Manchester United 4:1 Real Betis

90 + 5min · Mar 9, 2023

Great to play with best possible. No need to start some experiments just because of one lost game.

AFC NimbleThumb · Mar 9, 2023

Fair play to EtH as most would have shot them to the moon. They’ve been given a chance most don’t so no excuses for any of them tonight, they must perform.

FreakyJim · Mar 9, 2023

Is zero rotation really the way to go? It can very well get worse, Betis are a very good side and no amount of “wanting to make things right” will compensate for fatigue.

shabadu84 · Mar 9, 2023

Dobba said:
Anyone else struggling to give a shit about this after Sunday?

Bad shit happens but the reaction matters. Nothing will fix what happened Sunday but I'm very eager to 1) put it in the rearview even slightly and 2) see that the players are capable of doing so immediately. If they can, then we have much less reason to be concerned about the rest of the season.

Unam333 · Mar 9, 2023

Very good team. Let the same players who played on Sunday start today and make amends. Come on United!

Ace · Mar 9, 2023

Weghorst again

Berbaclass · Mar 9, 2023

Betis not playing their strongest team

Borys · Mar 9, 2023

Lineup as expected. He would need to replace whole XI.

Licha-Vidic · Mar 9, 2023

King7Eric said:
This is what disappoints me with our recent managers. There are no consequences for hammerings. Such defeats should have career altering consequences at this club for certain players but inevitably it never happens. We'll most likely win this game but that doesn't absolve them of their display at the weekend.

Who do you think should face such consequences?

glazed · Mar 9, 2023

Unam333 said:
Very good team. Let the same players who played on Sunday start today and make amends. Come on United!

This is a mistake. They need rest

CM · Mar 9, 2023

I think playing the exact same team is ten Hag trying to prove a point, but still, a bit of a mad one. Some of those players really needed taking out of the firing line for at least one night

Unam333 · Mar 9, 2023

Ludens the Red said:
He’s obviously picked this team as a way of saying “fix that shit you did at the weekend”. Though feck me Dalot and Weghorst getting picked ahead of more in form players again…

Havak said:
I get some people complaining, but I am OK with the same XI and giving them a chance to prove a point. If someone isn't at it, hook them after 20 minutes and make your point there by bringing on the benched player who's probably already knocked on the door.

Absolutely. I agree with you both. That's the whole idea of playing the same players. People here need to realise and understand that.

Ramshock · Mar 9, 2023

wow the same fecking team

ayushreddevil9 · Mar 9, 2023

If I am Sancho or Garnacho I would be thinking how tf am i not starting after what happened last Sunday.

Murder on Zidanes Floor · Mar 9, 2023

Berbaclass said:
Betis not playing their strongest team

Joaquin?!

Pexbo · Mar 9, 2023

Why are people surprised? He’s setting them a challenge to see how they respond to adversity

Unam333 · Mar 9, 2023

glazed said:
This is a mistake. They need rest

Well, hopefully it won't backfire due to physical and mental fatigue. We just need a response by putting in a good performance.

Bocca9978 · Mar 9, 2023

TMDaines said:
You broke it, you fix it selection.

That’s a great way of putting it!

PoTMS · Mar 9, 2023

It just hit me how badly we got battered on Sunday. I can't believe these sacks of shite lost 7-0 to the team we hate the most. They've lost so much goodwill they gained this season.

ShinjiNinja26 · Mar 9, 2023

Pexbo said:
Why are people surprised? He’s setting them a challenge to see how they respond to adversity

Exactly, he wants them to right the wrong from the weekend. They should be right up for this, and anyone who’s not will show the manager they can’t be relied upon going forward.

stu_1992 · Mar 9, 2023

I fully expected quite a few changes after the weekend but I guess the message is "show me something else" instead from the same group.

McGrathsipan · Mar 9, 2023

TMDaines said:
Not really. No-one other than AWB really has any recourse to argue he should be in our strongest XI currently. Garnacho maybe, with rejigging the forward line.

It's not about who's the strongest 11.

But some of those players deserve a slap after last Sunday

JagUTD · Mar 9, 2023

Ten Hag with the "pull that shit again, see what happens" line up.

SATA · Mar 9, 2023

Joaquin still playing?

Needs Mata, Villa and David Silva to complete the Valencia quartet

Cantonagotmehere · Mar 9, 2023

I got 6 right, ha!

sunama · Mar 9, 2023

ayushreddevil9 said:
If I am Sancho or Garnacho I would be thinking how tf am i not starting after what happened last Sunday.

Perhaps ETH is thinking that last Sunday's humiliation isn't as bad as some people have made out.
It is shocking that most of that team survived.

sunama · Mar 9, 2023

Pexbo said:
Why are people surprised? He’s setting them a challenge to see how they respond to adversity

If they fail, we could end up getting dumped out of the EL.
Remember, these are the players who conceded 7 goals in 90 minutes [6 goals in 45 minutes].

Fts 74 · Mar 9, 2023

I don't have a problem with him starting the same team at all.

Bit of a damned if he did damned if he didn't.Lets just trust our manager.

Amar__ · Mar 9, 2023

Anyone defending the same eleven is blindly in love with ETH, no two ways about it.

Even if you make a point about having the same XI redeeming themselves(even though I am not sure how beating Betis would redeem 7-0 against Liverpool?), it's still the same players who have played ridiculous amount of games and some of them need a fecking rest. His managing of the squad should be questionable at this point, because players don't feel fresh, and yet he is insisting on same eleven.

And if Weghorst starts as number ten, there is absolutely no way to defend the selection. In that case people would basically agree that he is better player than Sancho.

Edit: just for bit of comparision, this is how SAF did it:

https://www.whoscored.com/Matches/5...e-2011-2012-Manchester-United-Manchester-City

https://www.whoscored.com/Matches/5...er-League-2011-2012-Everton-Manchester-United

5 changes, and few of players that started the game disappear for few weeks/months.

darko · Mar 9, 2023

Nick7 said:
it's enough to shut ireland down, so I'd say similar for Manchester

Todd · Mar 9, 2023

Actually like the lineup. He's daring all of them to pull that shit again.

SuperiorXI · Mar 9, 2023

MonkeysMagic said:
They selling bean burgers outside again??

Oh aye

Deleted 112447 · Mar 9, 2023

I'm not even nervous for this. I'm just saying we do bad here, I'm going to blame some of the people in this thread. If it's an own goal or a bolt of lighting, blocks and trolling will be had.

darko · Mar 9, 2023

Fts 74 said:
I don't have a problem with him starting the same team at all.

Bit of a damned if he did damned if he didn't.Lets just trust our manager.

That appears to be what he's done.

Chief123 · Mar 9, 2023

SATA said:
Joaquin still playing? Needs Mata, Villa and David Silva to complete the Valencia quartet

Can’t believe he’s 41 years old!

Ronaldo's ego · Mar 9, 2023

Not a mystery as to why he’s picked the same team, he wants to see how mentally strong these lot are. We’ve bigger fish to fry next season and he needs to know who’s up for the battle.

Woodzy · Mar 9, 2023

It’s fine, it’s not like they did any fecking running on Sunday anyway

Unam333 · Mar 9, 2023

PoTMS said:
It just hit me how badly we got battered on Sunday. I can't believe these sacks of shite lost 7-0 to the team we hate the most. They've lost so much goodwill they gained this season.

It's mental, isn't is? On Sunday I was like: shit happens. However, the last couple of days I felt absolutely sick and gutted. Today these players need to set things right and put in a really good performance, because the fanbase is really divided right now and understandably so.

matsdf · Mar 9, 2023

Same lineup as Sunday? No consequences for anyone?!

Catt · Mar 9, 2023

sunama said:
If they fail, we could end up getting dumped out of the EL.
Remember, these are the players who conceded 7 goals in 90 minutes [6 goals in 45 minutes].

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