I think Rooney should come off. Mata's passing has been penetrating the defence and he could play in the #10 with Mkhitaryan coming on where Mata was before.
FA Premier League
Manchester United 2:0 Southampton
Old Trafford
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- Fri, 19 August 2016 @ 8:00pm BST
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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.
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I think Rooney should come off. Mata's passing has been penetrating the defence and he could play in the #10 with Mkhitaryan coming on where Mata was before.Anyone instructed Rooney to pass only side or backwards? Even his assist was backwards!Liking having someone who can drive forward with the ball in midfield, not had that since Keane (Anderson tried but would injury himself running).You can tell Rooney has had a decent game, only about 10% of the posts on here slating him in this match thread lol.Pogba will come off after 60 maybe earlier so that will be one change, i think Mkhitaryan will come on too, Also think Zlatan will come off. Maybe a good bye Appearance from Ashley young..
Indeed.
Under LVG, we'd be 0-0.
Have the highest possession stats.
Almost 0 shots on target.
And nothing much would actually be happening.
The fans would be shouting: ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK!!!
In his half time interview, LVG would then claim that we are dominating the match, but are lacking the luck to score a goal from our 1 and only chance.In his good scenes, Pogba looks like the son of Scholes and Zidane.
I'm a bit worried he'll come off and we'll turn a bit rubbish
Need to sort out the #10 first.Mata and Rooney slowing down the play. Martial lacks creativity to play on the wing. Zlatan's game still pretty dire except when in the box. Otherwise you can see it will work out somehow.
We are looking weaker from the left offensively because Martial's touch is missing completely in this game. Shaw has contributed more than Valencia in both defence and attack and we are shaky from the right defensively because Valencia has missed his man couple of times. Fellaini playing as a right sided CM has done well to cover for both Mata and Valencia defensively.
We need to stop referencing LVG every time we do something positive . We may as well go back to MoyesAt home, United needs to score more... hopefully in the second half, we will go for 2 or 3 more goals to secure the goal difference
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Lol just seen that advert too it'd suit him perfectly
I wouldn't say decent, but he's been better and not given the ball away as much.
Anybody who ever claimed it was that extreme with José is obviously wrong. Even Allardyce can produce some exciting football. Benitez was winning games with 10 goals just last year also. The criticism to Mourinho is that he doesn't build pro active teams that go for you. He builds solid teams that adapt to whatever in front of them. Naturally, since most of the time what is in front of him is not very good (especially with Real), his teams can score goals and create chances. We will be able to evaluate José's approach and whether that reputation is fair or not when we come up against the likes of City and Liverpool.You just know that these cnuts will come up with something to ruin the party for us. We need to get the second goal quickly.
Sooner or later they will succeed with their tactic of camping on the offside line.I'm not sure Rooney plus Mata would against a side that is decent going forward.
I'd take Rooney off for Schneiderlin but I think Jose would prefer to have Rooney's strength and work rate if we're trying to see out a match and having defensive issues over Mata.
Haven't seen it. He doesn't control any of the game, just pings off him when the ball goes towards him.
Pleased with how we look. Hope Martial gets into his position more.we need to stretch them so I see Rashford or Mhki nextGreat half! Great to be entertained again!
Easy? Who's going to replace him? Can Rashford really play there on the left? Memphis is not even on the bench… and Young's not my pick.Second-half kick-offDon't like how narrow we're defending. Not enough width when we're attacking.
Martial's been meh. Apart from the assist, Rooney hasn't been fantastic either. Fellaini, Mata and Pogs have been great.
Pogs' just a bit like that guy in the Matrix eh? Neo was his name-o.Schneiderlin looked happy.What? He was sloppy before the goal which was when I posted that.
But kudos to you for trawling through pages and looking for a comment you could
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Calm your bum cheeks down. I was watching the match so was on the older pages when I went back to my phone at half time. I'm not the one hovering over my PC/mobile in order to post something. I want to enjoy a match for once rather than spending most of it posting and reading other posts during it especially after the dross of the last 3 seasons.
Zlatan along with Matta, Shaw and Pogba have been our best players.
Just thought it was funny as sods law always strikes. Last season Fellaini came on as a sub to win us a game and I remember writing something like "oh ffs here comes plan F" as he was coming on lol.How can any complain about the style?
Litmus test -- falling asleep within 10 minutes of watching United play under LVG.
I am still awake and I know the 2nd half is about to start.
That's progress.
Yeah this is what I was thinking. Jose said he will play "some minutes"
The way he is playing he should be doing a full game and continue in that trend.Pogba has been controlling the game, first game, pure class.
So positive
Yes, as can Mkhi, or they could switch Mata across, Wilson's played there too though I wouldn't want him to.Can't get over the way everyone, but everyone, covers their mouth when they talk.This feels more like the United of old - we play a bit shit (sometimes), but we're winning!Think we'll go on and win this comfortably 2/3-0
Hopefully OT gets loud again too it went pretty quiet
Both have been caught defensively, but it's normal really. Blind covers a lot for Shaw in that first half, along with Pogba as LCM. Mata offers a lot of help in the build up as well. Generally we're doing very well defensively and covering well.
I don't think we need to fix anything. We're in control and now we will have more space to operate in to.
Martial probably can be subbed as he looks a bit out of the pace as you mentioned, but all in all Soton are well organized and a good side.I miss LvG
There's less things to shitpost about
Really? Think we were far too deep and gave them too much room down the flanks.
Lingard, Mikhi. Just saying he has been rubbish so far and Mourinho never hesitated benching better players than him before.
That's exactly what we should expect for now. Stars will shine, though not as brightly as usual. The likes of Rooney and Valencia and Fellaini just need to do their jobs well enough and we can get through the first few games on the back of individual brightness. If this ends up us at our worst this season (as it should be) then we have much to look forward toFrance in final!!! Both Handball teams in final.- Status
Man of the Match
Runners-up
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32%
Paul Pogba
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6%
Marouane Fellaini
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3%
Luke Shaw
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2%
Antonio Valencia
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Eric Bailly
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Juan Mata
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Daley Blind
Player Ratings
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Compiled from 988 ratings.
Score Predictions
1101,20,53
- Man Utd win
- Southampton win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 36% Man Utd 2:0 Southampton
- 21% Man Utd 3:0 Southampton
- 14% Man Utd 2:1 Southampton
- 9% Man Utd 3:1 Southampton
- 5% Man Utd 1:0 Southampton
- 4% Man Utd 4:0 Southampton
- 2% Man Utd 4:1 Southampton
- 2% Man Utd 0:0 Southampton
- 2% Man Utd 1:1 Southampton
- 1% Man Utd 5:0 Southampton
- 1% Man Utd 3:2 Southampton
- 1% Man Utd 0:2 Southampton
- 1% Man Utd 0:5 Southampton
- 1% Man Utd 2:2 Southampton
- 0% Man Utd 4:2 Southampton
- 0% Man Utd 5:1 Southampton
- 0% Man Utd 1:2 Southampton
- 0% Man Utd 1:3 Southampton
- 0% Man Utd 0:1 Southampton
- 0% Man Utd 5:5 Southampton
- 0% Man Utd 2:4 Southampton
- 0% Man Utd 4:5 Southampton
Match Stats
- Man Utd
- Southampton
- Possession
- 43% 57%
- Shots
- 12 13
- Shots on Target
- 5 1
- Corners
- 4 0
- Fouls
- 11 8
Referee
Anthony Taylor
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replaced by Ander Herrera
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replaced by Chris Smalling
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