He’s always been massively ABU. Proper bitter for a reason I’m not sure. If it makes anyone feel better his Burton side are bollocks and bottom of League One.
PL W FA Premier League
Manchester United 3:1 Arsenal
Post-match discussion
Sun, 04 September 2022
He’s always been massively ABU. Proper bitter for a reason I’m not sure. If it makes anyone feel better his Burton side are bollocks and bottom of League One.
Believe me, it wasn't my first choice! It's a 'friend' that's a total charisma vacuum...her boring partner was there as well and I think she just wanted some back up. The compromises we make for the people we love...! Plus, I definitely banked a few points for future redemption.
phrasing was a bit confusing there!Eriksen's comments noteable regarding it becoming more comfortable in the dressing room
I was thinking this too. And clear he likes the way Ten Haag us going about things at the moment too.
What is also great is that the atmosphere at OT will be better. People are now excited to watch this team. They can be our extra man again. Teams were not intimidated by coming to OT now hopefully it is different.
Oof, fair play bud. You're a better boyfriend/human than me!!Believe me, it wasn't my first choice! It's a 'friend' that's a total charisma vacuum...her boring partner was there as well and I think she just wanted some back up. The compromises we make for the people we love...! Plus, I definitely banked a few points for future redemption.
He's jealous of our manager's sharp suit with his playground excuse for a suit.
You can't possibly be serious, right?
probably because a fair few of chances from those positions are difficult headers
Is there a way of watching Sky Sport's post match analysis with Keane without actually having Sky Sports? I want to soak all of this up but I'm too poor to pay for Murdoch's services.
Ok that makes sense, if it's looking at position and not the quality of the chance.
Michael Owen saying it was a foul and then saying it should be a goal, not sure how he is allowed on TV
It was a foul. That is what VAR is for.
Wow. Right up the ABU thread. I thought the RAWK thread would be busy this season but we're already boiling piss.
What the actual feck. He's come in from behind, not played the ball and knocked the man to the ground. They have scored directly from gaining an advantage from this foul. Are people just thick?
Wycombe beat them 3-0 opening day, and he didn't give us any credit!
Will be on YouTube after.
When they are becoming like this it's because they are worried.
Shameless ABU's. Was there even a similar Twitter outrage after the Chelsea - West Ham disaster yesterday? fecking wankers.
Lots of the players look so much better that it has been legitimately difficult to pick MotM for the last 4 matches. McTominay stuck out to me for the entire match, but ultimately I picked Rashford because 2 goals and an assist in a 3-1 match is difficult to beat.
I think there are legitimate arguments for McTominay, Eriksen and Bruno for MotM. Varane and Martinez were very good as well. The left side of the defence was beaten a few times but Saka is one of the best wide forwards in the PL, so I thought they did very well under the circumstances.
Owen certainly is.
"Probably a foul", yet wouldn't have given it, for a goal that happened right after!
It's easy to laugh off, but we saw with that string of pens we had the other season, that a couple of clever comments from the likes of Klopp quickly meant we got zero afterwards.
The vast majority of these dimwits never wanted VAR in the first place.
I think it was obviously a foul, but torn on whether VAR should have intervened. For me its neither here nor there so the hyperbole is just stupid. Also its just an excuse to take away from discussing what was still a balanced and fair match.
Thick and or anti-United. You just know one of big calls for us will be biased by this
This - I lost some interest in watching United in the last couple of years. Not because they were crap (they were) but because they were boring. I genuinely would have enjoyed tonight's game even if they lost. They are playing the right way and it's good to watch. We probably won't win the league but I will at least enjoy watching them try.
Michael Owen is just plain stupid. He contradicts himself in every other sentence the prick.
Agreed. In real time, I can understand the ref thinking the Arsenal player nicked it. He doesn't and therefore its a foul. A soft one? Yes, but still a foul.
For Rashford's 2nd goal, if Eriksen lets go of that pass about 1/10th of a second earlier, it would have been deflected by the defender.
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Thank feck he wasn't here last year, with some of those clowns.
Thats not a soft foul. Its a fecking foul. A challenge from behind too nonetheless. Got no ball. All leg and arms.
Great result. Far from a perfect performance, lots for the manager to work on - honestly, we were under the cosh for a lot of this game. But the biggest issue we had going into this season was a chronic lack of confidence, and that looks to be addressed. The team spirit looks really good, and even though we were chasing the ball for a good 20 minutes after half time, we had a commitment to our game that suggested we wouldn't just fold.
Eriksen was class. McT looked decent again in midfield and Bruno seems to be settling down game by game. I would have liked more composure from the midfield in that spell after half time when we were up against it, but they came up golden in the end.
The defence was solid yet again, though Maguire's cameo didn't fill me with confidence. I hope Martinez doesn't have a real injury and his sub was precautionary. Malacia continues to be a bit hot and cold and was at fault for the goal. But he's a young player, and they don't get better by being on the bench. Unless his form turns entirely cold, I would keep playing him.
Up front, Antony showed how he'll stretch teams by making them double up against him or risk getting punished, even if his overall game was only ok. Sancho was a bit disappointing. Rashford in truth didn't have a great game in open play, but he did the business on the counter attack and was probably ideally suited to that second half.
I thought ETH's in game management was excellent. Muggins here would have taken off Bruno or Eriksen and put on Casemiro about the time of Arsenal's equaliser, but he was brave & keep that midfield together and it came good, creating two more goals.
Overall a crucial win, and with two winnable games before the international break, things are looking positive.
Eriksen was class. McT looked decent again in midfield and Bruno seems to be settling down game by game. I would have liked more composure from the midfield in that spell after half time when we were up against it, but they came up golden in the end.
The defence was solid yet again, though Maguire's cameo didn't fill me with confidence. I hope Martinez doesn't have a real injury and his sub was precautionary. Malacia continues to be a bit hot and cold and was at fault for the goal. But he's a young player, and they don't get better by being on the bench. Unless his form turns entirely cold, I would keep playing him.
Up front, Antony showed how he'll stretch teams by making them double up against him or risk getting punished, even if his overall game was only ok. Sancho was a bit disappointing. Rashford in truth didn't have a great game in open play, but he did the business on the counter attack and was probably ideally suited to that second half.
I thought ETH's in game management was excellent. Muggins here would have taken off Bruno or Eriksen and put on Casemiro about the time of Arsenal's equaliser, but he was brave & keep that midfield together and it came good, creating two more goals.
Overall a crucial win, and with two winnable games before the international break, things are looking positive.
Doesn't it kind of feel good that one decision that went our way, absolutely correctly so, draws so much attention? When the ABU sentiment gets stronger, we're surely doing something right
Listening to Ten Hag post game, seems like the intent are never to drop off. He did lament the fact that we lost our composure after the disallowed goal and somehow couldn't get back to the way we played the first 15 minutes.
I think right now, like Ten Hag said, it's just a matter of players keeping their composure which is why I hope with every win we gain more confidence which will allow our players not to easily get rattled and have the confidence to play their football no matter what's happening.
Great result. Building a head of steam. Need to adapt though as at times it was oleball and not the football TH wants us to play. It will come though I am sure. Glad Antony scored. Thats a big weight off his back already. Now lets see him beat the last man in a dribble.
They are trembling at the thought of United getting back to winning ways…
5 out of 5, confident, purposeful arsenal created next to nothing, varane getting bullied by Jesus was concerning, but otherwise we were strong and I wasn't concerned about the back 4
Because expected goals is bullshit!
Ben Foster was speaking about expected goals the other day and categorically stated that no manager gives a feck a out expected goals, and no team gives it a passing thought.
You could be right, it's subjective. The main thing is, it is a foul and all these pundits calling for VAR to be binned are more concerned with a decision going United's way than whether it was right.
Man of the Match
Runners-up
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31%
Marcus Rashford
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9%
Scott McTominay
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4%
Bruno Fernandes
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2%
Diogo Dalot
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1%
Raphael Varane
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1%
Antony
Player Ratings
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Score Predictions
214,40,68
- Man Utd win
- Arsenal win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 33% Man Utd 2:1 Arsenal
- 14% Man Utd 2:0 Arsenal
- 14% Man Utd 1:1 Arsenal
- 6% Man Utd 3:1 Arsenal
- 6% Man Utd 2:2 Arsenal
- 6% Man Utd 1:2 Arsenal
- 4% Man Utd 1:0 Arsenal
- 4% Man Utd 3:0 Arsenal
- 2% Man Utd 1:3 Arsenal
- 2% Man Utd 0:2 Arsenal
- 2% Man Utd 0:3 Arsenal
- 1% Man Utd 3:2 Arsenal
- 1% Man Utd 4:1 Arsenal
- 1% Man Utd 0:0 Arsenal
- 1% Man Utd 2:3 Arsenal
- 1% Man Utd 5:1 Arsenal
- 1% Man Utd 0:1 Arsenal
- 1% Man Utd 4:0 Arsenal
- 0% Man Utd 5:0 Arsenal
- 0% Man Utd 5:2 Arsenal
- 0% Man Utd 1:4 Arsenal
- 0% Man Utd 8:0 Arsenal
- 0% Man Utd 9:0 Arsenal
- 0% Man Utd 0:5 Arsenal
Match Stats
- Man Utd
- Arsenal
- Possession
- 39% 61%
- Shots
- 10 16
- Shots on Target
- 6 3
- Corners
- 2 5
- Fouls
- 13 9
Referee
Paul Tierney
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replaced by Casemiro
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replaced by Cristiano Ronaldo
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replaced by Fred
