My biggest issue is still how little thrust we have as a team going forward. If it's not Amad combining and occassionally Bruno, there's essentially 0 pass and move in the entire team. It's static as feck. Mainoo and the other CM's are just happy to circulate the ball aimlessly and jog around in possession. Defenders apart from Martinez just shuttle it side to side. And then eventually the onus is on Bruno to play a long ball, or Amad to make something happen on his side because god knows our LWB won't do anything.
EL W Europa League Match Day 7
Manchester United 2:1 Rangers
Post-match discussion
Thu, 23 January 2025
Mate you are Man United. You should have hammered us. Standards are plummeting at Old Trafford.
Poor performance against a Scottish side.
Athletic Bilbao who got battered 4-1 to Ole's Besiktas and Lazio are the 2 best performing sides. United and Spurs are the 2 favourites and biggest names by far. After them you have... Lyon? Frankfurt who just sold their best player? Rangers are 13th/36 sides, so by definition... Yes one of the better sides. Anderlecht and Steaua Bucharest?No they're not at all. Look at the table
The Europa league is filled with mediocre sides this season, unless we get drawn to Spurs, Bilbao or Lazio, we'll be playing against Rangers level opposition.
How many individual errors do we have that lead to goals? While I’m probably exaggerating it feels like at least one a game.
Good to see this man happy to see the club he managed beat the team he played for.
Like I said, standards are plummeting.
Desperately need someone to finish off guilt-edge chances, like from 5 yards. Thank God for Bruno but he simply.ply cannot be the only one to bail this team out?
Played well in parts, but against a below average Rangers side, just don't think we will progress beyond the last 26 unless some major players come in (they won't) so it's no Europa league next season!
Played well in parts, but against a below average Rangers side, just don't think we will progress beyond the last 26 unless some major players come in (they won't) so it's no Europa league next season!
This reminds me of the LVG era.
So slow, so predictable, obsessed with passing back and passing around at the back.
We can’t finish, we want to sell our exciting players and we can’t keep a clean sheet as defenders and keepers are prone to mistakes.
At least we won so yay.
So slow, so predictable, obsessed with passing back and passing around at the back.
We can’t finish, we want to sell our exciting players and we can’t keep a clean sheet as defenders and keepers are prone to mistakes.
At least we won so yay.
They’ve already plummeted my friend. Only way is up.
The entire Rangers starting XI together cost less than Højlund. Transfermarkt has the entire 30 man squad as €81 million.
Yes, that is the story of the season so far. The rest of the season is going to continue to be desperate grind while we have so few goal providers.
Thought we were decent, which I'll take at the moment.
Controlled most of the game and could have scored 5/6 goals with a decent striker.
Controlled most of the game and could have scored 5/6 goals with a decent striker.
Rangers fans still in the ground, when let out hopefully they don't look to wreck the city centre again.
I couldn't believe how slow United were in possession. It looks like a massive lack of confidence?
They don’t like Celtic very much.
It wasn’t a good performance but should have won comfortably. This disallowed goal was ridiculous but poor finishing and another terrible individual error made hard work of it.
Bloody glad we've got Bruno.
Legend!
Legend!
Yeah you’re crazy.
we absolutely desperately need a striker even a half decent loan to see us through to may
Desperately needed that injury time winner from Bruno. Should’ve been comfortable before they equalised, which every single one of us knew was coming after missing some chances and not having enough urgency.
Looking at the Bruno celebration. Who was that guy who barged into Bruno as he went to the crowd? Hojlund shoved him away and he kinda walked off after that.
And Man United is another one of those mediocre sides in the EL. If we win it, there ain't gonna be nothing about it.
Let's not forget this was far from their best and available team so this confidence coming outta nowhere is amusing to me.
Enjoyed that game, kind of a mad one. We struggled to maintain pressure still but we also had some good spells, second half in particular. Plenty of rough edges but nothing like the recent home defeats in the league.
Having spoilers in the most random of places really pisses me off. I remember some random yank cnut talking about football spoiled The Walking Dead for me
Huh? I'm saying we should've won by about 5 goals today if we could finish. And I'm saying play similarly but just finish better and we would be entirely fine in this competition. As of now we are favourites for the competition, and rightfully so, as we are actually capable of lifting our game to a level that not a single other team in the competition is capable of doing. The consistency problems that plague us in the league don't really apply in cup competitions, which is why we've done well in cups the past few seasons (and again this season).
We'll find out soon enough.
Massive relief! Overall, we were the better team and deserved our win, but it was dramatic. We were on the end of another poor refereeing decision with a shocking call to disallow De Ligt’s goal. We got the lead, but blew so many chances and eventually were punished. You knew that there would be Rangers fans in the home end but it was shocking to see what felt like a third of the stand being from the opposition team and jumping up when they scored. So after Bruno’s brilliant winner, it felt euphoric to stick to in their faces!
We weren't bad but certainly not great.Deserved the win, but made hard work of it as usual.
Was at the game. Too slow second half. Too effing slow. Rangers are crap and there for the taking.
On another note, way too many Rangers fans where I was sitting. There was a bit of bother when Rangers scored.
United have got to stop this happening.
On another note, way too many Rangers fans where I was sitting. There was a bit of bother when Rangers scored.
United have got to stop this happening.
Yeah, there are probably strikers in the Championship who would give us more goal threat then we have now.
Nice to see someone else's keeper have a howler for a change.
We need to win our final match to assure ourselves of going straight into the final 16 now.
Either way, I think our ceiling in this competition is final 8. Eventually we'll run into an opponent that can convert their chances, and then it's curtains for us.
We need to win our final match to assure ourselves of going straight into the final 16 now.
Either way, I think our ceiling in this competition is final 8. Eventually we'll run into an opponent that can convert their chances, and then it's curtains for us.
We played against a bunch of kids in the second half
I was on a tram on the way to the game with a load of drunk Rangers fans and their sectarian anti-Irish/Catholic chanting caused me to get off and catch another tram.
So in answer to your question I saw yes to vile and racist.
There is no chance that this slow passing we have in possession is not by design. All the freking time. It has been going on for so long. Are we trying to put oppos (and fans) to sleep? Football is supposed to be fun.
Genuinely got the wrong thread
fortunately it was cryptic enough for you not to realise what happened
Mmm. Strange game. We missed a host of chances. Deligt's goal was unlucky to be disallowed. Maguire didn't look quite fit. Collyer was good, certainly got a lot of energy. We really do need a centre forward but it there were spurned chances by loads of 'em, I think the anxiety makes them snatch at those chances. We win a couple of games, those chances will be taken
Man of the Match
Provisional results
Runners-up
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13%
Alejandro Garnacho
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12%
Lisandro Martinez
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3%
Toby Collyer
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3%
Altay Bayindir
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3%
Christian Eriksen
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3%
Amad Diallo
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1%
Diogo Dalot
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1%
Harry Maguire
Player Ratings
Provisional results
Total Average Rating
Highest Rated Player
Lowest Rated Player
Compiled from 152 ratings.
Score Predictions
120,30,23
- Man Utd win
- Rangers win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 24% Man Utd 2:1 Rangers
- 16% Man Utd 2:0 Rangers
- 12% Man Utd 3:0 Rangers
- 9% Man Utd 1:1 Rangers
- 7% Man Utd 1:2 Rangers
- 6% Man Utd 3:1 Rangers
- 5% Man Utd 1:0 Rangers
- 3% Man Utd 2:2 Rangers
- 2% Man Utd 4:0 Rangers
- 2% Man Utd 0:1 Rangers
- 2% Man Utd 1:3 Rangers
- 2% Man Utd 3:2 Rangers
- 2% Man Utd 0:2 Rangers
- 2% Man Utd 1:4 Rangers
- 1% Man Utd 0:0 Rangers
- 1% Man Utd 4:1 Rangers
- 1% Man Utd 2:3 Rangers
- 1% Man Utd 4:2 Rangers
- 1% Man Utd 5:0 Rangers
- 1% Man Utd 0:3 Rangers
- 1% Man Utd 5:1 Rangers
- 1% Man Utd 0:5 Rangers
- 1% Man Utd 0:9 Rangers
- 1% Man Utd 3:3 Rangers
Match Stats
- Man Utd
- Rangers
- Overall possession
- 67% 33%
- Shots
- 16 11
- Shots on target
- 6 7
- Total touches in the box
- 29 12
- Goalkeeper saves
- 6 5
- Fouls
- 10 14
- Corners
- 7 5
Referee
Erik Lambrechts
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Harry Maguire
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replaced by Tyrell Malacia
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replaced by Kobbie Mainoo
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replaced by Manuel Ugarte
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replaced by Rasmus Hojlund
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