Love it how people are making judgements on players based on 1 game after they hardly play.
FA Cup 3rd Round
Manchester United 2:0 Reading
Old Trafford
- Kick-off
- Sat, 5 January 2019 @ 12:30pm GMT
- Status
-
Closed
-
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.
Discussion Live Updates 55 Your Lineup Prediction
-
- Status
Team that's never played together, Reading have nothing to lose, they are expecting to lose, was always going to be a difficult game. I think we are doing OK
Portugese with name JoseWhat a shit game.Fred's shite
Pereira has been very good.Lets see if Ole can do a hairdryer at HT and change the tempo of this yawnfest.Watching Sanchez play and wondering who are the teams who would be interested in taking him off our hands considering his dire play . Seriously only way I can see him leave is if UEFA makes PSG pay for FFP and they are made to sell one of their attacking stars so that they can then come and take Sanchez on a free .
No he won't want to be a bit part player which is what he'll end up being if he doesn't improve rapidly. His pride won't allow him to. We just have to make a deal with him.When we don’t have our main attackers we really do look very ordinary.Despite the players looking drunk (namely Rom) we’ve put some good combination play together.Too sloppy in possession.Fred needs to look after the ball betterTypical cup game. Our midfield is so bad
. Fred is so slow with the ball.45 min
Injury Time
Five minutes added on. The VAR decision took quite a while and there were a couple of lengthy treatments for injuries.
It looks like that but I think the issue is not necessary him, but the players around him and communication. I see what he tries to do but his teammates are on a different wave length, if they get on the same page with him, watch out, he passes to release runners.It's embarrassing that Lukaku even manages to look out of place in a home game against Reading.
So little quality in his game.
And people in the MDT are still ignorant … your point is?Backwards from McTominay again. Infuriating player to watch.Young with a dirty foul
I like him but I think he's been careless.Anyone telling me Pereira will make it at United has got to be joking. Slow, poor passing, sloppy in possession. Everything you don’t want in central midfield.
I’ve lost count the amount of time he has given away possession cheaply.Our movement today is really terrible.Come on boys get another! I wanna see Chong brought on later not FellainiDoesn't take long for Redcafe to revert to normal
It's Reading mate. No more excuses, even if he is just coming back, a good player can show some sort of form against a Championship side.
I'm afraid Sanchez might actually be shite.
Eh? What game are you watching?Wasn’t Fred substituted at HT in his first match under Ole? Could be today.Young is having a poor gameLove the excuses about this team .They should be able to play no matter the lineup
I think they might have already. Should have started that way round
That is not a surprise as this is the firs time they will have played together as a team. I have always said we lack vision and nous in midfield and when you leave your best out, that is so apparent. Sanchez needs footballers to play off... not defensive midfielders and a musclebound player who is not displaying a football brain.It isn't a surprise when you see 9 changes consisting of either 2nd team players/young players/out of form players etc....but it does highlight we need better squad depthIf Ole changes Mata but keeps the same players on the field, we will see a difference in our passing, pressing, movement options.Don't know some of you were expecting, but some of the comments are shocking.
It’s the basics againt a side near the bottom of the Championship. A lot of these guys have had a decent run this season and failed.It’s not a bad team and they are not bad players but a lot of this players have not had a lot of football recently and are not match fit and being match fit is quite important at this level.
Also this players have not played together a lot.
Are you watching this game at all? He does not press at all!Reading have been pressing us high up and it's paying off - our players just shit the bed when there's a man in front of them. I've seen umpteen shit passes to no-one be played in a panic, simply because no one is providing an option.
The movement overall is not what we've seen in the last few games.Some of the performance had been poor due to players not playing together before but the lack of movement has been criminal.If I had to introduce someone to football.
This wouldn't be the match.- Status
Man of the Match
Runners-up
-
20%
Matteo Darmian
-
10%
Romelu Lukaku
-
8%
Juan Mata
-
7%
Alexis Sanchez
-
6%
Phil Jones
-
3%
Marcus Rashford
-
3%
Scott McTominay
-
2%
Tahith Chong
-
2%
Ashley Young
-
1%
Fred
-
1%
Andreas Pereira
-
1%
Diogo Dalot
Player Ratings
Total Average Rating
Highest Rated Player
Lowest Rated Player
Compiled from 382 ratings.
Score Predictions
479,7,7
- Man Utd win
- Reading win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 33% Man Utd 3:0 Reading
- 24% Man Utd 4:0 Reading
- 14% Man Utd 2:0 Reading
- 13% Man Utd 5:0 Reading
- 6% Man Utd 3:1 Reading
- 2% Man Utd 4:1 Reading
- 2% Man Utd 2:1 Reading
- 1% Man Utd 5:1 Reading
- 1% Man Utd 0:0 Reading
- 1% Man Utd 1:0 Reading
- 0% Man Utd 0:1 Reading
- 0% Man Utd 0:3 Reading
- 0% Man Utd 2:2 Reading
- 0% Man Utd 0:5 Reading
- 0% Man Utd 2:3 Reading
- 0% Man Utd 5:2 Reading
- 0% Man Utd 1:1 Reading
- 0% Man Utd 1:3 Reading
Match Stats
- Man Utd
- Reading
- Possession
- 40% 60%
- Shots
- 8 13
- Shots on Target
- 5 5
- Corners
- 1 4
- Fouls
- 14 13
Referee
Stuart Attwell
Man Utd Lineup
-
-
-
-
-
-
replaced by Tahith Chong
-
-
replaced by Marouane Fellaini
-
-
replaced by Marcus Rashford
-
