Post match Erik says both subs were for injuries and that he would have preferred to keep Rashford & Evans on. Hopefully neither out of the next games as we are paper thin as it is
Just watched the highlights. About as expected. Casemiro is our new Matic. Used to be great but his legs are spent and now he’s a liability. Almost 100% at fault on the second goal for not tracking a basic 1-2 and played an absolute hospital ball to Amrabat for the third.
Diogo Dalot's game by numbers vs. Man City:100% tackle win rate100% dribbles completed100% aerial duels won80% duels win rate8/10 duels won3/3 tackles wonMan Utd's best player again... 🛡🛡🛡 pic.twitter.com/1s35BmRAwr— Statman Dave (@StatmanDave) March 3, 2024
Oh come on. He put a great shift. Saved the scoreline from being higher. Only player besides Evans who can keep his head high after the match.
What I imagine to be ten Hag's post game comments: Hopefully when he's back at Ajax he takes the "unstoppable" Antony with him. Friggin' Foden dispossessed him. Foden!
We played well first half but there's only so much defending a weak team can do so it was predictable that something would go wrong and they'd score.
For some context, before today they had only been behind at home for 3 minutes all season. Today we scored on 8’ & they equalised on 56’. Plus we were without our entire left-sided defenders including their replacements and without our only true #9. Our fate will be more down to games like last weeks capitulation at home to Fulham than defeat to City away today.
We are missing our 1st and 2nd choice LB, our 2nd and 3rd CB, our 1st and 2nd CF, our 1st Choice 8 and 2nd choice RB that would allow us to move our 1st choice RB to LB. This maybe why we look so poor at the back. Is EtH tactics not sinking in cause they are over complicated, maybe but that injury list doesn't help. Is EtH over trying guys, maybe? Is our Physio team useless, possibly!? Is our team full of softcocks, possibly!?
If we think at al that ETH might still be the right guy, he should be given another season. This is going to be the worst summer to be looking for a manager with Bayern, Barca, and whoever else looking for a new guy. There just aren’t many top names out there. And while ETH has gotten plenty wrong, how many managers would be doing much better than him with the guys he’s had available this season? I get people calling for ETH, that’s easy to do, but who do we replace him with and are they really that much better.
Look at it again. It’s not the pull back that gets him but Walker actually trips him up. VAR completely missed that
push/pull/trip is mostly irrelevant. Rashford should play the whistle. this is a basic principle taught to kids. he shouldn't be struggling with this. if he gets back just by being near an opposition player can change the choice of pass and maybe we don't concede during that passage of play. not that it matters given how we defended towards the end anyway
To be fair, it's all part of the act of claiming foul. You have to stay down a bit like you were properly fouled. Getting up fast hurts your future credibility. I take your comments and others as frustration with the player and the loss. As I have said, we are not champions so we don't get the 50/50 calls. We are now middle of the pack so some days we get them some days we don't, look at the hands around neck in our last game. City get away with more and don't get carded as much. I will again point to the first time we played them when Rodri did a pirouette and flaying to get a pen. While Razzie fought through two attempts to tug him back on the break and no call. You can't win sometimes with the ref.
Minor side note: what’s ETHs fascination with Forson? He might turn out to be a decent player, but everything we’ve seen in his appearances says he’s nowhere near ready for first time minutes. He looks so far off the pace. Meanwhile, Amad, you cost a ton and has a season of dominating the championship under his belt, isn’t getting a sniff. It could be a training ground thing I guess but it’s clear there’s a huge gulf in quality between the two.
I believe Forson is more versatile can play left, right and center. Amad is exclusively Right isn't he?
Yep, as above - Forson can play a few positions whereas Amad is more a one-sided wing-forward. Plus Amad is 22 in a few months time, if he hasn't done anything significant by now then pretty clear we will be moving him on I reckon (though may depend on what happens with Antony / Sancho - as we will need some depth @RWF if we shift both of them). Forson is a couple of years younger (20 in a few months time) - so still has time to show some development. Though agree has been meh so far.
there's no logical reason any young player would find any success in this team. it's not good at anything for starters - scoring, defending, controlling tempo, possession, shape and the list goes on. Elanga highlighted that. outside of an exceptional talent that can perform their role on their own with a high enough base level, no youth would do well in this team
It’s be really nice to be shocked this summer with some of the moves we make. I don’t have any faith left, however.
I get the point that is easier for younger players to show something in a more functional team than we are. However both Garnacho and Mainoo have shown something this season. So it is possible. Also top teams tend to turn to youth more during an injury crisis - is just how it goes. So gotta take any small chance they get. Top level football is brutal that way.
well like i said - exceptional talents. Garnacho and Mainoo are exactly what is WRONG with this team. the seniors are supposed to help usher the youth in and support them. like we did with Welbeck, Evans and others. instead it's ass backwards in that those two have to be carrying the damn team instead. they should be understudy to Antony and Amrabat but instead they've usurped them
But then you have to be an exceptional youth talent to play at this level for this club anyway. That we need better senior players is a given, we all know we aint where we should be on that score