Manchester United v Barcelona : Official Match Thread : 23.2.23 8pm

Sancho needs moved to the left, Fred off, Weghorst off, Anthony and sabitzer on and rashford through the middle

Bad day at the office so far. Back 4 thankfully been decent, especially Lisandro. Casemiro too much to do but stuck at it.

Need to change something because if we don’t get a relatively quick goal they’ll sit back more and more and catch us on the counter.

I like Sancho but he’s out here bumbling along like a librarian who can do magic. These are shite. Anyone aggro on the bench?

One bit of magic from rashers and we’re back in this

Happened plenty of times this season already but we need to get him involved more

Would help if Fred and Cas could stop giving the ball away.

We’ll never win £#%&! all of note with that @#%&! Bruno. Too emotional, missed a sitter then gives a pen away 5 mins later. When we need cool heads in big games like this that @#%&! will always let us down

Originally Posted by Vedder

We’ll never win £#%&! all of note with that @#%&! Bruno. Too emotional, missed a sitter then gives a pen away 5 mins later. When we need cool heads in big games like this that @#%&! will always let us down

Been terrible tonight so far.

Originally Posted by Vedder

We’ll never win £#%&! all of note with that @#%&! Bruno. Too emotional, missed a sitter then gives a pen away 5 mins later. When we need cool heads in big games like this that @#%&! will always let us down

So, Bruno's a @#%&!?

Well that was a huge let down
Never expected such a pitiful performance

Yes it was an utterly bullshit decision for the pen but it’s only one goal and there is no away goals rule so £#%&!ing respond

There’s not enough intensity (from the players and the fans) and Barca are far too comfortable

Hopefully we see a Leicester style 2nd half performance because we need it but I’m not hopeful we’ll see it
Just can’t seem to show up for these big European ties

Never a pen for me

If that’s up the other end he doesn’t give it

@#%&!.

AWB, Fred and Weggy simply can’t play good football. Sancho mince. Bruno amped so much it’s £#%&!ed us that half, reminds me of Rooney when he got massively hyped and was worse for it.

Can’t imagine we’ll keep it like this, we need width and Bruno central behind Rashford.

Boston the ref is having a master class in quietening the crowd. Any time there’s contact on one of them it’s a reflex to whistle whereas he seems to take a step back and analyse it when it’s ours.

Didn’t take long for the usual suspects to start having a go at Bruno again ffs

Barcelona haven't even been that great, they've not had to be really but they've handled the occasion miles better than we have. We've completely shit the bed that half, lost all sense of a gameplan and nobody out there is taking any leadership responsibilities at all.

We've barely made them defend at all because we're trying to play 50 yard passes over the top of the defence all the time. We get into the final 3rd and everyone is on a different wavelength. There's no link up, no passing, nothing. It's all kick and rush rubbish.

Awful, awful half for us which played right into their hands.

Soft pen but £#%&!ing stupid giving him the decision to make

Get Rashers down the middle, Bruno right, Sancho left and Sabi on for Weg

He picked the wrong team to start.

Weggy, AWB, Sancho, Fred...

Originally Posted by atticusgrinch

He picked the wrong team to start.

Weggy, AWB, Sancho, Fred...

Back to ETH watch?

Originally Posted by AK14

Never a pen for me

If that’s up the other end he doesn’t give it

@#%&!.

French apparently....

Say no more.

Originally Posted by AK14

Never a pen for me

If that’s up the other end he doesn’t give it

@#%&!.

Exactly. ABH or £#%&! all, and then it's 15 minutes of VAR checks.

Shout out to the egomaniac ref as well, Turpin the absolute £#%&!ing dick. It’s been a while since I’ve seen someone so £#%&!ing up themselves to make a game of this magnitude about them.

1-0 down. Going on like we're 5-0 down.

£#%&!ing hell