I can't work out if I'd rather Ronaldo started or not.
I can't work out if I'd rather Ronaldo started or not.
I’d rather he started than came off the bench tbh.
It’s got nothing to do with the history of the fixture. This is as I say the worst United side since Ron Atkinson was managing them. Games against them at Old Trafford have all been settled by one goal since Ferguson left. We’ve drawn as many games as we’ve lost.
We can’t look at it as anything other than a game against a slightly better than mid table side. But we are completely ill equipped to play away from home anywhere currently, no attacking threat from full backs, the central midfield will not be given the space to attack. The attacking front three won’t see enough of the ball and we will get bored to death.
Brentford is a game where we could get really humiliated, that won’t happen here
We really have to stop that shit if we are going to go up a level.
I’m ok with us losing if we go toe to toe with them. There are fine lines in football - like last season when the ref fucked us over vs City. Yes, we lost but I couldn’t have been prouder of the performance. I’m looking for the same today. If we lose limply then Project Arteta isn’t taking us anywhere
If we collapse again
1) I think you need to get over the idea that what fans think or don’t think has any bearing on results. I think we are going to lose not because it’s man United but because I don’t think we are equipped to be playing anyone but mid table sides at home with Xhaka and Lokonga (and even then it’s a tall order). But the fact is I could be wrong
2) I’d argue blaming the referee for disappointing results is more evidence of defeatist thinking. We lost the game against City because we threw it away. Xhaka had no business having his hands all over Bernardo Silvas shirt. Gabriel put himself in a position to be sent off for talking back to the referee and then giving away a needless foul, it was amateurish.
1) I don’t think that.
2) I’m not one of those people who believes that refs are generally against us, but I saw that game and the ref fucked us over in that one.
1) “We really need to stop that shit” - why? What possible difference does it make? Unless you think somehow that our attitude transfers itself onto the coach and players I genuinely don’t get what you’re driving at
2) No we fucked ourselves over, even Arteta admitted as much…told the players they were great in every area of the pitch apart from our own penalty area and theirs. He was right, even foregoing the fact that it was a penalty on Bernardo Silva and Gabriel should have been sent off. How many chances did we miss in that game?
1) We as a club
2) Agree to disagree