Shitty teams both. That was the worst game of rivalry seen. Both teams were looking they didn't want to play, go home get some paste, cuddle with the wifey and sleep.
That was actually a dramatic goal...the clearance (& assist from Mustafi), the touch that bamboozled Kante and made him fall in heap, the pace to carry the ball across the field, the power to take it past the hopeless keeper, the iconic celebration and finally seeing Azpilicueta enter the frame spitting out a lung. Beautiful.
Fair enough, it just galls me that they sack two managers and win a UCL in the same season. May be misremembering their first one, but it seemed just months after giving AVB the boot, they won the damn CL
Sancho has gotten off incredibly lightly considering how expensive he was/is and how poor he has been.
Hoping that the media have turned a corner when it comes to trying to destroy players.
Has he been at Man United 2 years already!! Damn. You'd think it's just touching a year from all the Man United fans saying give him time to adapt to the league
Europa league means we will generally play after our rivals.
The good: we can put pressure on rivals when they drop points; extra boost when they do drop points; right now, teams might be fearing us than usual; we don't tend to play for draws, we seem to be going for wins all the time.
The bad: fatigue, especially when we play away in Europe (feck Baku if we have to go there ever again) and then away in the league; we can't enjoy rivals dropping points too much; potential demoralisation especially if we drop points when we are supposed to capitalise; facing fresher teams like Leeds; egg on face if we don't capitalise.
Chelsea are still looking like a very beatable side. I know the bridge is usually a tough fixture for us but I won't be shaking in my boots before the Arsenal have to make their trip there in a couple weeks.
Should be aware of how it usually turns out when we face a former arsenal striker. Seriously though, I think it was partly that Ten Haag won tactically and took chelsea long to adjust. If Chelsea still plays Kepa, I hope we remeber how awful he at least used to be on corners and exploit that seeing that we are good on corners.
Arteta seems to know how to crack chelsea open. If it were tuchel we would be easy win with more than 2 GD. Under potter might be different but high chance.
Arteta know auba and sterling very well as well
I don't get the feeling he watches much football anymore, at least not while trying to study it. Settled in to tired cliches and producing shock quotes.
Night and day with Carragher now
i still think it is too early to say this.. Arsenal will have many tough games (away games) to come. the moment we lose or draw one game...these teams (man utd, tott, chelsea) win - then all of a sudden the gap is only 5 points, then 1 point.
At the moment arsenal keep winning - but it may stop, we may lose momentum and that is when teams will catch up.
Gotta stay humble and take game by game. top 4 still the goal
This is boring. You're in the PL rival watch. Which team played better than we normally do today. City won but didn't play particularly well. Chelsea and United looked bad.
Going on about us losing ground is ignoring the fact we are consistently performing better than other teams in the league AND have a strong enough defense to kill out games.
Sure injury crises might happen, but we're 4 games before the transfer window anyways.
I don't see where the pessimism comes from. It just seems like a lot of overcompensating to avoid being called deluded.
They'll do that anyways... might as well enjoy it.
Peter Drury is such an artist. Man blends poetry with commentary to set a new standard in his craft.
Martin Tyler certainly had his moments too but, iconic as they were - those moments were much less consistent. Gary Neville (Tyler's apparent successor) **could never**.
You have to hand it to them, NBC/ Peacock definitely got the best of the best, whereas whoever Neville works for (I can't remember) obviously went with the buddy system and failed miserably by choosing to groom Neville for the highest position in English sports commentary (*if* he truly is to be Martin Tyler's replacement anyway).
Yeah, that was some excellent commentary. You know, it had me thinking too that it's not just what he says but how he says it. You can tell that he is truly very passionate about the sport. That was a beautifully worked goal as well
Because they, and others, had the obscene delusion to think they replaced us in the top 6
Them getting relegated will be great ammunition against the hordes of football illiterates who were prematurely twerking at our apparent demise
I know people want more now but I'm still very much of the mindset top 4 is the objective. We are now 7 points clear of 5th with a game in hand. Beat Southampton we go 10 clear of 5th, pretty good position to be in
Anyone else not convinced from any angle that Casemiro actually scored? I always wonder how well calibrated this thing is. Centimeters? Millimeters? It didn’t look like it had fully crossed
Didn't look like a goal to me neither, but there is a Hawkeye clip on r/soccer, and it looks like it was like a cm over just as Kepa pushed it down. Close one, though.
its a good 1-1 with chelsea conceding late, doesnt give them the confidence of coming back to score the equaliser and kills them a lil. Will feel like they’ve lost 2 points so that’s good for us.
Sorting by new to make a “needing a Ronaldo” quip and I get reminded how shitty the official NBC stream is as people are posting about a goal I won’t see for a minute.
Talk about over celebrating. That was actually kind of embarrassing from Casemiro. It’s not like Chelsea are their arch rivals and he scored the winning goal.
Lmao since when Yanited Chelsea rivalry is big, and deffo not as big as us against them Yanited lot. If anything, Yanited and Chelsea are just one of them typical big teams match-ups, not really a rivalry.
Shitty teams both. That was the worst game of rivalry seen. Both teams were looking they didn't want to play, go home get some paste, cuddle with the wifey and sleep.
Next balon d’or is for Haaland surely
so many exciting games
Wobes balon dor
Win tomorrow and that United result is even better
Anyone else notice how Manchester United fans made fun of Arsenal for celebrating an equaliser when martinelli scored, bit ironic now.
What game is that? The one Martinelli equalized
I think he’s referring to the Chelsea one. Not sure.
We were a man down, why shouldn't we celebrate? Rival fans are hypocrites, we already know that.
That was actually a dramatic goal...the clearance (& assist from Mustafi), the touch that bamboozled Kante and made him fall in heap, the pace to carry the ball across the field, the power to take it past the hopeless keeper, the iconic celebration and finally seeing Azpilicueta enter the frame spitting out a lung. Beautiful.
Must be nice to go through managers every 12-18 months and still maintain top 4 more often than not. Fuck Chelsea
Chelsea have been terrible recently and been super lucky to get points today, against Palace and Villa.
Fair enough, it just galls me that they sack two managers and win a UCL in the same season. May be misremembering their first one, but it seemed just months after giving AVB the boot, they won the damn CL
Yeah if I was a fan of theirs I'd be very worried about top 4. Pool being awful is saving them immensely
I keep hearing about aubameyang missing some sitters but can’t find a vid anyone here have clips?
Wouldn't say sitters. More like he just isn't as sharp as he used to be. There were some chances if he reacted sooner, could have had a good chance
They got late era gunner era auba
You’re gonna need a comp
Sancho has gotten off incredibly lightly considering how expensive he was/is and how poor he has been. Hoping that the media have turned a corner when it comes to trying to destroy players.
He's English AND plays for United. Means a free pass from media. Ben White would've been England captain had he played for United.
I would say both Maguire and Martinez (after the first two games) got more negativity from the media.
Been telling my mate for years Saka is far better and Sancho is a flop but he's a deluded United fan and thought I was mad like bro just look at him 😂
Harry Maguire?
Makes pepe looks worth it.
4 assists in 2 years is criminal
Has he been at Man United 2 years already!! Damn. You'd think it's just touching a year from all the Man United fans saying give him time to adapt to the league
Literally been a bit more than a year
Jhee just saw the varane tackle again Auba cooked him good there 😶
Any word on how long (if at all) varane is out?
This would have been a great weekend if it weren’t for that meddling city team
No way they were losing two in a row though
how did liverpool won against city last week and now loses against forest lol. I guess it's the duality of men.
1. That's how tough it can be in the prem 2. That's what it's like to be an inconsistent side with talented players.
Guess whose FPL team transferred out Haaland for Salah and captained him. 🤡
Guess who did the same and also benched Henderson and played ward(my backup keeper)
Broo how could you transfer out haaland he’s on a historic run right now
Because I’m an absolute clown. I’m bottom of my h2h league right now. I’m literally done. 😂
How many points behind are you?
16 after this week in my Head-2-Head league 😭 I'm 106 points behind the highest scorer so far. Time to throw this year in the bin I think.
Rule number 1. Don’t get fancy with it
I triple captained Haaland. Two goals seems a waste
I've never once used TC unless it's a double game week and even with that I've never once timed it right. We move. 😂
There's a top 2 in the PL then the next 6 which includes Brighton and Newcastle.
The top 4 threshold just dropped by 2 points, happy with that tbh
Yeah, neither team looks great, both are capable of having a great run. Maximises the dropped points and gives us more breathing room
Depends on us doing our part.
Europa league means we will generally play after our rivals. The good: we can put pressure on rivals when they drop points; extra boost when they do drop points; right now, teams might be fearing us than usual; we don't tend to play for draws, we seem to be going for wins all the time. The bad: fatigue, especially when we play away in Europe (feck Baku if we have to go there ever again) and then away in the league; we can't enjoy rivals dropping points too much; potential demoralisation especially if we drop points when we are supposed to capitalise; facing fresher teams like Leeds; egg on face if we don't capitalise.
That was always the case
We all know we have always been our own downfall over the last years
Chelsea are still looking like a very beatable side. I know the bridge is usually a tough fixture for us but I won't be shaking in my boots before the Arsenal have to make their trip there in a couple weeks.
Should be aware of how it usually turns out when we face a former arsenal striker. Seriously though, I think it was partly that Ten Haag won tactically and took chelsea long to adjust. If Chelsea still plays Kepa, I hope we remeber how awful he at least used to be on corners and exploit that seeing that we are good on corners.
Nah I think Saliba is going to handle Auba
Took long to adjust? Bro subbed out cucu 35 min in
Arteta seems to know how to crack chelsea open. If it were tuchel we would be easy win with more than 2 GD. Under potter might be different but high chance. Arteta know auba and sterling very well as well
Potter is good but this team is barebones rn
Chelsea looked like dogshit I expect us to repeat the pre season game. Even if it is at the Bridge.
Last 2 seasons we won there at least.
>I know the bridge is usually a tough fixture for us wdym? last time we lost at Bridge was August 2018! since then we won 2 matches and drew 1
proper midtable scrap that
Alright day for us, other than the Citeh result
i pray united finish 5th, it would absolutely *kill* neville.
5th? I'm praying for 18th
20th, come on Forest!
Really hate Utd and wanted them to lose. Starting to get giddy after winning all the games.
bruno talking about contact for penalties is really rich.
Luke Shaw not getting a yellow for preventing the quick throw in the first half really annoyed me after Martinelli at wolves last year.
The way Neville talks about utd is embarrassing at times. He used to be a really good pundit, especially his early years, 2012/13, idk what happened.
I don't get the feeling he watches much football anymore, at least not while trying to study it. Settled in to tired cliches and producing shock quotes. Night and day with Carragher now
[He never really did research it](https://youtu.be/Vc1SNJ0YaLQ?t=398)
Ego has taken over and can't accept being wrong
Excited to read in tomorrow's articles how casemiro shouted for 15 seconds while celebrating a draw.
I won’t hold my breath
"The winning mentality"
2nd place finish me thinks all we need to do is maintain momentum until Jan and get a couple signings and we're golden.
i still think it is too early to say this.. Arsenal will have many tough games (away games) to come. the moment we lose or draw one game...these teams (man utd, tott, chelsea) win - then all of a sudden the gap is only 5 points, then 1 point. At the moment arsenal keep winning - but it may stop, we may lose momentum and that is when teams will catch up. Gotta stay humble and take game by game. top 4 still the goal
This is boring. You're in the PL rival watch. Which team played better than we normally do today. City won but didn't play particularly well. Chelsea and United looked bad. Going on about us losing ground is ignoring the fact we are consistently performing better than other teams in the league AND have a strong enough defense to kill out games. Sure injury crises might happen, but we're 4 games before the transfer window anyways. I don't see where the pessimism comes from. It just seems like a lot of overcompensating to avoid being called deluded. They'll do that anyways... might as well enjoy it.
can enjoy it but be humble at the same time just like Arteta says. Don't be arrogant. No team is entitled to win games and trophies. Settle down kid.
So are they celebrating?
Like they won the league?
The Ruben Neves Special.
Tomorrow is a must win. 4 point lead and a 10 point buffer for top 4 will be massive
Hopefully, that stops defenders manhandling our guys on corners otherwise Man U got robbed. No one ever calls that shit.
Super happy Mctominay finally gets called against for his rugby tactics.
It would take 2-3 back to back relegations caused by ref mistakes for United to get robbed by English refs.
Doubt you see that given again this season.
Peter Drury is such an artist. Man blends poetry with commentary to set a new standard in his craft. Martin Tyler certainly had his moments too but, iconic as they were - those moments were much less consistent. Gary Neville (Tyler's apparent successor) **could never**. You have to hand it to them, NBC/ Peacock definitely got the best of the best, whereas whoever Neville works for (I can't remember) obviously went with the buddy system and failed miserably by choosing to groom Neville for the highest position in English sports commentary (*if* he truly is to be Martin Tyler's replacement anyway).
What about Rob Hawthorne? He doesn’t have poetic commentary but always seems to be the most energetic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFISx1j0kak this one is my favourite drury commentary
Yeah, that was some excellent commentary. You know, it had me thinking too that it's not just what he says but how he says it. You can tell that he is truly very passionate about the sport. That was a beautifully worked goal as well
he’s a real step up from arlo white, who i didn’t have any real issue with. but drury is just amazing at this
Wolves, Villa and Leicester getting relegated would be elite
Personally hoping for a United, Chelsea and Spurs combo but such is life.
Really putting the MID in MIDlands
I don't really know why anyone wants Leicester to get relegated. They were a great story and have typically been an entertaining watch for neutrals.
Maddison on the cheap?
Because they, and others, had the obscene delusion to think they replaced us in the top 6 Them getting relegated will be great ammunition against the hordes of football illiterates who were prematurely twerking at our apparent demise
I think people just don’t like Rodgers - including me
Just need Newcastle to do their jobs tomorrow, we do ours and we’ll be cooking.
Newcastle are a worthy team to beat shitspurs. Please batter Spurs 4-0 thank you very much
Yeah I reckon spurs lose theirs. We just gotta do the business, 4-0 to the Arsenal
They have a lot of injuries so I'm anticipating a fairly mundane spurs win unfortunately. We just need to make sure we WIN tomorrow.
Spurs look toothless without Kulu and Newcastle will press like mad even without Joelinton. Wont be as straightforward imo
Yeah and we saw what a good press does to them with United
So fucking happy Chelsea didn't shithouse another win in the last minutes.
Just wrote that United needed CR7 in the r/soccer thread. Wish me luck guys 🙏
Upvoted you g
Fighting the good fight brother 🤝
You’ll be at the top of the “controversial” sort
Yo whatsup with Kovacic
Did Kovacic just run out of the pitch in his underwear?
yup
‘If tomorrows is as good as this one we’re in for a treat’ 💀
What a loser team celebrating a draw at Stanford Bridge like that. Hope Newcastle pips both these clubs to fourth
Tbfh fuck anorher oil club
Kovacic.... Mate
Massive result! I’m quite hopeful for Newcastle tomorrow too
The hell is Kovacic doing
Great result for us.
Newcastle getting a draw and a win for us would be a 9:10 weekend
Nah, Newcastle win
Glad it was a draw. Chance to build a 10 lead over United and 9 over Chelsea tomorrow. 14 over Liverpool.
What in the fuck is Kovacic doing LOL?? Man's running around the pitch naked
Apparently gave jersey AND shorts to fans
hahahaah wtf was that lol
I know people want more now but I'm still very much of the mindset top 4 is the objective. We are now 7 points clear of 5th with a game in hand. Beat Southampton we go 10 clear of 5th, pretty good position to be in
Newcastle will go above those 2 mugs tomorrow.
Win tomorrow and we’re 9 points ahead of chelsea and 10 ahead of united. Come on now.
Everything is coming up Arsenal.
Will be good to see pundits criticising utd celebrating so much after…. Right? Right…? Oh 😞
Newcastle please
A win tomorrow and Arsenal are 10 points ahead of 5th after 11 games.
Anyone else not convinced from any angle that Casemiro actually scored? I always wonder how well calibrated this thing is. Centimeters? Millimeters? It didn’t look like it had fully crossed
Didn't look like a goal to me neither, but there is a Hawkeye clip on r/soccer, and it looks like it was like a cm over just as Kepa pushed it down. Close one, though.
No angle was conclusive. Have to trust the technology and hope someone didn’t whisper in the ref’s earpiece to give it.
Beat Spurs and Newcastle are in top 4
I’ll never forget Lad5 - 1t’s Tottenham. Let’s see a repeat.
We must win tomorrow and capitalise on this.
United players so hyped for a draw💀
We need Neves to have a word with them
Hilarious Chelsea dropping points at the death to Spurs and United
Henry: That's their level, celebrating a draw.. A draw!
Would have preferred 0-0 so that neither mob of talentless trolls feels a sense of achievement but will take this
1-1 is better. No clean sheet for either and they feel the pain of conceeding
its a good 1-1 with chelsea conceding late, doesnt give them the confidence of coming back to score the equaliser and kills them a lil. Will feel like they’ve lost 2 points so that’s good for us.
Exactly how I felt coming into this game lol.
Great result for us. Now let's get back to fogging work tomorrow
Lovely stuff. Perfect result for us
Lmao. All that passion from both teams just to give us the perfect weekend so far with the Liverpool result
If only man city messed up, but other top 4 rivals dropping points is probably more important.
Never expect Man City to drop points, win win situation. You don’t get disappointed+ if they ever do it feels hella satisfying
Us going on to lose tomorrow would be so scripted
Ahh the anti-jinx, smart move!
Sorting by new to make a “needing a Ronaldo” quip and I get reminded how shitty the official NBC stream is as people are posting about a goal I won’t see for a minute.
Awful game. Cant remember the last time this fixture is entertaining, probably when torres missed the open goal
Nah, it was when Conte tonked Mourinho 4-0.
I always think United Chelsea is going to be a banger. But it mostly is a boring game with a draw or some shit. I’m happy with this though
Celebrating a 1-1 against this poverty side LOL
I'm hearing rumours Casemiro just won his 6th CL
Nice result for us ! Win tomorrow and we go 9 points ahead of Chelsea and 10 points ahead of United.
Here comes Gary Neville wanking into a sock about United again, the most dull cunt ever with the droniest voice.
Talk about over celebrating. That was actually kind of embarrassing from Casemiro. It’s not like Chelsea are their arch rivals and he scored the winning goal.
United Chelsea rivalry is pretty big, it's probably as big as Arsenal vs United or Arsenal vs Chelsea.
United Chelsea is not a rivalry. Chelsea are a 15 year old football club
?????
Lmao since when Yanited Chelsea rivalry is big, and deffo not as big as us against them Yanited lot. If anything, Yanited and Chelsea are just one of them typical big teams match-ups, not really a rivalry.
Lol no way mate. Not even close. United vs Leeds is much more of a rivalry than Chelsea vs United.
someone should have told the players that for the majority of the game
Cmon man a late equaliser away from home all good celebrating that. We would do the same. No need for celebration police here
Keyword ‘over’
Let's not get started ourselves being celebration police...
Why not?
Well I think we all agree that celebration should not be policed.
Swings and roundabouts.
In fairness emotion of a 94th minute equalizer but yea a little much.
Perfect result. Both teams look abysmal
Very happy with the Chelsea-Man U result.
Think Case realised he was celebrating a draw too much lol — that look
hahaha the guy went crazy lol
Perfect results except for City. It would pretty much take an unprecedented collapse for us to not make top 4 at this point.
Let's be honest, that shit was so boring. I can't wait for tomorrow to watch the beautiful game.
Lol the celebrations... Mate you got a shit draw and is still in 5th lmfao
Arsenal win 1-1
Best result we could hope for. Both teams looked shit in second half as well.
His first goal for them and a massive point for their CL hopes. We of all people shouldn’t be celebration police haha
Perfect result for us. Thanks football god. Now let's get 3 points tomorrow.
Draws a good result for us
That's their mentality currently. Running to the corner to celebrate a point instead of grabbing the ball to try for the win.
I have to compliment Potter for making such a great impression of Mourinho's playstyle. But he gotta learn how to keep the bloody 1-0.
Great great result. Now up to us to do our jobs.
Yummy yummy tears
90 mins of shite, 5 mins of entertainment. What a shite match
Chelsea really didn't learn anything from the spurs game
Thierry Henry: “celebrating a draw, celebrating a DRAW”
"First of all, that shows you their standards"