. I've not seen much of his teams play but from last night, I didn't think it was anything revolutionary. 5-3-2 playing on the counter, it did work very well but I always felt the game was ours to win. We were just so poor on the ball that we couldn't actually create one meaningful chance.
 
UNDER 16's: YESTERDAY- Newcastle 0-4 #MUFC

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Dermot Mee
Iestyn Hughes, Will Fish, Owen Dodgson, Alfie Hughes
Charlie Savage, Max Haygarth
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, Shola Shoretire
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, Noah Botic
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Charlie Wellens, Junior Lively, Omari Forson


Noah Botic has been on trial and Utd have taken the option to sign him. Is an attacking player from Australia and has scored in all games on trial
 
I rate Nuno from what I’ve seen this last 2 seasons hard not to tbh. Has his system never strays from it. Trusts his players to play the way he wants. And the players obviously love playing for him and work there ***** off evey game. Tbh think a few under rate them because there club name is Wolves. Look at the squad it’s full with quality and with Agent Mendes there bringing in more talent and having a huge influence on transfers. They ain’t going away and are gonna be pushing for top 4 imo soon. There record against the big boys is outstanding and I can’t see it changing.
 
Mario Balotelli reportedly had a t-shirt with the face of Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford underneath his Marseille shirt in case he scored & celebrated vs. PSG this evening.
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Theatre of Dreams83 said:
I rate Nuno from what I’ve seen this last 2 seasons hard not to tbh. Has his system never strays from it. Trusts his players to play the way he wants. And the players obviously love playing for him and work there ***** off evey game. Tbh think a few under rate them because there club name is Wolves. Look at the squad it’s full with quality and with Agent Mendes there bringing in more talent and having a huge influence on transfers. They ain’t going away and are gonna be pushing for top 4 imo soon. There record against the big boys is outstanding and I can’t see it changing.
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Don't get me wrong they have done very well but my question is if he only stays to one system, I wonder if he has a plan B? Secondly, if you look at their midfield on paper technically better than most of the league bar a few. top teams maybe. So why can't you play a bit more possession style and dictate the game a bit more? With that midfield it should be possible against most teams.

I'm not knocking anything they've done but just kind of wondering long-term where they go with that style of football. With their midfield surely they could be playing a bit more of an expansive game.

We had 60% possession a times against them, that usually doesn't happen against relegation teams for us. But for Wolves on paper their midfield is probably better than ours from a technical point of view. If you take away City and maybe Liverpool their midfield is as good as anything in this league as a collective.
 
CL level manager doesn’t mean you have to be an innovative or revolutionary coach. He drills an excellent defensive system and executes it superbly.

Arent Simeone, Allegri etc. CL level coaches, despite their lack of modern innovation? I see him potentially reaching that bracket.
 
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