He is good at shielding the ball but he has this really annoying habit of running into the opposition.
FA Premier League
Manchester United 0:3 Bournemouth
Old Trafford
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- Sun, 22 December 2024 @ 2:00pm GMT
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We haven't played badly at all, especially after going behind. But you cannot concede a setpiece goal in a tight game against an inform side. That is just setting yourself up for failure. Zirkzee and Malacia are obvious weaknesses. Can't do anything about Malacia, but Hojlund needs to come on quickly. We need to make sure we don't concede at the start again, keep playing the way we ended the half, and we can still win this.
Yes.
Amad did a perfect final ball for BrunoGuess what, again, no final ball
He is doing Dalot stuff.Leny warming up to come on probably for malacia he’s been bad this halfThe only thing I’m surprised at is how overconfident everyone on here was pre-kickoff in terms of we will just turn this lot over with ease. Bournemouth have shown since they got promoted back that they are no mugs and will give any team in the league a difficult game. They are a hard working and very well organised, coached side which we aren’t yet.Pretty even game. We have had 11 shots 3 on target. Need to take these chances.
Usual crap defending on set pieces cost us again.
Id have Hojlund on for Zirkzee. Garnacho for Malacia.Amorim is going a little bit too far with full back rotation. Dalot and Maz are our best (and only?) full back options so just play them there (if you are not resting them). Malacia is just a man less these days and certainly doesn't have future here.
Still lots of time to win this.
He's hindering us when we are in the final third.
He just can't play on the half turn and is way too flat footed when taking the ball on the half term. He can't dribble either. I'd rather swap him Kobbie because at least he's mobile and will pass forward more.watching the replays Onana really has to do much better for that goal. He's just so terribly static with those set piecesI'd rather have Antony on the pitch than some of those who were out there in that first half. Just too many slow plodders technically limited players.These lot don’t start playing until we go a goal down, they should be showing that intensity from minute one. Yet again we give away a silly foul, was harsh but still gave it away and by feck we simply cannot defend fecking set pieces! It’s got to the point now I’m expecting the net to bulge every time the opposition send the ball into the box. I really feel for the manager trying to get a tune out of this dross.
A perfect example is when Malacia played him through and he had to slow down and turn back which resulted in him getting dispossessed.
An inside no.10 in this system requires you to not only do the creative stuff that no.10s tend to be in the side for, but also be good in tighter spaces and also able to make runs out wider into space.
At this moment in time, Fernandes is very much in the side solely down to his individual quality and not because he tactically fits the system.
If you think Malacia and Dalot both shouldn’t have started, which wingback duo would you have had for this one? Our squad is fecking shit in that area.
Wish he would just put in a fecking cross. He can do it from time to time but keeps cutting back
Yep, combine the pair's best attributes and you might have a starting level PL striker.
Onana, been one of the best GK's in the league this year....
Yeh that surprised me too. Any half decent side, ofcourse we'd struggle at home.We will win this 3-1. Amorim is fantastic at recognising where he’s gone wrong and more often than not makes the right changes to turn the game. Confident enough we will get the win in the 2nd half.Sigh. Just feels like every game is on the same loop - except we've now added 'concede goal from SP' to it of late.
I'd love to know how our xg stacks up compared to opponents in recent years - just feels like we're always squandering chances with wasteful finishing or good saves, while our opponents score with their first few shots on target most games.
Feel like I've seen this half about 500 times in the last decade.Either Yoro or Antony for Malacia and maybe Hojlund dor Zirkzee.
Yeah he looks good.
I like Adam, Kerkez,Semenyo and Evanilson is a forward I can see gradually improving year on year.Been better since the goal but Dalot and Malacia just don’t do enough as wing backs and think De Ligt is missed on the ball.
Yoro for Dalot as well (with Maz moving to RWB)I get the rotation but when you've such a shit squad you can't expect to be competitive in any way when the replacements aren't even footballers.
Missing real basics like making sure the correct men are marking the opposition’s aerial threat. Zirkzee is so weak with his attempt to defend that goal.
I also hate zonal marking and think it’s far easier as a defender to mark a player rather than space.Don't think we've been that bad but Zirkzee has no place in this team. The CF position in this system is too vital to carry him, in the 433 we bypassed the striker but can't do that now.
Please sign another striker in January.Zirkzee - for a big unit - really does play like he’s scared of his own shadow. Any chance you could maybe get involved you fecking useless lump?
Agree.
I genuinely find him a ball watcher.
His ability to control his box has regressed.
He always lets the defenders deal with it.Frustrating that the set piece goal came off a foul that wasn't a foul.Looks like Yoro is coming onA goal down, but we showed real promise, especially in the final 10 minutes of the first half. Heading into the second half, we need to carry that momentum forward and push for an equalizer. If we level the score, I genuinely believe we'll go onto win.The way Zirkzee got so easily outmuscled for their goal.
These players are going to kill me
This bait?the positive thing is that despite play by poorly, we’ve had chances and were actually close to scoring a few times - which certainly didn’t happen under ETH.
Really not a formation that’s working - Zirkzee not in the game at all and really needs to play with runners
He's not an 8. Doesn't have the positional awareness for it. When he's in and around the box he's better.
Man of the Match
Provisional results
Runners-up
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16%
Bruno Fernandes
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15%
Amad Diallo
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4%
Harry Maguire
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2%
Lisandro Martinez
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2%
Leny Yoro
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2%
Rasmus Hojlund
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2%
Kobbie Mainoo
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2%
Alejandro Garnacho
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1%
Noussair Mazraoui
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1%
Andre Onana
Player Ratings
Provisional results
Total Average Rating
Highest Rated Player
Lowest Rated Player
Compiled from 141 ratings.
Score Predictions
128,16,16
- Man Utd win
- Bournemouth win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 29% Man Utd 2:1 Bournemouth
- 18% Man Utd 2:0 Bournemouth
- 15% Man Utd 3:1 Bournemouth
- 9% Man Utd 3:0 Bournemouth
- 6% Man Utd 2:2 Bournemouth
- 4% Man Utd 1:1 Bournemouth
- 4% Man Utd 0:1 Bournemouth
- 3% Man Utd 4:0 Bournemouth
- 3% Man Utd 1:2 Bournemouth
- 2% Man Utd 3:2 Bournemouth
- 1% Man Utd 1:0 Bournemouth
- 1% Man Utd 4:1 Bournemouth
- 1% Man Utd 0:2 Bournemouth
- 1% Man Utd 0:4 Bournemouth
- 1% Man Utd 2:3 Bournemouth
- 1% Man Utd 5:0 Bournemouth
- 1% Man Utd 2:6 Bournemouth
- 1% Man Utd 1:3 Bournemouth
Match Stats
- Man Utd
- Bournemouth
- Overall possession
- 60% 40%
- Shots
- 23 10
- Shots on target
- 7 5
- Total touches in the box
- 45 15
- Goalkeeper saves
- 2 7
- Fouls
- 11 11
- Corners
- 13 1
Referee
Craig Pawson
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 Rasmus Hojlund
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