[Oscar Bonavena]

I'm so happy that it was that rat faced cheating cnut Havertz who missed the pen.

 

[Still ill]

Morale in the squad must be so high right now. Huge moments for lots of guys that need them, Bayinder, Zirkzee, even Harry. 2 big weeks for Martinez after his struggles lately. Couldn't have planned it better.

 

[Jazz]

Wow strong words from Des

He's absolutely right! Terrible performance from the ref.

 

[Plant0x84]

So so proud of this team tonight. Fantastic stuff. 9/10 performances all over the park - the challenge is consistency (but then it always has been)

 

[pacifictheme]

Good result but poor performance.

We could win the next 7 games though which mean a 9 game winning streak.

I would disagree. The spirit and work after the red the players put in was brilliant, from that point of view the performance was great. Before the red card we rarely if ever really looked like conceding, they had no shots on target when it was 11 v 11. After the red we dug in and hung on and got the job done.

The ref was pretty awful towards us all game as well.

I don't think I could ask for much more than that.

 

[groovyalbert]

Fecking immense. Arsenal's hopes of a trophy this season all but done too.

 

[Tarrou]

Since last week!

better than that for me

 

[Nogho]

Amazing win!

But red card should not mean one player less for the full game. This needs to change. Punish the player and let him hit the dressing room but bring on a other after a certain time, like hockey for instance.

So boring when every game is the same when one player is sent off.

Anyway, this must mean the world to the confidence of the players!

Glory Glory!

 

[cirilus]

The (great) result and the team spirit underscore the criminal officiating.

 

[Giggsy13]

The club should really consider lodging a formal complaint. For all the shambolic officiating we’ve been on the receiving end of, that was by far the absolute worst.

 

[#07]

We played for an hour with 10 men, with 11 Arsenal players and Andy Madley against us. To win the tie was an incredible show of character. We could easily have chucked it in those circumstances. Lord knows we've seen surrenders in adverse circumstances over the past decade, especially over the past year or two. This felt like proper progress from Liverpool. One or two better passes on the break and we might have won it without even needing pens! Remarkable.

 

[Sandikan]

Absolutely brilliant result.

Played it to near perfection getting ahead. Then the Dalot nonsense and ludicrous pen.
Knowing it'd have to be a perfect defensive job and survive a few let offs.

Then Bayindir and Zirkzee emerging as heroes after recent issues.

And a much more appetising 4th round tie.

 

[dogwithabone]

Look at the fight we suddenly have with no Rashford and no Casemiro preening around the pitch. Every player putting his body on the line, how many shots have we blocked in these past two games!

 

[Red in STL]

I'm so happy that it was that rat faced cheating cnut Havertz who missed the pen.

He didn't miss, the keeper saved ut

 

[Salus Populi Suprema Lex]

Superb effort. Proud of them today.

Absolutely. One of the main criticisms many of us have of the squad is a lack of mental strength when things get difficult. Today was a welcome change as the team showed resilience with ten men. Players put their bodies on the line to defend and the keeper was excellent. They all played for the shirt and gave everything, which is the minimum we should expect every game. It was the same at Anfield last week. Let’s hope we sustain this level of effort.

 

[Lentwood]

Wow strong words from Des

Even neutrals are noticing it now. We have had absolutely awful, abysmal refereeing performances week-in, week-out since Klopp publicly accused referees of being soft on us

 

[Sly]

Yeah, @Sly said this:


So spot on.

Very encouraging mate. It's only the beginning of the Amorim era but you can see something good is in the making. The players bar braindead Dalot were outstanding. Shades of Fergie era attitude.

 

[moodyred]

It's absolutely astonishing that we played over an hour with 10 men and still won it in their own backyard.

Outstanding collective defensive performance with major highlights being,

Bayindir's penalty save
De Ligt's last ditch tackle
Bruno's brilliant goal
Bayindir's shootout save

It's all euphoric at the moment. However, beware of making any statement stating that we've turned a corner. Except it to be a long drawn strings of games involving peaks and troughs along the way before witnessing any semblance of consistency that everyone's expecting.

We have turned the corner.

 

[Wing Attack Plan R]

Get in!

Great desire from the lads, before and especially after the red card.

Wonderful, Keown having to do the draw as well

Hated Keown since he gurned like a Neanderthal at Ruud. Keown, Parlour, Lehman, Fabregas - just unlikable prick after unlikable prick all the way to the present day, led by their prick manager.

 

[Fortitude]

Very encouraging mate. It's only the beginning of the Amorim era but you can see something good is in the making. The players bar braindead Dalot were outstanding. Shades of Fergie era attitude.

100%

Nice to see you around, also.

 

[Heardy]

Amazing win!

But red card should not mean one player less for the full game. This needs to change. Punish the player and let him hit the dressing room but bring on a other after a certain time, like hockey for instance.

So boring when every game is the same when one player is sent off.

Anyway, this must mean the world to the confidence of the players!

Glory Glory!

Whilst I agree the Red card was soft - this isn’t ever happening!

 

[Lentwood]

The club should really consider lodging a formal complaint. For all the shambolic officiating we’ve been on the receiving end of, that was by far the absolute worst.

Someone in the executive team needs to speak out on record. It can't be Amorim.

Week after week after week, absolutely abysmal refereeing decisions.

 

[RedFanaticTattooist]

Horrible refereeing and -luckily- very poor Arsenal. Our performance regardless of refereeing was also bad, but at least i expected that.

 

[Houdini]

Enyone noticed the "bye bye" gesture from Zirkzee after he scored the winning pen?

 

[Giggsy13]

Someone in the executive team needs to speak out on record. It can't be Amorim.

Week after week after week, absolutely abysmal refereeing decisions.

Should be Berrada. Amorim needs to start applying pressure as well thru his press conferences. We all remember the Klopp rant about United getting way too many penalities and the impact it had on our season. I’m certain we didn’t get a penalty for a year after that.

 

[cj_sparky]

Hated Keown since he gurned like a Neanderthal at Ruud. Keown, Parlour, Lehman, Fabregas - just unlikable prick after unlikable prick all the way to the present day, led by their prick manager.

Yeah, I can't stand Keown. Hated him as a player and now in his roles on T.V. he'll often find a way to make it about his achievements or how he played regardless of the topic up for discussion.

It was rather great to see his glum face doing the draw after the match.

 

[2 man midfield]

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

He thought the only apprentice we had was the guy doing our set pieces

 

[JoaoFM]

We are always complaining in Portugal because our refs are shite. But what I saw today.... makes Portuguese refs look brilliant

 

[The Irish Connection]

All we have ever asked for as fans is for the team to show fight and desire and not crumble when things don’t go their way. We showed that in spades today and have gone toe to toe against two top teams in the last two weeks.

 

[Andrei Kanspellthis]

Absolutely. One of the main criticisms many of us have of the squad is a lack of mental strength when things get difficult. Today was a welcome change as the team showed resilience with ten men. Players put their bodies on the line to defend and the keeper was excellent. They all played for the shirt and gave everything, which is the minimum we should expect every game. It was the same at Anfield last week. Let’s hope we sustain this level of effort.

100%. Apart from a defining performance from the keeper, and big performances from Maguire, De Ligt and Ugarte, the difference in resilience levels was massive.
Didn’t see any of the anxiety of late, just grit and actually great positioning from the defenders. We had both the save and tackle of the season.
we will know if we’ve truly turned a corner in about 6/7 games’ time.
Finally though, it looks harder to score against us

 

[noodlehair]

No criticism for anyone from me after that.

Far from perfect quality wise and we rode pirate luck after the red card, but when the players put that much in with the odds that much against them it really doesn't matter.

Getting the result to go with it is a big bonus but even if we lost, that sort of performance gets every fan behind the team and gets rid of the negativity.

Referee genuinely needs investigating. Don't get how you can watch a game and after 20 minutes you know the ref is red carding one of your players and screwing you over at some point, and meant to just pretend that's normal.

 

[moodyred]

At this rate, we might win against Michael Oliver.

 

[simonhch]

Tactically and technically there is only so much a new manager can achieve mid-season; but mentally.....his effect has been transformative. Remeber that these last two games come off the back of a dreadful run of defeats, and so the character shown at Anfield, and again today, is just outstanding.

Extremely mature performance, individually some superb displays.....not least Bayindir, and De Ligt (who was world class today).....but more encouragingly, the collective display, character, cohesion off the ball, and determination, was reminiscent of United of old. A never say die attitude. And that's really at the core of the Amorim revolution, it's getting the players to believe, to fight for every ball, to play with everything they have from the first minute to the last.....and we are starting to see that. Bit by bit, if you can align quality with that sort of mentality, you end up becoming a very good team.

Still a very long way to go, but today showed what Amorim and his United are going to be all about. The decision to exclude players who aren't fully committed to the cause, and to send the clear message that no-one is untouchable, or bigger than the club, is vindicated by this sort of performance. A performance where you say the determination and discipline shine through.

Lastly, in a short space of time, he has taken us from being the worst team in the league at defending set pieces, to one of the best. We faced so many corners, and indirect freekicks into the box today, and we never looked like conceding from any of them until Bayindir's one mistake (weak punch). It's some turn-around.

Here's hoping we can carry on in the same vein and start to rack up some wins against lesser sides.

 

[ThanksBoss26]

Someone in the executive team needs to speak out on record. It can't be Amorim.

Week after week after week, absolutely abysmal refereeing decisions.

Someone absolutely needs to, agreed.

 

[RuudTom83]

Please don't drop points against Southampton on Thursday.

 

[ThanksBoss26]

Superb result. Quite simply, put that level of effort and discipline into every game. It won’t be perfect still but it would be a damn sight better than things have been over the last 18 months.

A great day.

 

[Sly]

100%

Nice to see you around, also.

Been busy mate but always time for Sporting and United.

Although we lost against Benfica on pens in the League Cup final, I can also look at Sporting future with optimism. After that first dreadful appointment of João Pereira, Board realised their error and appointed the former Vitória Guimarães manager Rui Borges and although we are facing a injury crisis phase, he got 2 wins against Porto in the Cup and Benfica in the league and two draws, difficult away at Guimarães in the league and with Benfica in the league cup although we lost on pens. Since Porto lost away at Nacional today, we remain top of the league.

Things are looking good for both United and Sporting.

 

[Pscholes18]

 

[Moston Red]

What a horrible club Arsenal are. Cheating feckers!

 

[honirelandboy]

Think we can all see that Rashford, Casmeiros, Eriksen, Anthony days are numbered. Delighted to see Collyer get some game time. Maguire deserved the one year extension, playing fantastic