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Manchester United 2:0 Swansea City

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Sat, 31 March 2018 @ 3:00pm BST
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    Really enjoyable stuff so far. We look very much at ease and dangerous. It's helped that Swansea has offered absolutely nothing so far. Lukaku great so far, and great to see Sanchez score finally. Very nice goal too.
     
    Pretty simple stuff so far. Swansea are awful and United have their best players on to do the damage.

    Score some more goals in the second half to finish it all off.
     
    We are only playing like this because the players just returned from international duty. Wait till Mou gets hold of this lot!
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    Pogba doing the simple things well today. Should just concentrate on that and then the spectacular stuff can come afterwards.
     
    Good half. Sanchez's best since coming to us. Lukaku scoring again, Lingard with an assist and great movement, even though his shooting has been woeful.

    We should really tonk this team, they really do look hopeless. I think if they can score at all, it would be on the side with Young. Young has been okay going forward but just poor with his markings, it looks like he doesn't know who to take on half the time.
     
    Swansea have been a disgrace. Have they not watched us this year?
    You press Man Utd.
     
    Great first half. Great pick of Mata, Sanchez and Lingard to pick the lock. Sanchez has been fantastic - stopped a few of their attacks as well.
     
    A-man said:
    Every time Lindelof moves up the pitch with the ball, Pogba and/or Matic meets him and more or less demands the ball. Pogba even blocked his path. Why? Is it forbbidden in the gameplan to build attacks from the back?
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    feckin' A
     
    Lukaku is a fecking beast. My POTY without a doubt.
     
    marlowe78 said:
    Good half. Sanchez's best since coming to us. Lukaku scoring again, Lingard with an assist and great movement, even though his shooting has been woeful.

    We should really tonk this team, they really do look hopeless. I think if they can score at all, it would be on the side with Young. Young has been okay going forward but just poor with his markings, it looks like he doesn't know who to take on half the time.
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    Thought Swansea would come out and have a go at us considering their precarious position in the table. They look like they don't have a clue what to do.
     
    AngliaRed said:
    Yeah they HAVE been, sorry I should of said, they’re playing today like a League 2 side.
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    Yes they have been poor but we have made them look poor because our good attacking play.

    Liverpool struggle with parked buses, and Arsenal are just poor in general. We are 2nd for a reason :)
     
    Shout out to Lindelof too. Even though hasn't had much to do defending wise, he has done well moving the ball to midfield.
     
    Jazz said:
    Pogba doing the simple things well today. Should just concentrate on that and then the spectacular stuff can come afterwards.
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    He's done really well in the first half. We've bossed possession though, it's when he needs to track back with intensity and make sure we keep our shape that's he's gone missing. Hopefully he'll come through this game with no complaints.
     
    Some intensity and urgency finally! That’s all us fans ask for. The goals will come if we put effort in
     
    Jazz said:
    Thought Swansea would come out and have a go at us considering their precarious position in the table. They look like they don't have a clue what to do.
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    I expected that as well. I thought we would struggle at least in the first 20-25 minutes after coming back from the international break but we looked sharp in our own right.
     
    We only attack on the left and that's a bit of a concern. Everyone drifts to that side. Mata, Sanchez, Pogba, Lingard. The link up play between the front three has been very good. Lindelof moving into the midfield is very important when we need to break teams down.
     
    Bastian said:
    He's done really well in the first half. We've bossed possession though, it's when he needs to track back with intensity and make sure we keep our shape that's he's gone missing. Hopefully he'll come through this game with no complaints.
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    Seen him track back already with some intensity. Hopefully he keeps it up.
    He'll be fine. Just needs some direction and confidence.
     
    GazTheLegend said:
    Edit; got me with the whitetext :nervous:
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    :D Sadly wouldn't surprise me if a few thought something similar though.
    Doesn't help that playing this well will always lead to questions about why the feck can't we produce this consistently.
     
    abdo99 said:
    We only attack on the left and that's a bit of a concern. Everyone drifts to that side. Mata, Sanchez, Pogba, Lingard. The link up play between the front three has been very good. Lindelof moving into the midfield is very important when we need to break teams down.
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    Doesn't help that Valencia is incapable of attacking.
     
    el3mel said:
    Hands down Lukaku proves he's by far our best attacker consistently wise, even if his talent isn't on the same level as Martial or Sanchez, he has enough more tools to compensate for that.

    My most favorite player.
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    He’s great, really settled now. It’s why Mata works so well on that side, because Lukaku does a lot of work in that area, he just hustles so well.
     
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    Kind of makes sense to be fair, you don't want to be punished because your player is down but you don't want the opposition getting advantage either.
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    Oh agreed. And all teams do it, just annoys me when we stop when they were happy to keep attacking a man down.
     
    redom said:
    Jose said after the Brighton match that we had been working on faster build up and hopefully that half is a sign that we've continued that work and we're seeing the players start to produce it out on the pitch. I'd love to think that Sevilla match was a turning point for how we approach games because at least then something postive would have come from it.
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    I don't think anything has changed. Don't want to be negative on the day when we looked brilliant but when teams like Sevilla come to OT , our players will be competing who will shit harder including our manager.
     
    Lingard reminds me so much of Griezmann, his work rate and movement off the ball are really good.
    But of course Griezmann is a better finisher and if Lingard could improve his finishing, he could become a top player
     
    I just got an alert to submit my line up predictions, its a bit iffy if I submit it now
     
    It is fecking depressing to see West Ham scored 3 goals and we only scored 2 goals given our performance against Swansea. Too much positive on this thread, I just want some negatively :lol::lol:
     
    Jed I. Knight said:
    I am completely broken. Can’t think about anything other than why didn’t we try to do this against Sevilla? The season feels completely dead to me at this point.

    Wondering if I should just cancel my subscription for the last month, and save myself some money. Come back next season, and hopefully my spirits will be rejuvenated.
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    Swansea have just not turned up. What makes anyone think we would still look like this (comfortably strolling around in second gear) against a team actually pressing us? True we have to play well ourselves but its like everyone has just ignored the opposition factor.
     
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Man of the Match

Alexis Sanchez image Alexis Sanchez 33% of 563 votes

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Score Predictions

463,13,19
  • Man Utd win
  • Swansea win
  • Draw

Detailed Results

  • 35% Man Utd 2:0 Swansea
  • 26% Man Utd 3:0 Swansea
  • 10% Man Utd 4:0 Swansea
  • 6% Man Utd 1:0 Swansea
  • 6% Man Utd 2:1 Swansea
  • 5% Man Utd 3:1 Swansea
  • 4% Man Utd 5:0 Swansea
  • 3% Man Utd 1:1 Swansea
  • 1% Man Utd 4:1 Swansea
  • 1% Man Utd 0:5 Swansea
  • 1% Man Utd 5:1 Swansea
  • 1% Man Utd 0:0 Swansea
  • 0% Man Utd 1:2 Swansea
  • 0% Man Utd 0:1 Swansea
  • 0% Man Utd 0:2 Swansea
  • 0% Man Utd 1:3 Swansea
  • 0% Man Utd 0:3 Swansea
  • 0% Man Utd 4:4 Swansea
  • 0% Man Utd 2:2 Swansea
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  1. Man Utd
  2. Swansea
Possession
67% 33%
Shots
11 3
Shots on Target
5 2
Corners
3 3
Fouls
5 13

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