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To start a season like a train
It is there for us now. Southampton at home, Pogba's debut should be easy to get up for. Hull then who have no manager, no new signings. I know they beat Leicester but perhaps that's Leicester back to their level? Should beat Hull if we want to be champions.
It is after the international break that is interesting: 10th Sep: City (h) 17th Sep: Watford (a) 24th Sep: Leicester (h) Mourinho's teams more than anyone have had histories of starting extremely fast but very few have done it in the last 5 years (bar Mourinho's chelsea in 2014/15). Us heading into October with 6 wins on the spin is a very real proposition. Am I getting too giddy? Also anyone else think we should put out complete shadow sides in the Europa league? At least until the knockouts in February. |
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Good start, and the new signings bedding in well, but I've always thought the crucial time of the season (in terms of the league) is the three months from December to February. All good picking up a win in the hazy August sunshine on a Sunday afternoon in Bournemouth, but a different prospect to grinding out three points at Stoke on a freezing cold January night.
Who knows what will happen this season? Bailly off to the ACoN, Zlatan struggling to hit a barn door, Rooney dropping snide to his pals in the press, Pogba injured, De Gea being tapped up by Madrid. Reckon we will challenge for the title. Would love a Europa League trophy, FWiW. |
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One step at a time. Today wasn't a very good performance and for me that's not a bad thing. Good win to kick off with yet plenty of room for improvement. Doubt Mourinho will be giving the players too much praise. It's a winning start; now keep it moving. edit - it was 2011 |
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We played much better than I thought we would. Particularly defensively. Can't look too far ahead though. Good fixtures on paper, but not many teams win their first three games of the seaosn Southampton present a different challenge |
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We're still a side in transition. Let's try to win the league for now, but Mourinho and the club will obviously be looking at the post Rooney/Zlat/Carrick set-up and how we move forward. I wouldn't mind one or two more additions before the end of the month tbh. Valencia and Bailly positives, for sure. As a team plenty of work ahead. |
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After the shambolic away performances of the last 2 seasons it was nice to see a composed and professional performance away from home were we never looked in danger or have to over strain ourselves to get the win
First half was shit but 2nd half was pretty good When some more of the top boys come in its going to start looking really good Will be interesting to see how we play in our first home match I think we'll start with a really high tempo and look to overwhelm them |
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I agree, but I'm looking at it in terms of our recent shortcomings and attempting to overcome them. Bournemouth presented things we generally struggled with last seaosn. Pressing, aerial threat. So many times in the last few years we've lost control of games we were dominating, or failed to up it when we needed to (not always, ofcourse. I'm generalising) but we avoided all of that today. José referenced that he knew what was coming from Bournemouth. He was right. We weathered it and stepped it up when the gaps started to appear. We improved after half time ( a rare occurrence) and didn't panic when Bournemouth scored (something else we've been guilty of) Our game management was good. It hasn't been recently. And we had the game won after an hour. How many times have we been able to say that in the last couple of years. Not getting carried away, but little flashes on improving long-standing problems imo. Doesn't mean it was a great game, mind you. |
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I expect United to go about the game in the right way and play positively, but opening few weeks are about putting points on the board. Especially under a new manager with new players. But Moyes put early points on the board, so the players need not get carried away. |
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