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Europa League Group E
Manchester United 0:1 Real Sociedad
Old Trafford
- Kick-off
- Thu, 8 September 2022 @ 8:00pm BST
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Controlled the game. Lacked cutting edge. Should have scored. United paid the price for it. Ref is a cheating fecker. Bookies won big tonight.
Massive scalp for them considering we are favourites, let them celebrate. We were shite
They aren’t pensioners, they’re athletes
Seconded.
Some in here have absolutely lost it. We played the best opponent in that group, were clearly the better team even it was a very "off" performance from almost everyone.
It happens, they will reach the next round anyway.
For his ability, he has always been a pretty shit free kick takerAh well. Poor performance but not unexpected given the changes and the fact it's probably not a competition we are taking fully seriously this season.
I hope you're right crossyWe needed to rest some players and give others a start or run out tonight, but making multiple changes in both midfield and the forward line, ended up with a team playing like strangers to each other.
No surprise that we saw little of the fluid, flowing play that’s started to emerge in the last few PL games.
As has been pointed out, he has 2 goals already this season.Really like Malacia, Eriksen and Martinez 3 brilliant signings with it seems great characters.
Casemiro and Ronaldo looked very rusty but that's to be expected with their first starts in God knows how long.
We were robbed by the ref but there were some good moments from us.I only watched the 1st half and switched off as it just felt like testimonial/local charity game. Atmosphere was subdued which was expected.
Wow, how the standards have dropped. Bottom 20th percentile in assists from wingers, 49th for actual goals scored. He's a Manchester United winger ffs. Needs to be doing more than that.Totally inexplicable decision but you can't really say Sociedad weren't good value for their win.
Eriksen is really good.
Me too mate, the lads that came in today have to up their intensity and hopefully that comes with match fitness and playing with the lads that are currently in the first 11. All our cutting edge came from the regulars today, and it was minimal.Dreadful performance, the whole team looked completely lacking in imagination and passion.We could technically allow Ronaldo to cancel his contract and just use the youngster. The Turkish window is still open tooAntony looked a bit lost out there.In the midst of a sea of bad performances Martinez stood out positively again. He's our best defender and could easily be our best midfielder too right now. Looking like an excellent signing there.
Yep, I've seen it, Rashford had a pretty solid game vs. Arsenal so I don't think that's a good example.
He literally said Sancho needs to be replaced because he "does absolutely nothing. Every game"
That's some pretty big bs because he scored the winner in 2 of the 4 positive games we played this year.Reality check.Hard to be too annoyed, I have a long standing destain for the Europa League that I can't shake off just because we have been terrible recentlyMLS or China would take Ronaldo in a heartbeat. As for some of the others, there should be an equivalent of ‘We Buy any Car’ for footballers.Casemiro didn’t exactly set the world on fire.
That wasn’t the performance of a dominant CM anchor man.
Lots of sloppy passes and giving the ball away from him.
Let’s hope that’s just down to rustiness.Last edited:
Playing in front of LindelofThe same problem we had under Prime Ole. Can't break down ultra defensive teams.
I remain hopeful that they’ll come alive once we have a consistently competitive and effective squad and start to dominate teams.
At the moment they look very poor value for the high expectations and vast amount of money spent on them.
.Last edited:Keep playing these lads in this cup. See if they can at some stage knock on the managers door and rightfully say they should be in the first team… we can’t afford to give them minutes in the PL just yet.How did we end up with same amount of yellow cards as them? They kicked us all over the park from first whistle
Yes, agreed. I’d add that there was a bit of a lack of intensity , but that’s likely down to the weird, morose atmosphere prevailing in Britain tonight. The referee was criminally bad.
What does any of that have to do with your initial post?
Antonys 2nd game and he hasn’t satisfied you by dribbling 17 defenders on his way to a double hat trick. I need what your injecting.They can all feck themselvesLindelof, Maguire and Sancho - all awful tonight.
Elanga was great and shouldn't have come off. I would not have brought on Garnacho in that situation.
Ronaldo looks past it.
Casemiro needs time.Oh and Fred so far forward? Disaster.
A group stage match, not a knockout match. A celebration is in order, but considering how the match actually went and how it was decided, their celebration was OTT.
We controlled the game?
To add to that the 1st booking of the night was for Martinez’s handball
He wasn't last season!
Get a grip!
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Man of the Match
Runners-up
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28%
Christian Eriksen
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11%
Anthony Elanga
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10%
Tyrell Malacia
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4%
Diogo Dalot
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2%
Harry Maguire
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2%
Casemiro
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1%
David de Gea
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1%
Antony
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1%
Alejandro Garnacho
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1%
Charlie McNeill
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1%
Cristiano Ronaldo
Player Ratings
Total Average Rating
Highest Rated Player
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Compiled from 216 ratings.
Score Predictions
249,7,24
- Man Utd win
- Real Sociedad win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 30% Man Utd 2:0 Real Sociedad
- 24% Man Utd 2:1 Real Sociedad
- 12% Man Utd 3:0 Real Sociedad
- 10% Man Utd 3:1 Real Sociedad
- 8% Man Utd 1:0 Real Sociedad
- 6% Man Utd 1:1 Real Sociedad
- 3% Man Utd 4:0 Real Sociedad
- 1% Man Utd 2:2 Real Sociedad
- 1% Man Utd 3:2 Real Sociedad
- 1% Man Utd 0:0 Real Sociedad
- 1% Man Utd 1:2 Real Sociedad
- 1% Man Utd 0:1 Real Sociedad
- 1% Man Utd 4:1 Real Sociedad
- 1% Man Utd 5:0 Real Sociedad
- 0% Man Utd 0:2 Real Sociedad
- 0% Man Utd 0:5 Real Sociedad
Match Stats
- Man Utd
- Real Sociedad
- Possession
- 55% 45%
- Shots
- 15 8
- Shots on Target
- 3 3
- Corners
- 5 3
- Fouls
- 8 16
Referee
Marco Di Bello
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Charlie McNeill
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replaced by Lisandro Martinez
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replaced by Bruno Fernandes
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replaced by Jadon Sancho
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replaced by Alejandro Garnacho
