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Brighton & Hove Albion 3:2 Manchester United

Falmer Stadium

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Sun, 19 August 2018 @ 4:00pm BST
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    abdo99 said:
    You think things would be different with Smalling and Jones? :lol: it's the style of football mate. We are getting outworked and outplayed by Brighton. Only one person to blame.
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    The style of football is causing our CBs to be idiots leaving 20 meters between each other?
     
    Will take drubbings like this all the way to xmas if it means Jose out. Just wish I'd put some money on Brighton, think it was about 7-1...
     
    I think all those players that play for Van Gaal should all go and see a psychiartrist so that the disease of passing back too often will be cured. Watching United nowadays is so predictable with at least 100 back passes during each game.
     
    MadMike said:
    Whatever pal :lol:

    In a 2 man defence the CDM often drops deep to help with playing the ball. That doesn't mean the CBs can't play the ball. They are playing it fine
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    People just want to blame the CBs instead of seeing that these are the tactics our players are sent on the pitch with. When Bailly and Lindelof played with Matic last season he came deep to get on the ball all the time just like he did with Smalling and Jones. Pereira filling in the position is doing the exact same thing again. Thats how the manager has it set up and it wouldnt matter if we had a CB with Pirlo's passing ability, Mourinho clearly wants the DM coming deep to collect the ball
     
    Pereira no where to be seen also

    Positioning in 6 is terrible he is a nice footballer when given space and time but that is all. Can not impose himself on the game at all.
     
    TsuWave said:
    people complaining bout Martial. No mention of passenger Mata
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    Look at the state of our defence today. And Jose has signed half of them.

    More importantly, a midfield with Fred and Pogba can't control the midfield against friggin Brighton? Mourinho's last few years really give the impression that he is past his best. This doesn't look a team that has been coached by one of the world's top managers for two years
     
    What is happening to us? What has gone wrong with Baily? Are we this poor because we don't have Matic?
     
    The things Mourinho used to do better than any manager was motivated his players and set out a system to completely nullify the opposition.

    He can do neither anymore.
     
    RonaldoVII said:
    This the defence that Woodward didn't want to spend money on
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    You seriously cannot complain about a lack of spending power when you have a defense that costs over a 100 million. The entire Brighton 11 and squad barely cost that much!

    This is down to poor coaching and poor player performances, not a lack of talent. This would finish 4-1 if it was an 'on paper' squad strength contest.
     
    Anustart89 said:
    Among other things. It's starting to look obvious that the ones on the field aren't good enough to beat Brighton. Are you of the opinion that we should be able to field eleven literal donkeys on the pitch and have a god-given right to beat Brighton because they're wearing the Manchester United badge on their chests?
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    Most of these useless bunch were playing much better in WC. So obviously this is not the standard of what they are capable of.
     
    Rashford/Lingard have to come in for Mata. We need some form of threat on the right wing.
     
    Toad said:
    I blame Mourinhos negative attitude for everything
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    Only reason to blame him for that is if players have stopped playing for him in which case they’re as much to blame as him and would be small time if that is the case. Starting to think Jose is losing his mind and will be gone by December if not sooner.
     
    Mistake after mistake in the run-up to the penalty that we somehow got away with, then Bailly took his man out anyway. Unbelievable.

    Pereira has worked hard but he's having a nightmare. Get him off.
     
    We have a striker that can't score .. non existent right hand side..porous defense .. will be lucky if we get top 4
     
    Seriously, is anyone fecking surprised? What the feck did you expect? Weve been trash for ages. Shit performance after shit performance. When the manager can't get the team to outplay Leicester at Old Trafford or Brighton away, you cant put the blame on one or two players. Its a full systematic issue. Happens every single game. We haven't put in a convincing performance in ages, let alone any convincing run of form.

    Just get rid of Mourinho already and get someone who can actually get us performing as a team without needing to spend 300m every window.
     
    These players don't play with confidence, none of them.
     
    Incredibly bad, one of the worst performances I’ve seen in the league over the last ten years. Three goals to Brighton? It looks like we played in Europe on Thursday and got drunk yesterday. Very worrying that a Mourinho-team lacks focus entirely
     
    Looking forward to Jose going tbh, just as I did with LVG.

    But this is much deeper than just Jose, its from the very top with the Glazers, Woodward, our Head Scouts. We've been shopping in bargain basement with the likes of Bailly, Lindelof, Dalot while City buy Laporte, Mendy, Walker. We are fast becoming the new Arsenal.
     
    Get Zidane in. Don’t leave it too late before another club swoops in. The players aren’t even playing for Mourinho. The effort shown out there is a disgrace. But our lack of any attacking plan is even worse. What do we work on in training? Clearly not defending.
     
    Absolutely awful performance so far, and that third goal was really unneccecary to give away. We are just like last season. Midfield completely overrun, right side nonexistent. Mata and Young have both been terrible and offer nothing what so ever. Bailly and Lindelöf are putting one of the worst defensive performances I've seen for the club. I'd sub both of them out if we had two defenders on the bench.

    Hope we can do something in the second half, but it seems highly unlikely which is a damn shame for this beautiful club.
     
    So that first half was basically just more of the same of what we saw during the preseason. Unless we start working better as a team and make some changes this is going to be a long season.
     
    Manchester Evening News half-time ratings.

    16:50
    Half time ratings
    De Gea
    Powerless to stop either goal. 5
    Young
    Looked off the pace. 5
    Lindelof
    Regressed badly. 3
    Bailly
    Haphazard and hopeless. 3
    Shaw
    Assisted Lukaku. 5
    Pereira
    A bystander. 4
    Fred
    Offered nothing. 4
    Pogba
    An ineffectual half. 4
    Lukaku
    Scored. 5
    Mata
    Anonymous. 2
    Martial
    Decent run. Otherwise quiet. 4
     
    Jones is our best defender... if fit. Smalling and Jones get so much shit. Bailly has a mistake in him every single time he plays. He makes Luiz look reliable.
     
    An absolute disaster of a 1st half performance.
    We are fecking awful all over the pitch,we cant create anything.
    Captain Pogba nowhere to be seen,Fred been terrible and Mata is useless.
     
    Does Mata have any purpose on this team? Can't defend, can't hold the ball, can't dribble, misplaced pass, slow, I can't remember seeing weaker and slower player than Mata play for this team
     
    Thought Bailly would’ve been the answer to our defence but he’s too rash, too mental, lacks composure. It’s as if he doesn’t know how to handle half of the defensive scenarios he’s coming across. Like he’s never experienced them before, so just dives in/hacks/runs out of position. Needs a boot up his arse or he’ll be replaced soon.
     
    A-man said:
    That is far from true. Lindelof has a poor match so far, but everybody has once in a while.
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    Lindelof has a poor match 90% of the time he plays for us. There isn't single attribute he is better at than Blind while Blind is miles better on the ball and way more intelligent. Even Blind's weaknesses, Lindelof is even worse in the air and is a complete weakling too. He doesn't have a single redeemable quality about him.
     
    I'm starting to lose faith in Mourinho. We look absolutely awful. Our attacking display is terrible, our goal was a complete fluke.
     
    DevilRed said:
    This is ridiculous. How bloody poor is Lindelof. Bailly obviously no better.

    Young and Shaw were poor. Midfield not protecting them.

    For me, Victor Lindelof is fast becoming a disappointment. The first and third goals are definately his fault, if not fully. Just the positioning and his reaction to let players run into the box.
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    Fast becoming a disappointment ? The guy has been a disaster from day one. He improved slightly during the spring-but now he is right back to being useless again.
     
    This is a turd of a performance and the entire team deserves a 1 out of 10 for being completely hopeless against one of the poorest teams in the league.
     
    Didn’t watch first half....just got in.
    It’s all going very well then?
     
    Whole team are abysmal and seriously we look clueless. This is what happens when you hope the better squad players will constantly elevate or cover the mediocrity of the rest of the squad.

    If you put Lukaku upfront for Brighton he will stand out and look like their best player. Same with Pogba.

    Put Young in their team and he'd look like their weak link.

    This is the issue.
     
    Maybe Mourinho's back to his jolly old self, as has been suggested over the past few days, because he realizes that having the fans liking his personality is the only way to keep his job?

    I just wish that higher-ups, if they are considering changing the management, are decisive and that they don't do like they've done for the previous sackings, ie wait until we're mathematically out of the top 4 race, which might come really early this season.
     
    No leaders on this team as i see it. Especially when playing away from home we need someone to step up. We can still get something from this game, but that requires a tougher mentality.
     
    When owners don't invest this is what happens. An absolute tragedy for United but completely predictable. How can the owners expect the fans to pay to watch this? Can see thousands ripping up their season tickets.
     
    VeevaVee said:
    Finally look like we have more of an attacking lineup.

    Now needing to go 3 at the back against Brighton. Feck me
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    Because we don't do the basics right. It's all well and good having attacking players on the pitch but it's of no use if you can't play cohesive football and control matches. Which is a crazy thing to say given Mourinho has been here for over 2 years now.
     
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  • Man Utd win
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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
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  • 0% Brighton 3:0 Man Utd
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  2. Man Utd
Possession
33% 67%
Shots
6 9
Shots on Target
3 3
Corners
3 5
Fouls
16 13

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