FA Cup Quarter-Finals

Leicester City 3:1 Manchester United

King Power Stadium

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Sun, 21 March 2021 @ 5:00pm GMT
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    AWB looks shot, the ball is moving slow across the ground imo, Pogba doing ok getting isolated at times no pass on for him, Bruno on to control a bit, and put in some tackles or bring Cavani on
     
    Predictably ropey first half, usually we’re better 2nd half so here’s hoping.
    Stick Greenwood up top with Tony and just go 4222, might as well try something a bit more offensive.
     
    PoTMS said:
    How can people seriously blame Maguire for that? That's 100% Fred's fault.
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    The only thing I'd blame Maguire for in that is being a shite leader.

    Fred had given the ball away 3 times before that incident. Keane would have floored him after the second one but our current captain passes it him on the edge of the box.
     
    Best thing Donny has done with the ball is letting it go to Greenwood
     
    If you're defending a pass at the edge of your own box by pointing out the options for the receiver are to knock it back to the goalkeeper or boot it out of play, I'm not sure why you're pretending it's a good ball.
     
    Massive mistake by Fred but this performance is shocking. Prime Kante doesn't change that performance......
     
    Unforced errors is part of football and passing out from the back but we’ve been poor
    We surely can’t play any worse
    They look fresher than us as we played on Thursday night
    We are a better team than them so we have to do better in the 2nd half
     
    That was a poor half, but despite that leicester have only created from individual errors from us.
    Van de beek needs to move to get more involved and play some forward passes when he does get it.

    And martial just needs to actually move.
     
    Vaibhav Raj said:
    You don't get to play the "marked man" card as a midfielder once you start showing that you are available to receive the ball. If you feel like you cannot take the ball, don't get in the stance, don't show you are active. Fred literally hinted that he wanted the ball with his body language and stance. As a midfielder you always give signals to the person in possession around you where to pass and, if you are not willing to take the pass, you signal the same.
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    none of that makes maguire blameless. fine if it's 30 yards from goal but it wasn't
     
    We have too many of these type of games...simply too many.
    How long are we going to continue like this?
     
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    I just saw the goal we conceded, what shambles. We screw up nearly every game playing from inside our box, it was bound to happen.
     
    VDB has no ability to play the 10. He's another one who carries the ball from deep.
    Take off Matic or Fred, replace with Bruno and drop VDB deeper. The midfield passing is atrocious.
     
    Offside said:
    The anti-United punditry here is fecking mental
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    It was quite funny, because as they were saying how shit we’ve been, it flashed up at the bottom saying we’ve had more shots on target.

    We haven’t been great, but take out the 10 minutes after their goal and it’s been even.
     
    Shearer couldn’t be more critical of Martial and rightly so. Hiding where he’s never going to be found with a pass, making no runs, and just looking for the foul everytime.
     
    Clear as day CDM/CM and an attacker are our two biggest issue.

    If we are on a budget forget about CB it'll be a waste.
     
    You could argue that Fred, Martial, Greenwood (apart from his goal) have had poor games, but you can't fault their effort. Fred is, perhaps, over compensating for his error for the goal and trying too hard.

    VDB just anonymous, doesn't appear to be putting much effort in. Not creating anything. What is his role? ffs, man, this is your big chance to show us what you can do and shut the doubters up. It's a really important game against a good team, just, nothing.
     
    Hughie77 said:
    AWB looks shot, the ball is moving slow across the ground imo, Pogba doing ok getting isolated at times no pass on for him, Bruno on to control a bit, and put in some tackles or bring Cavani on
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    I thought he's had his best game on the ball :lol:
     
    That analysis of Martial’s movement is woeful. :lol:

    Had he come short every time instead of stretching the back three they’d be kicking his arse for not making runs in behind.

    He’s had a shit season but he’s far from the problem today.
     
    Dante said:
    If Maguire was wrong for passing to a teammate, we'd might as well just end football and move on to rugby.

    United play out of the back. That's our strategy. Maguire did the right thing. Fred dropped a bollock. You can't blame the former for that. It's a slippery slope if you think the game works that way.

    It's alright to have a bit of bias and favouritism. But, feck me, some of you come across as utter morons sometimes.
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    There is a reason why coaches instruct their players to pressure players who are waiting to receive the ball, its not a pointless instruction. Maguire in this instance passes the ball to Fred who has a man on him. I have seen even Matic mess up in that situation. Should have went long or to someone outwide. Fred obviously handled the situation the worst way possible and will get the majority of the blame.
     
    I think people need to chill out a bit.

    We’re away to third in the league on the back of 1 full rest day compared to their week off.
    We’ve been sloppy but Leicester haven’t really created much.

    Bruno and Shaw on and we take back control
     
    I'm livid with that half. Every Leicester attack has come from our own mistakes. Everyone is just losing the ball willy nilly. Fred has been shocking. Matic, AWB, Lindelof all have been sloppy. Martial has covered ground well but anonymous in attack. Donny needs to pass forward even if it takes more than one touch to do so. Pogba needs to realize this ref isn't going to give him anything.

    Greenwood is the only player who can say he has played well, good finish. Lovely from Pogba and Donny played his part too. Ole needs to pour cold water on these lads' faces because they need to wake up.
     
    People need to relax. We have control over game. No need to worry. We are one individual misstake from being infront. If We just step up little We will go through.
     
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Score Predictions

121,26,15
  • Man Utd win
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Detailed Results

  • 38% Leicester 1:2 Man Utd
  • 15% Leicester 0:2 Man Utd
  • 11% Leicester 2:1 Man Utd
  • 9% Leicester 0:1 Man Utd
  • 7% Leicester 1:3 Man Utd
  • 6% Leicester 1:1 Man Utd
  • 4% Leicester 2:0 Man Utd
  • 2% Leicester 0:3 Man Utd
  • 2% Leicester 2:2 Man Utd
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  • 1% Leicester 0:4 Man Utd
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Match Stats

  1. Leicester
  2. Man Utd
Possession
48% 52%
Shots
11 9
Shots on Target
5 5
Corners
2 7
Fouls
14 8

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Craig Pawson

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