It's as if we leaped into an alternate universe a few years ago.
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Manchester City 6:3 Manchester United
Etihad Stadium
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It's as if we leaped into an alternate universe a few years ago.
Changing players after 15 minutes would be considered bad man management. And i would agree.
You wait until HT to make tactical changes, unless its an injury.
He made the wrong choice, or he was made to believe that the players put out there from the start would be up for the task.
He was wrong.
And our players are cowards. At least make it a fight.There is definitely at least some blame that goes to Ten Hag here. To play that open midfield against this city team was begging for trouble from the beginning. This philosophy of "you don't change a winning team" is the clearest sign of ractical incompetence from a coach. You have to set up your team based on the opponent's tendencies not because they won games against other teams. It was bound to catch up to him at some point.
Sorry to hear .It’s going to be like this for a while, a handful of decent games with a complete capitulation performance every now and again. Too many just not good enough and it’ll take time to weed them out and replace. Worryingly some of our more recent signings like Sancho have been crap, we tend to make too many very expensive mistakes.
There's taking a lose and there's taking a LOSE. We haven't laid a glove on them and our big name players who are probably on more money than their lot our hiding.
Rashford is looking for a new contract. Is he seriously worth 250k????
If I see him running, I’ll let you know
So sorry to hear this. Certainly puts things into perspective.
So sorry to hear that. Football means bloody nothing.Only plus side, I have to drop the kids off at a party so will miss the second half. I'm willing to risk missing the greatest comeback off al time.
Casemeiro and Bruno instead of Anthony. Makes the game instantly harder for City.
And you think some of the starting eleven from last season could do better?!
What boils my piss is folk who just immediately jump to chastising the manager. He’s been here what, 3 months or so? This is the Chelsea way of thinking and why it’s a bloody revolving door of managers which isn’t healthy. He was never going to create miracles immediately and you’d be a fool for thinking he would.
Im not saying he’s completely blameless but in this context, imo, these players take the brunt as they show absolutely no desire or footballing intelligence today, the passing has been awful and their intensity non existent.
It's financial doping, it's not poetry, it's very much cobra Kai. This is not what karate is all about.Those third and fourth goals, Man City just strolling through the midfield with no-one near them. We've got 3 pretty lightweight attackers and Fernandes, a number 10, on the pitch. Something has to give within that in big games, it doesn't work.Getting spanked by City = Worlds fallen apart. We’re so fecking shit. £225M spent for nothing. What a waste of space we are!
Getting 4 wins on the trot = We’re back & patience is needed! Future is looking bright! Top 4 is looking promising!Bruno out, Casemiro in?Need to tighten up at the back or we'll lose this.It feels like they lost all hope as soon as they saw City are playing pacy CBs.Being outplayed by City is 'fine', but I can't understand the lack of aggression and intensity. Like night and day from the Liverpool game
Which team isn't out possessed by City?
He absolutely would have been.
Oh no man. This is really sad. Wishing you and your family all the best going forward. Blessings.They start the game with 4 major injuries and we are losing 4-0 at half time. With a 100m purchase sitting on the bench. Something is going wrong.Men vs boys. Literally. We clearly can't play it out from defence, end up hoofing it, but midfield/forward players are scared to be clattered for second balls, so just give it up. If there was a mentality table, we'd be barely afloat.
Defence might be shat on, but they are doing their best, and clearing balls they get on the end of, not being helped with forward and midfield players expecting to get ball at their feet and have 3 options available without a press, they just keep coming at them.
Need a double DCM pivot with balls, and ACM who isn't trying to play a Hollywood ball within half a second of recieving a ball.It's like playing FIFA against super easy opponent. They're tearing us a new one. Such a lovely move by Haaland
He is getting owned and sk00led by his follically challenged blue peer.
As far as I'm concerned, they're using a midfield two. Bruno hardly ever plays like midfielder and certainly neither do Sancho or Antony. .
Oh FFS. Give over and grow up.
Bit early to judge Antony, but I do worry about Sancho. He seems to fragile a personality.Strange decision to play that front three today and it has cost us massively, not enough pace in Sancho and Anthony to really hurt city and get behind the full backs and Rashfords hold up play and link up isnt really good enough.
They have given the ball away for fun and we have come under relentless pressure. And of course as soon as we are forced to try and defend higher to chase a game the wheels come completely off with a GK who hasn't yet left his goal line, might aswell not been there for any of the goals, to scared of getting hurt as per usual.
if liverpool play against city as they played against brighton, they'll get at least as spanked as we are getting
Can’t have 3 passengers up top in a game like this. Need more steel in midfield for sure and that was the biggest mistake.grim all round
Completely agree with this a thousand times. Just rolling over and saying "they're better, we're going to lose anyway" is shite level mentality. Football is a fecking game. Play the game, get better at playing the game, and play to win. Even if you lose, there's a right way to lose. You have to leave everything out there and be able to leave that pitch feeling that you gave it everything. Our lot aren't even giving 10%!I think we’d started to show belief, building up a momentum before the Nations league took preference. We back to where we were pre the Brentford game again, our passing and fitness looks abysmal.
Christ, fingers crossed to beat that bastard.The biggest problem is our effort seems to be once again crap. You look at their players and their effort compared to us, and it is night and day.
I'd agree with that, extremely naive from him. This is one game I wouldn't have minded going 451Keane is right about the occasion been too big for this Utd team , we are mentality midgets in these big games , our touch , passing , tracking back etc everything is just so under par.
Our players don't believe they should even be on the same pitch as these City players , and on that first half they are right.
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Score Predictions
92,126,63
- Man Utd win
- Man City win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 16% Man City 1:2 Man Utd
- 15% Man City 3:1 Man Utd
- 12% Man City 2:2 Man Utd
- 10% Man City 2:1 Man Utd
- 10% Man City 1:1 Man Utd
- 7% Man City 3:0 Man Utd
- 5% Man City 2:0 Man Utd
- 4% Man City 0:1 Man Utd
- 4% Man City 0:2 Man Utd
- 3% Man City 2:3 Man Utd
- 2% Man City 1:3 Man Utd
- 2% Man City 4:0 Man Utd
- 2% Man City 4:1 Man Utd
- 2% Man City 3:2 Man Utd
- 1% Man City 0:3 Man Utd
- 1% Man City 0:0 Man Utd
- 1% Man City 1:4 Man Utd
- 1% Man City 9:0 Man Utd
- 0% Man City 4:2 Man Utd
- 0% Man City 5:0 Man Utd
- 0% Man City 5:2 Man Utd
- 0% Man City 0:5 Man Utd
- 0% Man City 1:5 Man Utd
- 0% Man City 6:0 Man Utd
- 0% Man City 0:9 Man Utd
- 0% Man City 1:0 Man Utd
Match Stats
- Man City
- Man Utd
- Possession
- 54% 46%
- Shots
- 22 12
- Shots on Target
- 10 8
- Corners
- 5 1
- Fouls
- 3 9
Referee
Michael Oliver
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Luke Shaw
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replaced by Victor Lindelof
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replaced by Casemiro
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replaced by Anthony Martial
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replaced by Fred
