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Ellexy:
Always understand that Cup form is different from league form. A team might be terrible in the league but beasts in a Cup. Nothing Forest didn't make the semis by accident. They're played their way through and beat all the opponents they faced.

Including spurs for that matter

Trevor012:
If Dalot didn't get injured thats is how Awb for they rot for bench without any proper Chance to show his ability because bald man is afraid to trust players and rotate.

And he will definitely go back to that bench when dalot recovers, the earlier you admit they're not your decisions to make the better

Na here we go dey, when he makes wrong call in his tactics and line up, and he will be rightly drag for it

I hope you keep the same energy when he rotates the way you wish he does and we drop points

Trevor012:
Some of you are Fecking hilarious. 3:0 up against a nothing team like Nothingham forest at home and you still dey shake like this. Baba if the bald headed man cannot rotate with 3 zero up at home then he can never rotate again.

U seems to forget that forest is a premier league team, they're fast, they're physical, they don't have anything to lose, they're like the wounded lion that just want to see the game out and you want us to pack our under 21 against them because we're leading 3:0 on aggregate, on aggregate ooo!!

Thank God you're not the coach, as for maguire, varane hasn't been in the starting 11 since arsenal, he'll need some leg time due to Crystal Palace, same for shaw, you can even see him looking out of shape with his decisions, they were horrendous yesterday, he needed the leg time also, martinez was needed for his forward pass and build up because we lost eriksen (Fred can't fill the void), Fred has been on the bench for the two games prior to the clash, yesterday was his first start since man city, bar casemiro and bruno, he did rotated the rest

Abeg leave Ten Hag alone oo

odizeey:
Mainoo is not Casemiro's direct replacement. He's a CM. Pellistri for Antony. Malacia for Shaw. Maguire and Lindelof for the guys that started yesterday.

One of the boys should be starting in our midfield three. It's not like these young boys are eleven.

Only Garnacho played yesterday in a game that is the surest of games to start.

Actually he is best suited as a deep lying playmaker, from his clips that I have watched, he operates similarly more like matic than pogba but he can also play as a 8

Look at the game against reading and you'll see that he was used at the base of the pivot, and I think that's one of the reasons he got a nod above iqbal

Leyqute:
Eph12

We were 3-0 up from the first leg. But this is a different game. You cannot afford to start weak. Play 3 academy players who haven’t seen enough minutes and you’re asking for trouble. If we concede once or twice in the first half, we could lose the game- even if we bring on the big boys.

That was the mistake Pep did against Southampton. And he paid dearly for it - conceded twice in the first half.

We cannot afford to start weak. It’s better to start strong and then go weak afterwards with experiments.

Trust me, that Forrest team yesterday came for a win. Disrespecting them by starting too many non-starters would end in disaster.

All they need is a goal before 25 min, and mainoo as a dm, would start panicking, the way to build confidence for youngsters is to induce winning culture into them, and raise the standards of the team, or else dem go just dey feel like, they're meant to save us from some kind of unforseen disaster, they start misbehaving

Mrviktor:
Somebody here really said Fred can replace erikson


Nawah oh..

Abeg make stabilizer cook oh. Cuz this Fred wey I watch yesterday no follow at all.
No creativity.
Just pass to me. I pass to u.

Fred cannot replace eriksen, it's impossible, yesterday we missed the forward pass and attacking output of eriksen, the first phase of the game had us moving the ball around in our back line, resulting in martinez forcing ball from the back into the attacking third, I hope stabiliser comes good or else, this season go long

odizeey:
Baba mi. I no even understand o.

Shey na FA cup then won play or na against Barcelona? Or na EPL wey we dey fight for top four?

It's not even like it's 11 academy boys we want to give minutes. It's just two or three. The others that could have played are senior players.

There's no way on God's earth casemiro wouldn't have started that game, his direct replacement is mainoo(on him, the jury verdict is still ongoing, forest is still a premier league team that has nothing to lose, they could target him), no replacement for bruno and wan bissaka, maybe pellistri for antony, the rest are justifiable

Let me tell you something, with the form man utd are in, no matter the rotation we do, they would still look like a strong team, mind you he did 5 rotation

Leyqute:
Maybe Sancho can step up sha.

In the number 10 role, he doesn't have bruno's work rate

Leyqute:
He operates mostly from that right side of the midfield in almost all of the clips of him I’ve seen.

Some says it's LHS

Ellexy:
So you want them to strengthen a direct rival By the way United still confident they can agree a deal with Russo.

And man utd is also gunning for the league too, given one of our best players to our direct rival is suicidal, to me Chelsea is the only team capable of stopping us, giving russo to arsenal automatically increase their chances

Lana1:
Soooooooo, he's another Pogba that needs to be unlocked?

You buy a player to play at the wings, but the player does not have pace, won't you find a way to compensate, or players that doesn't not possess pace should forger about football?

In pogba's case, his problems is too huge to be covered, at least casemiro is covering for eriksen

Mrviktor:
lets be honest.. anthony doesnt ever get on a Pep Guardiola or ancelotti or prime jose team,,
so why should he be starting week in week out for us

he wont attack,. wont defend, wont cross.. wont run.

You can say all you want to say about antony, most here would support you, but you can never shiite on his defensive work, that being said, antony is not a player best suited for counter attacks, you want the best for him, you make the players around him tick, his wing back, the nearest central midfielder must be always alert to receive passes (mostly short) and also to swap positions with him

Yesterday was probably the best I've seen him being a constant threat against the opponent backline, the problem we have with him is the same we had with van de beek, and guess what that's the style we're gradually going to turn to by the time we fully grasp ETH style

Short/direct passes, constantll movement, hold up/link up, counter press, pinning of opposition into their half, you'll see when he gets the new central midfielder and deep lying playmaker he wants

That's why he keeps playing eriksen, because has the quality to do what he wants, he's just not aggressive enough

Antony will get better and I see amad slotting in perfectly also(he plays similarly to antony, he's just more direct than him)

Mrviktor:
January 22: Arsenal (A) L 😞

On to the next

January 25: Notts Forest (A)
January 28: Reading (H)
February 1: Notts Forest (H)
February 4: Palace (H)
February 8: Leeds (A)
February 12: Leeds (H)
February 16: Barça (A)
February 19: Leicester (H)
February 23: Barça (H)

No team in the premier league that has the amount of fixtures staring at them, but we need to win something

odizeey:
Because we lost one game after how many matches?

The truth is we needed reinforcement, we're one suspension/injury before we start crumbling

It's not secret the two games we've lost now as been due to a player being suspended and nobody to take the role, and I don't know the anxiety, now they're hating, no be because of ETH we taste the title race ni?

Leyqute:
Did that guy say Elanga should come on?

Why not remove Varane for Maguire and replace Licha with Lindelof so that everything go scatter patapata?

Elanga ko, Elanga ni.

They've been waiting for him to lose, so they can get back at him cause of Ronaldo, I like Ronaldo but the hate against ETH is so forced, three players were not inside the game, unfortunately for us they were all in the midfield, and they started hating on wout Weghorst also, ontop waiting, the guy even try pass wetin martial dey do for front

Joezinho:
Ten Hag plays his favourites and that's what I hate him fo. And some of his favorites are bums.. Why is the Fraud average winger Antony always starting? Why did Werghost play the whole game? Why isn’t Garnacho coming on early??

We have 5 sub options and ETH could not take off shaw for malacia, take off weghorst and bring in Garnacho so rashford can play upfront, bring in Elanga to play at RW and take off Eriksen for Bruno to play AMF.

Not all baldies have sense.

And you think all these options would have changed the game?

The won't if your midfielders are not combative, tell me what eriksen did? What mctominay did? And look at the bench and bet on improvement

WE missed casemiro and we don't have a replacement for him, simple as that, he is discipline enough to cover form eriksen defensive blunders, those blunders was so obvious today and that's why we lost

Simple as that, abeg leave agenda, whether you like it or not Ronaldo is not going to play for us again

ChristoBam:
Is it Klopp that's not covering people? You see him making the bad choice in almost every decision. Sky rocketing every chance and you're saying he won't be this bad.

Antony is already being trolled as being useless. Eriksen adds other aspects to our games especially attacking wise. Gakpo has been absolutely useless in every aspect so far since his move.

We'll never know, moreover it's too early

Leyqute:
Wey that guy wey dey give us Gakpo alerts that time? Buhari don ban internet for him side?

I don't think he'll be that bad if he's with us, considering the ETH system us even covering antony and a defensively weak eriksen

paafin:
This guy was good under Van Gaal..

I remember his game versus Arsenal in what was Rashford's debut in the premier league..

Dude was instrumental in Rashford's double..

That's actually the only game I remember him for


There used to be a guy called Borthwick Jackson too

patrickmuf:
My God!!! You misunderstand my post and start reacting based on what you comprehended...

Arsenal are on the up and their team is made up of young exciting players so, expect them to get better in the coming year unless of course they sell their star players...Liverpool will be right up there once their injury issues are behind them while Chelsea are bound to bounce back thanks to their owners who are ever ready to break the bank and City will be City...

We have made tremendous progress but we need to strengthen the squad if we must keep pace with the usual suspects plus a resurgent Arsenal and a Chelsea team that will most likely get their act together with their injured playersreturning and their new acquisitions.

And why do you think we won't strengthen ours? Or we won't get better, we have a coach we've not even started playing 60% of his style

patrickmuf:
As far as this season goes, Odegaard has been right up there among the best AMF in the league.

If we beat Arsenal then we can legit begin to shoot for the stars...

I don't get this fear of arsenal, we had them on toast even when we were not playing our best game, even if they win, doesn't make Erik a poor coach nor a discredit towards our growth this season, before this season started most of us were only praying for top 4 and maybe a carabao cup, now you desperately hoping we'll enter a title race we don't have the squad for

Las las we'll either win, draw or lose, don't forget they still have city(H&A), Liverpool (A) and even Newcastle (A), arteta has more on his hands than us

patrickmuf:
Are we really up to the task or is it a case of Liverpool, Chelsea, City and Spurs not performing at optimum level? Let's not get carried away even as we appreciate the progress we have made. I remember a couple of seasons back when we finished second/third but honestly it was not because we were that good but rather a case of our rivals struggling. I'd love to see how we compete against the likes of Liverpool, Chelsea, City and Arsenal next season to really guage the level we have reached.

As for the talk about overhaul, we need to strenthen the team even more because at the moment, we still do not have a bench that strikes fear into any team so, yes Rangnick was right when he opined that the team needs to be overhauled. Overhaul doesn't necessarily mean we will replace the whole squad however, it depends on the nature of the team and in our case it had to do with Strengthening the core of the team across each area (Defence, Midfield and attack) as well as improving the bench. So far, we have improved the defense as well as midfield but in attack, Antony has not stepped up to the level you expect of a player that cost that much and in midfield, you feel we need another player in the mould of Eriksen or someone in between Eriksen and Casemiro like Neves to ensure there's no shortage of quality in any case of an injury or suspension.

Very funny you included arsenal, we were shiite last season, with dem slightly better, fact is majority of our rivals are not good enough doesn't mean we can't improve, in sport it's always about advantage, its because we were bad Liverpool was able to hammer us last season (now it's there turn), the Hype around the team goes beyond the winning, if as a united fan u can't point out positivity in the team, then u need to watch our games again

Lemme help u with one, there's no way on God's earth we're going to equalise not to talk of beating city some weeks ago, people said city is getting bad, it's all a lie, Erik did is job well against pep this time

jargooflife912:
LOL

Nobody could've predicted that, remember what happened to him at etihad, and it was even f9den that handled him

One thing about the boy is he reads the game well, might not be technically sound like shaw but very discipline than he is(especially against tricky opponent)

hatakekakashi:
No signings this January except Weghorst?

There's butland

And also *laugh* pellistri and new sancho

patrickmuf:
Madrid isn't Bankrupt though...

Madrid wins trophy, that makes it easier for them to sell their players and with substantial amount self, I bet if we eventually win something this season, you'd be surprised on how much we'll make from transfer during the summer

Jokerman:
Manchester United have won nine consecutive matches in all competitions, their longest run since a run of nine between December and January in 2016-17 under Jose Mourinho. #MUFC

Guess what we won at that time, you're right league Cup and europa

kozmicity:
You and I know that Erling would've bullied Lisandro today, he didn't get the chance with Luke sha and it's because Kevin was on lockdown. In a game as serious as this, why won't ETH start his normal defenders?

I don't think it's because of haaland, cause obviously the game plan was to suffocate KDB from creating anything, from the Chalton game I knew Martinez wasn't making the starting XI, he seem to be still a bit far from being match fit, if Charlton was a bit better they would have punished us from his mistakes, I pray he's better enough to make crystal Palace game, as much as I hate it I'd like a pairing of maguire and him cause of arsenal

Havertz10:
Erickson has 6 assists this season, Bruno has 3 but it’s Bruno that is carrying Erickson


The joke for me here is that you named yourself expert

Actually bruno has more XA than eriksen, only trippier and KDB has more, bruno is also second in XA per 90min in premier league, the funniest thing is eriksen is not in top 7 of either metric, why? Because the assist comes most from set pieces also, how attackers always waste bruno chances (especially martial and Antony)

WE are just lucky that eriksen chances are being capitalised on whenever he gives the key passes

On those saying bruno is the our key man, there're right, tho some might say casemiro, but bruno help us sustain high press, and that's why man utd is leading the Premier league in counterpress and about third in forced turnover

Football is not just about the passes, most will call antony flop, but his defensive work rate helps the team break up counter and helps our RB to bomb without much consequences

timay1:
The problem is that, can we trust him to be humble enough like wan bissaka to put in the work.

Because with his ego, we can't trust that he won't throw in the towel like CR7 did and start attacking the manager via proxies.

Imagine ETH dealing with pogba and CR7 issues at same time, the man go just resign from man utd

I just hope he gets it right with sancho tho, don't want that boy ending like dele alli

Leyqute:
You didn’t get me.

I said he’d get the Wan Bissaka treatment. He’d be forced to work on his weaknesses and once he does so, he’d be exceptionally better than he used to be. He’d be unplayable. Every freaking time.

But he's always injured

Culer:
Y'all criticising city players and pep for this abysmal show.. of course yeah, but did you consider that just MAYBE they didn't take this game a tad serious as they have a double header in the league against united and spurs after playing Chelsea twice?

This na wrong take alaye, City had their first xi finished the game and they didn't even register a single shot of target, if you're saying things didn't go their way, agreed! But that they didn't take it serious is a lie, why dud he now sub haaland?

Ellexy:
Bellingham is not a deep lying playmaker like the Veratti's and the Dejong's we are looking for.

Yeah he's not known for his passes but his runs/drive, that's why I included him