[Irwin99]

Worst thing about that was I don't feel City were even that great. Seen them play far better games than that at OT. And yet that was as one sided as you can get.

Absolutely NOTHING going on in an attacking sense other than hoping Ronnie might score a worldie. I mean look at the attacking talent on the bench. How can you not get those players to form the basis of a good attack. It's crazy.

 

[arthurka]

Time is up, something got to give.

 

[Offside]

The team has gone backwards with Ronaldo despite his goals. Never looked this poor last season. It's bizarre.

Better players you get the more the coaching is shown up. Many have downed tools.

 

[DomesticTadpole]

To me this feels worse than the Liverpool game.

It was painful. The Liverpool game you ended hoping for more goals, today you just knew City had done enough and would cruise through the rest of the game. It was torture.

 

[Ixion]

Micah trying to defend AWB there was stupid. AWB, Shaw and DDG were all poor for the goal.

 

[edgecutter]

The team has gone backwards with Ronaldo despite his goals. Never looked this poor last season. It's bizarre.

We did look poor last year. We just managed to squeeze out results against the run of play. This was always coming, you could see that we couldn't persist with how we were playing just by the performances last year. Loads of people were ridiculed for saying we were lucky and that tactically we were easy to get at.

 

[Murder on Zidanes Floor]

 

[golden_blunder]

Sourness and Richards arguing at whose fault all our defending was.

Painful stiff

I think Souness almost swore at half time when describing the defending

 

[sparx99]

Embarrassing sky sports analysis here

Yeah, they are saying nothing. The problem with AWB on the 2nd goal is he doesn’t get a challenge in. His starting position is fine but he goes out to close the player down and stops. You have to close that gap AND make a challenge. It’s half assed.

 

[Walters_19_MuFc]

Never easy to go a goal down to City. Even worse when its to a sloppy goal.

I don't mind that we dropped off. City were always going to dominate possession but from there, you'd expect us to create a few chances on the counter, as we have done in the last couple of seasons. Other than the Ronaldo chance, we literally had nothing.

Going into half time at 1 nil, whilst not ideal, would have been reasonable but 2 nil killed it.

Second half was death by 1000 passes.

 

[DomesticTadpole]

Micah vs GS is more entertaining than the game

It was funny.

 

[Lightbringer]

More pulse in the sky studio than the UTD team :-(

 

[Pretzels81]

Two simple words, two big Os: Ole Out.

 

[Red Dreams]

It was painful. The Liverpool game you ended hoping for more goals, today you just knew City had done enough and would cruise through the rest of the game. It was torture.

City were in cruise control.
We will lose many more matches.

Top 4? We will struggle to stay in the top half of the table.

 

[Theonas]

Sourness and Richards arguing at whose fault all our defending was.

Painful stiff

Honestly, this is what elongates the pain. This constant focus on individual mistakes as though a team's sole job is to put out fires. The fact that we could not string passes together and spent the vast majority of the game running around chasing the ball is really like watching Newcastle. It really is difficult to imagine a more passive performance but in the meanwhile, we have people focusing on the consequences of this passivity.

 

[justsomebloke]

Oh please, you have the patient to analyze the tactic after the game? you must be some kind of AI right?

What, you think it's worth writing a post to complain about someone having thoughts about the match? If you like I could just pound my fist in the table and scream, does that work for you?

Don't be a fecking moron.

 

[AltiUn]

Van de Beek gets 10 minutes and gets consigned to the scrap heap. Fred, McTominay etc get multiple chances, multiple mistakes, red cards, lose 5-0 to Liverpool and still start every game.

The favouritism is pathetic. Next manager will be shipping McTominay out to Norwich.

 

[sunama]

That's impressive!
Ole is attempting to break negative records which the previous 3 managers failed to break.

 

[FireballXL5]

And yet no-one at Sky wants to state the obvious that Ole is completely out of his depth. It's bizarre.

 

[Freak]

It will be a disgrace if Ole survives this.

 

[Sandikan]

Yeah, they are saying nothing. The problem with AWB on the 2nd goal is he doesn’t get a challenge in. His starting position is fine but he goes out to close the player down and stops. You have to close that gap AND make a challenge. It’s half assed.

The problem is, if he sprints in, Cancelo can just skip wide and cross in from there.

He really was caught between two risks.

 

[Hernandez - BFA]

3 touches in the City penalty area.

Is that a record at Old Trafford?

Stop posting fake stats.

It was 4 touches!

 

[Kill 'em all]

The football with Ole at the wheel is down there with the worst post Sir Alex retirement levels. If he didn't have the individuals that manage to somehow save him, he would have been long gone. This is David Moyes level of bad.

 

[snk123]

We had one shot on City's goal (Ronaldo). We had two on our own (Bailly's OG and Lindelof's shot which forced a good DDG save).

We had two shots on their goal. Ronaldo’s volley and Ronaldo’s low shot. Both saved by Ederson

 

[redom]

Dominated us and still managed to rack up more fouls, stopped us before there was even a chance of it being a problem, smart.

 

[Sandikan]

"Game of their lives".

Hardly!
It was just a standard City win at our place, wasn't particularly special.

Liverpool's win was a game of their lives.

 

[DavidDeSchmikes]

Passive surrender

 

[Ixion]

It genuinely feels like Moyes' time at the club. When City and Liverpool beat us under Moyes it felt inevitable and there was just nothing we could do about it.

 

[Theonas]

While these two argue - amazingly - uninterrupted - Keane sits quietly looking like a 4 year old choir boy who’s managed to sneak into a screening of The Exorcist. Sad times. He knows we’re in serious trouble and miles away from the club doing anything about it.

I think he is part of the problem. Every time he focuses on individuals and what this dude could have done better or why this dude did not close down. He seems completely ignorant of the impact of tactical organisation which probably should not come as a surprise considering his managerial history. To him, football is about fighting and not making mistakes which was far more sufficient in the '90s that it is now but it's the only thing he knows.

 

[siw2007]

Derelict of duty by the team. We were beaten before the first whistle with our extremely negative tactics. City didn’t really go for it, they just controlled the game.

That should be good night for Ole but I don’t the see the board doing anything.

 

[Paxi]

 

[El Presidente]

Players aren’t good enough. This won’t be turned around with a new manager I’m afraid.

Never go full retard.

 

[Red Star One]

Has he already spoken?

 

[TheRedDevil'sAdvocate]

Six and a half years after the back to back defeats by Liverpool and City, it seems we're back to square one. Very similar performances too: zero goals scored and half a dozen conceded, second best to every ball on the pitch, very few chances created. Depressing, really.

Oh well, i guess that's what patience, longevity and half a billion Euros can buy you: Being a routine away game for the real title-challengers. I think i'm more furious with today's game because, right from the kick-off, the City players were like: "Should we be more aggressive? Nah, feck it, they are nothing. Pass the ball around, put the three points in the bag and let's go home".

By the way, keep on laughing at the patterns of play (you know who you are). For those who had their blinkers off today, it was failrly easy to spot which team had a plan to create overloads and 2v1 situations in the wide areas against a lame 532 who has only one function: To flood the central midfield areas with bodies because we don't know any better.

 

[sunama]

Time is up, something got to give.

That's the kind of thing that was said after the Liverpool loss.
What actually happened was that Ole came out smiling with the full backing of the board.

 

[Who's Kissing Cameras?]

Pep is a genius. I’m jealous.

 

[Sandikan]

We had two shots on their goal. Ronaldo’s volley and Ronaldo’s low shot. Both saved by Ederson

Think the second one was offside so is ruled out of the stats.

 

[IhabX7]

This Pep interview is soul-wrenching.

 

[Chip]

We had two shots on their goal. Ronaldo’s volley and Ronaldo’s low shot. Both saved by Ederson

Fair enough. I only remember one, and the match stats on here (right side) says one shot on target.

 

[ForeverRed1]

Listening to peps analysis compared to oles want it more.. is eye opening