Manchester United v West Ham : Official Match Thread FA Cup 5th rnd. 9/2/21 7:30pm

West Ham are digging in here...

Snides all over the place.

Mark Noble - snide. pure snide.

they're banking on a smash and grab.

ref clearly not planning on punishing these dirty @#%&!s.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

West Ham got the “how to beat Man Utd at home” playbook out.

Step 1: get everyone back
Step 2: give United the ball
Step 3: wait for them to run out ideas
Step 4: score from a set piece

this.

guess you're allowed to tackle guys throwing in the ball now

3 mins?

£#%&! off.

Originally Posted by Vida_15

guess you're allowed to tackle guys throwing in the ball now

that would havd been a 15-yard penalty on sunday.

It's difficult to break down an organised flat back 8 tbf. They can't do it for 90 minutes though. Saved by a few desperate blocks and a great save so far.

Will be very surprised if we don't win this.

Take off Rashford, move Greenwood to the left, and bring on Amad.

Hate Moyes

Get Cav and Bruno on.

i think we need to take a few shots from outside the box every now and again just to pull them out a bit

Originally Posted by Fat Al

3 mins?

£#%&! off.

This. Outrageous.

Loads of possession but no real invention from us tbh

Telles looks bright on the left

Bit of a shit game tbh

Get some natural width on and a proper centre forward

Originally Posted by Vida_15

i think we need to take a few shots from outside the box every now and again just to pull them out a bit

One of those blocked shots will either get deflected in or into the path of a forward soon. They can’t keep it up surely...

Originally Posted by Tronics

Loads of possession but no real invention from us tbh

Telles looks bright on the left

Bit of a shit game tbh

Always is when a team sets up to defend their 18 yard box with all their players, unless United gift them a goal, then it becomes a great game

Originally Posted by dunk

It's difficult to break down an organised flat back 8 tbf. They can't do it for 90 minutes though. Saved by a few desperate blocks and a great save so far.

It is, but we make it very easy for teams do so by moving the ball soooo slowly. Everyone wants two or three touches, or it’s the opposite and we’re hitting balls over the top that aren’t on.

We play so many pointless little balls backwards. The pass to the player five yards away, who gives it immediately back to them, with neither moving. They like that one.

Originally Posted by dunk

Always is when a team sets up to defend their 18 yard box with all their players, unless United gift them a goal, then it becomes a great game

They’re not obliged to come and just wave our players through.

Teams have been doing this for 30 years against us at home. Only difference is the quality of our team now as opposed to then.

Much preferred the nuts West Ham under Billic. Proper shithouse football from Moyes. Says it all that teams are resorting more and more to these kinds of tactics against us - they’re scared of our attack. Keep plugging away and we will score a couple here.

Originally Posted by Dr Stranger

It is, but we make it very easy for teams do so by moving the ball soooo slowly. Everyone wants two or three touches, or it’s the opposite and we’re hitting balls over the top that aren’t on.

We play so many pointless little balls backwards. The pass to the player five yards away, who gives it immediately back to them, with neither moving. They like that one.

The thing about moving the ball quickly, you have to have somewhere to move it to.. you need someone committing players and creating some space and dragging other defenders out of position. But it's £#%&!ing difficult to do when they condense the space as West Ham have. It's why so many shit teams do it. It's much easier to destroy than create.

United need to get better at dealing with it, we need players that commit defenders and players to take advantage when space is created.