[moodyred]

Fantastic performance, I can't remember when we've showed such fight and resilience in the face of such blatant play acting and one of the worst refereeing displays I've seen in many a year.Arsenal have forgot how to play football, the drama before every set piece is embarrassing.

Anyway Feck them and their odious little prick of a manager, Everyone was Fantastic, Dalot aside,especially Bayandir, Maguire and De light.

Very proud tonight.

The drama at every set piece reflects their manager. Everything is a drama with him.

 

[utdalltheway]

- Bayindir redemption ark.

- When Martin Keown had to do the draw for the next round about 2 minutes after the game finished.

Bayindir on top of mount Ararat!

at Keown having to do that. Never liked that cnut especially after he got up into RVNs face after that penalty miss. Feckin monkey!

 

[Roger]

That Havertz chance at the end of 90 mins was a handball not that the ref or linesman were going to call it

Controlled with one off onto the other arm. Handball x 2. As you said it wouldn't have been called by the useless officials

 

[JBG]

Seriously feck Arsenal and their rancid bunch of players. Arteta has made them right cnuts... not even the good kind like Stoke or Burnley under Pulis and Dyche.

 

[The Brown Bull]

Cracking post

Cheers!

 

[Alek M]

Few stats.

Man United have eliminated Arsenal from the FA Cup more than any other side in the competition history (nine times)

11 years in a row United have now won a FA Cup 3rd round tie last defeat was under Moyes against Swansea at home in 2014.

Arsenal eliminated from the competition in the third round in back-to-back campaigns for the first time since 1995/1996.

We have only allowed one goal in the third round, apart from today.

 

[moodyred]

From being one of the most mentality weak team to a mental monster. What a change! How do you achieve that in a few weeks, I really don't know.

Perhaps not fielding mentality unprepared players like Rashford is the key. If you are not prepared to work your socks off for the team, then you are not going to be anywhere near the team.

Be serious about the games and training and not talk about your night out at the bar or trip to the US a couple of days before games?

 

[The Brown Bull]

Dalot got Dalot sent off. On a yellow, you do not launch yourself into a slide tackle like that. There was zero reason to do it. The Arsenal player was going nowhere, just stand him up.

Ah here. Watch it again.It happened in a split second.Dalot didn't touch him.Shame on a professional pretending to be hurt to get another pro sent off. I know not many will agree with me but where has the ' sport' gone?.

 

[tenpoless]

For a suppossedly one of the best teams in PL they play like Westham (when they werent so good) along with Barca old theatrics. I dont see whats appealing about their performance. On extra time they hoof the ball for lanky players to head in. Again nothing says a top team with how they played. No dignity, no class, just pure shit football with shithousery. Arteta "Get in! they are down to 10 men. Time to channel my inner Big Sam".

 

[Oranges038]

Ah here. Watch it again.It happened in a split second.Dalot didn't touch him.Shame on a professional pretending to be hurt to get another pro sent off. I know not many will agree with me but where has the ' sport' gone?.

You're on a yellow, you're winning 1-0.

Just don't do anything stupid for a few minutes.

It's a bad first touch, second touch is a tackle, most referees are giving him a yellow every day of the week for that. Whether he's already on one or not and given how that gowl was refereeing the game today, it should have been obvious to everyone to not even give him a chance to dish out a red.


I'd agree on the general point, the sport lacks a lot in terms of honesty, respect and fair play. Genuinely don't think I could watch Utd if they played like Arsenal or Newcastle.

 

[noodlehair]

From being one of the most mentality weak team to a mental monster. What a change! How do you achieve that in a few weeks, I really don't know.

Perhaps not fielding mentality unprepared players like Rashford is the key. If you are not prepared to work your socks off for the team, then you are not going to be anywhere near the team.

Be serious about the games and training and not talk about your night out at the bar or trip to the US a couple of days before games?

I don't think it's so much not fielding Rashford but I would bet is partly to do with the overall message Amorim is sending by not picking him.

Everyone in the team has to swim rather than sink, and the strength comes from that. It's easier to respond to a setback when everyone is already pulling in the same direction and it's easier to carry someone whos struggling if they are at least trying rather than a deadweight.

Of course we need to do it in every game not just for a random couple against rivals.

 

[noodlehair]

No, Dalot definitely deserves criticism from putting the team in that position. It was such a stupid thing to do considering he'd been booked and it was quite obvious to everyone how much the ref was favoting them.

The rest of the team was superb.

Yeah fair point and I wouldn't argue that you're right. Personally going to give him a by because:
A) we won anyway and might not have got the penalty save, character etc. we saw without the red card
B) it was a split second mistake/reaction rather than ill discipline. When the attitude of the team is right I can forgive honest errors. Even though he f*king pissed me off at the time.

 

[tenpoless]

From being one of the most mentality weak team to a mental monster. What a change! How do you achieve that in a few weeks, I really don't know.

Perhaps not fielding mentality unprepared players like Rashford is the key. If you are not prepared to work your socks off for the team, then you are not going to be anywhere near the team.

Be serious about the games and training and not talk about your night out at the bar or trip to the US a couple of days before games?

They were asked to get on Limmy's Adventure Call and realized how hard it is to win some money compared to them getting loads per week by playing a game theyre good at and that is before counting bonuses. So they stayed humble.

 

[The Brown Bull]

You're on a yellow, you're winning 1-0.

Just don't do anything stupid for a few minutes.

It's a bad first touch, second touch is a tackle, most referees are giving him a yellow every day of the week for that. Whether he's already on one or not and given how that gowl was refereeing the game today, it should have been obvious to everyone to not even give him a chance to dish out a red.


I'd agree on the general point, the sport lacks a lot in terms of honesty, respect and fair play. Genuinely don't think I could watch Utd if they played like Arsenal or Newcastle.

Fair comment.I stand by my defence of Dalot though.

 

[Kweku Amonoo]

Jesus out for a while, should be back around Easter

Quality Stuff.

 

[Djemba-Djemba]

It honestly felt like playing a Spanish side in Europe.

Just constant gamesmanship from them, time wasting ( which makes no sense because at no point in the game were Arsenal ahead but they were just taking so long with every set piece), diving and endless moaning at the ref. Their bench leaping to their feet to try and get our players yellow and red cards after every tackle.

Arteta is very similar to Simeone.

 

[Red00012]

Top 10 highlights/favourite moments of this game:

- Raheem Sterling living up to his previous tradition of lethal finishing vs United, by getting a chance, and having a shot that was so bad it set up a counter attack.

- Havertz nearly accidentally scoring from a cross by the ball bouncing off him and taking it out of the path of the keeper and towards the goal, only for him to then feel the need to try and kick it in anyway and loft it over the bar in the process.

- The bizarre first half logic of the ref that every single contact is a foul, except when the contact is so severe it causes one player's boot to fly off and the other to go off on a stretcher with a serious injury, in which case it is not a foul.

- Bayindir redemption ark. Particularly him celebrating at himself after the first penalty save.

- United following up a game of exhausting high pressure drama with a borderline disrespectful penalty shootout reel of either casually placing the ball to within 1 cm of the post, firing it into the corner at 90mph, or simply walking up to the ball and waiting for the keeper to fall over. Then almost to a man laughing about it afterwards, as if it was the plan all along purely to sh*touse the other team for 120 minutes.

- When De ligt helped Havertz tick off another box on his "ways to miss an open goal" bingo card, then celebrated whilst also falling into the net like a trapped fish.

- Arsenal's weird indecisiveness between wanting to hurry up and get on with the game, and also feeling the need to host a club AGM before every single set piece.

- Dalot with the most Dalot thing ever of noticing the ref desperately wants to send someone off, so proceeding to commit two utterly blatant yellow card offences that would be a sending off in any game regardless of who the ref was anyway. Then STILL seeming genuinely shocked at being sent off.

- The sweet, sweet justice of seeing a team spend the whole game acting like a bunch of twats, only to end up losing the game partly due to devoting so much energy to being twats instead of trying to win.

- When Martin Keown had to do the draw for the next round about 2 minutes after the game finished.

Post of the day goes to you

 

[Red00012]

Well worth a watch. Leny and De ligt

Anyone have another link to this? It only works for UK residents I think.

 

[criticalanalysis]

Said it in the match day thread.

Raya gave me Oblak vibes with his penalty 'saving'

 

[amolbhatia50k]

This should be the blueprint for this team for what you can achieve when you dig in and show resilience. I’m so used to watching them give up at the sign of distress, and it feels bloody amazing to see the polar opposite. Well done manager and players for an incredible result.

 

[Waynne]

This deserves a Super Mario double jump sound effect

 

[Winrar]

Said it in the match day thread.

Raya gave me Oblak vibes with his penalty 'saving'

Has Raya ever actually saved a penalty before? He gave away the direction he's diving before every penalty

Not to take away credit from our players and their composure, though. Especially Zirkzee.

 

[Oscar Bonavena]

Said it in the match day thread.

Raya gave me Oblak vibes with his penalty 'saving'

That's terrible from Raya, he's moving way too early! No wonder we sent him the wrong way every time!

 

[Sir Erik ten Hag]

Think the intern just got himself sacked. Jim didn't realize we had someone running the X account.

Close the whole page to save costs!

 

[Gazautd18]

Has Raya ever actually saved a penalty before? He gave away the direction he's diving before every penalty

Not to take away credit from our players and their composure, though. Especially Zirkzee.

Remember him saving one in a CL match recently then the follow up an everyone claimed he was world class.
It looks like he got his penalty taker order confused as he was sat with his goalkeeping coach working all this out

 

[moodyred]

I don't think it's so much not fielding Rashford but I would bet is partly to do with the overall message Amorim is sending by not picking him.

Everyone in the team has to swim rather than sink, and the strength comes from that. It's easier to respond to a setback when everyone is already pulling in the same direction and it's easier to carry someone whos struggling if they are at least trying rather than a deadweight.

Of course we need to do it in every game not just for a random couple against rivals.

Agreed

 

[croadyman]

Winning at Emirates with 10 men, glorious

 

[DJ_21]

There set pieces were found out by us. I noticed they took a couple of short ones because they didn’t have their current takers.