Manchester United 2:0 Manchester City

Rolaholic · Mar 8, 2020

Impressive that Martial has scored both home and away against Chelsea and City this season

Anustart89 · Mar 8, 2020

Since VAR agreed with the on-field call it's not going to go in the 'against' column for VAR so everyone will go on about how we've been fortunate with VAR.

DevilRed · Mar 8, 2020

Big Andy said:
All that tells me is that referees make more decisions against us incorrectly

Bingo.

This match they have made 2 wrong decision in the favor of our opponents.

Adam-Utd · Mar 8, 2020

Random Task said:
According to Lee Dixon, VAR can only intervene if the ref has made a clear and obvious error.

That’s about as clear and obvious as they come though, that’s the point

mitchmouse · Mar 8, 2020

crossy1686 said:
There’s literally no point in him being on TV. He wouldn’t give United any credit on match of the day and asking him to give his opinion on the derby is a fecking waste of time.

He was asked about Grealish going to United the other week and said he shouldn’t go to United.

He’s fecking obsessed.

he is almost as funny as mike summerbee when he complained that City only lost to a world-class goal (Rooney's bicycle kick)

klayton88 · Mar 8, 2020

Drainy said:
The ref has booked 2 of theirs for dissent... our players are smart not to give him the chance to appear neutral on it.

Worth a yellow if it gets VAR to look at it. My view is ref gave yellow to Fred before VAR could look at it and they were never going to overrule Mike Dean as they stick together. It's such a broken system.

Cloud7 · Mar 8, 2020

VP89 said:
Martial the first player to score both home and away vs City since Ronaldo in 06/07

Fun stat this

Art Vandelay · Mar 8, 2020

Josep Dowling said:
Half time pundits are poor. Ok the Bruno foul was soft but he’s come from the back of him and caught him. Soft but is a foul.

How Richards can sit there and say Fred is theatrical. He got kicked in the shin. Blatant penalty. VAR can be so strange at time.

How Richards is getting employed as a pundit is a bigger question. Although Redknapp has been getting away with it for years so I suppose it's not a surprise.

Globule · Mar 8, 2020

kouroux said:
This. Referees who get overruled by VAR receive bad grades and as a result can lose bonuses too. I am not inventing it, a french ref said it on a radio station

That's a flawed system. The referees and VAR should be working together as one unit to accurately and fairly referee a match. Refs and VAR should not be seen as opposing sides.

Rajma · Mar 8, 2020

King Eric 7 said:
I think it was the best formation and we seem to be containing City and creating a few chances ourselves. Rather be pragmatic about our approach and it's working so far.

Seems like I was wrong so far and happy to admit. Although I think Bruno has played a huge role in making this work imo.

DevilRed · Mar 8, 2020

The Red Thinker said:
Martial has skills more than Lingard has beans. If only he could give a feck more often.

His workrate has improved though to be fair. Everything about him has since his return from injury.

ThinkTank@Cafe · Mar 8, 2020

saivet said:
That shot from Sterling? Routing stuff

For Big Dave, yes just a Rout-ine. For another keeper that was an effort

iluvoursolskjær · Mar 8, 2020

The inconsistency with these pen situations are infuriating.

On a better note, crazy how one Bruno can raise the levels of the entire team. And it starts from attitude.

Cloud7 · Mar 8, 2020

Credit where it’s due, we’ve been set up pretty damn well today. James and AWB are getting a lot of joy down that inside right channel

Andycoleno9 · Mar 8, 2020

Fun part is if Dean gave us penalty Var wouldn't change that decision. fecking Dean

Random Task · Mar 8, 2020

Damien said:
Plenty of times they've given penalties for flopping this season.

For me, the problem is allowing VAR to decide whether the ref's error was clear and obvious enough to overrule it.

I thought the whole idea of VAR was to remove human influence as much as possible, not add to it by giving VAR a choice.

JTW95 · Mar 8, 2020

Foden isnt living up to the hype today hes been a bit shit

peridigm · Mar 8, 2020

Andycoleno9 said:
I don't trust Ole's teamtalk.

What did he say?

tenpoless · Mar 8, 2020

Virtual Arsehole Referee. Giving correct decisions when it's really hard to tell, like when a player is offside for 15 millimetres but refuses to give a blatant penalty that even a grandma would notice. Mike Dean is also stupid for giving a yellow card instead, didn't even try to think about it and just gave it straight away.

mitchmouse · Mar 8, 2020

Globule said:
That's a flawed system. The referees and VAR should be working together as one unit to accurately and fairly referee a match. Refs and VAR should not be seen as opposing sides.

why don't they spend a day at a cricket Test match to see how the fecking thing should work?

GifLord · Mar 8, 2020

Don't tell me

Damien · Mar 8, 2020

Random Task said:
For me, the problem is allowing VAR to decide whether the ref's error was clear and obvious enough to overrule it.

I thought the whole idea of VAR was to remove human influence as much as possible, not add to it by giving VAR a choice.

Other leagues seem to manage fine on the whole. I'm on board the conspiracy theory that the English refs want it to fail.

Andycoleno9 · Mar 8, 2020

peridigm said:
What did he say?

In general i mean. We always look bad after first half

2 man midfield · Mar 8, 2020

How can they give that? De Gea didn’t dive

One Night Only · Mar 8, 2020

Hold up? DDG stopped?

ha_rooney · Mar 8, 2020

Here comes the stupid lines...

Jacko21 · Mar 8, 2020

They can’t give this!?

DevilRed · Mar 8, 2020

offside

JTW95 · Mar 8, 2020

It cant be a disallowed goal we gave up when the whistle went!

Random Task · Mar 8, 2020

kiristao said:
If thinking Fred dived when actually there is clear contact is not a "clear and obvious error" then I don't know what is.
If Mike Dean had not booked Fred, they could have said that maybe he saw the contact but felt there wasn't enough contact. You can't book someone for diving because there wasn't enough contact.

I know, it's insane.

Coxy · Mar 8, 2020

Can anyone cry me a river please??

GifLord · Mar 8, 2020

huh that was close

Dr. Dwayne · Mar 8, 2020

They're actually checking this? feck off.

Judas · Mar 8, 2020

Looked onside, weird.

lex talionis · Mar 8, 2020

A shame there’s no way to turn off the TV announcers but keep the crowd noise.

SirAnderson · Mar 8, 2020

Can't get carried away, need to stay focused and alert, once the reinforcements come from subs its going to be even harder.

48 hours · Mar 8, 2020

what the hell was going on there? Sure I heard a whistle

mitchmouse · Mar 8, 2020

this is a disgrace... almost gave the goal

Andycoleno9 · Mar 8, 2020

2 man midfield · Mar 8, 2020

And VAR gets that wrong as well :lol:

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