Onana was awful for those pens. He goes early, and looks like Fulham knew it. Everyone bar Berge took stuttering run ups and then just rolled it past him the other way.
FA Cup 5th Round
Manchester United 1:1 Fulham
Fulham win 4:3 on penalties
Old Trafford
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Another 2 hours of mind numbing football, such a poor team, roll on summer.Zirkzee can't even kick a fecking ball properly! How the feck is he an attacker!? He took that pen like he couldn't be bothered.
Lindelof I don't want to even use my energy on, what a waste of air on the pitch.
So many chances created and we can't fecking score during regular+extra time. But yeah it's the managers fault because he has the least potent attack I've ever seen since I started supporting MU.
BestiesFeel a bit for Zirkzee he really gave everything today. I just don't really see him as being a decent long term option for us. He certainly tries but his lack of quality and goal threat is all there to see.
We have two absolute dude forwards unfortunately and our only other option is a 17 year old rookie. We basically went out today because the club didn't want to bring in another FWD in January.Disappointed but no big deal, getting sick of winning the FA Cup anyway, we’re going all out for the Europa this season.
Thanks, I wasn't sure if I could hate him more or not, you have settled it for me.
He somehow did 8 years at United.Predictably, everyone focusing on the lottery that is penalties rather than what should be focused on which is the 120 minutes beforehand.
What actually fecked us in this match is the abysmal showing essentially up until Bruno once again bailed us out. As I say, once you get to penalties you're leaving it largely to chance - we should've killed the game before that point.
Says a lot about us as a team. Bunch of overpaid individuals.Well he’s the one that let two attacking players leave in January without any replacements needs to go with Hojlund and Zirkzee too!
Some coaches and players simply just don’t have the minerals to deal with the pressure of United!
Amorim record P25 W 10 D5 L10 absolutely terrible appointment and fans still defend his actions, I keep saying don’t fall out with your players if you want them to bust a gut for you, he’ll get the sack and learn from his numerous Rookie 101 mistakes!
Garnaucho was the darling of Stretford end a couple of seasons ago, this coach has ruined him in 4 months!
He’ll ruin Mainoo next season as well but a coach like Xavi who knows what it takes to be a great number 8 will make him a world beater.This was just bad, 2 horrible penalties. Nothing to build on, Garnacho is so mercurial, he could be the most frustrating player of the 21st century.
That’s cause the club is the ultimate joker.Well, we are not going to win the next games even if we qualify this round anyway, but still, some of our players are beyond redeemable.If points were earned for nutmegs on the halfway line zirkzee would be great. As it is he pretty pointless
And yet young players at under 19 and under 21 play 433 or 4231 and we have good young players in these positions coming through like Ethan Williams, Shea Lacey, James Scanlon, Matata, Musa.
No maybe just flog the lot for £10m combined transfer fee so we can buy more toilet paper for Ruben so he can continue to wipe his A… at our club and serve up negative football, has any new coach, after playing 25 games had such a poor record at old Trafford or such an abysmal loss rate of 54% in the PL, I keep saying our 1974 team that got relegated lost 20 from 42 or 47% of their games!
Well, he proved his worth
What exactly are you trying to accomplish with this ?
And what will change under this ownership and this coach, I would love to know how Amorim’s going to go from being absolute Sh….to a winner, he talks far too much someone needs to zip him up and tell him he’s banned from talking to the media especially about the players we currently want to try and sell!Wonder why Garna didn't step up to take a penalty? I don't have faith he'd have scored it, but come on, youre an attacker
I didn't want Chido to take one unless he needed to, don't destroy his confidence before he's even got started
None of those players have shown enough to say they'll ever be first team quality. Lacey is the best of the them, but he's had a torrid time with injuries and has only just started playing for the U18s again.
Of course the form is underwhelming, but I don't think a manager has even been dealt a poorer hand to start with at this club. He could certainly be playing it a lot better, but the squad is mostly turd, and you can't polish a turd.
Really poor in open play as usual. Can’t fault him for stepping up and taking one though.
The part our dear Ruben doesn’t get without European Football next season there is no rebuild so he’ll be stick with 80% of this squad and he’s called most of them shi…so tell me why they should play for him?
Listen I was a massive fan of Ruben and would definitely give him a full chance if the club can afford the £300m we will need to finance his specialists he needs to play 3421 but they won’t, he’ll be lucky to get £50m plus what he sells.
The problem is I’m not convinced he has the people skills to manage truly elite players who are hard to manage because they are mostly mavericks and that’s what makes them different, Ronaldo called him ‘The Poet’ in a quite condescending way.
He knew the club had no money to back him in the winter, he also knew that he had to get the most out of Rashford, Antony, Amad, Zirkzee, Hojlund, Mount, Bruno for his front three positions!
Mistakes Amorim has made
1. He overplayed and overworked Amad
2. Barely used Antony, he could have played more and took the workload from Amad
3. Talked up Mason Mount who is United’s very own sick note and needs to go in the summer, Our coach said how wonderful he is
4. while calling Rashford out as Shite, his 63 year old coach would more likely to get on the bench than a guy that had serious work rate issues but when loved by a manager like Emery looks a different player, at least use him to the summer and
let him get you a few goals and assists then call him out!
5. Subbed Zirkzee in a first half, destroyed his confidence then has made him play nearly every game because he’s constantly falling out with players like Garnaucho!
6. Picked seven subs today with 2 Goal keepers, keeps subbing Centre Backs?
7 He has no idea how to combat the PL and PL teams, he’s constantly pacing up the technical area and just installs fear and anxiety in his players!
8. Still persists in defending Set pieces with Zonal Marking and for the record his team hardly ever keeps a clean sheet, playing 5 at the back!
9. The only thing he got right that is that his Man United team is the worst in living memory because he is the worst coach, that’s a fact he has a 54% loss rate in the PL which is higher than the 47% loss rate the United team had when they got relegated in 1974!
All I keep hearing is you can’t polish a turd, the players are awful, well looking at ETH’s two trophies and his 3rd and 8th place in the EPL, he seemed to manage to do just that ‘Polish a Turd’
When we inevitably get knocked out of Europa in the next two weeks and the season fizzles out, I wonder if those fans raving about our coach will feel the same way when after 10 games into next season we have 9-10 points?
And still not as long as Phil Jones' 12 years at United. Says everything anybody would want to know about United under GlazersAbsolutely gutted. We simply don’t have the quality to break down teams. And probably have the worst strikers of any major club in the big 4 leagues.
Rouse the rabble.
So you took time to write all this long "yadda, yadda, yadda" to criticize Amorim, among other things for not using Antony more, despite Antony being an empty space for past 3 years. And you are also praising ETH to attack Amorim, in comparision, and yet just a year ago you were writing this about ETH and Antony?
It’s mad how we just seem to have been in a state of arrested development for years. Players used to come in and make an impact. Cantona had 4 and a half seasons at United, and became a legend. Now you can do 7, 8, 9, 10 years at the club and not leave a mark. Bailly, Jones, Lindelof, Martial, and more. Dalot has already been here 7 years, we knew years ago he wasn’t up to it. We’re just treading water.
Yeap. We are owned by clueless assholes and managed by idiots. Clearly, they are only interested in money, but ironically they are also horrible at it. Somebody competent could have made us far more successful with the same spend, and would have also made tons more money for them, because as shocking as it may be to them, success in football does mean more money
Just feels like for years there was nobody steering the ship. We were just drifting aimlessly. The managers had no real power, they were too transient, and ultimately answered to a banker left in charge by the glazers. That’s why I was excited for Ineos to come in, it was the running of the football side i badly wanted to see revamped. But the signs so far haven’t been good.
It seems like we’ve made the same mistake we made with ten hag. Appoint a system coach who doesn’t suit any of the players you’ve already got, and immediately need a new squad otherwise your new manager is doomed before he’s started. That’s what I thought this new football structure was supposed to sort out. Unless the guy after Amorim plays 343 as well, we’re going to be in the same position 2 years from now.
I’m very clear with what I said, don’t let players go out on loan without competent replacements, Antony doesn’t suit the EPL but with Amad injured he could have helped to the end of the season, same principle applies to Rashford, by all means move them out but make sure you have competent replacements!
No doubt you thought picking a bench of 7 players with two youth goalkeepers was an inspired Amorim decision, get a grip man this guy is a million miles away from an elite coach in the PL!
If he starts getting some service near the penalty area and not having to go 1 v 2 all the time, and then is still missing goals, then I'll go in on him.
He's living on scraps at the moment....
You really think Amorim had any say about bringing replacements? He tried to use those players, they were useless for him, not his fault. He asked to loan them out so hopefully they can be sold in the Summer, generate some revenue and maybe then buy replacements. Leaving him without replacements now was a decision above him
Two stars gives you a differing opinion to the rest OK. I'm very sorry I've upset you, it's just my opinion I think I'm allowed to have. Thanks though .
No but this article states the obvious he needs media training and to be told to stop calling out his players so we can get decent transfer fees for some of them!
United will end up 16th and out of Europe in two weeks unless he stops going overboard on how bad this team is, one which incidentally is coached by him!
Listen we all love the honesty but please in moderation.
https://www.caughtoffside.com/2025/03/03/man-united-ruben-amorim-fulham-fa-cup/
Nice attempt but I don't seem to be the one who was upset.
Okey dokie..
Man of the Match
Provisional results
Runners-up
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33%
Matthijs de Ligt
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4%
Andre Onana
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3%
Joshua Zirkzee
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2%
Chido Obi
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1%
Diogo Dalot
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1%
Ayden Heaven
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1%
Harry Maguire
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1%
Leny Yoro
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1%
Alejandro Garnacho
Player Ratings
Provisional results
Total Average Rating
Highest Rated Player
Lowest Rated Player
Compiled from 170 ratings.
Score Predictions
85,38,9
- Man Utd win
- Fulham win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 40% Man Utd 2:1 Fulham
- 11% Man Utd 1:2 Fulham
- 9% Man Utd 2:0 Fulham
- 8% Man Utd 0:2 Fulham
- 7% Man Utd 1:3 Fulham
- 6% Man Utd 3:1 Fulham
- 6% Man Utd 1:0 Fulham
- 4% Man Utd 1:1 Fulham
- 2% Man Utd 3:2 Fulham
- 2% Man Utd 0:3 Fulham
- 2% Man Utd 2:2 Fulham
- 1% Man Utd 0:0 Fulham
- 1% Man Utd 0:1 Fulham
- 1% Man Utd 2:3 Fulham
- 1% Man Utd 3:0 Fulham
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Ayden Heaven
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replaced by Victor Lindelof
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replaced by Casemiro
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replaced by Alejandro Garnacho
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replaced by Chido Obi
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