I'd consider Tomi for White at the half, even considering Tomi's poor performances of late. White looks a mile off the pace.
He was very rough early against Spurs too. Hopefully we get into HT at 1-1, rejog a few things. United keep effectively hitting us on counters and we are so wasteful trying to force things to happen in the final third. Martinelli especially.
How about some organized singing from the home crowd. This is a top-of-the-table clash against Yanited for godsake!
White would probably be fine if he quit getting so far up the field. As a general rule, he should be playing more inverted in support behind Saka & MO rather than trying to overlap all the time
Rashford is a ********ing protected species and its disgraceful that he is so looked after then Saka gets absolutely nothing. And still nothing on Man U obvious time wasting, just as Newcastle did.
HT 0-0* We are clearly the better team, even if not by miles. But 1 SOG in the first half is. not. good. enough. Edit: Sorry, they just updated it to 2 SOG. Still... Need to reach a new level in 2T *EDIT: Oops, no excuse for that typo, functionally 0-0 was no different than 1-1 which is what it really was.
Tough battle. This isn't your daddy's Man U (or maybe it kind of is again). Credit where credit is due, I thought ten Hag had them stabilized as early as the preseason, but he's done much better than just right the ship.
The positives are we have played absolute shit, and if our players had a bit of midfield composure and weren't trying to rush everything, we would likely have another goal or 2. Really need Calm Mikel, not Shouty Mikel, at HT. Calm everyone the ******** down, tell players to stop rushing every pass as if we are 1 down with 3 minutes left. And can someone tell Anthony Taylor to ********ing card the United players for diving and time wasting? Somehow they give up a foul and Arteta is the one carded?
The only thing United have is their press. We’re better than these diving, cheating, f****. Let’s give them the paddling they deserve.
Probably our worst half of the season as regards turn overs and sloppy play. It's the first real sign of nerves and pressure we have shown, need to up the performance level big time or Utd are going to smash and grab again.
Arsenal 1 (1.1)-(0.1) 1 Manchester UnitedRepeat that and it will be just fine. pic.twitter.com/9FnCTzHRFJ— Scott Willis (@scottjwillis) January 22, 2023
Yeah they look nervous. But I can't tell if it's all nervy mistakes or just a gameplan of trying to pass so damn quickly that we're just reducing the probability of success.