Champions League Group A

FC Copenhagen 4:3 Manchester United

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    McT as the deepest midfielder again? We never learn do we. We are going to be open as feck again.

    Varane probably has one foot on the plane to Saudi at this point. He's been on the bench for atleast 2 weeks now so there's no excuse of injury either.

    Also, Mount on the bench again. Fecking 55m well spent. What a shambles his transfer is.
     
    I normally deride the doom merchants in the pre-match threads but more and more I feel myself being sapped of any enthusiasm before a game. I have no confidence in getting a win tonight.
     
    I don’t get his plan but at this point I don’t have the energy to question it, I’m not expecting an impressive performance, hopefully we can somehow scrape a win.
     
    RedPed said:
    I normally deride the doom merchants in the pre-match threads but more and more I feel myself being sapped of any enthusiasm before a game. I have no confidence in getting a win tonight.
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    One of us! One of us!
     
    Belisarius said:
    I had the same question. I gather he is one of our youngsters. But, does anyone know what position he plays?
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    Winger. Can play on both sides. If i remember correctly, he was playing on the right during preseason. Got hooked off early during one game because he was about to lose his head and we never saw him again.
     
    Swiss_Red89 said:
    I always thought Rashford is nowhere near as bad on the right as some claim.
    He is much more direct imo with his crossing (especially) and shooting from that position. He initially had a bit of problems on timing his runs from that position, but I think he figured it out a bit with time.

    It might be an unpopular opinion, but I think he is less prectictable from the right than on the left.
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    It might actually work in your favour, he’s quite right footed so he’ll likely do the opposite of Antony, who only ever seems to cut back. Hojlund may actually get a few crosses to attack.
     
    Shark said:
    On the right, no less. Where he's been consistently awful throughout his career.
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    Favourites FC. It's becoming one of my biggest gripes about ETH especially as I thought we finally had someone who would pick based on performance
     
    saik said:
    McT as the deepest midfielder again? We never learn do we. We are going to be open as feck again.

    Varane probably has one foot on the plane to Saudi at this point. He's been on the bench for atleast 2 weeks now so there's no excuse of injury either.

    Also, Mount on the bench again. Fecking 55m well spent. What a shambles his transfer is.
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    He had then run when ETH arrived where he kept Case out the team as funny as that sounds - that said I expect Eriksen to sit as the deeper of the pair and McT to score again.
     
    saik said:
    Winger. Can play on both sides. If i remember correctly, he was playing on the right during preseason. Got hooked off early during one game because he was about to lose his head and we never saw him again.
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    Vintage ETH :lol:
     
    I’d like to see us try Antony on the left. Stop all this cutting in shit, just get down the line and cross it in - give Hojlund something to get his head on because we aren’t finding him as it is.
     
    saik said:
    McT as the deepest midfielder again? We never learn do we. We are going to be open as feck again.

    Varane probably has one foot on the plane to Saudi at this point. He's been on the bench for atleast 2 weeks now so there's no excuse of injury either.

    Also, Mount on the bench again. Fecking 55m well spent. What a shambles his transfer is.
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    We've gone massively backwards this season. Hag doesn't know what works anymore and is desperately clinging onto a flawed team as long as it keeps grinding out results until it eventually gets battered (again) and that's a matter of when, not if.

    His entire philosophy seems to be play your favourites Bruno and Rashy and switch around the rest of the team until something eventually works. Throwing shit against the wall and hoping some of it sticks.
     
    tomaldinho1 said:
    He had then run when ETH arrived where he kept Case out the team as funny as that sounds - that said I expect Eriksen to sit as the deeper of the pair and McT to score again.
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    Eriksen will sit deeper because he doesn't have the legs to get about. Which means we are going to be open either way. :lol:

    Mount transfer is looking like a shambles every passing day. We needed a Casemiro or Eriksen backup who could potentially take over from them but we ended up going for who is essentially a Bruno backup at this point.
     
    Sooner one of Shaw or Malacia is back, the better. Don’t trust Dalot at all and looks clear that ETH isn’t a fan of Reguilon.
     
    saik said:
    Winger. Can play on both sides. If i remember correctly, he was playing on the right during preseason. Got hooked off early during one game because he was about to lose his head and we never saw him again.
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    He featured in two more preseason games after that, one as a late sub and 90 minutes against Bilbao.

    Was also on the bench for the Bayern match.
     
    RedDevilRoshi said:
    Sooner one of Shaw or Malacia is back, the better. Don’t trust Dalot at all and looks clear that ETH isn’t a fan of Reguilon.
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    Doubt it, but it is rather telling that a lot, well 99% of the summer signings spend their time on the bench.
     
    United Hobbit said:
    Favourites FC. It's becoming one of my biggest gripes about ETH especially as I thought we finally had someone who would pick based on performance
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    Or ETH actually is deep in survival mode already and picks the players who he thinks are the likeliest to bring a positive result. Not that I would agree with that, approach. Would be just as gloomy of an outlook as your scenario... :(

    tomaldinho1 said:
    He had then run when ETH arrived where he kept Case out the team as funny as that sounds - that said I expect Eriksen to sit as the deeper of the pair and McT to score again.
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    To be fair, Casemiros fitness might have been as "good" as his fitness has been this year. So this "kept him out of the team" is maybe a bit misleading.

    Feck me, this lineup really doesn't work to get the juices flowing. None of the midfield 3 should be playing, I would understand 1 of them, maybe even 2 but all of them?! Fecking hell Erik, think about Einsteins quote aboute insanity! Might as well just skip this shit, there is absolutely nothing to suggest that this will be watchable game.
     
    No matter which manager we get they end up choosing players already here before their own expensive buys all too quickly…
     
    OldTrevil said:
    A midfied duo with a player who can't pass and another who can't run or get physical. We'll be sitting deep and hoping that the front three can work together for the odd goal.
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    Trying to remain positive, but this, plus Bruno punting the ball to the moon every few minutes, is what I expect to see. And if Copenhagen have any sense, they just concentrate their counter down Eriksen's side and Traveller him, whilst forcing McTominay over to cover and leave huge, gaping spaces for their loose man to run into and be set up for beyond the confused, ball-watching Scotsman.

    Mmmm... I hope to be proven wrong, but they're going to be really up for this and adrenaline, as much as athleticism is going to give them an enormous thrust and desire to power straight at us in the middle of the pitch against such a soft midfield.
     
    Scorpy said:
    We've gone massively backwards this season. Hag doesn't know what works anymore and is desperately clinging onto a flawed team as long as it keeps grinding out results until it eventually gets battered (again) and that's a matter of when, not if.

    His entire philosophy seems to be play your favourites Bruno and Rashy and switch around the rest of the team until something eventually works. Throwing shit against the wall and hoping some of it sticks.
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    His insistence on starting McT is what grinds me. He's only starting because he got us a win against Brentford. Seems like he forgot that the same guy gave away 2 penalties in the following games. If he is asking McT to get further forward because he can get goals but then you need to pair him with Amrabat who can screen the defense not Eriksen.

    Eriksen, McT and Bruno is a horrible pairing. Even though I wanted both Bruno and Rashford dropped for a long time I get his insistence in playing them as they are our best players. McT isn't.
     
    cj_sparky said:
    He featured in two more preseason games after that, one as a late sub and 90 minutes against Bilbao.

    Was also on the bench for the Bayern match.
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    Wasn't Bilbao the game where it was all our U21s and backups who played? Probably why I don't remember him featuring at all. :lol:
     
    It definitely seems like Varane is being frozen out.

    I will not be surprised at all if he's sold to the Saudis in January.
     
    JoaquinJoaquin said:
    Yet he starts Mctominay every game.
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    No he didn't...for example: he played Amrabat for 87min against Brentford and brought McTominay on with 3min to go....Scott scored a brace to safe his arse while Amrabat had a stinker.

    McTominay was also very good vs Fulham. For me it's no surprise that he trusts him more currently.
     
    Alemar said:
    And who is not? Is there a better alternative currently?
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    The guy that won the ball three times for our winner versus Fulham and also played relatively well away to Bayern?

    Do some of you even try?
     
    NZT-One said:
    Or ETH actually is deep in survival mode already and picks the players who he thinks are the likeliest to bring a positive result. Not that I would agree with that, approach. Would be just as gloomy of an outlook as your scenario... :(


    To be fair, Casemiros fitness might have been as "good" as his fitness has been this year. So this "kept him out of the team" is maybe a bit misleading.

    Feck me, this lineup really doesn't work to get the juices flowing. None of the midfield 3 should be playing, I would understand 1 of them, maybe even 2 but all of them?! Fecking hell Erik, think about Einsteins quote aboute insanity! Might as well just skip this shit, there is absolutely nothing to suggest that this will be watchable game.
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    Post summer Case bod lasted a while, this summer he never recovered.
     
    UnitedSofa said:
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    man reading this you would think we absolutely dominated fulham and in no way looked like crap for most of the match and were one pinball away in the dying minutes to having a drabass nil nil draw. Shit like this is why im losing my belief in EtH.
     
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  • 19% FC Copenhagen 1:2 Man Utd
  • 18% FC Copenhagen 0:1 Man Utd
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  • 7% FC Copenhagen 2:1 Man Utd
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52% 48%
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16 9
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3 3
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