[sunama]

Disappointing but not deserving of the full on meltdown it's getting.

We were up 2-1, against 10 men.
We should've been cruising.
Once they went down to 10 men, we shat our pants and they attacked us hard. They had passion. They had power, pace.
Vardy - 1 chance, 1 goal.
Our attackers - multiple chances and no goals (except Mata).

 

[Darkhorsez]

Well this is what happens when we miss so many sitters. What do we expect playing away from home that they won’t push for a goal - throw bodies from the back? To be honest, I am not as much pissed with the misses as to the lack of urgency Rashford had in putting the through ball with 2 mins to go. I have been so patient and defiant defending our team but today was simply unacceptable. It’s ok for me to watch the game in the comfort of my home, the have a couple of beers and move on. What about our amazing away fans who paid a lot of hard earned money to go to the match. I feel gutted for them and they deserve more. Other than a few of our players, the rest should take a serious look in the mirror and get their shit together ASAP.

 

[wolvored]

How come ?

We aint finished 4th yet still half a season anything can happen with the way this team performs

 

[alsabi]

We have 12 points more than we did at this stage a year ago. Doesn't mean the result/performance wasn't infuriating tonight, but there you go.

 

[iportman]

Not this again, please.

Yes again this please , Jose is playing to the English theatre by playing rashford . Let's ask this question how close to the first team would a brainless clown like Rashford be at Barca or Madrid ,?

 

[Fully Fledged]

Of course not. I'm not happy with it. But we arent getting anywhere close to City. Title talk is delusional..
The next target is CL qualification...

I wont be too stressed about every dropped point in the league. I'll take 3rd + CL semis or better.. Or 3rd + the FA cup.

It wouldn't be if we didn't keep dropping stupid points like tonight.

 

[DevilRed]

We should have put them away by at least 2 or 3 goals.

Shame that Jose wont get rewarded with the 3 points today. We played them off the park for most of the match, only to lose our heads in the final few minutes. We've probably also lost Smalling for another 4-5 matches now. Typical.

It will take another two transfer windows to properly compete with the best in Europe and the blue shite at the top of the league. We are definitely a formidable team that just needs a few pieces and some maturing.

 

[Hansa]

Right. Merry Christmas everybody! Match is gone now. Nothing we can do. Moving on.

Merry Christmas! We'll be back here on Boxing Day bitching and moaning

 

[Maradona10]

Absolutely right.

 

[DavidDeSchmikes]

Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho, speaking to Sky Sports: "We didn't win because missed incredible chances. I would say joke chances.

"We made a big defensive accumulation of mistakes in an easy match to win. I talked to the players at half time when it was 1-1 that it was an easy match to win.

"The reality is that it is 2-2. Sometimes you make mistakes and are not punished by that. I feel great. One thing to feel angry as manager and another thing to feel great as a man.

"We were punished by our mistakes. It was an easy match to win, we did everything to win but when you lose big chances. Childish loss of possession, so easy. Childish in their box and childish in our box. We were punished in two points."

 

[Marcky411]

When we clear the overrated players, and bring in good ones, we will be.

We will have to clear out 25 players

 

[Irrational.]

If this was a FIFA game, controllers/ TVs would be smashed. So infuriating.

 

[chb23]

So fecking pissed off... Time and again. Why the fecking feck do we sit back and defend against 10 men? At some point you have to use your brain.

And now the manager is going to come out and blame the players as if he has nothing to do with it.

Guess what? He didn't have anything to do with it. He couldn't have predicted Rashford's brainfart not to play Lukaku in

 

[Werd.]

Jose bang on about the missed chances. A fecking joke.

 

[Kapardin]

Yes again this please , Jose is playing to the English theatre by playing rashford . Let's ask this question how close to the first team would a brainless clown like Rashford be at Barca or Madrid ,?

I agree with you on Rashford. I maintain that he is a Welbeck/Walcott level player at best. But Martial is not the best thing that people hype him to be, and he certainly was not our best player tonight. His miss cost us, while Mata scored 2 goals.

 

[Carolina Red]

It was Jose's fault he bought Martial off for Rashford, unless he was injured, it was a foolish move. Martial was our best player tonight. Never brings Lukaku off, barring a couple of chances created, he was crap. Looked at his movement all game, 9 times out of 10 he stood ball watching on the edge of the box.

I have to say, I disagree with pretty much everything you’ve said here.

 

[Paul the Wolf]

Some ridiculous overreactions in this thread.

Should have won this easily, players miss chances but why did we sit back and invite pressure again?
Players should have made it safe but should have kept hold of the ball.

Bad first goal to give away and Smalling should have gone off or at least taken out the middle at the end.
Rashford has been off form for a while and seems to have lost all confidence.

Mata and Lukaku best players.

We played quite well until they went down to 10 men.
DDG had almost nothing to do.

 

[JG3001]

Suggestions?

Talk of sacking Mou now is outrageous, but would you not take Ancelotti when this season ends?

I’d be tempted in all honesty.

 

[Cpt Negative]

Jose bang on about the missed chances. A fecking joke.

He’s got a point. We missed three 1 on 1s.

 

[Spoony]

Great game...we deserved to win.

Ho hum.

 

[ijc]

A wry smile genuinely broke out when Maguire scored that. Still top of "the best of the rest table".

 

[Ludens the Red]

Jose Mourinho:

“We missed joke chances. It was an easy match to win. The result should be 4, 5, 6. We were punished by our mistakes and what more can I say. Childish loss of possession and in the end no maturity. The players did not react (to Smalling). Childish.”

Coulnt have put it any better. This team has some serious growing up to do.

 

[wolvored]

Cruising against 10 man Leiscester & he wants to shut up shop? Then he wastes his last sub with 10 mins to go with Mkhi coming on, really odd moves imo.

Agree with you but I'm just saying Mou shits himself instead of going for it against 10 men

 

[Ban]

We aint finished 4th yet still half a season anything can happen with the way this team performs

I guess you expect a huge meltdown but it won't happen.

 

[Ace of Spades]

I’ve literally never seen anything like it. It’s absolutely pathetic how whenever there’s a lead the players just turn off completely. There has been some exceptions to this when they’ve gone up in the lead late in games, but in most cases it’s beyond awful how the team plays when in the lead.

It is pathetic, where exactly does this come from. Absolute brainless stuff, no adapting to the situation.

 

[red_devil83]

Martial, Rashford and Lingard all spurned chances to kill the game. Should've passed it to Lukaku.

We really should've won this

 

[Raoul]

Missed chances. Should've scored about 5 or 6 today

 

[unitedirish1985]

It wouldn't be if we didn't keep dropping stupid points like tonight.

Champions win games they should draw or lose. Look at City, some of their results in Dec were due to a late winner. That's why we won't be Champions.

Our strikers panicked in front of goal tonight and cost us the win tonight.

Great game to watch from an entertainment point of view. Up there with with the recent arsenal game in terms of end to end play. More like the united of old.

 

[Class of 63]

They're down to 10 men, so where's the logic in taking Lingard off and Herrera on?

Well, when we employ an ultra cautious Manager (sigh)

 

[Dobba]

The only thing worse than the last 10-15 minutes today is the knowledge that the players will learn absolutely feck all from it.

 

[ijc]

Glad we didn't try to take the ball into the corner in the last 4 minutes to waste time

Some team did that so efficiently at Old Trafford about two or three weeks ago...

 

[cyberman]

Its a freak result, it'll be a long time before we see 1 missed chance like that but 3 and being denied a clear pen by a ref 5 yards away and then lose our best header of the ball in defence?
Its so freaky Im not even mad, we battled back well and played some good football going forward.

 

[Jazz]

Merry Christmas! We'll be back here on Boxing Day bitching and moaning

Absolutely whilst I'm enjoying my divine ham

 

[prateik]

Absolutely right.

Yes yes.. Hopefully he'll do something about it.
We have lacked leadership in the pitch for a while now. We need to get a few players to take care of that.

 

[Fully Fledged]

Re-watch the Sky footage. In the 91st minute Jones tells Herrera to go RB and brings Lindelof in moving Smalling into midfield. Herrera refuses.

Should never play for United again.

 

[Son Of Sam]

This game just proves exactly why in this position that should always be the answer.

But we had a man advantage and yet it didn’t look like it. At a point, Rashford had the ball around the touchine. I was expecting a give & go, Rashford passed the ball and completely stopped. He just stood there like a zombie when he could have ran to receive the ball and get 1v1 with the goalie.

We aren’t just good enough. Rashford infuriated me today with shit decisions and laziness. He was a substitute, why was he not breaking his back to get a goal to kill the game? We could have scored 5-7 goals after their defender got sent off.

 

[Ban]

Yes again this please , Jose is playing to the English theatre by playing rashford . Let's ask this question how close to the first team would a brainless clown like Rashford be at Barca or Madrid ,?

Calm down.

 

[Acquire Me]

Jose bang on about the missed chances. A fecking joke.

Yes, this was just not good enough. The players need to have a look in the mirror. Shameful.

 

[Aniefiok]

Mata was class. Our players are so average, this is painful. I stayed up for this

 

[el3mel]

I just fecking hope this doesn't lead to the previous season getting repeated again and we start seeing these misses more frequently, as it's predictable with our immaturity.