It has turned out to be such a strange season, that even after we playing at our best, beating teams for fun, winning at shite hart lane, keeping clean sheets more than any other teams, scoring more than anyone else – we are going to end up second! Man City just can’t lose can they?
Fulham can do us a favor, they can restrict Pep to a draw or win against them. I have zero confidence in Tottenham beating City and West Ham can’t go through them on the last day at Etihad. If something can happen, it’s today. Lets hope the gods favors us and Fulham and we get to see for once the sad face of Pep Guardiola. We have one of ours play for Fulham, Bernd Leno, who has promised that he will give his 100% to stop our competition.
There has been some happenings while I was missing. Jorginho signed the contract for another year, Mikel was full of praise for him and it basically confirms it’s time for Thomas Partey to go. I don’t believe Mikel wants to keep two 35 year olds to fight for one place when Declan Rice is a starter. If I was you Mikel, I would sell Thomas for whatever money we can get, and go into the market for a DM understudy to Rice/Jorginho.
Bayern did us dirty in the quarters. Saka was denied a clear penalty. Harry Kane got away with an elbow on Gabriel which should have been red. They weren’t so furious then about refereeing, but when it happened to them against Madrid when the offside whistle was blown a bit too early, all hell broke loose. Mr Tuchel, Karma is a bitch.
Next year’s kit has been leaked, and I am disappointed to say the least. Last season was best of Adidas, both Red and White, and the black ones were great. This season, the third kit was a standout and home one was fine too. I think I might skip the next season’s if the leaks are true.
A belated Happy Birthday to Dennis Bergkamp, you happened when I was playing cricket as 10 year old but looking back, I would have loved to see you play live. A gentlemen, a magician, red through and through.
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Fabrizio reported that we are monitoring the young 18 year old Ajax centre back Jorrel Hato. He has a deal till 2028 and he will be an investment for the future. We most certainly need a third regular CB to rotate with Saliba and Gabriel without hampering our game play. White/Tomi are CB but we haven’t seen them play there, and we don’t know if they will turn out to be equally good. If it costs us 10 odd million, I would say go for it.
Sacking news have started about Pochettino. He talked about an interview, the content doesn’t really matter but if the manager comes out and talks about it, either he is fearful he will be sacked, or he knows he will. Chelsea has just moved from a billionaire russian who managed to win things to a billionaire american who can’t make things happen. Loving it.
Right, and Ten Hag just can’t stop talking about us can he?
we need to definitely work on our stretch passing…I remember all the talk surrounding White’s supposed elite level passing skills, for a CB that is, but I can’t thnk of a single instance when he unlocked a defence from distance…I get that when you’re a more possession-based side opting for such low percentage pass is deemed counterintuitive, but there have been times when having that capacity could have served us well, like against both City and Bayern, who are both vulnerable to just such a tacitcal approach
Hojlund with a lisping Harry special on Saliba
TRVL
TH time at Ajax wasn’t a fluke so I suspect you’re right.
Need to dominate early in the second half and get a quick second goal.
tactical
we had better hope that United continues to struggle mightily in the final third, as we’re inviting pressure far more than we ever should against this particular side
If Rice sits in in our mid with Partey we will snuff out their early stages of attack, and can counter ourselves. I feel Rice is playing too high up as Ramsey did. Against lesser teams it isn’t a problem, but Ten Hag has anticipated it and we are porous in midfield. If Riced is up someone needs to tuck in with Partey. White or Tomi who are up with Rice.
Man U had s 72% possession, got the ball up too but had no one at the top who could strike the ball on the turn, so lost it as the players did their gear changing to get into possession.
Right side kid only did on good through pass. Normally stopped perplexed and passed back , allowing Arsenal players to take possession. Ten Hag is currently s deeply flawed manager.
Manure have many kids playing on enthusiasm alone, TRVL, so are too inexperienced against us. Trouble is we aren’t making them pay for it in goals.
Another petulant kid would be better off being loaned, KP, Hojlund. Lucky for us they have the Glaziers but Ratcliffe will be problem in the future.
ten Hag success at Ajax required a more youthful side so as to properly deploy his possession-heavy high pressing tactics, but the recruitment practices at United have let him down, as they opted for a whole host of players who were ill-equipped or unwilling to buy into that approach…in many ways it reminds me of Emery’s time here, when he had no say whatsoever when it came to the recruitment side of things
After going under with their 72% possession in first half, Man U will not be able to sustain the initial second half tempo. Guess we should get a 3-1 victory of the our resident Nostradamus Kroenkephobe
Saliba-ba-ba-ba!
it’s clear we came here today quite willing to settle for a 1-0 scoreline, which I can somewhat understand considering the stakes…I’m sure MA felt that the unfamiliarity of this United side would gift us with enough opportunities that there was no need to open up or press too hard…not to mention, as the match wore on, their lack of depth would likely allow us to score a time or three in the latter stages
Garnacho seems to be channelling his inner Sancho today
finally a noteworthy flick from our resident giraffe
if Bissaka couldn’t handle the much slower Trossard, we should be totally focused on providing a well-rested Marts with plenty of 1 v.1 opportunities in the last 20+minutes
Wondering when we’re going to get out of second gear?
with all that possession it seems almost unthinkable that it took almost 70 minutes for United to get their first shot on target…just goes to show how pathetic they’ve been in the business end of the pitch, thankfully for us
Shteve ‘van der Valk’ Mclaren provides the Dutch connection at Manure, not EtH. Will show you all a wickedly funny clip after the game.
The changes made by Man U is too many variables for El B to process…by the look on his face
the only way you don’t totally question our tactics today is if we take all 3, but I guess that oft-times is the case at this time of the season
is the storm rolling in more ominous for us or them??
Wally with the brolly KP
thankfully this match wasn’t 400 minutes longer or Garnacho might have actually scored
good result, luke-warm performance overall…Saliba is the well-deserved MOTM
We got the 3. Currently on top.
Over to the Spurs to get a draw
…and yeahh
We’re all Spuds fans on Tuesday night right?
thankfully this match wasn’t 400 minutes longer or Garnacho might have actually scored
TRVL 😂
You’re right mate. But there were nevertheless some arse-squeakingly bad moments along the way. Palace ripped those cunts a new one 6 days ago as well.
https://youtu.be/xhtq1ObGHy8?si=CV134LruhPMLa7iO
This is priceless. Steve McLaren a few days after arriving as manager at Alkmaar thinking he’d have a go at Dutch. What a wanker.
I want to give MA a pass for the lame tactics against another injury-riddled side, as ultimately the result is the only thing that mattered, but just imagine what would have been said if gifting United all that possession had backfired, which it easily could have if Garnacho hadn’t worn his mother’s boots
A lackluster 2nd half performance where if Rashford had played we might not have got all 3 points.
Another game we did just enough and the different between us and City. Even when city drop pionts they will have probably had 25+ sots on target. We managed 5.
Now our GD is shyte. As Marc said City will hammer the Hammers.
Still it’s not over until the fat lady sings and El B says he has it in his head we are going to win the trophy.
Funny, I did too until we dropped unnecessary points agains poor teams.