Our "lack of creativity" begins with a lack of creative off-the-ball movement. We are effing static in the middle third sometimes.
Europa League Match Day 8
FCSB 0:2 Manchester United
The National Arena
- Kick-off
- Thu, 30 January 2025 @ 8:00pm GMT
- Status
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Finished
Discussion Your Lineup Prediction
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I mean at a premier league level. He could have done a job for a midtable team pre injury. I think he is championship at the moment.Amad and Garnacho on at half time, pleaseThat was a grim half. Need more urgency second half.Look at Hojlund's run there, towards the balls to cliff up the space. No words
Come from your own handle, Ten Hag!
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It’s all very well having possession and territory against opponents like these, but we’re still so blunt in attack. A better team would be making it harder for us in our own half and still have nothing to fear from us up front.
Some Championship teams have more cutting edge than us.absolute shiteI wish we could play slower football. I will have to watch it later at half speed to have a chance to see everything that happensWhat a waste of 45 mins of my life. Next to nothing happened.I'm watching on southafrican TV and got a Motd commentary guy J Pearce, he's not bad.
Ok, foo shoy.Come from your own handle, Ten Hag!
Bleak.
Nah save them, keep this team on - we should win, they look knackered.There have actually been some good runs from Højlund and other United players, but it is as if we play "safety first" and almost never try to make the pass.It's incredible to watch, how often our players are on their heels. They simply do not anticipate anything.Watching this feels like being tattooed on my eyeballs.Lead Commentator bleeting on about us not creating noteworthy changes. Like he’s got a script and was going to say that regardless.Feels like it's there for the taking yet I really wouldn't fancy us getting anything if we concede first.Couldn't make a last attack before the whistle nah?Difficult to stay awake.Extremely slow game. Need to get a couple of players on at half time
Is it because we have no runners in the team though?Should be one up. Mainoo at fault. For those on Höjlund’s back, he tee’d up a sitter for Kobbie.How crap is the Europa league that we are the 4th best teamProbably should've been 1-1.Just absolutely dire. It's like watching Everton vs Southampton being played underwater.That was a hard watch.
When we have got the ball it's really tumescent. Side to side, slow, slow, slow like a pensioners waltz. It doesn't feel like we are really trying to catch FCSB out. We constantly let them regroup. Five yard pass after five yard pass. It's not remotely dangerous.
If this is how we are going to play then we need mavericks in the #10. Cos you are literally waiting for individual brilliance to break the deadlock. Bruno forward someone else in midfield second half.
There was a period where it was like Subbuteo, no one wanting to put in the effort off the ballAbsolutely dire, can't even perform against a fake Steaua Bucharest.Utd are exceedingly boring to watch right now.
That however is an improvement in many ways, better structure, more sense of developing patterns that are not yet routine and instinctive, so it is all a bit slow and hesitant.
Better from Hojlund after his abject previous game, but needs to keep making those channel runs even if he is not getting the ball.I just wish we weren't so fecking boring to watch. Every time we go forward, we then go backwards after someone slows it down so much the other team get the bus parked againAbsolute bore fest, as usual. Forgot we don’t score goals in the first half, so I won’t be too critical.
I thought the same. On the right he'd want to hit the byline. Clearly not
We’re yet to try this but really wanna see it. A threat from both wingbacks would give us so much more attacking wiseNeat and Tidy in possession and quite clearly in control of the game, they're sitting incredibly deep with 10 behind the ball so just need a bit more attacking threat and the goal will come. Think Amad will create a bit of chaos, Malacia for all his effort is completely useless in a game like this.What are people complaining about with Rasmus? Has made a lot more of the bit of possession he's had, making runs all night, FAR better than last time out, no?We've got 3 cbs and a midfield two in Collyer and Bruno, that's a sound base. We should be more expansive on the wings from Malacia and Dalot , who are just static.
Attacking wingbacks are sooooooooo vital in this set up.
Come on, he has been one of our best players in the first half. He created our only big chance, has worked hard and has had many good first touches in the first 45 minutes.
The more they expand the CL the worse the EL gets.
Man of the Match
Provisional results
Runners-up
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17%
Alejandro Garnacho
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15%
Bruno Fernandes
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2%
Diogo Dalot
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2%
Christian Eriksen
Player Ratings
Provisional results
Total Average Rating
Highest Rated Player
Lowest Rated Player
Compiled from 143 ratings.
Score Predictions
115,11,17
- Man Utd win
- FCSB win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 29% FCSB 1:2 Man Utd
- 27% FCSB 0:2 Man Utd
- 9% FCSB 1:1 Man Utd
- 8% FCSB 1:3 Man Utd
- 8% FCSB 0:3 Man Utd
- 5% FCSB 0:1 Man Utd
- 3% FCSB 2:1 Man Utd
- 2% FCSB 2:0 Man Utd
- 2% FCSB 2:2 Man Utd
- 1% FCSB 2:3 Man Utd
- 1% FCSB 1:0 Man Utd
- 1% FCSB 0:0 Man Utd
- 1% FCSB 3:0 Man Utd
- 1% FCSB 3:1 Man Utd
- 1% FCSB 1:4 Man Utd
- 1% FCSB 3:7 Man Utd
- 1% FCSB 0:4 Man Utd
Match Stats
- FCSB
- Man Utd
- Overall possession
- 30.5% 69.5%
- Shots
- 8 21
- Shots on target
- 3 7
- Total touches in the box
- 11 36
- Goalkeeper saves
- 5 3
- Fouls
- 14 10
- Corners
- 3 6
Referee
Harm Osmers
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Leny Yoro
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replaced by Alejandro Garnacho
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replaced by Casemiro
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replaced by Amad Diallo
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replaced by Joshua Zirkzee
