[littlepeasoup]

Not sure I want to watch another 45 minutes of that again. Feel like my time would be better spent playing Spiderman and actually enjoying myself.

 

[Someone]

Game is there to be won. We just need to get a hold in midfield.

Bruno has been horrendous, and it's costing us because Mct is playing more as a striker, so we have nothing decent coming from midfield, and we're basically playing without fullbacks.

We need Eriksen in midfield the second half, could be for Antony and Bruno can play on the right, or could be for Mct. Either way he has to come in. I think SU will sit even deeper the 2nd half and we just need to be aggressive enough.

 

[golden_blunder]

Christ they’re 2nd to every ball, giving hoylund very little to work with. Wake the fcuk up lads!

 

[elmo]

Garnacho and Eriksen could do with coming on. Amrabat hasn’t really done anything, but I’d be tempted to move him to LB and bring Dalot off

Lindelof is playing LB today.

 

[Cantonaaa!]

I feel this is slowly slipping away from ETH. I can’t see what he’s trying to do.
Individual brilliance (and faults), yes. Solid, attacking team, no.
We might win tonight but we’ve looked like a mid-table team for quite some time now.

 

[Dannn411]

Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results. We will continue to plod on like this every game till Bruno and Rashford are dropped. Two vastly overrated footballers who have offered absolutely nothing all season.

Then there's Ten Hag. No pattern of play, no clear style or approach to playing. Just disorganization all around. This is snake oil salesman stuff. We are getting outplayed by a team that lost 8-0 on their ground last time out. He is on very very thin ice. One proper hammering away from being fired and that hammering could very well come next week.

 

[youngrell]

Wow, that was bad. So slow and lethargic.

Johnny Evans underlapping Antony on a break sums up too many of our players. He must be bewildered at the state of the team compared to what he was used to at United previously.

 

[Frank Grimes]

Looks like our main tactic is get Maguire to hit Rashford.

 

[The Hilton]

Same old story. After working hard to get a goal, almost immediately got hit back with an equalizer within next few minutes.
I think ETH needs to implement a new rule to his players. Once we scored, no attacking risk to be taken for next 5 to 10mins. Just keep the ball in our half and pass around.

This is basically what Arteta has done with Arsenal, seems to have worked fairly well for them.

 

[Litch]

We have to give him a chance with a full squad available. A reminder that we're playing a back 4 with maguire, lindelof and Evans.

Let's not forget how well we did last season and the faith we all put in him over the summer

I get that but there is absolutely no pattern of play.....

 

[yamo123x]

It's no fun watching us play these days. The club is a mess and the playing squad is just not good enough.

I dont see what plan we have on the pitch, we appear lifeless...this sadly is on ETH

 

[JinnerJamie]

I chose sober October and a night in for this…

 

[golden_blunder]

Not sure I want to watch another 45 minutes of that again. Feel like my time would be better spent playing Spiderman and actually enjoying myself.

It’s like watching Irish league. Awful quality

 

[edgecutter]

Singling out Antony here is utterly clownish. Argue with your walls you’re objectively wrong.

This. How anyone can have a go at him after watching Rashford in this match is utterly absurd.

 

[garelo]

Was he a fraud last season when he took the shambles he was left after Ole/Ragnick and got top 4 plus a trophy + another final? Get a grip

TBH we got extremely lucky with the draws in domestic cups last season plus big teams were terrible we cant expect the same luck again rn.

 

[MyOnlySolskjaer]

Has Garnacho ever been good starting? He’s an impact sub.

He started against Palace, scored and did well!

 

[RedPed]

Bring on the subs at HT. Rashford, Antony, Fernandes and Maguire off.

 

[Solius]

It’s like playing FM watching us.

“This player hasn’t scored in his last 18 games! Also this team has scored the least in the league and haven’t won a game!”

 

[Thom Merrilin]

Hardly like those 5 transform our football. Shaw would make a difference. Martinez would be struggling with the high balls, Varane would get injured again. Casemiro would look old.

They'd make a huge difference. Shaw is vastly better at LB than Lindelof and the best LB at the club. Martinez is our most capable ball playing defender. Varane is our best defender. I can't believe this has to be spelled out.

 

[Strelok]

The quality is surely poor but we're getting to control the match a bit. Think the players need to calm down a bit (especially you Bruno) and keep going. We'll win this imo. And God I miss Martinez and Shaw.

 

[RedOrange]

Bruno is just clearly too dumb to understand the concept of game management. It's absolutely absurd how he's playing. It's so idiotic I have to blame ETH for letting him.

That said, good last 10 mins, do that for the first 20 of the next half and we'll be fine. Hojland having some real bad luck, he'll start scoring soon.

Mount for Bruno but it'll never happen.

Eriksen for Bruno would probably work, too.

 

[Wing Attack Plan R]

Why doesn’t Onana just catch the ball when he’s making a save? He seems to prefer deflecting away shots instead of catching it.

 

[Scarlett Dracarys]

Yeah, the players are given the day off.

 

[garelo]

This is the standard ETH set up, he keeps going back to leaving his deepest midfielder on an island by themselves, don't get it for this league.

He had Edson Alvarez at Ajax who was brilliant at breaking play.

 

[sebsheep]

The tap in chance from the Rashford pass sticks out a bit more. He’s at United and so he carries the expectation of some of our great strikers.

It's not really a tap in if you have to fling your whole body to even stand a chance to connect. Such an odd player to pick out for criticism today.

 

[JoaquinJoaquin]

Until Bruno gets took out of the team, the same issues will occur

 

[pseudo_canadian]

Was he a fraud last season when he took the shambles he was left after Ole/Ragnick and got top 4 plus a trophy + another final? Get a grip

What is the excuse for how badly the team has played this season? With this squad there is plenty of talent to be playing much better football. It’s awful coaching, end of. He’s stubborn and is incapable of adapting.

 

[edgecutter]

Why doesn’t Onana just catch the ball when he’s making a save? He seems to prefer deflecting away shots instead of catching it.

Be thankful he isn't throwing them in the net

 

[JagUTD]

Having a couple of players out is one thing, having your entire defensive base, the majority of your midfield and then the first choice replacements for several of those players is something else entirely.

You can't play possession football with Maguire and Evans. You lose a big part the attacking threat from the left without Shaw. A defence without Casemiro and Eriksen is weaker than one with, even if they're out of form.

Doesn't help when the big players are out of form, but even if they were in form, chances are they would suffer due to the lower quality behind them.

Don't get me wrong, we've been dreadful but I'm not surprised.

 

[laughtersassassin]

We have to give him a chance with a full squad available. A reminder that we're playing a back 4 with maguire, lindelof and Evans.

Let's not forget how well we did last season and the faith we all put in him over the summer

Doubt he will survive till that point. We aren't even getting wins against some of the worst teams in the league.

Injuries or not it's tough to defend

 

[mitchmouse]

Seriously thinking of going to bed... we are just abysmal. always start to slow and let teams into games - not to mention not being able to hold on to a lead for more than about two minutes.

We can't pass, we can't keep possession, we can't build pressure. it's utterly pathetic and it's the same every week. Once again Bruno and Rashford offering nothing even when, supposedly, playing in their favoured positions.

I can see us losing this

 

[Ollie Derbyshire]

Losing faith with ETH. Not sure anymore what kind of coaching he does. This team cannot even do the basics.

Yeah it’s getting very hard to stay positive with him, our level of play is just abysmal. I been saying it for years, I just don’t know what we do in training, doesn’t matter what players, manager or coaches we have in place we never improve in anything.

 

[Thom Merrilin]

A reasonable answer up to a point, but we’re not struggling to get the ball into the final third. Where we struggle is in the final third.

Yeah thats fair. I think Shaw brings a lot to the final third. Both in that he actually overlaps Rashford and he's great technically.

 

[MyOnlySolskjaer]

Why doesn’t Onana just catch the ball when he’s making a save? He seems to prefer deflecting away shots instead of catching it.

He’s not that agile of a keeper to get down fast enough.

 

[pocco]

They'd make a huge difference. Shaw is vastly better at LB than Lindelof and the best LB at the club. Martinez is our most capable ball playing defender. Varane is our best defender. I can't believe this has to be spelled out.

We were crap with them at the start of the season, and pre season. OK we'd have enough too keep these out as they're so bad, but that's a very low bar. It's not just personnel but the whole lot. Or first choice attack looks woeful. They barely threatened the defence so you can't say our defence is holding us back.

 

[Dec9003]

Having a couple of players out is one thing, having your entire defensive base, the majority of your midfield and then the first choice replacements for several of those players is something else entirely.

You can't play possession football with Maguire and Evans. You lose a big part the attacking threat from the left without Shaw. A defence without Casemiro and Eriksen is weaker than one with, even if they're out of form.

Doesn't help when the big players are out of form, but even if they were in form, chances are they would suffer due to the lower quality behind them.

Don't get me wrong, we've been dreadful but I'm not surprised.

The majority of the midfield is not missing. He signed Mount for a lot of money to replace Eriksen and they’re both chilling on the bench.

 

[George The Best]

No energy, no fire. Playing at a snails pace. They should be burning the place up in tribute to Sir Bobby, but showing no desire whatsoever. Antony is a waste of space and money. Sad when it seems our best player so far is Maguire.

 

[JoaquinJoaquin]

Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results. We will continue to plod on like this every game till Bruno and Rashford are dropped. Two vastly overrated footballers who have offered absolutely nothing all season.

Then there's Ten Hag. No pattern of play, no clear style or approach to playing. Just disorganization all around. This is snake oil salesman stuff. We are getting outplayed by a team that lost 8-0 on their ground last time out. He is on very very thin ice. One proper hammering away from being fired and that hammering could very well come next week.

I feel if we don’t win tonight and we take a heavy beating next week, then he is on very thin ice. His only saving grace at the moment is the injuries and the takeover being up in the air

 

[Darkhorsez]

Yeah thats fair. I think Shaw brings a lot to the final third. Both in that he actually overlaps Rashford and he's great technically.

How far is Shaw from coming back?

 

[Litch]

.....and they blamed Fred