I don't really know what people expected united to do here with the results they've had and the injuries they've got.
The fact is we were sh*te. As per we couldn't break down a defensive team because we're not good enough. Let's not let uniteds tactics hide the fact we're not good enough.
The only difference Sunday to most of our other games this season was that we didn't pull it out the fire with a penalty or long range goal or sending off etc.
We've got issues at the back , in midfield and up top. And unless we get it sorted , including some creativity in midfield to unlock teams from deep and a central striker who is top drawer then we ain't challenging Arsenal and city.
We're in a battle with Villa spurs and Newcastle for 3rd/4th and it's going to be close.
Our luck ran out Sunday. You cant keep playing passive pedestrian football and expect to get away with it. Nothing to do with united and their tactics. We were utterly clueless from minute one.
For the first time in 35 games, the ball just wouldn't go in. We had 34 shots, from long range, close range, crosses, corners, goalmouth scrambles, the lot. We did everything but score. One of those few days when the ball just would not go in. That Gakpo miss in injury time is genuinely painful. The opposition meanwhile haven't won here in 8 years, haven't scored in 5, have gone 3 games without a goal and are snowballing down the league. And we think we have issues?
You made it clear from the Day 1 that (despite all the evidence in front of your face every week) we're not going to challenge for the league. We've lost 1 of the last 29 league games, so we're well capable of challenging for the league. One of our rivals wins at Luton in injury time, and it's the stuff of champions. We win in injury time and apparantly, it's only down to luck.
At half time against Fulham, you were proudly boasting direct from the ground itself that we would be 8 points off the top by now. Instead we're 5 points clear of City. I'm not worried about City's winning run, which was supposed to have started well before now. We can, and have in the past, matched their records. So what if KDB returns, you know he'll be injured again within weeks, he is as injury prone as Thiago.
I'm tired of wading through post after post tearing into the players at every opportunity during the games. There's plenty of time for post mortems afterwards but during them, get off the bloody internet and watch the bleeding game. They need all our support, all our focus and patience for the 2 hours, not long detailed career obituaries written out at the first sign of difficulty. Kelleher was ripped apart after just 45 minutes of his first home league game in 3 years, in a game we won. Diaz is thrown under the bus all the time, totally oblivious to all the stuff he's had to go through. Even Salah has crap written about him because he hasn't scored a hattrick in 10 minutes. The man has scored 200+ goals for this club, figures most of us have never seen before.
Most of us would have been taken where we are, at the start of the season. No it's not perfect but it doesn't need to be. We're one point behind with 20 games remaining. More than enough time to make it up.
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