[Charlie Foley]

Exactly, wide, no shot on goal, they deserve to be even 3:0 down, let alone 2.

By this logic the Torres open goal miss in 2011 wasn’t a good chance

 

[Todd]

Haven't seen Chelsea in action in a while before today...man, they're just dreadful. They should've had 3 goals already. Realize they've got an injury crisis, but still.

Really want to see us pour it on now. We've yet to score 4 goals in the league, what better time than today?

 

[Bestofthebest]

Chelsea have had far too many chances but for some reason they have failed to score whereas we have struggled to make chances but have scored two. Hope we wake up in second half or this could be a farcical end to the game.

 

[DanielofLeyland]

Thank God we got that second goal. Chelsea slicing through us at times. Lucky that they have been so profligate in front of goal. Hopefully we can get a third goal early to kill it as a contest.

 

[Barthez]

Home fans ripping into Redknapp

Brilliant to hear

 

[Who's Kissing Cameras?]

Jamie Redknapp, you’re a wanker, you’re a wanker

 

[sepulturite]

Apparently?

Ah yeh I didn't need to add that did I?!

 

[Andersonson]

Nah I don't waste my time debating with posters who keep bringing up Ole like that, it's tiresome.

I said, like Ole. It was in no regard a praise on him. Its comparable since our style is just as bad

 

[HookedOnAPhelan]

Anyone get memories of this?

My first thought!

I'm getting old

 

[stu_1992]

The job is getting done, it if we're honest it was less than convincing. Giving up too much at thr back. Too many bad touches and passes in and around the box for us too. But I'll take it, it's all about getting top 4 done.

Huge shame about Antony though. Didn't look good for him at all, although I'm not quite sure what happened exactly. That seemed to affect our performance too.

 

[Amadaeus]

We are barely taking this game seriously and we are still beating chelsea.

 

[Sylar]

Quite interesting that we played so poorly yet hold a fully deserved 2-0 lead.

Was De Gea bothered even once? I don't think so.

Tbh we do deserve the lead because we've scored and Chelsea can't even hit the target

They've had three great chances and haven't tested ddg at all

 

[2 man midfield]

Yeah can see why we need Declan Rice in midfield. Be good in there with casmeiro. Unfortunately Eriksen legs are gone.

Feel like he’d get exposed against the better sides in the CL. Just not technical enough.

 

[TsuWave]

amazing ball by Casemiro, but Sancho's run was great work, kept himself on side and then put it on a platter

 

[GifLord]

2-0
Martial

 

[Scottynaldinho]

No patterns of play, no cohesion, but 2-0 up due to moments of brilliance from Eriksen and Casemiro. Ole?

2nd goal was a great team goal. The run, control and pass from Sancho just as silky as the ball from Casemiro. Ridiculous not to give credit and call it a moment of brilliance.

 

[antsmithmk]

I'm sure Sky have muted the crowd noise now

 

[Rockets Redglare]

I couldnt remember Tim Howard played for us. always thought everton keeper.

He was our number one after Barthez.

 

[JustinC00]

We'd be 4-0 down against a team with a striker. Shocking performance.

We'd have scored 5 if we had a class striker. '

Sancho is absolutely shocking

We would have had 3 assists that half if he had a class striker to pass to

 

[dpansheth]

any update on Antony?

 

[JPRouve]

On a serious note, Sancho has consistently been better on the right. It makes no sense how he plays so differently from one wing to the other.

 

[arnie_ni]

Does awb get a touch on that cross just before the murdyk sitter?

 

[Rustyspider13]

Crazy game. We've decided to gung-ho on the pressing no matter where the ball is and have left massive gaps every time the press is beaten. If that was the plan then we should've started Fred. Our midfield and defense don't have the recovery pace needed. It's a good thing Chelsea are utter shit at finishing whereas we're only slightly shit. I'd bring Fred on right now and tell Casemiro to stop sliding in when the ball is in our half.

Really sad for Antony. Our chances against City just went down further without his wrokrate. But that's for later, let's get this 45 mins done and secure a deserved CL spot.

 

[Abraxas]

It's not about what Chelsea deserve or don't deserve. You get what you deserve for the most part, you have to score as that's under a teams control.

But no need to be delusional and pretend we defended situations well. I'm pretty sure ETH is not that results orientated to be happy with what we allowed them to create.

 

[jesperjaap]

Chelsea knock the ball around well whilst being dreadful in the final third and not much better defensively.

We have been shoddy though, but who cares, CL qualification all that matters.

Anybod not thinking a new number 8 is a priority must be mad though. Matic had more in his legs than Eriksen and he was getting slated. I know he still has that pass and technique in him, but he looks near doe to me. Liability defensively, good players are strolling past him, his reactions are that bit too slow that he gets caught in possesion ad he cant go past anybody. Take Casemeiro out of the side and our midfield is bypassed so so easily.

Sod all this "we need a deep lying playmaker".....we seriously need a quality box to box midfielder....still wishing it was ENzo, as crap as Chelsea have been, you can see his quality

 

[arnie_ni]

Quite interesting that we played so poorly yet hold a fully deserved 2-0 lead.

Was De Gea bothered even once? I don't think so.

They've actually probably had the better chances but haven't hit the target once

 

[DWelbz19]

MEN…


De Gea

Faced chances but not had to make a save. 6

Wan-Bissaka

Eager but Lewis Hall has got in behind him too often. 6

Varane

Classy again. 7

Lindelof

Early slip but otherwise calm. 7

Shaw

Not at his usual level. 6

Casemiro

Fine goal and defence-splitting pass for the second. 8

Eriksen

Excellent cross for Casemiro. 7

Antony

Forced off injured. 6

Fernandes

Could have had a penalty. 6

Sancho

Not good enough again until he squared for Martial. 6

Martial

Same as Sancho until he converted a tap-in. 6

Eriksen, 7?!

 

[DomesticTadpole]

We'd have scored 5 if we had a class striker. '



We would have had 3 assists that half if he had a class striker to pass to

Antony should have had an assist as well.

 

[Someone]

Our players probably thought if we open it up and both clubs go for it we'd have a better shot that this shite chelsea side, and they're probably right.

 

[Mr Pigeon]

Man Utd (1.17) 2-0 (1.52) Chelsea.

Neat.

Yet again proving what utter bollocks xG is

To be fair I think I'm finally starting to understand the importance of xG. We did indeed pull that second goal out of our arses. And the 1.52 for Chelsea represents the contact lens strength Murdyk probably needs, because the cnut must be fecking blind to miss as many tap ins as he has.

 

[Glorio]

Casemiro better going forward than defending (he's sliding constantly in an attempt to break up Chelsea attacks and making hem even more dangerous), furthers the argument against someone like Mount and for someone like Rabiot alongside him.

Agree - it's a one man midfield at the minute in defence. If you look at the chances of Chelsea, in a loc of cases neither Bruno or Eriksen are anywhere near

I wouldn't mind Case, Fred, McTom against City, as this midfield against them, I can't bear to think about

 

[CloneMC16]

Anyone get memories of this?

The good days

Miss the CL on ITV as well.

 

[Massive Spanner]

On a serious note, Sancho has consistently been better on the right. It makes no sense how he plays so differently from one wing to the other.

What do you mean? Almost every winger ever is better on one wing.

 

[Fanatic 00237]

As poor as Sancho is, he's really calm in the box

Absolutely! I really hope he gets his stuff together next season and finally takes off at United.

 

[SouthMancRed]

Very scrappy. Just as well they're even more wasteful than we are.

 

[Member 101269]

game over, CL achieved, take over announcement imminent

 

[PoTMS]

Good assist but Sancho was otherwise average on the right wing. I guess it's better than being complete shite on the left.

 

[christinaa]

We're lucky to be winning this by two goals.
Chelsea have opened our defence many a time.

 

[BorisManUtd]

On a serious note, Sancho has consistently been better on the right. It makes no sense how he plays so differently from one wing to the other.

Agree. He looks more threatening on the right so will be interesting too see him more on that wing in 2nd half.

 

[Steve Bruce]

obviously i'm behind on the stream.
a beautiful bit of a chip from Casemiro leading to a very simple decision for the assist.
are you denying that overall throughout our season that we have not struggled in the final third for wasting real opportunities?

No I'm not saying your wrong but it was more the timing of the comment which you've clarified as being behind on your stream.(it wasn't obvious to me as I'm also streaming but mine must be quite close to real time)

We're very far from the finished article and I'm looking forward until ETH has a normal pre season this year and a few new recruits and alot of our complaints hopefully addressed.