[The Urban Goose]

Very enjoyable. Looks to be a bromance brewing between Shaw and Casemiro, love it. Both were sensational again.

Probably bonded over doughnuts.
gentle ribbing is a sign of affection

 

[KiD MoYeS]

Imagine if we had a striker.

 

[Strelok]

I’ve typed thousands of words defending Bruno on here but he was awful tonight. I got nothing positive to say about him at all.

Had a pre assist and an assist? Run his socks off as usual?

 

[UnitedSofa]

Mad to think if we beat City & Arsenal - our next two games - we'll be right up there for a title charge.

 

[Laurencio]

Casemiro love the guy, absolute legend.

 

[redom]

Seems pretty standard that the game opens up when you are up by two. Not much else they can do when they need to score twice…

I mean sure you might expect them to have one last go, although you see plenty of teams give up once the game hits 2-0, especially away from home at one of the bigger clubs, but more than that it was our response to it where instead of leaning into possession and controlling the game we just went with it and allowed a lot of back and forth that could've lead to them getting back into the game. Thankfully we grabbed the third and it did lead to an entertaining period of the match.

 

[Real Name]

Me too. You could see he was devastated. The injury is going to be just enough to sideline him and thwart any progress he was making.

Yeah, had an OK game. Devastating for him.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Had a pre assist and an assist? Run his socks off as usual?

Yeah, he worked very hard. And we shouldn’t take that for granted. Everything else he did was very poor though.

 

[RU Devil]

Love how the team kept attacking even after 3-0. Previous vintages would have passed it around at the back, wasting time and hoping to avoid giving up a goal. This team kept going. It's a great sign. Plus the smiles while playing is a great Indicator

 

[jderbyshire]

Routine home wins against Championship level sides - remember those?

Casemiro was my MOTM, just ahead of Shaw who also continues to impress under EtH.

Maguire reminded us why he's not the first choice anymore.

Bruno needs to start showing that X factor again soon. Had another underwhelming game tonight.

EDIT: forgot to mention VdB who again, was too eager to impress, flying into challenges which possibly antagonised some Bournemouth players and resulted in him getting hurt.

 

[Redfrog]

Very enjoyable. Looks to be a bromance brewing between Shaw and Casemiro, love it. Both were sensational again.

They both love a donut. Lovely to see.

 

[UnitedSofa]

 

[James35]

Should have scored 6 or 7 tonight but despite the chuckle brothers at the back and some sloppy play at times we still won easily.

It’s crazy how we conceded 10 goals in just 2 games but only 10 goals in the other 15 league games. If we had a 25 goal a season striker and were not so wasteful all round, we could really do something this season.

With some quality signings this summer I will go into next season the most confident I have been in years with regards to finally winning something.

 

[Lights Out]

Strange performance.

Largely comfortable and in control but they, worryingly, created a lot of chances in the second half.

Maguire was laughably bad and Lindelof wasn’t much better.

On the plus side Casemiro was fantastic again. Who on Earth told us he couldn’t pass?!

 

[gearoid]

Shaw and Casemiro were first class. Rashford had a good game. Martial should have scored. De Gea was great when called on. Nice three points and could have scored more. Good evening’s work. Now for Everton……

 

[Valencia Shin Crosses]

Thought it was telling how boring we were when Bournemouth still had the energy to press high, as our backline was atrocious at building up play aside from giving it to Shaw and hoping he’d work magic. Caused our forwards to not see a ton of the ball and Bruno was pretty bad as well until the Donny injury.

After that we looked more comfortable as Bournemouth got leggy and we could have score 5+. Still think Maguire+ Lindelof is a trainwreck but you have such a good bailout option in Casemiro that it doesn’t matter against poor attacking sides. Hopefully Martial is fine, he should have scored a header but thought he was his usual neat self and probably would have scored if he was on for that final 10 min where we just battered them.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Gaffer is spot on.

 

[the_cliff]

Casemiro is so so good, as is luke Shaw.

We're in a title race

Win our next 2 games we will be.

Don't know about that now though.

 

[Rightnr]

 

[Get In Scholesy]

Love it

 

[Lights Out]

This is what I love the most about our manager.
Ole would have been gushing over the boys after that but EtH will give them a reality check.

 

[Ronaldo's ego]

Routine wins are becoming a thing again

 

[Strelok]

Yeah, he worked very hard. And we shouldn’t take that for granted. Everything else he did was very poor though.

We'd see what he's been giving only when he doesn't play. And imo not everything he did was poor. Probably 50%.

 

[Marwood]

So impressed with us defensively. You can tell it’s just down to coaching and confidence, as that’s the same back 4 Ole and Rangnick had. We’re finally seeing systemic change.

De Gea was very busy.

 

[Valencia Shin Crosses]

No one was terrible, it wasn't his best but not many would have been alive to Shaw's pass and the first time pass to Rashford

I mean that was 80 minutes in. He wasn’t good for the first 60 minutes of the game it’s okay to say so.

 

[Livewire1974]

Feel sorry for Donny

He was really getting into the right level tonight.

 

[siw2007]

Good win tonight, at times we made it hard for ourselves, in the first half it felt like we were trying to do the bare minimum. Bournemouth caught us out on numerous occasions in the 2nd half as we were too slow to get back into our positions in transition and we were lucky/ needed De Gea to keep the clean sheet. Having said that, there was some good football at times, Rashford was superb again.

 

[Spark]

Ten bit deserves a solid striker, but my god I feel like we're on the cusp of opening the floodgates each game at the moment. Our all round play looks significantly improved.

However, one little thing to add is that even at 2-0 up Bournemouth were able to have flashes where if they weren't total dogshit they could have definitely snatched a goal and made it a far more nervy final 10 mins. We've got Arsenal and City coming up and keen to see us be far more controlling of those games than in previous fixtures.

Don't even want to think what our position looks like if we were to win both. Tempting fate and all that bollocks.

 

[SirScholes]

We’re playing even better football than fergies final couple seasons
Main difference being we don’t have a RVP in the form of his life
Hope the boys are looking up the table, that’s the incentive they have earned to play for

 

[Rauður Djöfull]

missed first half but second half was fun, also happy I just brought in Shaw in fantasy

Nice to see Garnacho with assist as well

 

[Valencia Shin Crosses]

I’ve typed thousands of words defending Bruno on here but he was awful tonight. I got nothing positive to say about him at all.

Very true I give you credit as a Bruno defender of the highest degree. Thank you for being realistic on tonight against the masses

 

[criticalanalysis]

He's repeatedly been very clear and aware of our frailties post game (even when we've got the result), even when it's easy to gloss over and give compliments. Love it.

Tonight's game was weird, we were 'comfortable' but they had quite a few attempts at our goal and had multiple chances to play better balls as we were open in transition. Great result but like the game, it was against really poor opposition.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Bournemouth have conceded an average of 2.2 goals in each game this season. Without that late third we would have been below that average. At home. Which says it all about how poor we were overall. I also don’t remember their keeper making any good saves. Glad we won but that was not a good performance.

 

[foolsgold]

He wasn't.

Bruno wasn't terrible. Maybe excellent was a bit over the top but Bruno delivered some key moments, particularly for the third goal.

 

[GregM40]

Just back from the game. Surprising first XI but was comfortable. Thought Maguire was slow and sloppy on the ball (how did he manage to knock it out for that corner) but what’s new. Shaw MOTM for me, Casemiro classy as always. 4 in 4 for Rashford for first time in his career and wasn’t surprising at all, man in form. Bring on Everton in the cup.

 

[antohan]

We are gonna win the league, we are gonna win the league!

Too soon?

 

[mu4c_20le]

Glad he said it..

 

[Member 125352]

Not a weak link today, everybody had a good to great game. Martial was slightly unlucky with his header wide. Bruno Fernandes played a fantastic 2nd half after a poor first. I ditched out several 8s for the first time this season. Lowest nr was 6 for Martial and Donny.
Fred also came on with poise and quality.
What I liked most that we played to score goals till the very end! Top quality entertainment.

I don’t care what Ten Hag said I enjoyed this so much.

 

[delerium]

Shaw MOTM easily.

Maguire - Lindelöf pairing is sooo slow to recycle the ball. It feels like the game slows down massively and everything becomes static. They did OK though, but it was a bit frustrating to watch at times.

Bruno tries his 100% and above but it's not really clicking him the way he'd like. He still does the right things on the pitch most of the time, and good assist for the Rashford goal in the end. He was noticeably frustrated almost all game. He needs a rest but he's not easy to replace.

Great to have Dalot back, AWB did OK in the rear but Dalot brings us much more offensively.

Fine saves from Dave again.

Martial blows hot and cold, but we need a proper number 9 in the January window.

Garnacho is still very raw but exciting to watch. Good performance from him and good assist for the Shaw goal.

Casemiro is worth his transfer fee, easily. Pogba who?

All in all, 3 points, still lots of things to improve but it's not all doom and gloom.

 

[JustinC00]

Lucky not to lose 6-3. Bournemouth outclassed us today.

huh?