We need to beef up the midfield 2nd half. Too easy for Juve to break up our attacks and to get men back when we counter. We need more movement up front too. Saw Martial, Shaw, and Pogba urging movement to no avail. Fred or Herrera on for Rashford, who hasn't done too much and get Mata more central. Juve look pretty good though.
Champions League Group H
Manchester United 0:1 Juventus
Old Trafford
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Things like leaving Matic on the pitch in the second half are why I want Mourinho out. Fergie would take Giggs/Scholes out after half like this, let alone Matic who is liability this entire season.
He really is so technically inept. I have said this before but how can a supposedly world class manager with a team of scouts not see this when he was at Everton. It's not something that can be learnt either so we are stuck with him for the foreseeable future or have to take a big loss on him.
Movement is poor aswell, makes it hard to connect passes.
Our pattern of plays are fecking comedy gold. So slow, pass it Matic who passes to Shaw, who passes to Martial, who fecks up or passes it back to Shaw, who passes to Matic, who takes 5-6-7 touches to pass it to Pogba
Who exactly are brilliant players at United? Pogba and maybe Martial? Ronaldo, Dybala, Pjanic, Chellini, Bonucci, Sandro, Matuidi. Those are brilliant players for Juve.Awful. Summed up by Young’s long ball towards Lukaku in the end...no plan on how to threaten. Even if Lukaku wins the header he cannot do anything with a pass like that.
Mata looks like he retired 10 years ago.Convenient technical error
LazyNot playing badly, we're just a level (or two or three) below them which is really depressing.
When the game broke up a bit, we looked ok but otherwise, when we're sitting back letting them have possession, we just can't cope. Time for Mou to earn his salary and think up something that will give us a bit more control....I fear that will just be the Fellaini long ball showCan't watch this anymore...I give up!Drop Lukaku for 3 matches.Outclassed by a much better team so far.Thank God for De Gea.Being dominated by a side playing in 2nd gear, we don’t look remotely close to scoring. We need another big second half performance or this could easily be a comfortable 0-2 or 0-3
Pre-ordered it tonight, currently downloading at home whilst I’m in the pub
Can’t wait.
It wasn't even the worst of this month. Which says a lot about us at the moment, really.
Was working more than any other player for majority of first half. Looks gassed near the end.
So far they've spent 90% of the time 'defending'. Can't believe we don't have a proper attacking plan. That's lazy coaching.
Haven't you seen any games so far.? You sleep during frist half and watch the second half.At this point you have to seriously ask if Matic's best days are behind him. Looks like he has no legs at all now and is a main root of the problemWhen the next manager arrives, his biggest priority would be to throw Lukaku and Rashford completely out of any starting lineup.
The guy who doesn't seem to know to head the ball, Lukaku.The lack of quality we have in certain areas is so glaringly obvious, and yet they're positions we've not looked to strengthen for ages.I would like to see how many through balls we make on average, and then look at numbers of the other 20 PL clubs. I have a gut feeling we're in the bottom 5. Through balls are the best metric of gauging off-the-ball movement, and United are absolutely shit at it.
It's not like we pass to feet to avoid losing possession, either, like we did under LVG. No, we lump it up to Lukaku every single time and lose the ball over and over again. Martial/Rashford and Lukaku all stand still, wait for ball to feet, pass it back. Then it goes all the way back for a long ball which we lose.
Mate, that'll never happen, they've just watched him play.One positive is that despite them dominating, they've not been creating a great deal.Even Genoa caused them more problems. We have the players to hurt them but we're too scared. Too intimidated.Well at least we sparked into life a bit in the last 10-15 mins.
Yet another game where we are shit scared, sit back and concede.Lukaku looks like a random person that has happened to wander on a football pitch by chance.Lucky not to be down more, whoever this team plays in the Ro16 will dismantle themCalm down everyone... we are a 2nd half team..I hopeLukaku for Herrera please. Play martial and rashers up top, mata behind. Pog, matic, hererra in the middle.
I thought this would be the perfect game for Fred. Someone to break up play and be an absolute nuisance.
If we can't press high we at least need the legs to chase and Martial, Lukaku and Mata don't have that.The only positive I can think of that is we’re only going in at 1-0Our midfield just doesn't work.
From the games I've seen the mid table Serie A teams often put up a bigger fight against them.
Are these your ratings or from a paper? Because they are atrociousReminds me of when we faced Milan back in 05 and they barely gave us a sniff at goal. All thoughts of tactics and attacking intent go out the window when there's such a clear gap in quality and experience.How are they able to constantly push their fullbacks forward and seemingly leave no space at the back whereas when we do it we are wide open!?
I’d take Mata off at half time, bring on Fred and let Pogba push on more. Still, we’ll need a miracle to get anything out of this - Juve look class.When you’ve got that lamp-post up top for us, it’s no wonder our midfielders look clueless. He’s a shit show and gives us no options. Utter shit stain.
Exactly - i feel sorry for them tbh
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Man of the Match
Runners-up
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27%
David de Gea
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9%
Paul Pogba
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2%
Ashley Young
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2%
Juan Mata
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1%
Chris Smalling
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1%
Luke Shaw
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1%
Anthony Martial
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1%
Romelu Lukaku
Player Ratings
Total Average Rating
Highest Rated Player
Lowest Rated Player
Compiled from 390 ratings.
Score Predictions
195,121,118
- Man Utd win
- Juventus win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 22% Man Utd 2:1 Juventus
- 18% Man Utd 1:1 Juventus
- 12% Man Utd 1:2 Juventus
- 7% Man Utd 2:0 Juventus
- 6% Man Utd 0:2 Juventus
- 6% Man Utd 1:0 Juventus
- 5% Man Utd 0:0 Juventus
- 4% Man Utd 2:2 Juventus
- 4% Man Utd 1:3 Juventus
- 3% Man Utd 3:1 Juventus
- 3% Man Utd 3:2 Juventus
- 2% Man Utd 0:1 Juventus
- 2% Man Utd 5:0 Juventus
- 2% Man Utd 0:3 Juventus
- 1% Man Utd 3:0 Juventus
- 1% Man Utd 0:5 Juventus
- 1% Man Utd 0:4 Juventus
- 1% Man Utd 4:1 Juventus
- 0% Man Utd 5:1 Juventus
- 0% Man Utd 1:4 Juventus
Match Stats
- Man Utd
- Juventus
- Possession
- 39% 61%
- Shots
- 6 14
- Shots on Target
- 2 5
- Corners
- 2 6
- Fouls
- 16 14
Referee
Milorad Mazic
