UEFA Champions & Europa League Football Thread ** spoilers ** [10th - 12th December 2024]

[Robbo]

3v1 counter and still made a total mess of it, terrible

 

[Shamikebab]

3v1 with Antony though, so it was actually a 2v2

 

[Robbo]

FT. Awful first half, improved in the second, and the subs did quite well. Good result but a hard watch!

 

[sigma]

1-2... was never in doubt

 

[Shamikebab]

More one sided than the scoreline suggests, didn't take our chances at all.

 

[Calpol]

That ultimately should have been 4-1 for United. Mount missed two and we wasted 3 breakaways. That's the footballing intelligence of these players.
Three points but far from the full story.

Will be interesting to see who of this lot starts on Sunday.
Onana, Mazraoui, De Lgt and Martinez probably
Fernandes, Amad, Hojlund

Dalot was terrible at wing back. He barely did anything. Rashford - sigh. Zikzee - double sigh. I'd drop both of those for the poor body language.
Can't say I'm looking forward to playing City.

 

[sigma]

Dalot has been poor for a while now

 

[adam cool dude]

Yeah Zirkzee is a complete write-off.

Amorim should really be giving Antony a go in the team because at least he tries.

 

[fez]

Think That Amorim is realising quite quickly that outside of the first XI he has big issues.

 

[sigma]

Yeah Zirkzee is a complete write-off.

Maybe he's just adjusting

 

[fez]

Zirkzee would look fine in a well oiled team that is in a league where the team he plays in dominates possession. Problem is, he plays for us and he looks like hes playing at half speed

 

[Loki]

That ultimately should have been 4-1 for United. Mount missed two and we wasted 3 breakaways. That's the footballing intelligence of these players.
Three points but far from the full story.

Will be interesting to see who of this lot starts on Sunday.
Onana, Mazraoui, De Lgt and Martinez probably
Fernandes, Amad, Hojlund

Dalot was terrible at wing back. He barely did anything. Rashford - sigh. Zikzee - double sigh. I'd drop both of those for the poor body language.
Can't say I'm looking forward to playing City.

Rashford looks absolutely finished. His first touch today, guy couldnt trap a bag of sand

 

[fez]

Rashford looks absolutely finished. His first touch today, guy couldnt trap a bag of sand

Hes got the resilience of a sandcastle. So little backbone and ability to just keep going.

 

[CliffyG]

Spurs doing well. No way they should be losing to these lot.

 

[fez]

Spurs doing well. No way they should be losing to these lot.

They're no Viktoria Plzeň thats for sure!

 

[dacads]

Think That Amorim is realising quite quickly that outside of the first XI he has big issues.

Not good when theres no big transfer budget apparently, I guess to be expected after years of rubbish recruitment

 

[adam cool dude]

At least we are in the top 8 with 2 more games to go. I think 4 points should see us qualify in the top 8.

 

[mid_gen]

At least we are in the top 8 with 2 more games to go. I think 4 points should see us qualify in the top 8.

Amorin is going to need to find a starting XI pretty fast, because against any team that's not utter garbage, we can't spend 60 minutes running around like it's a training game where everyone is trying to figure out where they are supposed to be.

 

[adam cool dude]

Amorin is going to need to find a starting XI pretty fast, because against any team that's not utter garbage, we can't spend 60 minutes running around like it's a training game where everyone is trying to figure out where they are supposed to be.

He is going to struggle then because most of our players IQ is worse than my 5 year old kid.

 

[fez]

Not good when theres no big transfer budget apparently, I guess to be expected after years of rubbish recruitment

You don't need a massive transfer budget to bring in decent players. You won't get top class but you can get good players and upgrade over time.

Amorin is going to need to find a starting XI pretty fast, because against any team that's not utter garbage, we can't spend 60 minutes running around like it's a training game where everyone is trying to figure out where they are supposed to be.

Hes said its going to be painful at times. He knows his best XI already I imagine but he seems to want to rest players, train them and then play them. There is no point in having a completely different team out each week so he is rotating through groups of players to try and get them up to speed.

I think this season has to be largely a write off. If we get into Europe, great. If we don't then so be it. A year not playing more than one game a week might not be the worst thing.