Manchester United v Manchester City - 3:30pm 29/10/23 - Official Match Thread

Originally Posted by marlo

He is superb but not for us.

where we are right now we should be taking a punt on a 20 year old raw striker.
We need guaranteed goals and experience upfront and if we have 70m to spend on a striker it shouldn’t have been him.

rashford, Hojlund and Antony as our starting front three.
and you’ll be blaming the glazers for us not scoring goals.

Use your agent contacts (LOL) & get Osimhen talking to United.
It'd be criminal if he went to Chelsea or the vermin (OK, it's only rumours, but still .......)

Virtual carbon copy of the game in November 2021

Originally Posted by Parlabane

The defending is shit but look how many players City have in the box - we would have had one maybe two at a stretch

Provided Rashford could be arsed and Bruno hadn’t booted the ball into touch.

I had a little bit of hope going into the game, once I saw the team that went out of the window.
Horrendous line up

Is Casemiro the latest to spit his dummy out after being hooked at ht or is he legitimately injured? Starting that game without him and Varane if both are fit is madness.

We play an embaressing style of football. Passing around the back hoping the other side overcommits to the press so we can 'counter-attack.' Most of the time it ends up with Onana hitting it aimlessly into midfield.

We do it against shit sides too.

Originally Posted by armchair

We play an embaressing style of football. Passing around the back hoping the other side overcommits to the press so we can 'counter-attack.' Most of the time it ends up with Onana hitting it aimlessly into midfield.

We do it against shit sides too.

It's about the only part of this famous "system" that I can actually see. Pass about for a bit and then hit long. Dutch Mastermind.

Originally Posted by armchair

We play an embaressing style of football. Passing around the back hoping the other side overcommits to the press so we can 'counter-attack.' Most of the time it ends up with Onana hitting it aimlessly into midfield.

We do it against shit sides too.

Yep, painful to watch. And when we do manage to break over the top, it either goes to a bloke who runs really fast with it but then has to stop dead so he can transfer it onto his left thereby losing the rare momentum we’ve earned or it goes to the other side to a player who either thinks he’s made out of gas or is too busy sulking to do anything positive.

We are as bad to watch atm than at any low point over the last decade. And there’s been lots of those.

I think we’re missing Martinez massively and not just for his defending. He was a big part in how we built up from the back last season.

Shaw too tbf.

Originally Posted by AK14

I think we’re missing Martinez massively and not just for his defending. He was a big part in how we built up from the back last season.

Shaw too tbf.

No shit. Ten Hag said exactly this after the Copenhagen game.

He said our entire pattern of play was built up from the varane - martinez - casemiro trio from the back. That's all been completely ripped apart.

We're missing Martinez but we're also missing Shaw who's passing and runs up the left were invaluable in creating space for Rashford. We're also missing Wan Bissaka who despite not being great going foward is probably the best in the squad at 1v1 defending.

And Casemiro who is the only midfielder we have in the entire team who is comfortable enough on the ball and physical enough to work in that area to receive the ball off the defence. Not to mention chipping in with goals.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

No shit. Ten Hag said exactly this after the Copenhagen game.

He said our entire pattern of play was built up from the varane - martinez - casemiro trio from the back. That's all been completely ripped apart.

We're missing Martinez but we're also missing Shaw who's passing and runs up the left were invaluable in creating space for Rashford. We're also missing Wan Bissaka who despite not being great going foward is probably the best in the squad at 1v1 defending.

And Casemiro who is the only midfielder we have in the entire team who is comfortable enough on the ball and physical enough to work in that area to receive the ball off the defence. Not to mention chipping in with goals.

Great point here. Missing width without shaw on the left. The defence holds onto the ball longer than it should . Nobody can pass through the lines .it has a knock on effect .

Still, expect the likes of rashford to be better when we do have the ball in the final third . Even if we don’t have a comfortable way of playing , they should be making moments where they score .

Daily mash

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport...20231030241889

Everything comes around. Let them lord it up now, it'll be even funnier when they fall off their cliff - and they will; it's inevitable.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

No shit. Ten Hag said exactly this after the Copenhagen game.

He said our entire pattern of play was built up from the varane - martinez - casemiro trio from the back. That's all been completely ripped apart.

We're missing Martinez but we're also missing Shaw who's passing and runs up the left were invaluable in creating space for Rashford. We're also missing Wan Bissaka who despite not being great going foward is probably the best in the squad at 1v1 defending.

And Casemiro who is the only midfielder we have in the entire team who is comfortable enough on the ball and physical enough to work in that area to receive the ball off the defence. Not to mention chipping in with goals.

Yup.

Probably been posted already, but £#%&!ing hell. The state of this.

https://x.com/DanHook684/status/1718733416575762836?s=20

https://x.com/GannetPaul/status/1718962510445899846?s=20

Nobody at the club gives a £#%&!. Same thing happened with that league of their own shit, you had Redknapp in a Liverpool top and Richards in a City top taking pens at the Stretford End and taking the piss out of the United fans, cupping ears etc how the £#%&! is that allowed to happen?

Woodward's Disney Land dream in action.

The club is a total laughing stock.

Originally Posted by Vedder

Nobody at the club gives a £#%&!. Same thing happened with that league of their own shit, you had Redknapp in a Liverpool top and Richards in a City top taking pens at the Stretford End and taking the piss out of the United fans, cupping ears etc how the £#%&! is that allowed to happen?

Yeah that's on the intro for the new series