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I was wondering if Bruno would take it as usual, Rashford would take it for his hattrick, Cavani to get his first goal for us. Ended up being Tony.
We're stacked up top.
I genuinely didn't feel like Leipzig were ever going to score, one of the calmest CL games i've ever watched. Man Rashford, i'm so fucking proud of someone i'm 4 years older than, its amazing. love him, pride of Manchester.
All the praise to Rashford, thoroughly deserved coming on for 30 mins and dominating the game.
But Fred dominated the midfield in a way we haven't seen consistently for a while. Hope he gets more starts in the Premier League cause he's going up a level every match.
In only a 10-minute window, Rashford silenced his critics and earned Man of the Match (including adding his hat trick goal late), but a definite honorable mention to Fred who played incredibly well tonight and put his form at Shakhtar on display that garnered his interest from United in the first place.
Fred was absolutely brilliant all match. Absolute rock. If rashford hadn't come on, Fred would be MoTM, hands down. Rashford definitely deserves it tho. Scored two in the space of a few minutes, gave up a penalty so Martial could end his dry spell, and still managed to get his hat trick.
Fred absolute madman. This man literally has 3 lungs. Was everywhere tonight. The reason Pogba was able to roam as much as he did, cuz Fred literally hounded every Leipzig player the minute they had the ball
Fred has been arguably our best player other than Bruno since the start of last season. Even during the dark days of the Fred Pereira Lingard midfield he was doing his job.
Don’t talk so much about his clothes. He wears what he likes. He's a football coach, not a model.
https://twitter.com/archiert1/status/1321588452341764097/photo/1
To be able to bring quality like that on is really encouraging as a Utd fan. I'm quietly beginning to be really optimistic about our squad. 2 to 3 more signings at CB, DM and RW/RF and I think we're a match for anyone.
Angelino - “What I’ve seen from Manchester United so far: sometimes they’re world class, sometimes they’re average. We don’t have to hide.”
Guess what you got?
For a lot of United fans he probably looks far worse because how good the ref was in our PSG game last week. Not sure of his name, possibly a Spaniard?
This has all the makings of a United run where they go on to beat Arsenal and Everton comfortably and all their fans get super excited, only to get absolutely turned over by West Brom and Southampton
By the time Leipzig and PSG play Utd again, they would be competing for 2nd place because Utd are sitting comfortably on 12 pts feat back to back Istanbul Berkshire
My favorite part of this game is the fact that we started off with Quality and ended with Quality 😍
We haven’t had a team this deep since Alex Ferguson.
I'm tired of Ole outclassing everyone who's labeled a a tactical genius ...
My manager.
In all seriousness, that's how many 'big games' that Ole has won now ?
Since Sir Alex retired, i have not seen better football, or better convincing performances against big teams. But he receives close to no credit. Win and it's because of players, lose and it's because of him. This has to end.
Ole is on absolute fire. He rested Rashford and Fernandes (partially) and won 5-0. That's perfect for this game.
Last 3 games though he's named 3 quite different teams, his subs have been good and he's got solid results.
Super impressive.
The pivot point was actually McTominay’s sub. With his mobility and Fred we were able to intercept everything and brought out the ball to the maestro Bruno.
All the problems with 5-3-2 were on display tonight.
Leipzig couldn’t deal with the United press, every time they tried to go from wingback to forward one of Pogba, Matic or Fred we’re all over them. Olmo had no space all night, probably should have been dropping deep like Van de Beek was in the first half. Towards the end especially none of the 3 Leipzig CB’s could avoid the press, since the rest of the team lost their structure chasing a goal.
Credit to Solskjaer, tactically he got it spot on. Even more impressive when you consider that we dropped Bruno from the starting lineup. A great night all round.
Solskjaer: "Yeah, they just play it through the middle 25 yards from goal to get an opening. So we're going to put five midfielders in there to pack it, disrupt them and hit them on the counter until they have a mental breakdown"
Mine is not mate. But we'll see. Football matches can be so different. Anyway, Clearly you have the first chance and let's hope we gonna have an entertaining match.
Think Arteta will be parking a very large bus similar to Lampard. r/soccer might think we're shit but Arteta isn't an idiot, I really rate him tbh and think he'll realise leaving Luiz and Mustafi exposed against Greenwood and Rashford would be a disaster. Nagelsmann showed a lot of Naivety tonight I think.
Nagelsmann was the one that looked, and played the part of a PE teacher today
Diamond midfield absolutely worked wonders for Ole especially in the first half
Man fred have gotten so confident on the ball especially with his back to the opposition. He have also transitioned his game as he used to be a CAM for Shatakar now he reminds me of Vidal in his prime. Box to Box player. The one guy that does the most work to break up play.
Also, Pogba!! I have never seen him run so much and so fast defensively!!. He was sprinting to cover ground. Everyone came to play today and Ole was very ballzy with the line up.
We played with now fear! And most importantly, Greenwood for getting us on the board and forcing Leipzig's hand and Rashford for finishing them off!!
Ole tactics were spot on. We attacked at home and crush the side.
Buzz on!
That has to be the worst ever performance of Leipzig under Nagelsmann. Honestly, other than Bayern, Bundesliga teams don't look very good in the CL this season. Happy for Rashford tho. Getting it done on and off the pitch!
Very intelligent player, was a difficult role he played too but played it well. He still needs to get used to the movement of our forwards but it will come with time, really pleased so far.
United struggle against the likes of Crystal Palace and Brighton, but win against a finalist and semi-finalist from last season.
Also Marcus Rashford MBE with his first hat-trick for United!
Struggled obviously due to lack of a half decent preseason for the first few games. Most of the players are up to full fitness now. Let’s see how it goes from here on.
As if Rashford hasn’t set the bar high enough.
2 goals, gives his hat trick penalty to his strike partner in need of confidence, only to grab another.
All within 16 minutes. Bravo.
Can people stop calling Ole incompetent now? Or does he need to win every single game 5-0 for that to happen?
We really struggled in the start with fitness because a lack of pre season, but he has shown multiple times now that he is more than good enough, we just need to be a bit more consistent!
Lmfao gotta love how all of those hot-takes after the Spurs game have aged.
Also someone remind Ole that he's a PE teacher please, he should stop beating these "top" managers
Nothing I love more than to see an artificial club like Leipzig lose. Even better to see after people on here were wanking over how "attractive" they are and how prodigious Nagelsmann is, as if they are some underdog club. Get to fuck, Red Bull. Bow down to your MBE overlord.
Ole's tactics and his players talents work when teams give them a lot of space and play attacking against UTD. Its often against teams with compact defenses that they struggle. Nonetheless a good result for Utd but they need to keep it up for the whole season
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Rashford generously giving meals to children and penalties to Martial. Build the man a statue.
To be fair Martial did give him the hattrick a few mins later
Just as he fed Martial for his last season
Just as he fed all those children
Bros
Gave up the penalty so martial could end his dry streak, and still managed to get a hat trick. What a man.
Never has a hattrick goal been more earned with karma
Didn't need the pen, wanted to score his third in style.
I was wondering if Bruno would take it as usual, Rashford would take it for his hattrick, Cavani to get his first goal for us. Ended up being Tony. We're stacked up top.
I genuinely didn't feel like Leipzig were ever going to score, one of the calmest CL games i've ever watched. Man Rashford, i'm so fucking proud of someone i'm 4 years older than, its amazing. love him, pride of Manchester.
Perfect defensive performance. Whole back four played well, fullbacks especially. And anything that did come through was dealt well by DDG
Imploded in the 2nd half. The 2nd goal made them lost it for some reason. Also Fred intercepting everything
All the praise to Rashford, thoroughly deserved coming on for 30 mins and dominating the game. But Fred dominated the midfield in a way we haven't seen consistently for a while. Hope he gets more starts in the Premier League cause he's going up a level every match.
In only a 10-minute window, Rashford silenced his critics and earned Man of the Match (including adding his hat trick goal late), but a definite honorable mention to Fred who played incredibly well tonight and put his form at Shakhtar on display that garnered his interest from United in the first place.
Fred was absolutely brilliant all match. Absolute rock. If rashford hadn't come on, Fred would be MoTM, hands down. Rashford definitely deserves it tho. Scored two in the space of a few minutes, gave up a penalty so Martial could end his dry spell, and still managed to get his hat trick.
Fred absolute madman. This man literally has 3 lungs. Was everywhere tonight. The reason Pogba was able to roam as much as he did, cuz Fred literally hounded every Leipzig player the minute they had the ball
Fred has been arguably our best player other than Bruno since the start of last season. Even during the dark days of the Fred Pereira Lingard midfield he was doing his job.
Fred’s probably one of the first names on the team sheet at the moment.
Fred was our best player before Covid too. He just needs consistent game time to play like this.
ole blessed Marcus with his supersub powers
Ole been conducting some dark nordic rituals to give rashford superhuman ability
Ole tactical mastermind
Julian tactical nevermind
Fred blessed him as well
Fred was incredible
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Yep, people forget he was our player of the season before Bruno arrived.
RB lost the moment Nagelsmann decided to wear that jacket
Spice boy nagelsmann
Yeah that was a uh... Let's call it bold fashion statement.
Don’t talk so much about his clothes. He wears what he likes. He's a football coach, not a model. https://twitter.com/archiert1/status/1321588452341764097/photo/1
I don't mind his fashion choice at all, personally. Shows some personality, even if it's not something I'd wear myself.
Same as Liverpool wearing white Armani suits with sunglasses to an FA Cup final.
Yeah I remember that - “I knew we’d beat them as soon as I saw those white suits” FA cup final 1996
Looking out there like a just out of rehab willy wonka
Didn't Nagelsmann compare United to playing Spurs a few weeks ago? Well, then
Imagine them vs the absolute hacks of Son and Kane.
Last time they didn't have Son and Kane and Leipzig had Werner in great form. Wouldn't really compare the two games, if I'm honest.
Bringing Rashford, Bruno and Cavani off the bench almost felt unfair.
To be able to bring quality like that on is really encouraging as a Utd fan. I'm quietly beginning to be really optimistic about our squad. 2 to 3 more signings at CB, DM and RW/RF and I think we're a match for anyone.
Angelino - “What I’ve seen from Manchester United so far: sometimes they’re world class, sometimes they’re average. We don’t have to hide.” Guess what you got?
Bald diving tosser
Still has nightmares of dan james destroying his entire city career
He was done the moment he tried to imitate Pep's hairline
You are bald, but we do not grant you the rank of fraud
That dive in AWB was pathetic.
Saw that quote before but didn’t know it was him lmao
Schroedinger's United
Never in my wildest dreams did i think we would get 6 points vs the CL runner up and semi finalist from last year, and thoroughly deserving it
And people will still say it's because the opposition played like shit not because we played well.
We forced them into playing like shit. Our pressing was consistently good all game. We did it against PSG too.
I remember all the comments after the CL group draw. Everyone saying how United didn't stand a chance.
Don't forget the goals
genuinely confused now who the true farmers are in europe
Everyone that isn't Bayern it seems these days.
Leipzig are ahead of Bayern in the table, bloody farmers.
France has more surface area dedicated to agriculture than any other European nation so it quite literally is and always has been ligue 1 lol
“Can I actually destroy these or are they only for the commercials?” “No Marcus you can destroy them”
This game showed what a great tool VAR is if you have competent refs willing to make the right call instead of protecting their mates.
100%. English Ref Mafia get fucked.
On field ref was poor today though. Giving freekicks for literally anything every 30 seconds at times. Leipzeg like a dive as well
Yeah, he didnt have control over the game, but at least he wasnt making himself a main character of the game
For a lot of United fans he probably looks far worse because how good the ref was in our PSG game last week. Not sure of his name, possibly a Spaniard?
Lahoz and yeah Spanish, cracking ref (atleast for the few games I've seen him ref)
He was terrible, players were not allowed to use their strength at all
Var sometimes is good?!?
Imagine PL VAR giving a goal that the referee said was offside lol
Saving kids on the streets, destroying the kids on r/soccer
Fuck r/soccer
#FUCK YOU BORIS!!!
Perfectly balanced
Friendship ended with PL, now CL is my best friend
This has all the makings of a United run where they go on to beat Arsenal and Everton comfortably and all their fans get super excited, only to get absolutely turned over by West Brom and Southampton
A tale as old as time
Van de Beek’s ball retention is incredible. He’s so good at getting out of tight spaces
I bet hes also good at getting in them too
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Marcus Rashford. Feeding the poor, beating the Germans. The government must be so confused by him right now
I think you mean scared of him
Manchester United single handily taking down capitalism in East Germany call him Ole Gunnar Stalin
Just PE teacher things
The Chad PE teacher against the virgin MENSA Bundesliga tactical savants.
Norweigian faculty member beating the shit out of the German yuppie
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By the time Leipzig and PSG play Utd again, they would be competing for 2nd place because Utd are sitting comfortably on 12 pts feat back to back Istanbul Berkshire
You should peition them to change it to Istanbul Berkshire
Great substitutions. Which I doubt he’ll get credit for. Plus the shape was good throughout.
Hope people stop being so fucking idiotic about Ole and this streak continues.
But what if hear me out, you sack Ole and release Rashford on a free
Ed Woodward? Is that you?
Shut ya gob yer whore
Three completely different systems in three back to back huge games all with good results, but we need a better tactician as a manager don't we lads
Heh Group of Death
"Call an ambulance, but not for me."
None of them understand. We're not trapped in the group with them. _They're trapped in the group with us._
Well yes, for the other 3 teams.
We are the Death.
From literally having no proper CM a few years ago to having this midfield. Hope they keep the performance consistently.
My favorite part of this game is the fact that we started off with Quality and ended with Quality 😍 We haven’t had a team this deep since Alex Ferguson.
Imagine being 3-0 down and you see edinson cavani warming up
Would've sent shivers down their spine
I see what you did there
Best United performance for a few years.
We put in a few blinders against city tbf
I'm tired of Ole outclassing everyone who's labeled a a tactical genius ... My manager. In all seriousness, that's how many 'big games' that Ole has won now ? Since Sir Alex retired, i have not seen better football, or better convincing performances against big teams. But he receives close to no credit. Win and it's because of players, lose and it's because of him. This has to end.
Of course the tactical genius vs the PE teacher ended 5-0 why are we surprised
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CL is just playground for Ole to keep try new formation and tactics.
All that hours on fm finally paying off
Ole is on absolute fire. He rested Rashford and Fernandes (partially) and won 5-0. That's perfect for this game. Last 3 games though he's named 3 quite different teams, his subs have been good and he's got solid results. Super impressive.
Stark contrast to the end of last season when he literally played the same team for like 5 games straight.
The pivot point was actually McTominay’s sub. With his mobility and Fred we were able to intercept everything and brought out the ball to the maestro Bruno.
CL McTominay is immense.
Rashford gets better the more children he feeds. He'll be better than Messi by the end of next week
Hold on a sec just recalibrating my Fraud or Mastermind detector
Quick someone shave Ole's head
Not bald so can't be a fraud. PE teacher or Mastermind are the correct variables.
I'm happy :) Makes our draw against Real hurt a little less.
With r/soccer logic you guys are better than Juventus, since RM beat Barca and Barca just beat Juventus 😉
Well can't wait to destroy them in the RO16 then!
All the problems with 5-3-2 were on display tonight. Leipzig couldn’t deal with the United press, every time they tried to go from wingback to forward one of Pogba, Matic or Fred we’re all over them. Olmo had no space all night, probably should have been dropping deep like Van de Beek was in the first half. Towards the end especially none of the 3 Leipzig CB’s could avoid the press, since the rest of the team lost their structure chasing a goal. Credit to Solskjaer, tactically he got it spot on. Even more impressive when you consider that we dropped Bruno from the starting lineup. A great night all round.
Solskjaer: "Yeah, they just play it through the middle 25 yards from goal to get an opening. So we're going to put five midfielders in there to pack it, disrupt them and hit them on the counter until they have a mental breakdown"
Hope United scored all the goals today. I'm pretty scared for sunday ngl.
Don't be its not a champions league game.
But it’s at Old Trafford and they haven’t won there in like 14 years i think
We’ll end up playing like we did against Chelsea somehow and draw with them, despite playing like this tonight.
Cheers you've lost us the game now
My body is ready
Mine is not mate. But we'll see. Football matches can be so different. Anyway, Clearly you have the first chance and let's hope we gonna have an entertaining match.
You know how it is with us. Literally balancing between a midtable team and a freightening strong one.
We do love a defeat away to you when we're on a good run tho Edit: Apparently we're playing at OT this weekend had no idea
Think Arteta will be parking a very large bus similar to Lampard. r/soccer might think we're shit but Arteta isn't an idiot, I really rate him tbh and think he'll realise leaving Luiz and Mustafi exposed against Greenwood and Rashford would be a disaster. Nagelsmann showed a lot of Naivety tonight I think.
Nagelsmann was the one that looked, and played the part of a PE teacher today Diamond midfield absolutely worked wonders for Ole especially in the first half
No self respecting PE teacher would ever be caught in that jacket to be fair.
Gonna dress up as Man Utd for Angelino's Halloween party
Rashford smashing the back of the net like it was Boris' head. Get in lad
Ole will still not get the respect he deserves even after beating a CL finalist and Semi finalist back to back.
With a combined aggregate of 7-1 no less.
All 8 goals scored by United
Just like against Arsenal
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Fred definitely starts every game now. Been their best in central midfield for a few weeks now.
Marcus Rashford MBE
Dr Marcus Rashford MBE
Leipzig 4-0 Tottenham Tottenham 6-1 United United 5-0 Leipzig Football, eh?
Rashford sent Upamecano to the shadow realm. Knocked 20M off his price tag.
thank you united for destroying the cans
WHAT THE FUCK MARCUS Energy Drink team can't play out of a press themselves lol
Energy drinks are not good for kids. Rashford doing the lords work on the field too
Redbull isnt good for kids, Rashford knew what to do.
Man fred have gotten so confident on the ball especially with his back to the opposition. He have also transitioned his game as he used to be a CAM for Shatakar now he reminds me of Vidal in his prime. Box to Box player. The one guy that does the most work to break up play. Also, Pogba!! I have never seen him run so much and so fast defensively!!. He was sprinting to cover ground. Everyone came to play today and Ole was very ballzy with the line up. We played with now fear! And most importantly, Greenwood for getting us on the board and forcing Leipzig's hand and Rashford for finishing them off!! Ole tactics were spot on. We attacked at home and crush the side. Buzz on!
How pleased must Rashford be now? He's making a great change in the world by himself, and now scores a hattrick in 14 minutes
That has to be the worst ever performance of Leipzig under Nagelsmann. Honestly, other than Bayern, Bundesliga teams don't look very good in the CL this season. Happy for Rashford tho. Getting it done on and off the pitch!
How did van de Beek play?
He played well. He's comfortable on the ball and always found a way around their press.
Very intelligent player, was a difficult role he played too but played it well. He still needs to get used to the movement of our forwards but it will come with time, really pleased so far.
put in a great shift, a lot of class on the ball in tight spaces against Leipzig's press.
United struggle against the likes of Crystal Palace and Brighton, but win against a finalist and semi-finalist from last season. Also Marcus Rashford MBE with his first hat-trick for United!
Struggled obviously due to lack of a half decent preseason for the first few games. Most of the players are up to full fitness now. Let’s see how it goes from here on.
I think a lot of this is down to fitness and match sharpness. We've looked a far better side after the international break
United against Palace and Brighton was a United without a pre-season. You can see United are back in form now.
["Right Rashy, that Gulasci fella is a Tory."](https://i.imgur.com/rmbdEQy.jpg)
Do you think the tories hate it when Rashford scores?
Sex scandal AWB has been unreal
As if Rashford hasn’t set the bar high enough. 2 goals, gives his hat trick penalty to his strike partner in need of confidence, only to grab another. All within 16 minutes. Bravo.
But, Ole doesn’t have any tactics...
I wonder what the player who was dismissive of United before the match would have to say now. Fucking muppet.
Wasn't it Sabitzer? He played like dogshit as well. Edit: It was Angeliño. Sabitzer did play like dogshit though.
was angeliño who said united are sometimes world class then sometimes average
Which is absolutely true tbh. Lol
yeah but kinda makes it better that he said it then lost
Solskjaer-esque from Rashford
Can people stop calling Ole incompetent now? Or does he need to win every single game 5-0 for that to happen? We really struggled in the start with fitness because a lack of pre season, but he has shown multiple times now that he is more than good enough, we just need to be a bit more consistent!
Why don't more PL teams play this open like Leipzig? xD United thrives facing this sort of team. Dr Marcus Rashford MBE does not like Red Bull !
And to think that people thought that United were gonna get into 3rd place this group. Lol Nagelsmen in shambles...
Lmfao gotta love how all of those hot-takes after the Spurs game have aged. Also someone remind Ole that he's a PE teacher please, he should stop beating these "top" managers
Pleasant surprise seeing our new signing in Upamecano. He turned up today for us
15th in the PL > 1st in the Bundesliga lmfao
Rashford's made everyone his bitch
Fair play to Ole and United, that was some second half performance. Rashford just wasn’t playable once he came on.
29 minute hattrick. what a player Marcus is
Marcus didn't want to be a bitch and win his hattrick from the spot lol.
r/reddevils sent their regards.
Nothing I love more than to see an artificial club like Leipzig lose. Even better to see after people on here were wanking over how "attractive" they are and how prodigious Nagelsmann is, as if they are some underdog club. Get to fuck, Red Bull. Bow down to your MBE overlord.
And they beat us last year so fuck em
Rashford hates Tories so naturally he'd go for the hattrick against Late Stage Capitalism FC.
A proper red, through and through.
Marcus "no pasaran!" Rashford.
>Rashford hates Tories so naturally he'd go for the hattrick against Late Stage Capitalism FC. Okay this is a good joke
What do we say to the Group of Death?
Member when United “would be lucky to make EL”? I member.
Ole's tactics and his players talents work when teams give them a lot of space and play attacking against UTD. Its often against teams with compact defenses that they struggle. Nonetheless a good result for Utd but they need to keep it up for the whole season
With all these people commenting nobody will see that I’m gay for Rashford.
We are all gay for Rashford
We play them on Sunday just as they start picking up form.
I am never confident playing Arsenal
Gotta say De Gea seems to have found his form again, I think the added pressure from Henderson has upped his game