[The Firestarter]

Rashford looking incredibly dangerous in the past 5 minutes from the right

So dangerous I fear he might write another essay...

 

[Renegade]

Greenwood’s development is going to be stunted at United.

 

[el3mel]

Awful half overall but the goal was good and last few minutes weren't half bad.

 

[JinnerJamie]

Rashfords best game in an age and he’s still been shite… guy needs putting in the reserves.

 

[Glorio]

Horrible commentary - no mention of how we ended the half well on top

 

[stu_1992]

A good start and end to the half. Middle part was poor I thought.

Much better than recent showings overall.

 

[Red Royal]

Two poor teams....this formation is better for us than 4 triple 2

 

[VidaRed]

IF I WAS GREENWOOD I WOULD BE FUMING FIRE

 

[tomaldinho1]

Pleased we got control again. Feck knows how it's not 2-0

 

[TheReligion]

The pressure, width and passing forward has been so much better.

If you can't see that you either aren't watching the match or you're simply blind.

 

[laughtersassassin]

Give Amad some of those Rashford positions and atleast we know he'll try to pass it to his teammates.

 

[ForeverRed1]

Yeah. He's going through an awful spell but his movement is still quite good (though not so much when the other team is in a low block). He'll start making better decisions again at some point.

awful spell. It’s been a while.

 

[Pickle85]

He was never offside.

After Rashford messed up the square ball and it got cleared he didn't move up with the defensive line when the ball came back to Scotty.

 

[Bobski]

McTominay has by far the most consistent shooting technique in the team. It’s superb.

Best in the squad outside of Pogba at switching the play as well, just the shorter stuff and tidiness of touch lets him down.

 

[TMDaines]

A half that feels much better for having been 1-0 throughout. Otherwise it was quite sloppy going forward and at the back.

Oh well, hopefully we get Second Half FC at the Stretford End.

 

[GifLord]

Chance for Utd - wasted

 

[Ranchero]

As greedy as he is Greenwood is still twice the player Rashford is.

Two players. Wonderful. Sign them up

 

[mu4c_20le]

We could've conceded two, but also could've scored at lesat 3 more. Villa deserve some credit for their defending today.

 

[SemiPro]

If Rashford squares that to Greenwood one touch earlier it’s an easy tap in. Brain dead.

 

[Jack-C20]

I still maintain Scott is the best striker of the ball in our squad. Every shot is low and hard.

When he’s on his right foot anyway

 

[AdamColeBebe]

What does Fletcher technically direct?

Same thing our defenders defend and our attackers attack...

 

[Red Royal]

He was never offside.

Correct...Greenwood did well

 

[laughtersassassin]

That was a square.

I think it was a shit shot.

Either way he fecked it up and took way too long.

 

[Canucantona20]

Rashford should pass to Greenwood and missed Bruno earlier. He’s a selfish player

 

[Toshey]

Dare I say we look much better without Ron ron?

 

[Abraxas]

Really good game.

We do of course look exceptionally shaky at times.

But at least we're seeing some sharp passing and willingness up front.

 

[Still ill]

Great game for the neutral. Chances galore. So difficult when we've SO many players trying to play themselves into form. I'm praying for Marcus to bang one in. You can feel the tension when he gets on it.

 

[Hughie77]

The last 5 to 7 mins of the half have been very good, should have had another goal. Stop the errors and we get through this. These commentators are either not watching this or Bias, ffs Cavani save , Mctom save , Shaw save, Rashford save, I did see them did I. !!!

 

[VidaRed]

PASS IT TO GREENWOOD YOU GREEDY KNOBS

 

[Orton]

You just knew Rashford would mess it up.

 

[PoTMS]

Feck me, don't know who's worse out of Sancho or Rashford. Greenwood is far superior to both of these frauds.

 

[Alemar]

Dalot, Lindelof, Greenwood and Cavani were all relatively poor this first half, it needs to be said. Others were Ok or better

 

[Withnail]

He did

Far too late and only when the shot wasn't on.

If he plays it early Greenwood has a fantastic chance.

 

[Idxomer]

Playing much better without Ronaldo, we could actually use our pace on the counter.

 

[King Eric 7]

Does anywhere have the correct match stats? Just looked at the BBC and this site and they are well off.

 

[DickDastardly]

Marcus is equally bad on the right as he is on the left.

Why didn't he do what Watkins did to Lindelof?
He lost that edge.

 

[SER19]

Should be game over. Rashford too scared to to make a mistake

 

[laughtersassassin]

Elanga for Rashford and Amad for Greenwood

Greenwoods been good. Better than Cavani.

 

[L1nk]

Winning the ball back quickly and breaking quickly in spurts, that's more of what RR wants his teams to play like, we need to sure up a lot of the play and do more of that

 

[Bastian]

Look a lot more balanced with the ball with this personnel and formation, but we're still pretty easy to play through and the set piece defending is still piss poor.

But I'm starting to rate Dalot which I did not think possible. Cavani is quite simply the only player we have who can play as a lone striker. He's worked his arse off.