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Sun, 15 January 2017

Flytan

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Pogba needs to stop trying to hard and just let the game flow come to him. I swear he just tries to do too much when he has the ball.
 

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Two points dropped. Scouse did sweet FA for most of the game. Got a cheap penalty because Pogba totally lost his head. Pogba was dire all game. Did almost nothing right.

Herrera was our most composed player. Valencia was quite good too.

Ibra did his bit. Just a shame we didn't make more chances for him.
 

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Such a shameful bunch of bottlers. Couldn't turn up for a big game even when Liverpool were shit.
 

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Bad result. Not a day for certain players to have an off day.

We were clearly the better side, had the chances to embarrass them, but it just didn't happen.

2 points lost really.
 

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We were shocking

When Fellaini came on I thought it was over but he really helped us

Gave Herrera my motm, he wasn't great but he never stopped for 90 mins, so for sheer effort alone

Pogba did improve in the 2nd but was poor

Martial and miki failed to have any impact

Ibra bailed us out

Edit: I'm unbelievably relieved with the draw by the way
 
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We were very sloppy but glad to get the equalizer, probably deserved. Lot's of improvement needed for next match. I think we can forget about the title. But a strong top 4 finish is still very possible
 

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Total Anti-Climax!

Absolute shite performance from us. Liverpool players run into the ground for their manager half our players couldn't even be bothered.

Shocking subs and tactics from Mourinho today aswell. How we didn't target their young fullback, Martial didn't do it enough but I am sure Rashford would have.

Also I know Valencia has been playing well but honestly my 6 year old son has a better cross than him, its so frustrating watching him unable to beat the first defender with his crosses or just float them in.
 

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Should've wrecked them today, didn't, and can't really argue with the scoreline. Our key players didn't turn up, neither did theirs. Pride intact, but 1 point doesn't help either side imo.
 

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Weird reaction, I think. We didn't take our chances (again), which is frustrating. But we had the better of them over the course of the ninety.

Some people are getting carried away with how good they think we actually are.
 
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Pretty poor from us. We weren't great at handling their pressing at times. But still managed to fashion decent opportunities up front. If we'd been a bit sharper we wouldn't have allowed Liverpool to leave with a point.
 

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That wasn't the best, but we didn't lose and that could be good for confidence. Same old routine as in a lot of the big games, unfortunately, though. It's hard to see how we'll gain 5 points on a couple of teams when we struggle to take points in the big games and everyone else seems to win most weeks.
 

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Pogba had a shocker unfortunately.

When we took Martial off we lost all the forward impetus we had for about 10 minutes, but then started getting it back again eventually.

Herrera got better and better as the match wore on. Rojo was great. Valencia seemed to be playing too defensively and we couldn't get him into the game in an attacking sense until the last 10-15 minutes.
 

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Awful in that first half - we were sloppy with our passing, dawdled on the ball too much, looked nervous in possession and wasted a couple of decent chances.

Second half was a much needed improvement, but my god Pogba was poor. And Valencia was possibly even worse. He had a shocker. But he assisted the equaliser so I'll be more lenient with him. Jones and Rojo did well, De Gea was solid even though their shots were mostly straight at him, Mkhitaryan was good, even at left back.
 

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2 points down the shitter against a one player team, the subs were fecking awful and while Ibra grabbed a goal he was a passenger for most of the game, very disappointing.
Not really. Had nothing to work on and that he got he did it very fine. But keep hating him.
 

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Cant ask for more in terms of mentality and fighting back. We threw the kitchen sink and then some.

Poor finishing once again let us down. We should and could have been up a goal. The penalty really fecked us up for a long period.

Pogba needs to really get his head out his arse for the big matches. Big players step up in the big matches and he has failed once too many. He will learn hopefully.

Still alot of deadweight in the team. Rooney gives us nothing. Darmian is so subpar. The finishing from our forwards (outside of Zlatan) is fecking atrocious.

Hopefully we get Luke Shaw back because I cant see how he wouldnt make a huge difference at left back.

We were the better team today but the dippers were excellent in pressing and closing us down. You got to give them that. Apparently they ran at least 10km more than we did. We have got to buy players that are younger and fitter. No more Rooney's and Fellainis.
 

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This Liverpool side is pretty underwhelming. Our whole mentality was plain wrong and we looked fecking terrified at times.
 

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We were awful. Team was the right 1st eleven but mentally weak. Liverpool are a spoiling team they run around putting teams under pressure, pressure we did not deal with. But you can see that all the pressing means you can cut through them which we did several times but you need to take your chances.
 

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Poor performance but we should have just about edged it.

Some of our passes were shocking though.
 

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Will be hard pressed to find an easier chance to beat the scouse cnuts. They were there for the taking and we fecked it up. Late goal jubilation aside, really poor result for us.
 

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Had an opportunity to win that match. These matches are games of chances and we didn't take ours and gifted them there chance.

Have to get more clinical in front of goal.
 

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Considering the game itself, have to be happy with a point (even though I'm not). Seemed like the occasion got to too many players, Pogba being the obvious. He should have been taken off, he lost the plot for the rest of the game after the penalty.

Should have beaten this Liverpool team today though, it was under strength, and didn't even play well. Ironically they set up in pretty much the same we did in the reverse fixture earlier this season.

Fellaini was actually really good in his relatively limited appearance. Brought the ball down very well each time it was near him and almost scored.
 

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At least we didn't lose. The second half was much more intense than the first and I thought we could get a winner but wasn't meant to be.
 

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Should have won, match day thread was a disgrace and the unbeaten run goes on and on and on...
 

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I'll take that all day long. Was expecting a loss, we didn't play well. I dont think any team did.

I was expecting us to drop to 5th with me expecting City to win when in fact we've gained a point.

Herrera. Oh my god. So glad Firmino got a hit in. Shirt pulling knob head. Then he acts like "oh why did you hit me?" Why do you think you muppet?
 

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Unbeaten run continues. In terms of confidence, that is massive. Jose has sorted out our consistency.
 

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We were poor but it puts a huge dent in the bin dippers title chances and we will only get better.

A Van Gaal or Moyes Utd loses that game 3-0 today after Pogba's brainfart.

Happy. We are still on a good unbeaten run - Stoke next.
 
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  • Man Utd win
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Detailed Results

  • 27% Man Utd 2:1 Liverpool
  • 20% Man Utd 2:0 Liverpool
  • 11% Man Utd 3:1 Liverpool
  • 9% Man Utd 1:0 Liverpool
  • 9% Man Utd 1:1 Liverpool
  • 7% Man Utd 3:0 Liverpool
  • 3% Man Utd 2:2 Liverpool
  • 3% Man Utd 1:2 Liverpool
  • 3% Man Utd 5:0 Liverpool
  • 2% Man Utd 3:2 Liverpool
  • 1% Man Utd 4:0 Liverpool
  • 1% Man Utd 0:0 Liverpool
  • 1% Man Utd 0:2 Liverpool
  • 1% Man Utd 4:1 Liverpool
  • 1% Man Utd 4:2 Liverpool
  • 1% Man Utd 1:3 Liverpool
  • 0% Man Utd 0:1 Liverpool
  • 0% Man Utd 0:3 Liverpool
  • 0% Man Utd 0:5 Liverpool
  • 0% Man Utd 5:4 Liverpool
  • 0% Man Utd 2:3 Liverpool
  • 0% Man Utd 5:1 Liverpool
  • 0% Man Utd 0:4 Liverpool
  • 0% Man Utd 1:4 Liverpool
  • 0% Man Utd 5:2 Liverpool
  • 0% Man Utd 3:3 Liverpool
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Match Stats

  1. Man Utd
  2. Liverpool
Possession
56% 44%
Shots
9 13
Shots on Target
3 4
Corners
5 7
Fouls
17 13

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Michael Oliver