Pizy

NOOOOOO, Auba could’ve killed the game there!!

LMAO we basically just bored them to death and scored an ugly ass goal. Looked like Kova just accidentally hit the target there. 🤣🤣🤣

Another start where our opponent’s intensity and desire just seems way higher than ours. We can’t get Kova or J5 on the ball at all because of their high press.

I just don’t want qualification to come down to that last Dinamo game for both us and Dinamo. Because I don’t trust this group of players in an absolute must win match yet. Please just let us win today and get through…

I’m not sure it will be any better for him without a natural fullback/wingback on his side. Now he could be even more defensively exposed whilst playing out of his natural position.

Man, Cucu is going to quickly get scapegoated and turned into a “bust” by our fans and the media if we keep playing him in this CB role. We desperately need KK and Fofana back. Cucu misjudges headers, messes up his positioning, and his confidence looks shot in this role and I legit feel bad for him out there.

Bruh, this team…. What in the actual?

Disagree. For whatever reason he tends to start games in really shaky fashion but gets better and better as the game goes on. He has been very solid lately and had just started getting used to the English game. We’ll miss him and once again be forced to use either Azpi or Cucu at CB which I hate. It really is ridiculous luck that we have THREE starting defenders all out at the same time with knee injuries. It’s annoying as fuck. Right in the most busy and important period.

Some positives that need a mention from that match: - Trev was once again mistake free and had an easy game, Silva as well - Chilly was much better today than he was against Villa - midfield wasn’t a gaping hole once Potter made the change with Kova We’re basically the opposite of where we were under Tuchel before he was fired. We couldn’t defend and made school boy errors nonstop. Now we’re secure defensively but our attack is extremely stale.

Potter needs to take some lessons from the last few matches and start dropping a few of these players, btw. Sterling being the key one. Pulisic has looked like our most dangerous attacker in all of these brief cameos. Start him for a run of games. Likewise Broja.

Chopped and changed side after loads of injuries. And not just any injuries, BIG players. Against a United side who are surging and in their best form in years. Sorry, that’s a decent point we earned. And if anything, I’m more positive now than I was at the start of the match. Potter’s in game adjustments worked well as evidenced by Ten Hag immediately reacting to all of his subs. Some of you have to realize where we are as a club. We’re still nowhere near the finished article. Add on injuries to key players and we’ll be desperately fighting for 3rd/4th again. What we need to focus most on now is beating the small teams.

People having a go at the manager. 🙄 Did he make a basic error on a cross where TWO tall United players were totally free at the far post? You know, literally THE one place someone is going to smack in a desperate last minute cross? We dropped points because of sloppy, idiotic defending and dreadful luck that Kepa was 2 inches too short. And even at his height he was millimeters away from saving it.

Mendy prevents that with his height.

Think the only real difference between the two sides is that they have a creative spark in the middle of the pitch (two, actually with Bruno and Eriksen) and we have none. Jorginho, Kova, and RLC are great at keeping the ball and playing simple passes but Bruno and Eriksen can pierce the lines and create for the attackers. It’s really something we need to think about for the future. We simply don’t have a playmaker in our entire squad. Just ball carriers and holders.

In addition to the injuries we’re also suffering from some key attackers being in shit form which compounds our issues. Sterling has been completely off the boil for weeks now and Auba still isn’t fully sharp. The latter could have had a couple of goals that half if he was in top form. Honestly, I’d sit Raheem for a couple of matches and bring Pulisic in. He’s been making things happen recently.

And Kova instantly changed the midfield dynamic. Much more calm and steady in there with him. The chances and spaces are there for us and we’re creating chances. Just a little more composure with the final pass is needed.

Loftus Cheek offering zero whatsoever and we’re getting bossed in midfield because of it. Kova is needed.

They look so much more comfortable on the ball in the final third. It’s pathetic.

Rashford, Sancho, and Antony with their pace against oldies like Azpi and Silva could cause us massive problems. Add in Cucu out of position and Chilly looking poor defensively on that left side with together with him…

Our defense heading into the season was supposed to be our deepest position. The whole football world (our own supporters included) was wondering how on earth we would get minutes for all our defenders. Now Reece, Fofana, and KK are all out injured. Fucks sake, man. Can’t see us winning this.

Fuck, Cucu at CB again. 😔

We’re just a bang average, midtable looking side without the dynamism of Reece and with so many others out of form. United will comfortably beat us at the weekend with the way we look now. So disheartening how poor we have looked outside of the two Milan games recently.

Havertz just takes an age every time he gets on the ball and then ends up giving it away constantly.

Just awful to watch once again. We can’t string together any passing moves at all. Meanwhile, for the second match in a row, a lesser talented side is popping it around comfortably.

What happened to Gallagher and Chilly?