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larride:
But we didn’t lose 1-0 now.

You can only continue blaming Fred if we lost 1-0.

After that error, we still played another 70mins of football. In fact we equalized before they went ahead and score 2 more.

E be like the ended 1-0 o

chidexxy007:
Even Jorginho, no export reach that level.

How nobody is talking about this here amazes me. Na why I no suppose dey take this place serious

KingAlabi:
Stick at shouting up man U, please let we that have scars from playing football talk.

After all you fam Fred

What else can I expect ?

Make I no waste my strength jare

You no worth am

I fam Fred? Most likely because he gets the stick for our clueless play. I have defended Shaw, AWB, Maguire here times without numbers because they were the scapegoats. Its Fred turn now. Whenever you decide to pick on another player and ignore the overall performance, I will be there to defend that player. My last response to you

Oasis007:
Solskjær on the first goal: "We want to build from the back and want the players to be confident - sometimes it doesn't work and that's one time it didn't."

How can he build from back when every other player is hiding. We have seen this many times

KingAlabi:
Confirmed na up man United e stop for you

You probably never dey watch ball when Fagbo dey pass ball into our own net. Dey grow dey come

Someone said VDB only contribution today was not touching the ball so Greenwood could score. How can he not mark his man and apply pressure so that Fred and Matic don't get doubled up on? How is this not basics?

KingAlabi:
Have you ever played football at all?

If yes
Conceding a stupid goal like what fred did
What does it do to a team morale ?

Again please can you take Fred and gedifok?

Have you ever played football at all? I doubt that. You should go watch your street football often, you may learn something even if you be otu. As a professional footballer, you shouldn't stop playing no matter what.

Leyqute:
Don’t go low and start turning amala. I respect you more than that.

What amala am I turning? You're the one turning amala here. You just said some errors don't matter. Why are you now blaming Fred for same thing you said does not matter?

KingAlabi:
Fred thunder will fire you ehnnnnnn

How can a player not be able to handle a muster seed of pressure?

Eph12 if say you no be my guy eh

Na fight I for fight you now

Ole God will punish you, why use a freaking 4-4-2

Start you fvcking best players we are playing Leicester not Sheffield

Oasis007
I dey come

Because the team conceded one goal? One goal?Is that why the team couldn't press and play like a team?

Leyqute:
Especially Fred. Man comfortably passed to Iheanacho for the first goal.

Maybe we should stop asking him for goals and assists. Seems like he’s taking it the wrong way.

I agree with you. Fred was responsible for this loss

Leyqute:
Weren’t you the one advocating earlier that Ole should start fringe players? That they have enough quality to win games??

The team that started the match had enough quality to cause Leicester lots of trouble. What was missing was the desire from some. There was enough quality on the pitch

Leyqute:
This means you still don’t get it.

People lose the ball up the pitch all the time but the probability of conceding a goal from that is low.

Did you know how many times Fred lost the ball via a wayward pass up the pitch? It was only a matter of time before one of those turns into a goal.

No one lost the ball as much as Fred did.

I hope you’re not trying to justify Fred passing to Iheanacho for us to concede the first goal; or his numerous atrocious passes all over the pitch.

You blamed Fred for that 3rd goal abi you no blame Fred?

Lol trevor was excited to post the line up. I don't see his comments. He's probably looking for comments on Bruno to share

nitrogen:
We both know that the system is shit, Fred is not a bad player, fact is the shitty system has exposed his deficiencies.

Meanwhile, if Ndidi joins Utd today, he will also become shit because of the system. It is what it is.

He may become subject to racist attack from our fans sef

Leyqute:
Even the third goal sef, Fred spoiled a goal scoring chance when he made a wrong pass up the pitch. The resulting counter led to a McTom foul which then caused the goal.

He still share blame for that one. Simple pass to Martial, e play rubbish.

That guy is a horrible player.

Hahahahaha because it led to a goal and it's Fred, a wrong pass up pitch now matters. Just less than an hour ago, you could have sworn that those kind of errors don't matter

Elxandre:
Oga he's not even that fit.
What much can even he do with useless Fred and Matic beside him?

What much he could do? Not much o, just close down opponents and release the balls on time, instead of looking for the foul. Let's not act like this is not how he plays normally

nitrogen:
System matters now, if the system is shit, need individual brilliance, that’s where Superstars like Bruno, Pogba and Rashford come in. Stars only shine when the system makes sense.

So now the system is shit? But when it's about some other players, the system does not become shit anymore?

nitrogen:
Really? Pogba played better than Fred abeg, don’t even go there.

Keeping him on the pitch means he can set up another goal, players like him are superstars because of that.

Lmao what's the use of superstar if your midfield is being overrun?

You see the problem with goals and assists. Pogba is a hero for setting up the goal but he has done nothing in this match aside that. No contribution to the attack and defense. One of the reasons we're being overrun but then he's world class and allowed to stroll around

weedtaker:
We are getting destroyed here.

All because our attacking midfielders and attackers are not showing enough desire I think. And the cluelessness is just so obvious in our play. We can't be still slow and expect any good result

Why is our tempo very slow? Our press is just too slow. Nothing good can come out of playing like this

Fred again. Fraud!

Just now, only Fred was trying to receive a pass from the back. Where is everyone?

hoopLA:
It is not in your best interest to agend this one so everyone is to blame.
Convenient logic up there,Ephesus.
Even when your darling can't do the basic,like pass properly

Shey una bin dey yab us about complaining about him being like a locomotive.

My agenda is simple. I focus on how we play and look at the details. I'm not interested in the personnels

Leyqute:
LooL. Okay.

Some mistakes can be defended against. Some, you can do nothing about.

Maybe you should think about that.

And when those at the front don't help to press, mistakes will happen at the back. When the team can't make themselves available to receive passes, fatal mistakes will happen. City is very good because they rarely make mistakes up front. It's either the ball goes out of play or they press with sense to win the ball back. When they're unable to do this, the defense panics and their own mistakes becomes more fatal because they play closer to their goal. It's just the way football works

Leyqute:
Agreed. All of those are mistakes but they are not as fatal as Fred’s own. And they can be defended.

I don’t know what else to say for you to come to terms with how horrible Fred’s mistake is.

Fred gave a direct pass to an opponent with the keeper left to beat. It doesn’t get worse than that.

I'm sorry I'm not interested in looking for scapegoats when whole team can't do anything with the ball or without the ball as a team

adebayo201:
We are also concerned about the player who made the mistake and avoid the build up to it.

Fred might be the culprit in the goal but the captain knows that he's vulnerable to mistakes at the moment.

Generally before the goal, we have been awful. Misplaced passes and wrong positioning. At a time, I'm confused about the midfielders and where each is playing.

It's unfortunate that people will rather avoid this and blame one person instead. What were we playing before the goal? How did we get there? Nobody's interested in the details

Leyqute:
In his own 18 yard box? Did he pass to an opponent? Give details please. The devil’s always in the details.

It doesn't have to be in the box to be dangerous. We have watched football for too long to know better than this

chidexxy007:
True but still it doesn't absolve Fred of the blame for that goal.

Did u see his next pass after then? Terrible midfielder.

I'm not justifying or absolving Fred. Mistakes happen, we move on. If it's Fred, you dwell on it. Pogba had been losing balls in that midfield because he was holding on to the ball too long. VDB is invisible and can't press. All these contributes to how we play. Mistakes will definitely happen, but we move on. That's football. You can't move on because the team is playing poorly and you must single out one person.

Cc leyqute

weedtaker:
do we even have a pattern to begin with? OGS should just respect himself and play his defend and counter jeje, telling the players to play out from the back like say we sabi lol.. kolo the disguise.

That's why we have Fred making 90+ passes and McTom making just 60+. Fred tries to make himself available, what are others doing?

Leyqute:
No. You don’t get it.

A wrong pass up the pitch has less chances of leading to a goal than a wrong pass inside your own 18 yard box.

Fred gave an assist to Kele today. It is way different from losing the ball in midfield and much much more dangerous.

That Bruno's pass wasn't up the pitch. It was a very dangerous ball. He literally gave the ball away in a dangerous position. Fortunately, it didn't lead to a goal

We're not having joy in the midfield despite having 4 players there and this is affecting our attacking play. Something that's consistent with our matches the past couple of weeks