Did we?
Shouldn’t Sancho’s shot, saved by the hand of Willian, have been a goal? So 1-1 with 11 v 11. Antony had started to change the game and we could have gone on to win.
People need to get some perspective here.
FA W FA Cup Quarter-Final
Manchester United 3:1 Fulham
Post-match discussion
Sun, 19 March 2023
Shouldn’t Sancho’s shot, saved by the hand of Willian, have been a goal? So 1-1 with 11 v 11. Antony had started to change the game and we could have gone on to win.
People need to get some perspective here.
I hope not, life is not easy if you’re like me
Need a few players to tactically withdrew from international. Our schedule has been nuts and we need some rest.
Our summer transfer window has to be astronomical, absolutely no creativity in our squad players in the middle of the park
You are right!!
I think it was more about the Maguire boxing match near the penalty area.
Phew! 
I was a little worried when I saw the teams - especially our 4th and 5th choice CM's up against Palhinha. So wasn't surprised to see us struggle for the first 70 minutes.
But part of becoming a trophy winning team is developing that winning mentality and being able to get important victories when not at your best. And that was certainly the case today. Not a great performance, but understandable with injuries, suspensions and fatigue taking their toll. But the important thing is we once again found a way to win when not at our best and missing key players.
Hopefully, after the international break, we'll start getting some of our players back, others will be a little fresher, and we'll start putting in some stronger performances again. The important thing today was just getting over the line in the last game of a run of such a packed schedule. So job done.
I was a little worried when I saw the teams - especially our 4th and 5th choice CM's up against Palhinha. So wasn't surprised to see us struggle for the first 70 minutes.
But part of becoming a trophy winning team is developing that winning mentality and being able to get important victories when not at your best. And that was certainly the case today. Not a great performance, but understandable with injuries, suspensions and fatigue taking their toll. But the important thing is we once again found a way to win when not at our best and missing key players.
Hopefully, after the international break, we'll start getting some of our players back, others will be a little fresher, and we'll start putting in some stronger performances again. The important thing today was just getting over the line in the last game of a run of such a packed schedule. So job done.
This is the thing for me.... we're struggling a bit, and it's a little concerning.
Perspective? Here? Are you some kind of alien time traveller?
Missed the game today. Anyone know when highlights are on in the UK?
If matey hadn't handled it, the ball goes in and we're right back in it. Plus we had a while left to go anyway.
So I wouldn't rule out that we'd have got back in it.
It's just that it turned out utterly ridiculously easy in the end.
Another poor performance, but we got out of jail thanks to a totally insane meltdown by Fulham. How have we so many players who can't complete simple passes? And the pointless flicks which always end up giving away possession will be the death of me. Or my TV at least. Fully expect a few 'muscle strains' being declared overnight as we are in serious need of a rest.
Spot on.
We need to remember their implosion was caused by an incident which should / would have equalised the game.
And then it's even and who knows how the last 20-25 go.
The place we had the problems today was midfield. We were completely overrun. McTominay was a 3. Rashford also a 3 for the first half. Wasn't clicking in any sense. Fulham were good, but there was a strange lack of intensity about all of it. Indeed I have seen a few other games lately (not United games) where it was as if both sides decided to slow it down. As if hungover. World Cup, too many games, cold miserable day, not motivated. This is a very dangerous kind of virus to creep into a team. It is a symptom of insufficient squad depth to cope with the demands. Money doped clubs are of course (more) immune to this.
What did they do?
Didn't get to watch the match, thankful for the videos posted here. Crazy scenes from Fulham. Obvious handball from Willian, but Mitrovic pushing the referee like that is crazy. Glad to see that the ref didn't hold back from making the correct calls on both counts.
There was a lot of pressure on Bruno to net the peno after their meltdown. He had to wait ages and did brilliantly. That whole debacle will impact badly on Fulhams season.
I'd play Eriksen with them as well and bench Weghorst. Hit them on the break.
Marcus is injured folks there is definitely enough times he isn't going into 50/50 so he is caring for the ankle. So in my opinion he gets a pass until he feels he is back on it. What was clear again ITV replay zoomed in, on purpose, to not show the Fulham player running his studs down on to Marcus's foot. That to me is worrying when the TV as in the Grealish v Burn incident done the same to not show Grealish kicking out. It was also a shitshow from the commentators who were heartbroken that fulham imploded and had the anti united theme any time one of our players may or may not have left a bit on a fulham other player after which there's a highlighted debate. Glad we are through one game at a time. One downer is please, please, please stop playing McTominay he is nowhere near it. He doesn't break their play up and does nothing to get us up the pitch.
I honestly think Willian could have cleared that without the handball. If he'd jumped and lifted his knee he might have kept it out.
46 games in the amount of time there has a tally been for games is ridiculous. We would have effectively played almost a seasons worth of games by the first week of Feb in any normal season. Madness.
Break has come at just at the right time.
Break has come at just at the right time.
some people just like to moan…
I didn't feel the win was safe until 95.36 I think it was
Will Eriksen be back by then?
We are so lucky Fulham self destructed
3rd or 24th May
Don't forget we were missing our 2 best central midfielders in Erikson and Casemiro.
Thanks mate!
It doesn’t need to be that crazy ffs
Our 2 starting midfielders are injured, we are relying on 2 loan players
swap Weghorst for a good striker and sign a proper cm to compete for 1st team spot and we look solid
Wout runs around a lot. But hard to see how we push across the league and the final stages of two cups with such a non existent goal threat upfront week after week.
They both stepped in and stopped the Fulham players from making it worse for themselves.
They didn’t have to do that and it was a great piece of sportsmanship
Maybe me saying squad players is a bit confusing
What I meant was after Casemiro and Eriksen the drop off in creativity is massive
This needs sorting out in the summer, we can't count on Scott or Fred for creativity and Sab is a loan player
Very lucky, if we play like that against brighton, we wont see the final, our second string is S*** !!
They self destructed on the back of Sancho's chance for 1-1. As bad as we were we would have equalized at that moment if not for the hand ball.
They de-escalated the situation, as the military types say. Might have saved a couple of other players from getting carded.
Our passing has been steadily declining and appears to have fallen off a cliff lately!
When the team us constantly giving the ball away, having to put the additional effort to win it back is where the players exert themselves. I dont see how these players are going to get this back so I'm afraid the quality of games is going to deteriorate and then it comes to those one-off moments in the game that either go your way or the opposition.
When the team us constantly giving the ball away, having to put the additional effort to win it back is where the players exert themselves. I dont see how these players are going to get this back so I'm afraid the quality of games is going to deteriorate and then it comes to those one-off moments in the game that either go your way or the opposition.
Our two starting midfielders are the wrong side of 30 though. Very risky without any decent backup.
I think we need to be incredible this summer to compete for a title.
Agreed but someone asked me on here a while back and it was a good point
name any club apart from City that have better options on their bench
So weird of a match that was.
I railed against McTominay, Maguire, and Sancho with good reason for chunks of the match. But it wasn't for Sancho missing that golden opportunity after he ran around the Fulham goalkeeper, we would not have seen what has to be the biggest feck-up I have seen in a long time. The handball foul and the penalty were worth one legit red card, but I'm still
at Fulham for turning one red card into 3 red cards. LOLCOW OF THE DECADE!! I will take the W any day of the week, especially after how many matches we played in recent weeks. UrinatingTree's laugh sums it all for me about Fulham on that incident.
Really happy for Sabitzer after that winning goal. He deserves all of it for his hard work alongside a midfield black hole (McTominay).
I railed against McTominay, Maguire, and Sancho with good reason for chunks of the match. But it wasn't for Sancho missing that golden opportunity after he ran around the Fulham goalkeeper, we would not have seen what has to be the biggest feck-up I have seen in a long time. The handball foul and the penalty were worth one legit red card, but I'm still
at Fulham for turning one red card into 3 red cards. LOLCOW OF THE DECADE!! I will take the W any day of the week, especially after how many matches we played in recent weeks. UrinatingTree's laugh sums it all for me about Fulham on that incident.Really happy for Sabitzer after that winning goal. He deserves all of it for his hard work alongside a midfield black hole (McTominay).
Man of the Match
Runners-up
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20%
Bruno Fernandes
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10%
Antony
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9%
Lisandro Martinez
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5%
Jadon Sancho
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5%
Marcel Sabitzer
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1%
Harry Maguire
Player Ratings
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Compiled from 246 ratings.
Score Predictions
151,11,5
- Man Utd win
- Fulham win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 32% Man Utd 2:0 Fulham
- 26% Man Utd 2:1 Fulham
- 13% Man Utd 3:0 Fulham
- 10% Man Utd 3:1 Fulham
- 6% Man Utd 1:0 Fulham
- 3% Man Utd 1:2 Fulham
- 2% Man Utd 1:1 Fulham
- 2% Man Utd 3:2 Fulham
- 2% Man Utd 0:1 Fulham
- 2% Man Utd 0:2 Fulham
- 1% Man Utd 5:0 Fulham
- 1% Man Utd 2:2 Fulham
- 1% Man Utd 9:0 Fulham
- 1% Man Utd 4:0 Fulham
- 1% Man Utd 4:1 Fulham
Match Stats
- Man Utd
- Fulham
- Possession
- 56% 44%
- Shots
- 16 12
- Shots on Target
- 10 6
- Corners
- 6 7
- Fouls
- 10 7
Referee
Chris Kavanagh
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Fred
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