When the ball hit his arms they were a foot away from him, he clearly saw it early enough to take some evasive action that wasn't breaking the one rule which is implicit in the name of the game he plays professionally. It wouldn't have been called handball if he'd just covered his face instead of pawing at the ball.
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When the ball hit his arms they were a foot away from him, he clearly saw it early enough to take some evasive action that wasn't breaking the one rule which is implicit in the name of the game he plays professionally. It wouldn't have been called handball if he'd just covered his face instead of pawing at the ball.Ignoring Pogba for a sec, Matic has been fecking awful. Stop taking so many touches ffsNatural reflex from Pogba to protect himself, but you just know the fake fans will be blaming him for everything under the sun after that.
Biggest half of the season coming upWait aren’t you allowed to protect your face if the ball is going to hit it. It seems a bit dangerous if not.
Duck or head it. Don't put your hands up. Never put your hands up. It was from 10 yards away. it's a blatant penalty to put your hands up. How can anyone defend this???No way anyone let that cannon hit their faces, even if they wanted to, they'd have instinctively protected their face
We are a poorly coached team, we find it hard to bring the ball out against fecking West Ham.
And Marcus Rashford touch has been poorPogba , De Gea these should be the leaders of this team but sadly they are the ones wilting under pressurePretty pathetic but the lads will get a rocket and I expect a response second half.We've got no one to change a game like this on the bench. It's up to these 11 to do it.
Hope no-one has a pop at Shaw again. We can't break down defences sitting deep without him.and now they're advertising Liverpools trophy lift just feck right off
God knows what he was thinking, but to pretend to have the ball hit your face is shocking.
DDG never been a penalty stopper !Also why did play the first 30 mins as if we were having a fit? Whacking balls, rushing play, shooting for fun, etc You'd think the manager would coach them into playing with patience and precision. Instead they go out there playing with zero nuance and too much bravado. Anyone think the approach to these occasions is slightly odd ? We had 90 minutes to play. Why be desperate?Right on the stroke of halftime that goal is a punch in the balls. Our reaction second half will show whether or not we have the mentality to deserve a top four spot. Pogba has been shocking, and that penalty sums him up so far.
Westham are defending really well and making it very difficult for us to break through. I don't think they will sit back either, and will continue to harass our defence. Come on Ole, give them a rocket and get them roaring for the second half.Oh boy. I just showed up and saw the score. Nuclear meltdown of the Caf coming?What’s the rules on handball? I’m sure the law said players were allowed to protect their face. I’m not saying it’s a pen or not, just curious to know the official rules on this.
“Content” is not what’s relevant. What’s relevant is whether a player deliberately uses his hands to impede the flight of the ball.
There’s no except in the Laws that I’m aware of for a ball screaming at 200mph at your head.
We could adopt a change to the Laws, but imagine the abuse this exception would create.
It was the most the most blatant handball you will ever see. Yes it was instinctive, but it was a cast iron hand ball.The diabolical team selection has us knackered against WHU. Bruno has tons of lead in his boots. If we do not get a point today, Sunday's gonna be truly horrific.Welp. Glad I'm not watching this.
What on Earth at talking about? Did you start watching football 45 minutes ago. Go watch bowls or something.
Jesus I’m convinced this forum is full of people who never kicked a ball in anger.To be honest even if we get a result could you really trust this United side needing a draw at Leicester? I’d almost rather need to win at least the onus is on Leicester to bottle it then. Seriously we choke like no team I’ve seen before. At least Arsenal teams in years gone by always followed through on top 4.Huge 45 mins coming up for the make up of this team and for Ole. Huge. A rapid response is needed.Stick Dan James at right back. Matic is basically playing alongside the centre backs anyway.
What the feck
We have 45 minutes to turn this around, if we don't win this, it's not all on Pogba. Our front men need to step up in the 2nd half.
He used to. Saved baines in the fa cup the year we won for example.
Hasnt in ages though.We need to throw the kitchen sink at them.
the pace is far too slow and we look like we’d never score in 10000 years.
I can’t understand where the energy and speed has gone? We look so different than the team that started the restart.
we’re going to throw away 4th.Pathetic from Pogba there, zero excuses what so ever.
No he hasn't. Has laid on 3 great balls in our counters, tracked back well. Unlucky with his control in the box earlier.
I don't really think any player has been poor in that half, bar maybe TFM - but him being rusty is quite understandable. Williams made one rash pass that put us under pressure, but otherwise decent.
The build up is too slow and then Pogba effectively scores an own goal. But no player has been really poor.
agreed. He pushed the ball away with his hands like an idiot.
All he needs is to stop diving away from the ball.It's west ham ffs show some fight speed up the play far too slow
Okay so...let's watch players take that to the face and then start suffering from concussion problemsOmg knew this would happen. Fecking bottlers
Absolute bollocks.
Utter utter bollocks.
Don’t blame pogba feck my life he’s a fecking pussy and anyone defending that is the same
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Yeah, hard not to agree with this. We're not getting the important players on the ball enough, or we're just not attacking in the same way as we have done in a few other games. West Ham are going to make this hard now and will camp in their half/box for the rest of the game.
Some of the posts here are so over the top. I don't think we've even played badly. I just think West Ham have done a good job of clogging up areas where are our attackers are.- Status
Man of the Match
Runners-up
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15%
Harry Maguire
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8%
Anthony Martial
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5%
Nemanja Matic
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3%
David de Gea
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1%
Victor Lindelof
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1%
Aaron Wan-Bissaka
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1%
Paul Pogba
Player Ratings
Total Average Rating
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Compiled from 303 ratings.
Score Predictions
230,11,15
- Man Utd win
- West Ham win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 18% Man Utd 2:0 West Ham
- 17% Man Utd 3:0 West Ham
- 17% Man Utd 2:1 West Ham
- 16% Man Utd 3:1 West Ham
- 9% Man Utd 4:0 West Ham
- 5% Man Utd 5:0 West Ham
- 4% Man Utd 1:0 West Ham
- 3% Man Utd 4:1 West Ham
- 3% Man Utd 1:1 West Ham
- 2% Man Utd 2:2 West Ham
- 1% Man Utd 1:2 West Ham
- 1% Man Utd 0:0 West Ham
- 1% Man Utd 1:4 West Ham
- 1% Man Utd 0:3 West Ham
- 0% Man Utd 5:1 West Ham
- 0% Man Utd 0:1 West Ham
- 0% Man Utd 1:3 West Ham
- 0% Man Utd 0:2 West Ham
- 0% Man Utd 3:2 West Ham
- 0% Man Utd 0:5 West Ham
Match Stats
- Man Utd
- West Ham
- Possession
- 57% 43%
- Shots
- 11 12
- Shots on Target
- 4 3
- Corners
- 2 3
- Fouls
- 10 9
Referee
Paul Tierney
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