Man United v İstanbul Başakşehir: Official Match Thread: 24/11/20 8pm Bt sports

Originally Posted by Hyman_Roth

Reasonable example of the negative narrative that we have nowadays. Not sure when this all happened but United have rarely dominated every minute of every match. Some of our greatest triumphs have come with us playing awfully for large periods. I certainly can’t remember that many matches where we dominated for 90 mins and very few at all in the champions league. Any?

Yet here we are - an army of internet fans intent on picking holes rather than highlighting the successes. We pumped a decent enough side 4-1 and currently top the group that everyone was calling the group of death. We played some delightful one touch stuff for large parts and opened them up on the reg. we had a few scares at the back but dealt with it reasonably well. Their goal came from a set piece.

We didn’t maintain the intensity of the start for the whole match - we didn’t £#%&!ing need to as we were 3-0 up after 35 mins and in fact very few team do.

So a couple of positive words followed a paragraph of shite. Again.

Group of death might be stretching it a tad though tbf