Official Match Thread ... Man Utd V Bournemouth Sky Sports 1230

Originally Posted by Tiberian

Hull

One of them was us.

Hang on no, that was the League Cup.

Originally Posted by dunk

There's been 2.

Originally Posted by Billy Redface

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Incredibly that was only United's 2nd penalty of the season in the league yesterday after Southampton at home way back in August.

And that was counter balanced by a soft one against

https://twitter.com/Rooney_esque/status/838382599630438401

Originally Posted by Jethro

https://twitter.com/Rooney_esque/sta...82599630438401

Glad I watched that.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Incredibly that was only United's 2nd penalty of the season in the league yesterday after Southampton at home way back in August.

But that's not the story on the BBC....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39169260
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'You never get a penalty at Old Trafford'

Absolute £#%&!ing whoppers. Balanced reporting eh who is that 'old adage' peddled by

Originally Posted by Jethro

https://twitter.com/Rooney_esque/sta...82599630438401

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Incredibly that was only United's 2nd penalty of the season in the league yesterday after Southampton at home way back in August. ]

It's not like we attack much.

Originally Posted by Jammy Dodger

It's not like we attack much.

we do, just not very well.

Originally Posted by Jammy Dodger

It's not like we attack much.

https://twitter.com/Rooney_esque/status/838382599630438401

Originally Posted by Sparky***

we do, just not very well.

Originally Posted by andyroo

https://twitter.com/Rooney_esque/sta...82599630438401

Our problem is we don't stretch teams at all when they get set in their shape to defend with everyone behind the ball.

We're slow, ponderous and when our attackers are faced with a multitude of options they continuously pick the wrong one. Our attacking threat from wide areas is inconsistent to put it mildly. Martial looked unplayable for 20 mins in the first half then disappeared as soon as Bournemouth put two players on him.

We don't seem to be able to play our way into the opponents penalty area without running out of ideas and the amount of attacks we squander by over-hitting passes is incredible. The distribution from our back 4 is also dreadful.

Originally Posted by dragflick

I know.

I'm just really £#%&!ing irritated. I should have said, etc.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Our problem is we don't stretch teams at all when they get set in their shape to defend with everyone behind the ball.

We're slow, ponderous and when our attackers are faced with a multitude of options they continuously pick the wrong one. Our attacking threat from wide areas is inconsistent to put it mildly. Martial looked unplayable for 20 mins in the first half then disappeared as soon as Bournemouth put two players on him.

We don't seem to be able to play our way into the opponents penalty area without running out of ideas and the amount of attacks we squander by over-hitting passes is incredible. The distribution from our back 4 is also dreadful.

we've got virtually no threat from our back 4 at all in most build ups. fair enough valencia down the right, and ok we can get an overlap down the left when jose let's the LB go... but centrally there's next to £#%&! all and the opponent knows that. we almost never stretch the game long because we have almost zero change of pace out of the back either with the ball or by passing through the lines.

most opponents have been camped in their own last 3rd for about 15 years at old trafford now. scholes dropped back to pick them apart from deeper, but once carrick goes we have no-one and most of the time we camp ourselves just in front of the opponent anyway and take a £#%&!ing age to circulate the ball into them and back out again, then wide and back inside, then rinse and repeat till one of them £#%&!s up a pass and we turn it over. then they break on us with about 2 passes too the edge of our box.

over and over again for years now.

it's not rocket science. we need to play quicker at home. stretch it wide again. and stretch it long. get pace in the centre of our attack. and use two strikers, one thru one off. we've tried to change this approach but never quite managed it. i think we should focus on perfecting it again now instead.

something like this maybe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbxJLu_rNoU

We wait with bated breath to see how we line up without Zlatan. Love the big fella but it's got to be more fluid and quicker.

Originally Posted by Denis Irwell

We wait with bated breath to see how we line up without Zlatan. Love the big fella but it's got to be more fluid and quicker.

Think Mou missed a trick not experimenting with either Martial/Rashford alongside Zlatan, especially in some of our recent cup games. Zlat's had a few games where he misses a lot of chances, think it was West Ham at home where he missed 4 or 5 but dropped back and was responsible for some great link-up play, same against Boro when he set Martial up.

The ingredients are there for a front two partnership with Zlatan dropping in, it's painfully obvious we need a plan b, the tactics in the second half against Bournemouth were woeful.

Originally Posted by Denis Irwell

We wait with bated breath to see how we line up without Zlatan. Love the big fella but it's got to be more fluid and quicker.

Fellaini it is then

Originally Posted by Chris Quayd

Think Mou missed a trick not experimenting with either Martial/Rashford alongside Zlatan, especially in some of our recent cup games. Zlat's had a few games where he misses a lot of chances, think it was West Ham at home where he missed 4 or 5 but dropped back and was responsible for some great link-up play, same against Boro when he set Martial up.

The ingredients are there for a front two partnership with Zlatan dropping in, it's painfully obvious we need a plan b, the tactics in the second half against Bournemouth were woeful.

Now's our chance to find out, pal

Originally Posted by andyroo

Fellaini it is then

£#%&!inell - never even occurred..... nah, he wouldn't

Originally Posted by Tumescent Throb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbxJLu_rNoU

God, I loved Andy Cole

Felt like an underdog success despite the British Record transfer fee. Coming back from a bad start, broken legs, all the speculation that he would be replaced. Loved how he changed as a player, from a pure goalscorer at Newcastle to a proper all round forward who could create, was selfless in his running and could form a partnership with anyone(except Eric), understated physical edge to his game as well.