Manchester United 1:1 Middlesbrough

DomesticTadpole · Feb 5, 2022

pauldyson1uk said:
slept on last nights result and apologies for my sack the manger comment, annoyed at the time,I dont normally do knee jerk posts, but last night got the better of me.

We have all been there. This was down to senior players who cannot put the ball in the net. Cannot even blame the defence. It was the frontline that was at fault. I am certainly not blaming Elanga the game should have been put to bed in the first half. Also we cannot go into next season with Ronaldo as our main striking option. He looked shot last night and it will just be worse next season.

pauldyson1uk · Feb 5, 2022

DomesticTadpole said:
We have all been there. This was down to senior players who cannot put the ball in the net. Cannot even blame the defence. It was the frontline that was at fault. I am certainly not blaming Elanga the game should have been put to bed in the first half. Also we cannot go into next season with Ronaldo as our main striking option. He looked shot last night and it will just be worse next season.

red4ever 79 said:
Happens to the best of us. I think we would have won if we had other players available like Cavani, or even Jessie. We have left our squad incredibly thin for the remainder of the season which seems a bizarre decision

Cheers, agree with both of you, our squad is too think now and has for Ronaldo, I was unsure when he resigned and even more sure now , he was not what we needed.

Litch · Feb 5, 2022

United Hobbit said:
Some of the penalties were great and no one was saving them but Henderson was poor, had a real chance to prove a point, and failed.

The two saves one at the death doesn't count then. If he saves a couple of penalties, it would prove absolutely nothing in the scheme of things as having him in the net, didn’t change the outcome of the game either way….

Litch · Feb 5, 2022

Take your chances, easy 4-0 win. Nothing and no one else to blame and once you dont, this is what happens in cup games.

Hughie77 · Feb 5, 2022

yipthatman said:
It is a joke of a situation, it is a very poor decision but this is football and decisions go against you sometimes. It is unfair, but you have to suck it up, get on with it and create your own luck. We didn't do that. Our attack, at OT, against a championship side was pathetically bad. Even the goal was a deflection (it was actually heading wide past the right hand post).

OK. Thanks for the insight very helpful

yipthatman · Feb 5, 2022

Hughie77 said:
OK. Thanks for the insight very helpful

I do agree with you Hughie. It was an awful decision but the whining mentality of the players when things don't go there way costs us, I sware it. It's like we give up. Fergie used to say, some decisions go for you and some go against you but over the course of a season it all evens itself out.

lex talionis · Feb 5, 2022

The decision to not call the obvious handball offense was an abomination, but as every other poster has already stated, we failed to put away the vastly inferior side. We didn’t play that well, but glorious chances were wasted.

I don’t feel like today is a day to moan about all the mistakes the club has made in recent years. Yesterday it was simply about a banana peel we stepped on.

This weekend is a time for reflection about the events at Munich in 1958 and what it took for this great club to become what it became by 1968.

Hughie77 · Feb 5, 2022

yipthatman said:
I do agree with you Hughie. It was an awful decision but the whining mentality of the players when things don't go there way costs us, I sware it. It's like we give up. Fergie used to say, some decisions go for you and some go against you but over the course of a season it all evens itself out.
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That decision was wrong no matter how you want to interpret it. That's the problem. And I bet you my fecking house if that was at Stamford Bridge, Anfield, Emptyhad it would have been ruled out. That was just plain wrong in interpretation of a rule that the officials can justify. And that's not evening out at all in a season because its a cup game and you go out through that .

yipthatman · Feb 5, 2022

Hughie77 said:
That decision was wrong no matter how you want to interpret it. That's the problem. And I bet you my fecking house if that was at Stamford Bridge, Anfield, Emptyhad it would have been ruled out. That was just plain wrong in interpretation of a rule that the officials can justify. And that's not evening out at all in a season because its a cup game and you go out through that .

This is wild conspiracy stuff mate. I don't think there is an agenda against us. We should have scored more, then the handball issue would be moot.

darko · Feb 5, 2022

Jezpeza said:
That was predictable. Roll on the summer when we can feck this idiot off and try something else. On par with the days of LVG. Though im sure some of you will still be saying ‘we will see his patterns of play soon’ on the last day of the season.

If the average person can figure out patterns of play, so can the opposition. Ir's simple game that is basically improvised within in a framework.

Hughie77 · Feb 5, 2022

yipthatman said:
This is wild conspiracy stuff mate. I don't think there is an agenda against us. We should have scored more, then the handball issue would be moot.

1 goal wins a game you don't have to score 4 or 5 to win a game. OK I put it this way if that was a defender with his arm up high and VAR looks at it he gives a PEN. By saying arm not in a natural position.!!! Correct ? So whats the difference. The only difference is interpretation from officials. Klopp Pep Tuchels teams would have had the other interpretation of the rule. Fact

MacGlock88 · Feb 5, 2022

lysglimt · Feb 5, 2022

Baneofthegame said:
The only penalty out of 8, rest were great pens.

They all look great when Henderson goes early on every single one - making it easy for the penalty taker to slot it home. During our 2 last penalty shoot outs we missed something like 2 out of 20 penalties and still lost both. Our keepers have not saved a single penalty in penalty shoot outs in 20 attempts.

Yes most of them were good penalties - but its quite clearly that our keepers dont make the penalty shooters on the opposing side nervous.

L1nk · Feb 5, 2022

yipthatman · Feb 5, 2022

L1nk said:

Are you not entertained? Haha. We certainly are not boring.

darko · Feb 7, 2022

What gets me is how in rugby they explain there decision when it's made. There's no way the VAR official didn't see that hand ball so why is not ruled no-goal? I just don't get it.

That decision was made by the VAR official and not Taylor from what I remember.

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