Pizy

Willian was actually pretty good that half. He doesn't deserve to be pulled out as much as Morata does. At least Willian is making dangerous runs down the channels and keeping the ball excellently. He has offered something.

Almost feel like United are conserving energy for a late blitz. They aren't pressuring us when we have the ball at all. This is why we will certainly need at least one more goal.

Actually comical how shit Morata has been so far. Either gives the ball away or falls to the ground every single time. Get him off, FFS.

Tbf, he's not had the squad before that he has now. We have the likes of Cesc, RLC, Barkley, Christensen, etc to rotate in. He's never had that before.

I mean, he's rotated several areas so far. I don't see a problem. Once we start playing many more games per week he'll start rotating more dramatically.

Man, I'd imagine United's CB's who are very low on confidence will be delighted to see a striker with zero confidence today rather than Giroud. Anyways, like I mentioned last night, I was guessing that Mou might start Martial and Rashford instead of Sanchez and I was right. Huge danger from wide areas here. Hopefully our fullbacks hold up to the pace running at them today.

Feels like it's been a month since we last played. I wonder what sort of ultra annoying scheme Mourinho has planned out to "kill" certain aspects of this match. Will he send his 2 thugs Fellaini and Herrera out there to kick and elbow our technical players every chance they get? Probably. As shite as they've been so far this season I am worried about their attack. Wonder if José will have them balls to drop Sanchez here. I'd be more scared of Martial than him at this point. I think they'd give us a load of issues with a front 3 of Lukaku, Martial, and Rashford. I really fucking hate how these international breaks kill momentum and routine. I would've fancied us to batter them had we played a coup,e of weeks ago. Now I think it could go either way.

We may as well make peace with the fact that he's going to give us a great final season and leave next summer. Just when we may see the absolute best of him he's going to leave and he'll do so for a cut price since it'll be the last year of his contract. The only positive is that we won't be Courtois'd and will have this whole time to prepare and scout for replacements. Hopefully the club will shop in the top bracket.

I mean, he's making it plain as day that Madrid is his option #1.

Seems like there isn't much we can do. He has his mind set. Might take us offering him an Alexis Sanchez level salary for him to stay. He's on like £400-500k per week, right? Whats super frustrating is that we finally have a manager who can take us up a level and play great football. We feel like a club on the upswing while Madrid are waning. Ronaldo left, their key players getting old, their manager now on the hot seat. Why would Hazard want to leave now? Damn.

Welp. Sounds like Eden is about to drop another future-related bomshell on us in a bit. Bad feeling about this.

Crosse so on the far post. Over and over again. Why are we so clueless in those situations!?

Really can't even blame Giroud for not scoring. He gets no clean looks across the ground because every team pack so many players around their box and the aerial service has been pretty abysmal all season from our players. We are desperate for a striker in the mould of Aguero or Griezmann who can create for themselves and score from just about anywhere around the box.

Maybe our best half of the season going forward. Still so obviously missing a killer in the final third and are completely dependent on Eden. Giroud's linkup has been outstanding but we need goals from him too. We still look vulnerable to quick turnovers and crosses with runners at the far post. We MUST turn our dominance into goals in the second half because Southampton have a goal in them if we keep giving them chances.

Damn. We're down to 5th as we kick off.

Hmm. I predict a frustrating match looking at the XI.

Right, theyve been playing shite teams and still not been convincing. I haven't heard a single pundit mention them in any sort of top 4 race (it's still early obviously) so that to me says that they've not impressed. We've dominated for most of our games so far. Not been 100% convincing at all times but feels like we've been better than our two London rivals.

I don't know about Spuds, but even Arse fans have been saying they've been lucky in almost every match they've won. From the journo's I follow on Twitter it seems they've been scraping by. I havent seen either of them play as well as we did against Liverpool.

I've admittedly not seen a second of Southampton play this season. No idea what to expect. All I know is that it's a must win going into the break and with a desperate Mourinho/United who will want to get their season back on track afterwards.

Fucking embarrassing from Newcastle. That was the worst I've ever seen United. They had midfielders playing at CB, ffs. They were all over the shop and Newcastle still couldn't hold on and win. Fucking useless. I really looked forward to the meltdown and probably sacking. Anyways, it looks annoying to see Spuds above us. It feels like they've been a clear level behind us this season in terms of quality yet are ahead, albeit with a game in hand. Arse probably will be as well by the time we kick off. Both of them feel like they should be way behind us.

If he had any kind of end product and could get consistent minutes he could be a mirror of Yaya Toure. Same stature, same graceful running with the ball.

Our attacking players are why we won't challenge for the title this season. Morata is a black hole up top. Willian is dangerous up until it actually matters and has almost zero end product. Pedro is extremely streaky. It's pretty sad that our midfielders in RLC & Kovacic look more dangerous and likely to score than our attackers. Morata needs to be dumped ASAP in January. Sad to see him like this. Literally Torres mk2.

Lots of rotation to our key player but still a very strong looking XI. Something we couldn't have done in recent seasons. I probably would've rested Willian & Kova as well and let CHO and Barkley start.

Messi is a fucking God. Absolutely unstoppable here.

For the love of God, please rotate the entire team. Like West Ham, Southampton are a team that look on paper like an easy 3 points. They just lost their last game comprehensively to Wolves and have been poor in general this season so far. We need our lads fully sharp and fresh for that game so we can enter the international break potentially joint top of the league on points. No need to tire our legs by playing a strong XI at home here. We should be able to beat Videoton (which sounds more like a Pokemon than a football club) with the likes of Morata, Moses, Willian, etc starting. Don't even include Jorginho or Hazard in the squad. Sit Kante, Azpi etc.