Pizy

Game was stone dead and should’ve been comfortably seen out at 2-0. Their goal was out of absolutely nothing. This defensive frailty is why we aren’t quite there yet as legit title contenders.

And that’s why Nico is still not a top striker. You HAVE to bury that. It’s a tricky finish with the ball bobbling but Haaland or Salah finish those.

Could already see several Brentford defenders breathing heavily in that half. Need to keep up this relentless pressure. Especially in the wide areas. Really wish Neto was available off the bench here because this match is tailor made for him to run them ragged after they’re tired in the second half.

Thought we looked excellent nearly everywhere that half. Just need Sancho and Nico to be sharper in attack. Brentford still look plenty dangerous on the quick turnover, though. We miss Lavia in there as expected.

Mbeumo is the one I’m most worried about. The kind of forward that always worries me. Someone who is physical, aggressive, and never gives up. Throws his weight around well and can force defenders into stupid mistakes. This is why I was hoping Lavia was fit for this for the extra protection.

So that’s now 3 incredible results for us in the same weekend. Maybe 4 if you still consider Brighton a top 4 threat. What a GIGANTIC 3 points it would be if we take care of business. Would allow us to have a pretty nice cushion in case this young team goes off form a bit and slips up a couple of times. Please just win, lads!!! Any way necessary, just fucking WIN!

Lavia is indeed injured again, ffs. 😫😫😫 Much more nervous about this now.

This United XI looks absolutely dreadful. But City are in such poor form that who knows what’ll happen. Draw or United win is best for us so maybe they’ll do us a favor.

Yep, I’m expecting them to try to get super aggressive and physical with us to unsettle our players from minute one. Their tactic will be to press our CB’s and keeper and try to force us into mistakes like Spuds did in that opening 15-20 minutes last weekend. We clearly struggle with that when Sanchez & Badiashile are back there. Really, really hope Lavia is good to play. Without him I worry against a side like Brentford with Caicedo basically on his own in midfield as Enzo doesn’t provide much defensive help and Gusto gets panicky sometimes.

Think we’ll 100% be at the races tomorrow now. Not that we wouldn’t have been already, but these results today will energize us even more. But I also think Brentford will be hell to play against so hopefully no underestimating them from our players.

Brentford I think will be more difficult than Spuds were. They are tactically sound, intelligent, and work their asses off as a unit. This is the sort of opponent that can absolutely beat us or any of the big boys if we aren’t fully up for it.

I don’t care for him either but I could at least envision him looking better after leaving United. Needs a change of scenery and that pressure/spotlight of being that hyped up future superstar for his boyhood club lifted off him. That’s why I think journalists will link him with us. They’ll say he could be just like Sancho.

How much you wanna bet that we’ll be heavily linked with Rashford soon enough? Briefing went out from a few journalists this morning that United will listen to offers for him and are willing to sell him.

Why would we sell our best player back to a team we’re trying to surpass? And why would he want to return to the club that tossed him aside?

Brentford, Fulham, and Bournemouth are all very tough matches. Those are sides that would take great pride in getting super physical with us and clipping our wings. Everton and Wolves are so hot and cold you can never predict what those matches could be like. In era’s past this run of games we have coming up would be light work for a machine-like Chelsea team. But all these small clubs are much more competitive this season. What could go a LONG way in making me super confident in every one of these is if Maresca drops Sanchez.

That right there is Neto’s only real issue. He’s awesome in the open field and at getting in dangerous positions but his end product is lacking. Madueke probably scores there and kills the game.

ENZOOOOOOOOO

Badiashile is SHIT! PLAY TOSIN INSTEAD FFS

Badiashile passing out from the back. Good lord, man. Passing it into the feet of players with someone right on them.

We’re destroying them. But choking over and over in the box. They can’t deal with our ball movement at all. If we can fucking equalize we’ll win this.

Lavia was our best player and now off. Yikes. Gusto and Badiashile on the same side…🤦‍♂️

Don’t get how all the supporters and all the former players who are pundits can all see plain as day that he’s shit but Maresca treats him like he’s world class, prime Petr Cech. He literally costs us points repeatedly.

Cucu was back to normal not allowing anything past him after he switched his boots. It’s idiotic, but the way he reacted to the guy on the touchline he appears to be one of those players that just trusted that the kit man would give him the correct boots for a rainy surface.

This game is there to be won. They can barely keep the ball and we had dangerous attack after dangerous attack. Just stop with the horrendous giveaways and we can do this. If Jorgensen was in goal here and Tosin was playing instead of Badi I’d feel much better.

We’ve pretty much controlled the game for a long time now. Spuds’ only danger really is coming from us handing them the ball in our half. We can still win this if we can just be more incisive with the final ball.