Can we play Brugge every week
Champions League Play-off Round, 1st Leg
Manchester United 3:1 Club Brugge
Old Trafford
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) look forward to a new life under Ruben Amorim. What system will we be playing? What players will impress? and how will it all go? We also say goodbye to Ruud Van Nistelrooy and review United's 3-0 win at home against Leicester City.
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Finally a performance i have no complaints aboutHoddle's sold on Memphis that's not a bad thing!Excellent. 3:1 was my score prediction and I got 16 points in the lineup prediction
It's Football, not Rugby. If it was 3 minutes, you blow at 3 minutes, not when the ongoing move comes to an end.
That's not true.
If the attack is going on or if its a corner ref lets it go to see how it will end.
Was waiting for it. Congrats! Let's shoehorn in a "that's what she said" joke in here too.
Actually, look. I've even set it up for ya.Thought Januzaj, Memphis and Shaw were brilliant, I also think Schweinsteiger needs to start with either Carrick or Schneiderlin. Rooney was also a positive for me, he may not have scored but he looked a lot fitter and match ready, I'm expecting a few goals off him this coming weekend.
Defensively we still make mistakes that we need to cut out, hopefully we go in for a more commanding CB than Blind and Rojo.
So if there is a clear chance 1v1 and it's 3:01 the referee should call it end? It is well known in football that the whistle is blown if there is no chance for either team to score.Negative types please take a night offLove the last minute goal is back its been a while coming.
Typical United that was, I always felt there was a goal in the locker at the end then, you just get that feeling.
It's been missing for the last two years.Anyway, we were pretty shit really. A lucky two goal cushion.
BBC:
Manchester United 2-1 Club Brugge
Posted at90 +3 mins
It is easy to forget Brugge are down to 10 men as United struggle to create anything at all. Last minute of injury time and a free kick 40 yards out.
Manchester United 2-1 Club Brugge
Posted at90 mins
Three minutes of injury time is signalled. United will take the lead to Belgium but is 2-1 enough?
Manchester United 2-1 Club Brugge
Posted at90 mins
Into the last minute and Manchester United can't break down Club Brugge.
Love it when he said he was disappointed with the chances missed, and that he might forget it tomorrow but tonight he would still be thinking. He's officially a United quality (not just being complacent with two goals and an assist).Fantastic performance. Screw the haters.
Memphis has announced himself.
When will my points be added? :/Rooney my MOTM, close to the best he can be at this juncture.
Surprised at the number of cheap giveaways by both teams but probably the new ball has a lot to do with that.Great to see we can defend again.
Is that you, Louie? The only good thing he did all game was the backheel to Memphis(who noted two goals and an assist), and him WALKING off the pitch when we are one man more and in need of a goal really pissed me off.
Oh sorry...thought this was a discussion forum not preschool.
Obviously we can agree to differ there.
The reason we are not going to Belgium with a one-goal lead is because Fellaini did more in 7 minutes than Rooney have in 263 so far...
the absolute whingers in this thread belittling LVG and Fellaini.Just got back from the game, was it DEFINITELY an own goal? It wasn't on target from Vasquez? Had a scorecast bet on and don't think I'm going to like the outcome...
Definitely an own goal. It deflected off Adnan at first and Carrick couldn't deal with it properly.
Argh. That was 275-1 that wasWhy are two defenders 2nd and 3rd for the MOTM selection? Smalling and Shaw both had a few great individual moments but overall we were shocking in defence, as a unit.
That's completely irrelevant. They're a weak side. The fact is they got in behind about 3/4 times because our defence was all over the place. If they had better forwards/made the right decisions they would've without a doubt had more shots on goal.
What? Our defence has been excellent in the two league games, but today it wasn't - at all. There were several situations where if Brugge did better and made better decisions they would've scored.
We played way more open so that we can get some goals to make up for the own goal. So yeah, the team got chances, despite this, they beat every 1 on 1 they faced and gave up nothing. It showed their own individual qualities more so than the two other games this year.
I thought Brugge worked a couple of good positions, usually because of a poor pass from us in midfield, but we'd always snuff them out.
I felt our defenders were bailing us out for some sloppy play ahead of them.Really having a tough time deciding MOTM. Fellaini is in with a shout. He comes back after such a lay off, and makes the tie a bit more secure, that was an amazing header. But you could give it to Chris Smalling, who was brilliant in defence. Blind had a good game, not MOTM methinks though... Darmian was excellent too. Schweinsteiger right up there too. Memphis deserves huge credit for the assist for the third goal and his two beauties.
Perhaps that was the reason, the pace in defence definitely helped us. There was still occasionally too much space for Brugge when they got forward. At one point I was glad to see us just pass the ball around so that they wouldn't have it and break - it happened about 2/3 times in a row where they got in to good areas. Some of our defenders were definitely out of position a few times.
As @hbgreg said, I was impressed with their individual defending. Smalling made a brilliant double tackle and seems almost impossible to get past 1v1, and Shaw covered excellently. Darmian is a really good defender too.
I think with Depay being tasked with properly going at them it left Shaw exposed at times.
But we dealt with what they threw at us. A calculated risk I guess.
He played 9 minutes.Right was working for the match, just watched the first half. Our play is definitely quicker in this game and passing seems a little more precise. Brugge offered no threat at all except for half chances that were well dealt with by our defense. Still not creating enough although Janujaz and Depay should both have scored or at least gotten shots away when played through.
Funnily enough Rooney IMO seems to be playing fine in the first half. He was involved in a lot of decent moves and played Depay through. Also a couple of times he should have been played in but wasn't, particularly when Shaw pulled the ball back rather than crossed. Janujaz also no where near as bad so far as some have claimed. Mata decent but could be involved more. Depay took both his goals amazingly well and playing great except for being a little loose in possession at times. Schneiderlin decent but needs to improve his passing and positional play for receiving the ball but I feel he'd be better suited to playing with Herrera in there.
Defense pretty damn good except for a couple of hairy moments. Shaw and Smalling really impressive with Darmian and Blind looking solid. Janujaz really shouldn't have turned his back on the free kick for their goal though.
So far anyway I'm seeing a much improved performance and more like the dominance of possession that we had last season.
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Score Predictions
1110,13,21
- Man Utd win
- Brugge win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 39% Man Utd 2:0 Brugge
- 32% Man Utd 3:0 Brugge
- 8% Man Utd 3:1 Brugge
- 6% Man Utd 1:0 Brugge
- 5% Man Utd 4:0 Brugge
- 4% Man Utd 2:1 Brugge
- 1% Man Utd 5:0 Brugge
- 1% Man Utd 0:0 Brugge
- 1% Man Utd 4:1 Brugge
- 0% Man Utd 1:1 Brugge
- 0% Man Utd 0:1 Brugge
- 0% Man Utd 0:3 Brugge
- 0% Man Utd 0:5 Brugge
- 0% Man Utd 1:2 Brugge
- 0% Man Utd 3:2 Brugge
- 0% Man Utd 0:2 Brugge
- 0% Man Utd 2:3 Brugge
- 0% Man Utd 5:1 Brugge
Match Stats
- Man Utd
- Brugge
- Possession
- 69% 31%
- Shots
- 19 1
- Shots on Target
- 9 1
- Corners
- 10 1
- Fouls
- 11 11
Referee
Deniz Aytekin
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replaced by Javier Hernandez
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replaced by Bastian Schweinsteiger
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replaced by Marouane Fellaini
