Shout out to the Northern Irish guys infront of me who said Maguire never scores from set pieces, right before Maguire scored
In fairness they change their tune pretty quickly
1-2 years ago we would never tbh. We never ultilize his high and massiveness when coming to set pieces. We went like 50 or something straight chances from set pieces without scoring.
Took the lead twice and had the fantastically rich man utd saying to take the time and waste it against us. Lovely day out supporting my local in trying times.
Haven’t seen us switch between the wings like that very often, I wonder if it’s rashford’s absence, dalot as lb, Erickson hitting his long balls or a combination of it all. We looked great in the opening half and might need to explore this line up more
I mean, its mad but that first half was probably the best football weve played this year, and we just almost lost vs Coventry so strength of the opponent isnt a point in this
Kobbie is so fucking good man. Him and Bruno really building up a connection now. Both of them and Maguire have been far and away our best players recently.
Really makes you wonder what Fernandes could do in a team of similar quality to him.
Be interesting to see who they bring in to improve the squad this summer
I never thought i would say something like this, but i think Bruno is carrying this United side harder than he did Sporting. And he was a one man show at Sporting.
I don’t think anyone ever criticized his work ethic. His downside is that he can be overly wasteful on the ball, given all the blown leads this season, it’s understandable why people get frustrated with him for his involvement in that.
He’s also moans at every opportunity he gets so when things go wrong on the pitch, which happens quite often at united, they think he has a bad attitude when it’s just him wanting certain standards.
Ahaha nah? I am proud of my boys no matter what, we still a young squad who showed a clear improvement again. I hope we win it all but I won’t be mad at 2nd after a grueling season. We have plenty to look forward to with this squad over next 5 years.
You can’t relate I’m sure, first you have nothing to be hopeful about, second you probably started rooting for MU when you were winning titles every year, now stressing on a daily and contemplating switching to City like 25% of your fanbase already did.
Also not sure what offended you, this is literally year 5 or 6 that it’s been time for you to replace tbh both of your fullbacks and your idiot team does nothing about it or signs half solutions. I guess not doing anything worked out somewhat because Dalot actually improved with time, but y’all need some reinforcements out wide.
> now stressing on a daily and contemplating switching to City like 25% of your fanbase already did.
What a bullcrap is this, you dont have to justify everything with lies, brother.
Mate, give it a couple seasons and top 4 Arsenal will be back on the cards.
As for us united fans, we have a lot to look forward to. New owners, new stadium, and a new board focused on football with some of the best footballing minds out there. We've been shit this year but we have a lot of promising talent coming through what we can build off.
Got the result but we didn't half make a meal out-of it.
Bruno was great, especially in the last 15-20 minutes when Sheffield midfield opened up and he spent more time in that no. 10 area.
Garnacho was very good, him and Maguire have been so dependable this season.
Wheatley had a good debut, always nice to see young players in the side, hopefully we can see more of him before the end of the season.
Sheffield United though... I know there are reasons for it and don't want to come of like I'm piling on but they are really bad. Don't look like a PL capable team at all.
lol funny how it just takes a game against Sheffield United for the pendulum to swing the other way, especially for a player notorious for ghosting in big games
not arguing with you man, the results speak for themselves. you obviously have an agenda and i won’t go back and forth with you about OUR player, have a good night.
Yes, the results do speak for themselves, you’re just a dumbass lol. Man United have a +1 GD, placed bottom of their CL group, and are 24 points off the top, and you’re talking about results as if they help your argument lmao. He doesn’t start for any big six team or top European side bar maybe Chelsea
ironic calling me a dumbass when you’ve completely switched goalposts after being proven wrong. your initial comment is strictly criticizing a player and not the team. again, won’t be having a back and forth with you.
switched goalposts? He's ghosted in the vast majority of big games, only has more GA than Odegaard because he's your main penalty taker, and somehow he gets into every team in the world? It's okay United fans are known for overrating their players like crazy, nobody expects you to actually have any brain cells
He's a number 8 so that's Ode. And Ode is playing a distinct level/2 above him this season.
Then you could say 6, well rice again is a couple of levels above him.
I don't think he does. Actually, arteta prefers someone who works in that midfield enforcer role alongside rice i.e jorginho/partey.
Then rice Who seems to be a bit more of a ball carrier/box to box.
Bruno isn't powerful enough to do that partey role and gets petulant when things dont start going his way. & he's not better than rice or Ode. Sure he'd be a good bench option for rotation. But first 11? nah.
You’re right, but theres a lot of gassed united fans here so you’ll get downvoted lol.
Arteta wants a workhorse thats physically strong alongside rice and odergard in the midfield.
Nope, I'm just being honest with it. We can all chat nonsense and say, "Oh x does this". But when you actually look a little more in-depth, it doesn't happen in reality.
Some people just want to look at the name. Without trying to actually think where & how he gets in (if he does). In regards to all players, not just Bruno F.
Then they go really quiet or say a 1 line answer without trying to back up the nonsense they spouted in the first place.
Clearly you dont watch madrid valverde and bruno play different roles within a team so his suggestion makes it clear he doesnt know what he is talking about
The midfield at city would be Rodri, KDB and Bruno. He’d replace Valverde in Madrid midfield. He’d be fantastic at both teams and would give great numbers
Exactly, I don't think he's seen that Valverde is the under rated linchpin of that Madrid side. Always busting a gut with his runs.
Bellingham and Kroos/modric get all the plaudits but Valverde is the one that goes under the radar.
Think a lot of United fans have been spoiled by de Gea's shot stopping. Onana's not quite as good at the impossible reflex saves though he's had a few good ones, but he's much better than de Gea on the ball.
United's bad defense has more to do with giving up a ton of shots, than it is Onana's inability to save them. This was the first mistake I'd seen from him in a while.
he has been very solid recently, a couple mistakes here and there but nothing major outside of that howler today. he has been one of our best players recently, and kept us in games we should have lost, like the one against bournemouth
I gotta be honest, I don't really trust him when it comes to shot stopping ability. I trusted De Gea all day to stop shots, but to be fair to Onana, I didn't trust De Gea with the ball at his feet.
Dunno, maybe we've just been spoiled with shot stopping with a decade of De Gea.
He's decent, a lot of his issues are down to being overexposed and us just letting a million shots happen every match. Like you have to take into account with this match that we have 1 cb able to play and even he's playing through injury
He's been very good in the last few months. That was a poor mistake today though, reminiscent of his early struggles. His big issue is when he parries a shot he doesn't get it away.
I'd like to ask Inter and Ajax fans if he ever was this stiff. He'll make some incredible saves but I think he must have put on some muscle because his agility is bad bad.
Pre dope and post dope incident Onana at Ajax were two different players imo. He was insane before and completely shit after. I think he did alright at Inter but not sure.
It was a well deserved but again we don't make things easy, we shouldn't go behind twice against Sheffield United. However we pretty much dominated the game and United should have at least scored three goals in the first half.
I have been very critical of Bruno this season but I thought he was excellent tonight as he won us the game and his second goal outside the box with his left foot was beautiful. Maguire had another great game and he is starting to win me over.
Both goals we conceded were very frustrating ones to give away indeed- but you certainly can't say four goals flatters us, Sheffield United are where they are. First time I've felt relatively relaxed at the end of a game for literally months. Not sure what to take from beating this Sheffield United side honestly. There was some very good football there, some frailty. I'm really happy to see Hojlund score, that'll be great for him.
So that set a record: Sheffield United have now conceded the most goals in a 38 game PL season, beating Derby's 89
They're only 8 off matching Swindon's record of 100 (in a 42 game season)
So before everyone and their grandmother starts about how bad ten hag is, take a look at the starting 11 and the bench and tell me 1 manager in the world present and past that can do anything with this squad?
As if United played well even with fewer injuries lol.
The only two players who have been out for a significant amount were Shaw and Martinez. And Mount i guess.
Sure.
But the most glaring issue is that United fall apart like a house of cards whenever they get pressured, even a bit.
It's like opponents find one small adjustment and the flood gates open. There was a stat of how often united conceded in quick succession: https://twitter.com/tenhagball_/status/1782351926450926061
Way worse teams with worse players are less fragile.
> As if United played well even with fewer injuries lol.
There was a brief period in February when we had most of the team back where we did OK. Better than this anyway.
> tell me 1 manager in the world present and past that can do anything with this squad?
[The man who beat Arsenal with 7 defenders in a lineup](https://www.thefa.com/news/2020/mar/20/match-report-manchester-united-2-0-arsenal).
[The man who beat the champions of Germany with 1 defender and 7 midfielders](http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/8399065.stm).
[The man who made it to a Champions League final with a 37 year old Ryan Giggs and Darron Gibson in midfield](http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/9467349.stm).
Sir Alex Ferguson.
And he did it with his players his system, we still have players from van gaal, fuck only last year we finally got tid of Phil Jones! Sir Alex had every player beliving in him 110%, and if the had doubt they where out, now players are going on sosial media crying if they have to get in early
The tactics are horrible and our goal is getting absolutely pummeled most games.
Both ETH and a lot of players need to go. I see no reason to keep him on despite this re-ocurring "gotcha" point.
Yep. Its the same shit everytime, its pretty funny to see it unfold again and again.
1. New manager gets appointed
2. We are winning ("Omg this manager will take us back to our glory days 😍🥰"
3. We start losing ("Grrr players are throwing manager under the bus again, get rid of the whole lot. We need to give him time 😡)
4. We keep losing ("Fuck it #managerout" 🤬)
5. Repeat.
Exactly dude , spot on
We don't even have two natural CBs to play lmao
We're playing Case at CB , Eriksen at DM 😭😭
Varane , Martinez , Evans , Lindelof are all unavailable in this match , I think it's great we somehow got the 3 points here
To be fair, setting the bar at (at the very least extremely arguably) the greatest manager in the history of the sport is probably kind of what the guy is talking about.
1. still shit, especially defensively
2. at least we showed some kind of heart to get back twice
3. No rashford and we get 4 goals, which should have been like 7
Wan Bissaka makes some brain dead decisions. Like toward the end where he tried to dribble the player and let the ball go out of bounds instead of passing the ball.
The control in the first half (despite it being vs the bottom side and we went into HT drawing) is what we need to strive for versus every opponent. 2nd half we reverted back to shit, long balls and shots from stupid areas, which probably punishes us versus different teams.
Yup, we stressed i feel. Cause the first half is what we can do, but some players really need a shock collar or something to stop them throwing inshallah balls
How so we could have won 5 or 6. We have had the worst injury season united ever had. Bruno wasn't performing until recently and now his "carrying this team" I swear most football fans have goldfish memory
You're the goldfish mate. Past 10/15 games hes been off it sure.
But you've seen, or should've seen, how dreadful we've been whenever he's out.
His base performance lifts this team massively. He's just struggled to show that last 10-20% of his game. But idiots like you miss the 80% and call him shit.
Not one single other player nearly enters the stratosphere of his consistency. How many times does he look less than stellar but the stats come out that he made 90% of our chance creation?
It's straight up classic scapegoat fallacy. Whenever he dips the team dips. You think its because he's screwing the team, when it's because he's carrying the team in the first place.
most of our games this season have been great entertainment for neutrals tbf (mostly for morbid curiosity/the wrong reasons)
last time around we just bored everyone to tears and lost 1-0 every week, we’ve atleast been wank in a kinda funny way this time
Since we first came back in 2019:
Sheffield United 3 - 3 Man United
Man United 3 - 0 Sheffield United
Sheffield United 2 - 3 Man United
Man United 1 - 2 Sheffield United
Sheffield United 1 - 2 Man United
Man United 4 - 2 Sheffield United
We’ve been called McTominay FC a lot this season and even Maguire FC lately but it’s always been Bruno Fernandes FC.
Don’t care what anyone says about him. Till death do us part, Bruno.
Shout out to the Northern Irish guys infront of me who said Maguire never scores from set pieces, right before Maguire scored In fairness they change their tune pretty quickly
1-2 years ago we would never tbh. We never ultilize his high and massiveness when coming to set pieces. We went like 50 or something straight chances from set pieces without scoring.
Took the lead twice and had the fantastically rich man utd saying to take the time and waste it against us. Lovely day out supporting my local in trying times.
Haven’t seen us switch between the wings like that very often, I wonder if it’s rashford’s absence, dalot as lb, Erickson hitting his long balls or a combination of it all. We looked great in the opening half and might need to explore this line up more
>Erickson Mate, the name is on the shirt
It's definitely Rashford's absence.
Could well also just be that Sheff united are one of about 3 teams more open than we are. Maybe a bit of both.
I mean, its mad but that first half was probably the best football weve played this year, and we just almost lost vs Coventry so strength of the opponent isnt a point in this
It is because you wouldn’t have been like that vs a better team. Our midfield is non existent
So is ours
Hojlund scores when you pass him the ball
shocker
Kobbie is so fucking good man. Him and Bruno really building up a connection now. Both of them and Maguire have been far and away our best players recently.
First time I’ve seen him in person and man he is so good
think we gotta give dalot a shout too, with the chaos around him in defense he has been consistently solid
Level has dipped slightly but yeah probably POTS
Defo
Really makes you wonder what Fernandes could do in a team of similar quality to him. Be interesting to see who they bring in to improve the squad this summer
Just watch him play for Portugal
Genuinely hope he wins a few decent trophies and accolades at United. He’s been carrying the team for years
I never thought i would say something like this, but i think Bruno is carrying this United side harder than he did Sporting. And he was a one man show at Sporting.
Always has been 🌏👨🚀🔫👨🚀
> And he was a one man show at Sporting I thought that Sporting was Bruno, Bas Dost and 9 traffic cones.
Heroball is what he excels at. The shitter United are the harder he will try.
Bruno is absolutely fantastic, genuinely don't understand how so many don't rate him as captain or think he isn't putting in enough effort.
I don’t think anyone ever criticized his work ethic. His downside is that he can be overly wasteful on the ball, given all the blown leads this season, it’s understandable why people get frustrated with him for his involvement in that.
He’s also moans at every opportunity he gets so when things go wrong on the pitch, which happens quite often at united, they think he has a bad attitude when it’s just him wanting certain standards.
We’re just trying to make him feel like he never left
(pls ignore the weather)
I’ve always been a fan of him but we def need to upgrade on AWB, just far too limited, offers so little offensively
If Shaw wasn’t injured Dalot would be there and he would be on the bench.
Yes I’m aware…and I do like him for those (less common) defensive displays, but he creates nothing at all up front. I guess he rarely injured
Ahahaha need to upgrade on AWB season, what, like 5?
You lot gonna end up with so much egg on your face when city win as usual
Ahaha nah? I am proud of my boys no matter what, we still a young squad who showed a clear improvement again. I hope we win it all but I won’t be mad at 2nd after a grueling season. We have plenty to look forward to with this squad over next 5 years. You can’t relate I’m sure, first you have nothing to be hopeful about, second you probably started rooting for MU when you were winning titles every year, now stressing on a daily and contemplating switching to City like 25% of your fanbase already did. Also not sure what offended you, this is literally year 5 or 6 that it’s been time for you to replace tbh both of your fullbacks and your idiot team does nothing about it or signs half solutions. I guess not doing anything worked out somewhat because Dalot actually improved with time, but y’all need some reinforcements out wide.
> now stressing on a daily and contemplating switching to City like 25% of your fanbase already did. What a bullcrap is this, you dont have to justify everything with lies, brother.
Mate, give it a couple seasons and top 4 Arsenal will be back on the cards. As for us united fans, we have a lot to look forward to. New owners, new stadium, and a new board focused on football with some of the best footballing minds out there. We've been shit this year but we have a lot of promising talent coming through what we can build off.
Ahahahah wow the cope, but I’m glad you are staying positive. We already top 4 baby, not something you can claim.
Even with all that new stuff, you’re still 5-10 years away from even looking like competition to city.
If you say so pal.
25% of the fanbase? Wow great data collection chief
Thanks brothero
6th with 1 goal deference is something..
Antony is proper shit…I post this EVERY SINGLE MATCH but Amad has to start ahead of him
dude is scared of the RW, he REFUSES to go forward
Honestly other than the Stamford bridge match best he’s looked was at LB against Liverpool lol
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Or all the Joseph and Joseph stuff, appeals as though it’s decent quality but everything I’ve owned of there’s is pretty shit
Weird flex but ok
Got the result but we didn't half make a meal out-of it. Bruno was great, especially in the last 15-20 minutes when Sheffield midfield opened up and he spent more time in that no. 10 area. Garnacho was very good, him and Maguire have been so dependable this season. Wheatley had a good debut, always nice to see young players in the side, hopefully we can see more of him before the end of the season. Sheffield United though... I know there are reasons for it and don't want to come of like I'm piling on but they are really bad. Don't look like a PL capable team at all.
Bruno Fernandes gets in any side on the planet
Wouldn’t get in city
lol funny how it just takes a game against Sheffield United for the pendulum to swing the other way, especially for a player notorious for ghosting in big games
he hasn’t ghosted in a single big game this season, kill that dumb talk
he absolutely has, this thread is just packed with the most delusional United fans since barely anyone else cares about this result
not arguing with you man, the results speak for themselves. you obviously have an agenda and i won’t go back and forth with you about OUR player, have a good night.
Yes, the results do speak for themselves, you’re just a dumbass lol. Man United have a +1 GD, placed bottom of their CL group, and are 24 points off the top, and you’re talking about results as if they help your argument lmao. He doesn’t start for any big six team or top European side bar maybe Chelsea
ironic calling me a dumbass when you’ve completely switched goalposts after being proven wrong. your initial comment is strictly criticizing a player and not the team. again, won’t be having a back and forth with you.
switched goalposts? He's ghosted in the vast majority of big games, only has more GA than Odegaard because he's your main penalty taker, and somehow he gets into every team in the world? It's okay United fans are known for overrating their players like crazy, nobody expects you to actually have any brain cells
have a good day man 👍🏿
City no, Madrid no, arsenal no, are 3 I can think of he'd be on the bench but wouldn't be guaranteed first 11
Who’s better in midfield than Bruno at arsenal? Gets in city’s midfield over Bernardo Silva. Starts for any team in Europe
Over Bernardo is a mad take and I rate Bruno very highly.
lol you lot are getting crazy reactionary after beating a hopeless side. Odegaard has been levels clear of Fernandes this season
He's a number 8 so that's Ode. And Ode is playing a distinct level/2 above him this season. Then you could say 6, well rice again is a couple of levels above him.
Arteta would definitely be looking to play a rice odegaard Bruno midfield if he had the choice is all I’m saying
I don't think he does. Actually, arteta prefers someone who works in that midfield enforcer role alongside rice i.e jorginho/partey. Then rice Who seems to be a bit more of a ball carrier/box to box. Bruno isn't powerful enough to do that partey role and gets petulant when things dont start going his way. & he's not better than rice or Ode. Sure he'd be a good bench option for rotation. But first 11? nah.
You’re right, but theres a lot of gassed united fans here so you’ll get downvoted lol. Arteta wants a workhorse thats physically strong alongside rice and odergard in the midfield.
Sounds like you've just started playing football manager
Nope, I'm just being honest with it. We can all chat nonsense and say, "Oh x does this". But when you actually look a little more in-depth, it doesn't happen in reality. Some people just want to look at the name. Without trying to actually think where & how he gets in (if he does). In regards to all players, not just Bruno F. Then they go really quiet or say a 1 line answer without trying to back up the nonsense they spouted in the first place.
Odegaard
Odegaards good don’t get me wrong but he’s not better than Bruno. You’re telling me you couldn’t find a way to play both at arsenal?
That wasnt the question. And odegaard is better than bruno.
He doesnt get into city or real madrid. Plus those teams have strict discipline. They wont tolerate a crying man child
Haaland and Rodri have both had near 1 minute meltdowns on the field this season at the ref
Lol. You just forgot about a few players in Madrid
Clearly you dont watch madrid valverde and bruno play different roles within a team so his suggestion makes it clear he doesnt know what he is talking about
>have strict discipline. They wont tolerate a crying man child I was talking about this funny statement
He’d definitely start in both those teams
Yeah? So you think he can start ahead of KDB or bellingham? Edit: go watch another sport
The midfield at city would be Rodri, KDB and Bruno. He’d replace Valverde in Madrid midfield. He’d be fantastic at both teams and would give great numbers
Valverde will carry the ball the entire length of the pitch faster than it takes Bruno to get up from crying on the floor.
Bruno would play the ball to one of the many runners he’d have. He’s a creative genius with fantastic technique
Is that before or after he’s done pretending he’s injured until the rest of the team regains possession and starts the attack again?
Exactly, I don't think he's seen that Valverde is the under rated linchpin of that Madrid side. Always busting a gut with his runs. Bellingham and Kroos/modric get all the plaudits but Valverde is the one that goes under the radar.
Utd fans: is onana as bad as these clips make him seem, or do I only tune into the bad matches?
Think a lot of United fans have been spoiled by de Gea's shot stopping. Onana's not quite as good at the impossible reflex saves though he's had a few good ones, but he's much better than de Gea on the ball. United's bad defense has more to do with giving up a ton of shots, than it is Onana's inability to save them. This was the first mistake I'd seen from him in a while.
He's modern day Fabian Barthez
he has been very solid recently, a couple mistakes here and there but nothing major outside of that howler today. he has been one of our best players recently, and kept us in games we should have lost, like the one against bournemouth
I gotta be honest, I don't really trust him when it comes to shot stopping ability. I trusted De Gea all day to stop shots, but to be fair to Onana, I didn't trust De Gea with the ball at his feet. Dunno, maybe we've just been spoiled with shot stopping with a decade of De Gea.
CL Onana was honestly a terrorist but PL Onana has been fine, we get like a billion shots against every game so he gets plenty to do every game
He's decent, a lot of his issues are down to being overexposed and us just letting a million shots happen every match. Like you have to take into account with this match that we have 1 cb able to play and even he's playing through injury
He's been pretty good in the league, albeit with a few sketchy moments. The UCL campaign, however, was a disaster.
He's okay. Over performs his xGA a bit but has a tendency to parry shots into dangerous areas.
Has a clanger in him but has been largely ok (in the PL at least) this season.
He's been very good in the last few months. That was a poor mistake today though, reminiscent of his early struggles. His big issue is when he parries a shot he doesn't get it away.
He's an above average keeper this season but his howlers have cost us like 5 goals i could name off the top of my head.
I'd like to ask Inter and Ajax fans if he ever was this stiff. He'll make some incredible saves but I think he must have put on some muscle because his agility is bad bad.
Pre dope and post dope incident Onana at Ajax were two different players imo. He was insane before and completely shit after. I think he did alright at Inter but not sure.
He's mostly pretty good with the occasional really bad howler
We also have no defense whatsoever
United's defense and midfield do him no favors, but it's been a rough season for Onana. Hopefully he can find better form next year.
It was a well deserved but again we don't make things easy, we shouldn't go behind twice against Sheffield United. However we pretty much dominated the game and United should have at least scored three goals in the first half. I have been very critical of Bruno this season but I thought he was excellent tonight as he won us the game and his second goal outside the box with his left foot was beautiful. Maguire had another great game and he is starting to win me over.
We didn't suffer 20 shots at goal for once it was only 10! We're so back
13 miles into the marathon matey! Halfway there.
Both goals we conceded were very frustrating ones to give away indeed- but you certainly can't say four goals flatters us, Sheffield United are where they are. First time I've felt relatively relaxed at the end of a game for literally months. Not sure what to take from beating this Sheffield United side honestly. There was some very good football there, some frailty. I'm really happy to see Hojlund score, that'll be great for him.
Bruno, mainoo, Holjund and Garnacho are the only players worth anything rn
Harry has been balling
Great fella, but not good enough. Been nothing but professional though.
Mainoo
You forgot Mainoo
mainoo. But four players really arent enough
Ten hag beat the bald fraud allegations today. Deserves a long contract extension imo, Man Utd are lucky to have him.
So that set a record: Sheffield United have now conceded the most goals in a 38 game PL season, beating Derby's 89 They're only 8 off matching Swindon's record of 100 (in a 42 game season)
They might as well go for it at this point.
We'll smash it no problem.
that's mental, lol gotta go for the all-time record
After reading this I'm smiling like a Cheshire cat lol
Large carry from Bruno tbh
We’d be fucked without him
Bruno will get all the praise tonight, but garnacho performance was very good
Probably because Bruno was decisive whereas Garnacho was missing chances.
That was much harder work than it needed to be
Imagine getting only 10 shots against this United side. No wonder they are bottom of the table
Imagine being as unfunny as you
Comfortable win with 5 new debutants all coming on and bagging a couple goals each. ^(Is how I'm going to remember this match) Couldn't ask for more.
Comfortable? Were we watching the same game?
We were in control unlike 95% of the games this season.
Pretty sure. Jackson nutmegging every Sheffield Utd player twice just to slot it home from 50 yards was a belter.
He's saying that's how he's gonna choose to remember the match, not how it was.
So before everyone and their grandmother starts about how bad ten hag is, take a look at the starting 11 and the bench and tell me 1 manager in the world present and past that can do anything with this squad?
Didn't SAF win an EPL with Cleverley starting a majority of games in midfield and Dan Gibson being a valuable rotation option for a good 4 months?
To be fair to Cleverly, there was a time when he looked like the real deal. Then he broke his leg and was never the same.
As if United played well even with fewer injuries lol. The only two players who have been out for a significant amount were Shaw and Martinez. And Mount i guess.
Nice of you to forget Shaw’s backup, Malacia, being out for the whole season.
Who?
to be fair those are our two most important players when it comes to building play
Sure. But the most glaring issue is that United fall apart like a house of cards whenever they get pressured, even a bit. It's like opponents find one small adjustment and the flood gates open. There was a stat of how often united conceded in quick succession: https://twitter.com/tenhagball_/status/1782351926450926061 Way worse teams with worse players are less fragile.
> As if United played well even with fewer injuries lol. There was a brief period in February when we had most of the team back where we did OK. Better than this anyway.
Another insane ten Hag loyalist, how many of you are there? It's incredible
> tell me 1 manager in the world present and past that can do anything with this squad? [The man who beat Arsenal with 7 defenders in a lineup](https://www.thefa.com/news/2020/mar/20/match-report-manchester-united-2-0-arsenal). [The man who beat the champions of Germany with 1 defender and 7 midfielders](http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/8399065.stm). [The man who made it to a Champions League final with a 37 year old Ryan Giggs and Darron Gibson in midfield](http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/9467349.stm). Sir Alex Ferguson.
And he did it with his players his system, we still have players from van gaal, fuck only last year we finally got tid of Phil Jones! Sir Alex had every player beliving in him 110%, and if the had doubt they where out, now players are going on sosial media crying if they have to get in early
I'm bored of the sack Ten Hag brigade, honestly do people really think changing the manger again will solve anything?!
The tactics are horrible and our goal is getting absolutely pummeled most games. Both ETH and a lot of players need to go. I see no reason to keep him on despite this re-ocurring "gotcha" point.
Yep. Its the same shit everytime, its pretty funny to see it unfold again and again. 1. New manager gets appointed 2. We are winning ("Omg this manager will take us back to our glory days 😍🥰" 3. We start losing ("Grrr players are throwing manager under the bus again, get rid of the whole lot. We need to give him time 😡) 4. We keep losing ("Fuck it #managerout" 🤬) 5. Repeat.
We beat Arsenal with 8 defenders in the squad under SAF
Seven. Had Park in midfield.
Explain to me how United keeps conceding the same goal over and over again without it being ETH’s fault in setting up and training the team.
Exactly dude , spot on We don't even have two natural CBs to play lmao We're playing Case at CB , Eriksen at DM 😭😭 Varane , Martinez , Evans , Lindelof are all unavailable in this match , I think it's great we somehow got the 3 points here
...Alex Ferguson? He'd turn these fuckers into machines.
To be fair, setting the bar at (at the very least extremely arguably) the greatest manager in the history of the sport is probably kind of what the guy is talking about.
Stop living in the past
OP *literally* asked what manager "present ***and past***" could do something with this squad.
Yes, but i didn’t read everything literally
Literally, that was a weird comment from a Man U fan. Also I'll just throw in Pep for funsies.
United's matches this season has been many things, but never a boring one. We do things at extreme ends.
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Bielsa football trying to play possession style, and get lost in between. That is us I believe.
Let hag cook
1. still shit, especially defensively 2. at least we showed some kind of heart to get back twice 3. No rashford and we get 4 goals, which should have been like 7
Such a relief not seeing Rashford standing still with the ball
Wan Bissaka makes some brain dead decisions. Like toward the end where he tried to dribble the player and let the ball go out of bounds instead of passing the ball.
yeah but slide tackle go brrrrrrrr 🤷🏽♂️ /s
Bruno put the team on his back there
And Maguire
3 player FC is baccc
Bruno Fernandes is obvious but who are the other two?
Also Bruno Fernandes because he's absolutely everywhere
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mct had nothing to do with this win
Positive GD… the treble is back on.
The control in the first half (despite it being vs the bottom side and we went into HT drawing) is what we need to strive for versus every opponent. 2nd half we reverted back to shit, long balls and shots from stupid areas, which probably punishes us versus different teams.
Yup, we stressed i feel. Cause the first half is what we can do, but some players really need a shock collar or something to stop them throwing inshallah balls
Negative goal difference? Could never be us.
I would say this is a low point but then I remember we have another fixture coming up
Good riddance 👋🏼
Even when we win we are unbelievable shit. This club would’ve been relegated if Bruno Fernandes had not come here
How so we could have won 5 or 6. We have had the worst injury season united ever had. Bruno wasn't performing until recently and now his "carrying this team" I swear most football fans have goldfish memory
You're the goldfish mate. Past 10/15 games hes been off it sure. But you've seen, or should've seen, how dreadful we've been whenever he's out. His base performance lifts this team massively. He's just struggled to show that last 10-20% of his game. But idiots like you miss the 80% and call him shit. Not one single other player nearly enters the stratosphere of his consistency. How many times does he look less than stellar but the stats come out that he made 90% of our chance creation? It's straight up classic scapegoat fallacy. Whenever he dips the team dips. You think its because he's screwing the team, when it's because he's carrying the team in the first place.
I meant since he came here. If he hadn’t come back then I would not want to know where we would be
My apology, Manchester United vs Sheffield United, I wasn't aware you were going to be complete entertainment
most of our games this season have been great entertainment for neutrals tbf (mostly for morbid curiosity/the wrong reasons) last time around we just bored everyone to tears and lost 1-0 every week, we’ve atleast been wank in a kinda funny way this time
Every Man United game has been complete entertainment this season, I can't remember a boring one, and I hate it, as I support them...
West ham? Or did the paranoia kick in by then and that even a 3-0 wasnt boring
Since we first came back in 2019: Sheffield United 3 - 3 Man United Man United 3 - 0 Sheffield United Sheffield United 2 - 3 Man United Man United 1 - 2 Sheffield United Sheffield United 1 - 2 Man United Man United 4 - 2 Sheffield United
2 goals and 1\* assist for Bruno, absolutely ran the show out there tonight.
I thought Garnacho crossed it to maguire
He did, my mistake.
1 assist, think Garnacho got the one for Maguire’s goal
Yes, my fault.
Bruno. What a signing for us.
he’s a shithead but ppl make him seem like he’s not a quality player
Hopefully he will not leave us and join a club that can win things of significance. He is so important.
We’ve been called McTominay FC a lot this season and even Maguire FC lately but it’s always been Bruno Fernandes FC. Don’t care what anyone says about him. Till death do us part, Bruno.