[Oneunited26]

I agree. This is on the players, not the manager. He put out the best side he could. Only Rashford might have made it better, but he might not have wanted to chance him after coming off in Lisbon.

He had an entire summer to strengthen obvious positions that need sorting out, we needed better fullbacks, maybe another attacking player, he continues to show sentimental problems towards young, lingard etc etc. You would think by now he would discard obvious average players, but they continue to start in our side, mata is good but failure to strengthen our RW position, and when perisic fell through he never looked at alternatives. We continue to be in an era where we have a jigsaw that remains incomplete, with obvious holes that will leave us short on winning the PL title. Its the players fault, not the manager? but he stuck with players who last season, year before showed they were not good enough. Ruthless aggression wins you titles, and Jose has just not shown enough ruthless aggression to solve obvious problems that are plaguing us once again

 

[markorm]

LOL. We're in a losing position in the first half and some of these comments are ridiculous.

 

[redIndianDevil]

Why is Lingard still in the pitch? He's too lightweight. A good chance to see martial and Rashford together and Mourinho does this

 

[Maradona10]

Jose wont go for it, keeps lingard on. feck off.

 

[Catt]

I am shocked just at how shit they are playing, they're so much better than this.

Letting it drop down a level, giving the opposition the little finger. It's really more complex than that but it's not something new with us now.

 

[el3mel]

Mata and Martial off.

 

[Dinghy]

Put simply, if you tell the team to park the bus against Liverpool and to scrape a result, what you are actually telling them is that they aren't good enough. They will then play that way. Momentum is so key in football...tell them they are champions, ask them to play like champions and you will reap the rewards.

This is the inevitable consequence of a negative psychology.

Spot on.

 

[Random Task]

The lads simply must step up and perform this second half. No ifs no buts, just step it up.

 

[Raoul]

Mkhi and Rashford on for Mata and Martial

 

[Vidyoyo]

16:00
Double change for United
Mata and Martial off.


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Rashford and Mkhitaryan coming on. #mufc

4:00 PM - Oct 21, 2017

good

 

[DavidDeSchmikes]

In 2011, we came from 2-0 down against newly promoted Blackpool away to win 3-2, soooo here's hoping......

 

[NK86]

Martial is removed ahead of Lingard. Mind boggling.

 

[marlowe78]

I'm seriously wondering if Blind should be put back at CB. Lindelof looks like a trainwreck. Blind's composure is underrated.

 

[Janson]

I thought starting our bench players would be enough against this team, but we really need to get Mikhi and Rashford on now.

 

[Inigo Montoya]

Yep, in what world does a team stacked with average players like Lingard, Valencia, Young, Darmian, Herrera, Fellaini, Smalling win leagues and challenge for the CL. I think we are miles off personally and I reckon Jose does too.

Stopped reading at Valencia.

 

[pseudo_canadian]

Good proactive subs.

 

[Dobba]

So which player gets injured now with all 3 subs used?

 

[Ødegaard]

1. Lukaku is repeatedly guilty to being lazy and not making channel runs wide to alleviate pressure. A big target man central when there's no one remotely close to him is useless.
2. Because Lukaku doesn't do this it doesn't allow any space for Martial to roam central (think what Benzema does for Ronaldo, for eg.)
3. Overlapping runs don't exist. Players either don't have tactical intelligence to read the game and the run, or, as I suspect, Mourinho de-emphasises overlapping runs out of precaution.

Lukaku did tons of "channel runs". The issue is that we have no one to create a chance for when he's out on the right/left.

Today, he's run behind the defense, out to the right to go 1v2-3 and get our team higher up and he's been out on the left to deliver a cross and help out Martial.
Hardly the time to criticize him.

 

[Irrational.]

Good subs. Mata and Martial off for Mickey and Rashford. Personally would've taken off Lingard but with Martial on a booking I can see where he's coming from.

 

[donkeyfish]

Wasn't everyone wanting him out of the team before kick off?

It's the on-the-bench subsidy, those who doesn't play are always better.

 

[M16Red]

Saw that last season to. Is it just the players

But we started the season fast, quick passing and movement.

 

[Kearnkoff69]

We've been absolute dog crap.

 

[Turamb]

Wait what, he took off Mata and Martial over Lingard??

 

[Drifter]

Ozil will save us in January

 

[Annihilate Now!]

Lingard staying on is hilarious

 

[Ikon]

The mistakes he's made have nothing to do with adapting to the league. It's simply him being mentally weak as shit. Putting him at right back wouldn't help, and he would probably be making the same sort of errors there. And would you want him to play in Valencia's place?

These are exactly the same school boy errors I saw him (Lindelof) making everytime I saw Benfica.
Basic defending that should be ingrained by the U11 stage, ie getting goalside, picking up from dead balls, communicating, and "if in doubt, hoof it out".....failure to adhere to these simple, basic rules will see you skinned alive in the Premier League.

 

[MDFC Manager]

As good subs as we can do

Martial should have stayed on. Now we've no more attacking subs

 

[mav_9me]

But it leaves us stretched at the back way to often relying on the fullbacks for width, and when the 3 boys have the ball with in 10 yards of each other there is no room to play in get them out wide a bit stretch huddersfield a bit

Absolutely true. But thats what you have to do to vary things, the wide players can make runs inside with the full backs overlapping.

Agreed that we can't do it as much as we have but we do need to vary it.

 

[ghagua]

Martial has not been any good, but why sub him over Lingard? Another cowardly move when we need to go for goals.

 

[LLMU]

Going for it now. We need to attack and attack. Need to risk it.

 

[mu4c_20le]

Rashford is up front with Young on the left, interesting

 

[sdb4884]

Lingard still on fkn jeez

 

[DannyCAFC]

Bold from Mourinho to use all his subs from HT.

 

[Zlatattack]

Well well well, this is a surprise. It was coming, you cant put square pegs in round holes and hope for it all to hold together.

 

[Anustart89]

Already started wasting time, eh?

 

[tomaldinho1]

Lukaku needs to do way more, he's playing like Ibra interms of limited movement (bearing in mind the age gap) but without the touch.

 

[JG3001]

I was commenting on the fact whoever I replied to, was asking for 3 subs.

The rules are 3 subs. Either he doesn't know that. Or, he forgot that Jones was emergency subbed off and Lindelof came on, chickened out of a 50/50 ball he would have won, and then made an unforced error that caused a second goal.

I realised and edited my original post haha sorry. I had indeed forgotten the Lindelof sub, but we do need to go 442, seems Mourinho has agreed on my two allowed subs anyway

 

[kouroux]

3 at the back ?

 

[McGrathsipan]

 

[RonW]

I can't believe Lingard is still on

 

[NJM78]

Stopped reading at Valencia.

Good for you.

 

[van Nistelrooy]

Mourinho is right to bring Mkhitaryan and Rashford on, but surely Lingard had to be one of the players to go off?

He's being bullied around the pitch. Come on United!!