FA Premier League
Brighton & Hove Albion 3:2 Manchester United
Falmer Stadium
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- Sun, 19 August 2018 @ 4:00pm BST
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Thank god for the whistle.No defending this half. Hideous performance.Embarrassing defending.Jose is going to tear them a stripAbsolute joke. We are lost in attack and shite at the back I dont fault any fan for switching off the TV and going about their day. Feel sorry for the away fans.Open the Bailly thread and let us vent.
Fecking useless waster.Did Martial let the goals in?
All of our players are playing like crap.
I never said he did, I'm just saying he's tossMata offers nothing. Complete waste of space.Chelsea meltdown 3rd season written all over this.
Combination of crap players with others only giving 50%.
I honestly don't know why we didn't just gamble on sacking Mourinho and bringing just about anyone else in. The disharmony is there for all to see.Players don't look interested . They just want to get it over with and feck off home.Think Bailly is a goner for a while
So, on the 7th position?I guess we ll get felli and feking mctominay in the 2nd half, isn t it enough we have mata, young and eric, players that shouldn t even be close to a united elevenWas Rui the reason for Jose’s success? We in large have the same players as last season. Only explanation I can come up with for our performances is the players have stopped playing for the manager.Bailly literally looks shell shocked. He looks like he has no idea what is going on or how to deal with it.Sorry but a club that has had players like Paul Pogba, Juan Mata, Angel Di Maria, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Alexis Sanchez, Mkhitaryan, David De Gea, Lukaku and Zlatan not to mention Memphis Depay, Anthony Martial, Matic, Bailly, Ander Herrera etc.
That club must have more to offer than this. It is perplexing because I genuinely can't bring myself to say Jose Mourinho and Van Gaal are bad managers.
Let’s hope soFellaini on at half time. They’re bullying our midfield.Also showing Pereira's serious lack of cover for the centrebacks in that role. But that's not even really on him, he's a totally different type of holding mid to Matic. If you want to play with a ball-playing holding midfielder you need good centrebacks, and we have none.
So much of our negative set up under Mourinho is actually a result of having shit defenders. ie. a full on 100% auxiliary defender in Matic. Two wide players who are tasked with running themselves into the ground when we dont have the ball to cover for our inept full backs.
So we need to have 7 defensively minded players to cover the inadequacy of 4.It’s gone on for too long playing this terrible football. The misplaced passes and lack of penetration is just bizarre. I’m realistic enough to not expect 3 titles in a row like before but I just want to see a United team againOf course
Of course they are going to respond to himTeams who concede 3 goals to fecking Brighton!!! Don’t challenge for silverware!
This bunch of players we’ve had at United for the past 4-6 years are embarrassing.
I feel sorry for Jose, having to choose 11 players out of this lot. Pep, Zidane etc wouldn’t be able to get this shower of shit working and stop giving away silly errors.The tragic thing about watching Utd is that teams dont have to play out of their skin to create and score chances. Just your bog standard forward balls that should be dealt with lead to goals.
Manager and the coaches. It bleeding obvious every player we sign turn stinking dog shite in a matter of weeks.We are asking for trouble when we start with Young as our RB and Mata as our RW.Watch city win 6-1 then have to watch us play this shite....we’re years behind in terms of talent and style of football.Brighton didnt have a shot on target in their first game and score 3 against us.The lack of edge, pace and cutting possession just gives teams like Brighton so much confidence. Teams know exactly what to do to beat us. Psychologically, playing the likes of City and Pool, lesser league teams are terrified of what can happen to them. I don't think that is even a consideration against us.
Are they all coming on to play centre back?I have predicted a fifth place finish so why the hell am I even concerened or shocked is beyond me.Souness will be licking his lips now.Just play two up top and be done with it. This is not working for us.Easiest way of improving this squad, outside the transfer window, is to get 15 sacks big enough to hold people up to 6ft 5, some bricks and the Manchester Shipping Canal.I don't understand how we don't have a right side. Mata is always central. We have no one on the right when attacking. how is that fecking possible? How does that not get addressed. Find someone... anyone.. Even if its for the short term.You can blame the defenders here but put Baily and Lindelöf in City team instead of their centre backs and I don't think you'd notice the difference. I'd blame the manager here before blaming the players here.Jose has to take some of the blame sometime. The board have under-invested this summer but his tactics are culpable as well.
These are the CBs Mourinho spent big money on. Maybe Woodward is right to have reservations.You'd never guess United's team is one of the most expensive ever assembled while Brightons cost less than Pogbas left arse cheek.People thinking that another CB would makes us look better out there
I have to say this is shambolic. We look like we’re going to concede at every opportunity & how stupid is Bailey- Game gone now.The player ratings are gonna be....funThat’s as bad a half from United as I can remember. We are on a road to nowhere.
The sad thing is it won't change things one bit.I can see why Mourinho fecks off some of these players like he does.
School boy errors every fecking game
To be fair, the centre backs are both Jose signings, and Young is a player that Jose insists on playing (although we don't have many other options at the moment).
I'm behind Jose just about, but this game right now is more down to him than the board.
We as in we. We. Manchester. United.
We're pretty crap to be fair. But I like our sleeve sponsor.First time Brighton have ever scored 3 in the first half of a prem match.Gotta laugh at all eager fans who already deemed Fred already a success (better than Herrera).Sad, pathetic display. To think I was happy when I saw our starting lineup.Last edited:These players do not care.Haven't seen a single person suggest that we lack stability with Andreas as our holding mid. Valencia substitute left winger... wierd forum this
The ones that go on to be great players, don't.
If that's his attitute, then I really don't think he will go very far.
Life is full of shit, and things that you won't like, doesn't mean you should give up and not care.
But yeah...soft players these days.
And for those who may think otherwise, I am very much a fan of Martial and really want(ed) him to succeed, but there is only so much one can take what is put in front of us.- Status
Man of the Match
Runners-up
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14%
Marouane Fellaini
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11%
Romelu Lukaku
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6%
Paul Pogba
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5%
David de Gea
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3%
Jesse Lingard
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2%
Fred
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2%
Andreas Pereira
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2%
Ashley Young
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1%
Eric Bailly
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1%
Victor Lindelof
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1%
Anthony Martial
Player Ratings
Total Average Rating
Highest Rated Player
Lowest Rated Player
Compiled from 553 ratings.
Score Predictions
663,43,46
- Man Utd win
- Brighton win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 36% Brighton 0:2 Man Utd
- 14% Brighton 0:3 Man Utd
- 12% Brighton 0:1 Man Utd
- 11% Brighton 1:2 Man Utd
- 10% Brighton 1:3 Man Utd
- 4% Brighton 1:1 Man Utd
- 3% Brighton 0:4 Man Utd
- 3% Brighton 1:0 Man Utd
- 2% Brighton 0:0 Man Utd
- 1% Brighton 0:5 Man Utd
- 1% Brighton 5:0 Man Utd
- 1% Brighton 1:4 Man Utd
- 1% Brighton 2:0 Man Utd
- 1% Brighton 2:1 Man Utd
- 0% Brighton 3:0 Man Utd
- 0% Brighton 2:2 Man Utd
- 0% Brighton 2:4 Man Utd
- 0% Brighton 3:1 Man Utd
- 0% Brighton 1:5 Man Utd
- 0% Brighton 3:2 Man Utd
Match Stats
- Brighton
- Man Utd
- Possession
- 33% 67%
- Shots
- 6 9
- Shots on Target
- 3 3
- Corners
- 3 5
- Fouls
- 16 13
Referee
Kevin Friend
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Marcus Rashford
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replaced by Jesse Lingard
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replaced by Marouane Fellaini
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