Topic: PL: Man Utd 2 vs 2 Liv Diaz 23’ Fernandes 50’ Mainoo 67’ Mo 84’

[kesey]

How shite are we at countering with numbers nowadays. Fucked up another massive 4/5 v 2 today. Seem to do it pretty much on a weekly basis nowadays. Miss the days where teams would dread offer us the chance to counter

Sometimes a three on three is better for the attacking team .

[rushyman]

I didnt delete it. It must have been deleted by a mod.

It was a joke based on a comment on how Ramadan was being portrayed. So Mo and Konate are doing Ramadan but now thats over they should perform better. It almost read like it was some break they were taking from being at their very best.

Im happy to even the playing field and the some by actually taking the piss out of Jesus (not the Arsenal one).

Just don't start on Fowler Killer

[Heritage]

They embarrass themselves this manc team.

This result will probably be the highlight of their season.

Ever since we beat them 5-0 and 7-0 they play us like a relegation threatened team.

Always parking the bus and looking to attack on the break. When their at home too. Pitiful.

I'd argue we were more "on-top" than any of the other two matches - the difference was our attackers are not firing properly.

Never missed Jota more.

They didn't park the bus against us today. They tried to get at us right from the off, I thought Ten Hag had lost his mind.

[kesey]

I hate these bastards.

Thanks for saying that !  Strong words and energy which I try not to use these days .


* Goes to check today's posts *

[Andy82lfc]

Just don't start on Fowler Killer

He’s fair game, though others can’t be talked about. Even atheists are hypocrites these days.

[peelyon]

Gutted we didn't get a result.  Need to dust ourselves down a bit and nothing too knee jerk.  Feel for Quansah, hope he gets plenty of arms round the shoulder.

[robertobaggio37]

Couldn’t watch this. How bad were? Give me 100% honesty.

[Samie]

Couldn’t watch this. How bad were? Give me 100% honesty.

We battered them in the first half and didn't take our chances to socre more. We battered them again after they scored and more of the same.

[robertobaggio37]

We battered them in the first half and didn't take our chances to socre more. We battered them again after they scored and more of the same.

Ah, sounds too familiar this season. Thanks.

[kesey]

Who who. Who who

Is a very powerful Sufi chant but spelt Hu hu hu hu which translates into he exists .  As in Allah Hu or Allah Hu Akbar.

 

Nice one .

[duvva 💅]

Is a very powerful Sufi chant but spelt Hu hu hu hu which translates into he exists .  As in Allah Hu or Allah Hu Akbar.

 

Nice one .

Maybe that’s where Townshend got it from, i think his guru was Meher Baba so maybe it is hu hu hu hu not Who Who Who Who

You learn something new every day

[Eeyore]

Gutted we didn't get a result.  Need to dust ourselves down a bit and nothing too knee jerk.  Feel for Quansah, hope he gets plenty of arms round the shoulder.

He doesn't need arms around the shoulder he was excellent after the mistake including a great run down the right.

[Schmarn]

Thankfully was out for the evening so escaped having to stew over this. No bones about it, that was a terrible result given our dominance. We actually created much better chances than the cup game (our xG was 3.5 to their 0.7) but the finishing was dreadful, no way to sugarcoat it. I get the sense with Darwin and Diaz that they don’t actually aim for the corner, they just put their foot through it which is why so many shots go straight at the keeper, get blocked or go miles over. That is something that they have to work on going forward if they are to become complete forwards.

Felt very sorry for Quansah. It’s been a huge ask of him and respect to him for helping set up the move that ended in the penalty. Again we actually defended far better than the cup game but their conversion rate of opportunities was incredible.

It’s truly gutting that it’s not in our hands anymore but the equaliser was hugely important. We still control our fate against City and I’d be amazed if Arsenal don’t drop points. The big question is whether we can win out now. If we do I think we still win it. If we can just get Jota and Trent back for the Fulham week and if Konate is fit that can be the key for us. Every one of our 7 remaining games is winnable so we pick ourselves up and go for it.

[kesey]

Maybe Pete got it from asking names on the child porn sites he admitted to using.

A bit heavy that lad !  Not saying you are right or wrong but why throw something like that in relation to what me and Duvva were on about ? Seriously lad you need to have a good look at yourself there .

[rushyman]

Fuck me this threads gone weird

I blame the forwards

[latortuga]

The line I kept repeating before this game was...

"Better Liverpool teams than this have gone to Old Trafford and drawn or lost"

Well, this was the shortest price I've ever seen us in this game and we still failed to capitalise.

We could be unbackable favourites in this game and we'd still find a way to make a game of it.

It doesn't matter how much better we are than Man U in terms of quality, just as it never mattered how much better they were than us when we regularly did them over during their best years in the 2000's.

But humans are destined to repeat the same mistakes over and over again, so I guess we'll all be back here next year confidently predicting that we'll roll them by huge scorelines.

[HullReD]

This was a carbon copy of the fa cup with these twats. Second half when we was 2-1 down I just couldn't see us scoring at all. Even when we had chances to score I didn't get excited the slightest bit cos I knew they would either block it or we would shoot wide or Onana would pull off a 'One for the cameras' save. But like the fa cup game we dropped to their level again. Honestly I have never seen as bad a Utd side as this one....may it continue.

[Tokyoite]

It was so obvious we'd lose points after missing so many chances, yet again. It was incredibly frustrating to watch. Abu Dhabi and Arsenal would have been done with them in the first half.

[Eeyore]

The thing people need to realise is that it isn't just us. United have given up chances all season and not been punished. They have also scored goals out of nothing. Today they scored from a Fernandes longshot and a Mainoo spin and perfect shot into the corner.

They have done it all season.

Today was 0.85 v 4.53. It is just nuts. Based on xG United would be 15th on 36 points.

If United had prime Schmeichel in goal and prime Ronaldo upfront then you could just about accept it they havent.

[telekon]

The Diaz chance shooting over I can undestand, he had to stretch to get there and had a lot of balance on his back foot.
I can understand, even though it's quite difficult, Nuρez not making the right decision and going for a return pass.
But Salah blasting that over I just don't get. He's on his right foot but fuck me I was half up starting to celebrate there.

[Keith Lard]

Couldn’t watch this. How bad were? Give me 100% honesty.

We were fucking quality other than not banging the onion bag enough. Manchester United magically conjured 2 goals from an XG of 0.83, and we managed 2 goals from XG of 4.56.

They were the definition of lucky, spawny bastards today.

[NarutoReds]

[GreatEx]

Still fuming about this result. I said in the half-time thread they would score with their first shot. If I were a betting man I could have made a small fortune. Crap teams value their chances because they don't know when the next one will come along. We seem to only apply this value to our chances when we're chasing a result late in the second half. I wish we could adopt this mindset throughout the entire game.

[him_15]

Disappointed for the draw, at least we pretty much eliminated United's chance for CL football next season, and they fully deserved that.

[spider-neil]

It’s incredibly frustrating but at the same given the injury list it’s amazing we’re still in this position. It’s just so fucking annoying it had to be those c*nts. Kicking us out of the FA Cup and taking 4 points off us despite being rubbish. They will absolutely roll over for Arsenal.

[GreatEx]

They rolled over for us, too, but we wouldn't tickle them

[The Final Third]

Absolutely fuming after the result, but by god does this thread make me more angry. I’m going to be blunt; lots of people on here don’t deserve this team and this manager. We’ve been absolutely screwed over by referees this season (Spurs, Brighton, Arsenal, City) which means that we are ‘only’ joint top (and ahead of City) rather than being at least 5 points clear, and that would be despite having a major injury crisis and a completely new midfield. You are just a bunch of entitled w*nkers quite frankly.

If we win the league this season then I hope that the mods have the good grace to kick some of the absolute idiots in this thread off the forum so that they can’t celebrate with the rest of us, because frankly that is what they deserve.

We are still in this and will fight to the end. YNWA.

This. Frustrations are understandable but capitulations can fuck off. Level top and with a little under a fifth of the season left to play, we go again indeed.

[WorldChampions]

Having slept on it, yes the finishing was poor but we scored five goals in two games at OT without winning. The defence has been far too leaky especially away from home.

[WorldChampions]

Couldn’t watch this. How bad were? Give me 100% honesty.

See the FA cup game, it was very similar except rather than dominate for 60 mins it was 80 (shaky first 10).

[decosabute]

Ah, sounds too familiar this season. Thanks.

It was familiar up to a point, but this was the ridiculous extreme of it. It was absolutely crazy that we only scored one in the first half. It was a bit like the cup game, but with the halves reversed. Should've scored five in the first half and have it be over as a contest. The more we kept missing, the more obvious it became that it was going to cost us. United didn't deserve a point, but we didn't deserve more than that either - repeatedly braindead with the goal gaping.

[spider-neil]

Not having Jota available has absolutely killed us. This will sound harsh given all the goal contributions from the forwards but i think Jota is the only killer we have. If you have to put your house on the forward to finish when through on goal it's him I want on that chance. I wouldn't have confidence in anyone else. For the people that watched Salah take that penalty you're braver than me.

[Draex]

It was familiar up to a point, but this was the ridiculous extreme of it. It was absolutely crazy that we only scored one in the first half. It was a bit like the cup game, but with the halves reversed. Should've scored five in the first half and have it be over as a contest. The more we kept missing, the more obvious it became that it was going to cost us. United didn't deserve a point, but we didn't deserve more than that either - repeatedly braindead with the goal gaping.

Correct, Utd are a shit footballing team but have some very good individuals, so they could always score a goal out of nothing. We were complacent, not clinical enough, like we’d always get another chance or passing off responsibility in front of goal.

[spider-neil]

We need Professor X to get in their heads so that when they feel like passing they should shoot and when they feel like shooting they should pass.

[JC the Messiah]

We would have conceded first.

[rowan_d]

Did anyone else get quite pissed off when they saw Salah take the ball off of MacAllister for the penalty? Seems a bit muddled if they're only deciding who is taking them after they've been awarded, and I trust MacAllister a lot more to get the contact that he's looking for when taking them. Always feel like if the keeper goes the right way on a Salah penalty it's going to be easily saved, and there's a reasonable chance that he might miss the target altogether.

Don't really understand how we beat them 7-0 and then immediately developed a mental block against them. Those exact performances in different shirts and we'd have four more points and be in the FA cup semi-final.

[spider-neil]

Did anyone else get quite pissed off when they saw Salah take the ball off of MacAllister for the penalty? Seems a bit muddled if they're only deciding who is taking them after they've been awarded, and I trust MacAllister a lot more to get the contact that he's looking for when taking them. Always feel like if the keeper goes the right way on a Salah penalty it's going to be easily saved, and there's a reasonable chance that he might miss the target altogether.

Don't really understand how we beat them 7-0 and then immediately developed a mental block against them.

You're just going to have to accept that Mo is on penalties until he leaves.

[spider-neil]

Did anyone else get quite pissed off when they saw Salah take the ball off of MacAllister for the penalty? Seems a bit muddled if they're only deciding who is taking them after they've been awarded, and I trust MacAllister a lot more to get the contact that he's looking for when taking them. Always feel like if the keeper goes the right way on a Salah penalty it's going to be easily saved, and there's a reasonable chance that he might miss the target altogether.

Don't really understand how we beat them 7-0 and then immediately developed a mental block against them. Those exact performances in different shirts and we'd have four more points and be in the FA cup semi-final.

The mental block is more with killing games off than with Manu.

[amir87]

Did anyone else get quite pissed off when they saw Salah take the ball off of MacAllister for the penalty? Seems a bit muddled if they're only deciding who is taking them after they've been awarded, and I trust MacAllister a lot more to get the contact that he's looking for when taking them. Always feel like if the keeper goes the right way on a Salah penalty it's going to be easily saved, and there's a reasonable chance that he might miss the target altogether.

Don't really understand how we beat them 7-0 and then immediately developed a mental block against them. Those exact performances in different shirts and we'd have four more points and be in the FA cup semi-final.

The whole holding onto the ball and then giving it to the actual penalty taker thing is pretty common. Odegaard did it for Saka the other day and if I remember correctly Mac Allister also did this against Chelsea when Nunez missed.

There is clearly hierarchy for penalty takers and they’re not deciding in the moment who should take it. If it were up to me it would definitely be Mac Allister. Far more convincing then Salah is.

[JRed]

That game was like a cup game at lower league opposition. We were so much better than them yet it was clearly their biggest game of the season and they almost caused an upset. Our brainless attacking play really was worrying. Everyone making wrong decisions or just being shit.
Jota, where are you? We need you!

[alonsoisared]

These freak comical goals always seem to be us don't they? Kolo and Stevie in 13/14. Virg and Ali right when we were gaining control at the Emirates in a game that could've killed Arsenal off. Karius in the final. Jarell yesterday. An impressive rap sheet of fucking ourselves over in the most unlikely of ways. We don't like to make it easy for ourselves.