[Dobba]

Not that we're predictable or anything.

 

[Godfather]

Criticising the mistakes is fair. But there is a coaching problem. It was the same against Leicester. So passive, never on the front foot and it results in shit like that. Nail on the head here.

Yep. Sums us up perfectly.

 

[prateik]

Criticising the mistakes is fair. But there is a coaching problem. It was the same against Leicester. So passive, never on the front foot and it results in shit like that. Nail on the head here.

This is so true.. There is nothing we do right..
At least under LVG we kept the ball..

We do nothing now. Can't retain possession. Cant pass. Cant press. Cant defend. Cant attack. Hardly score any beautiful goals.

Its been disjointed for way too long now.

 

[Silas]

Mata and Pereira off. I'd have taken off Fred instead.

 

[OverratedOpinion]

Even IF we win (which I doubt we will) it in no way can take away from how utterly shit we are.

I kind of want us to lose if it pushed Mou closer to the door. I understand some will give me flak for this statement but the sooner he's gone the sooner we can salvage a season. More of this to come this season at this rate.

I get the feeling that even if we lost the next 3 Jose would still see the end of this season. I don't think we would want to rush his replacement and considering there has already been a feeling of resignation coming from the club as early as pre-season I don't think expectations are very high.

 

[Murder on Zidanes Floor]

Bye Andreas, good night sweet Prince.

 

[VanGaalyTime]

True, it’s not the quality of the players, it’s the coaching, the tactics, the togetherness.[/QUOTE

Brighton got the players they want for the system they use. Mou is forced to get his plan B and no defenders. This is what happens. Clear to those of us that watch the game regularly that Mou isn't the main issue. The owners and Woodward are.

 

[mav_9me]

Am I the only who actually saw a conscious effort to play with the ball on the floor? I was very encouraged by this approach. While we haven't created much I liked our simple short passing quite a bit.

Unfortunately we have not been good defensively, so I fear we will regress to hoofing it and defending in our box.

 

[Stadjer]

Fred isn't suited to the league yet. He's the one who last the ball for the third goal. We desperately missing Matic.

Controlling and keeping that ball from de Gea wasnt easy for Fred though... hard to blame it all on him.

 

[iam_kramer]

Hopefully we see some attacking intent from us this half. Season after season there's little or no improvement in that.

 

[Inter Yer Nan]

A disaster all over the field. Offensively and defensively down the right absolutely nothing. Young is a problem, the CB pairing is a disaster and confidence is shot throughout the team.

 

[Rash Decision]

Despite leaving three seasons ago, of course he's still responsible. It's not like other managers like Pep, Klopp, Poch, Sarri, etc, have came in and been able to implement their philosophy in a season.

Van Gaal, how dare you!

Sarri is just the latest example of a manager who comes in and has an immediate, visible impact on the team. He's just had his first 2 competitive games and some here mocked him for conceding 2 against Arsenal (despite scoring 3). Yet somehow Jose still needs another 500 million to overhaul his team before he can be judged.

 

[Ekeke]

Lingard and Rashford will sure sort out our CBs...

 

[The Red Thinker]

Don't think that he was personally, it was a collective feck up, Fred was late as well. Doesn't mean that Bailly isn't responsible for it though

It was a bad ball to Fred. Why lob it into Fred when he’s isolated in midfield and not necessarily renowned for bring good in the air? Poor poor play overall.

 

[TMDaines]

This is going to be a long season. I mean, much longer than last year. At least we started well.

 

[JonDahl]

Double sub. Need a jammy goal to get something out of this. I’ll take lingard diving for a dodgy pen right now.

 

[Raw]

I hope that isn't the end of Pereira's season.

 

[Patrick08]

Back to 4231 than going to a 3412.

 

[bosnian_red]

Pereira out? Bit harsh, he was half decent. Thought fred was woeful

 

[Anustart89]

Looking forward to see the Rashford show of good decision-making.

 

[PlayerOne]

The anti-mourinho crew will be licking their lips.

You can tell Jose is shocked at utter ineptness of the players out there today. The coaches aren’t coaching basics you learn at 10 years old. The players are to blame. Will probably sneak a 3-3 anyway.

You say that like it's the first game we have looked this cluless in the last 2 years. There's something wrong and it's not just the crap players out there

 

[MuFc_1992]

It has been clear for a while that Jose has no plans in terms of coaching a team to be imposing in a game so our defensive weaknesses are overexposed. The board should cut our losses and get a new manager in. I'm a massive fan of Zidane but we need someone who is obsessed with the details like Pep. Bielsa would be a good fit but he's at leeds and doesn't speak english. I know people like to hate on LVG but he had the right idea but lacked common sense to tweak the system like Pep does.

 

[Dorian Gray]

Those are good changes from Mou. Very attacking.

 

[JohnnyKills]

Martial is seriously lucky there. But then again they all are.

 

[Camilo]

Under Fergie I'd give ourselves a chance. How do you come back from a 3-1 dismal first half performance.

I fear we may concede another early and Brighton will shut up shop.

Shut up shop from what? We are no threat to anyone.

 

[mancan92]

Jose has has to go. The guy doesn’t play the football needed to win leagues anymore.

 

[mitchmouse]

I withdraw what I said about Bailly/Lindelof. They can't play together. Boy Jose was right: we need two centre backs. But Young has been awful too. Pogba's been an idiot with his flicks and tricks, mata has done nothing, perriera isn't good enough. What a shambles.. but then I predicted this two weeks ago and was told to shut up. How do we make a side so awful last week look so great? Lose this sort of game, forget a title challenge. A top top side going two down and pulling one back would roar forward and take the game by the scruff of the neck. We do the opposite. Only Lukaku looks interested. marks out of 10: zero

 

[NJM78]

I think that's the last time we see Pereira start for a while

 

[MAME DIOUF 32]

Mata and Pereira off. I'd have taken off Fred instead.

I think he'd have taken 7 or 8 off if he could.

 

[KomodoBadger]

fecking hell. We won’t win the title this season, I know it.

 

[Josep Dowling]

De Gea is bang average at everything bar shot stopping, but this doesn’t get highlighted enougn whilst our defence is so shit that he has the opportunity for heroics every week.

Always thought he could improve his passing. Has a tendency to stay on his line as well. There are occasions where the ball is in no mans land between the CB and keeper, he never rushes out to collect the ball.

 

[sunama]

Perhaps get Fellaini on?
Brighton are too powerful for the team which was out in the first half.

 

[hobbers]

Hoo fecking rah. Feel a bit of Pereira, it's not entirely his fault the players behind him are useless.

Speaking of Ashley Useless Young, picking up where he left off with the hospital passes into Fred. Fred's having a stinker but he's also dealing with some of the worst passes into him I could even imagine.

 

[hungrywing]

Yes but that'll cost a few hundred million. Again!

No, I'll do it for free.

 

[M Bison]

How many times are we going to say this, though?

Players follow the instructions of the manager. Yes, they're not performing well, but Brighton dominating the ball is down to us dropping as a unit and allowing them to do so.

Why are we dropping against Brighton? Why are we inviting them onto us, especially with three technically very good midfielders, who are good in possession? I just don't get it. To make matters more confusing, we haven't even got the best defenders. As the saying goes, attack is the best form of defence. Give teams chances to play against us and they're going to create chances. Unfortunately, De Gea hasn't been able to bail us out today.

Our players are losing their individual battles, Jose will take the blame but there’s no excuse for our players getting dominated and bullied, being second best in challenges and not winning any second balls.

 

[amolbhatia50k]

Criticising the mistakes is fair. But there is a coaching problem. It was the same against Leicester. So passive, never on the front foot and it results in shit like that. Nail on the head here.

Absolutely agree with this.

It's why many don't have faith in Jose.

 

[The White Pele]

Lukaku, Martial, Rashford, Lingard and Pogba. I could get excited about that if I wasn’t so depressed

 

[Velvet Revolver]

Completely unbalanced team. Our wing is the issue

Right side is the main issue and even in the last game all the attack came from that side. I love mata but i dont think he should be play RW. Young is way ahead of where he should be and because mata cant catchup our CB's are dragged wide with space in between ( 3rd goal)

we need runners off the ball to move the opposition defenders and drag the midfield around. Not happening. now brighton will shut up shop!

 

[Isotope]

£1 Billion at least. We can't compete against Brighton, Wolves or Watford without spending at least that.

No, that would be "huge". He said "huge, huge, huge" so billion and a half.

And we'll still have Young and Valencia as our fullbacks.

 

[Drifter]

Lingard on to save the day.

 

[Dobba]

fecking hell. We won’t win the title this season, I know it.

Next you'll be telling me I won't be shagging Rachel Riley tonight.

 

[J_XO]

He shouldn't? What did he actually do in this game?

I’m not saying he’s been great at all just bemused as to why he was the first to be targeted

 

[Sara125]

This whole ‘game raising’ talk from some of you guys is annoying and small time. It’s not even like Brighton were playing exceptionally well ffs.

As another poster said, the fact that we always accuse mid/lower table clubs of game raising whenever we get beat by them shows that there is a common denominator here.

And hint: it’s not the other team that we play.

 

[kouroux]

The two best, most progressive, managers in the world are at our two biggest rivals. We got Mourinho too late, he's not king anymore. I'm not convinced by Zidane, or anyone else really. When the change happens, take a punt on someone not boring and with a bit of tactical nous. Oh, an for feck sake bring in a component DOF.

Zidane doesn't convince you ? What more did he need to do ?