[izak]

We really missed Antony tonight, his hold up, dribble and link up play would have giving us an avenue to keep the ball better.
We have no striker to call off the bench, Rashford isn't it, the thought of Maguire coming on to play CF made it a more Ugly watch.

 

[JustinC00]

and still not qualify.

What are you on about? We qualified.

Look at the Red next to our name. Now look in the bottom right corner.

 

[Chief123]

I would say our performances against Omonia Nicosia are what decided the group. Only beating them 1-0 at home is what bugs me the most.

Again, it wasn’t. It was the poor officiating in the first game. If the first game was our 5th game we would all agree it was the poor VaR call that cost us the group.

 

[Berbasbullet]

What a mess of a second a mixture of united being poor, Real constantly going down and the ref ruined it.

 

[SemiPro]

Credit to Sociedad, their pressing was fantastic all night but our midfield really should have coped with it better. Eriksen had his worst game since Brentford and Donny was completely anonymous.

Really strange choices from the manager too. Think everyone can agree that Bruno is wasted on the right wing. And why play Rashford in the pocket?

Overall though the reason we aren’t top of the group is because of a very dubious penalty in the first game which is beyond frustrating.

 

[Beachryan]

I mean, we could blame the refs, or we could lack at our midfield who appeared to forget how to pass to each other. Or ETH, who played Fernandes out wide, Casemiro ahead of Eriksen and kept Ronaldo on for 90. Or Ronaldo, the ex-footballer.

Let's face it, we were terrible tonight. Yes, in both matches the gamesmanship is disgusting yadada. If refs allow Atelti to play their 'football' they'll certainly let this go.

 

[The Dane]

Sociedad never seemed like scoring but then again neither did we.
This United team is just too easy to defend against.

 

[Red the Bear]

Disappointing.

 

[DutchRed7]

I can't remember the last time I have been this excited about a talent like I am with Garnacho

 

[Samoerai Jack]

Eh, it was always going to be a tough game. Sociedad played rather well against a near impenetrable Man United. Unfortunately there are still too many players working in different directions. While VDB lacked match fitness, his runs and passes are what Ten Hag ball is all about. Also I'm not sure that Eriksen and Casimiro are a complementary coupling on the midfield. Would've much rather seen Eriksen where VDB was and vice versa.

 

[Tom Cato]

What?

Dont we need to play qualifier against a third from the CL groups? I just read something from the live commentary, im at the gym

 

[Reditus]

Played well in what was a tough game until the subs. Totally lost shape after

Disappointed but a win away in Spain is never a bad result, so that’s a positive

 

[siw2007]

Hard fought win away in Spain which should never be sniffed at but it wasn’t the result we needed. We defended brilliantly all game and after the 1st half showing I thought we would get the 2nd but it seemed we lost our way in the 2nd half. ETH has usually been great with his changes this season though tonight the change in system didn’t work.

We are still in the competition but hope that the draw is kind to us. Also hope we get Antony or Sancho back for Sunday as we need fresh legs and a bit more balance.

 

[King Eric 7]

Didn't know that Garnacho had attitude problems during preseason.

 

[The Firestarter]

Pretty bad to not go through from this group. Shame on everyone but Ten Hag

Where white text? Or you have been smoking whatever Erik had at HT

 

[DevTheRed]

Fernandes should’ve played centrally.. completely wasted on the right hand side. Strange decision.

 

[Chief123]

Very bad United game, possession of the ball was short and slow, many attacks were long balls.
1 shot on goal in the whole match.
And Real Sociedad with 7 Injured players , some of them very important.

I guess we’re into the last 16 having won 5 games unlike Barca entering having been battered in Europe. They will be entering with eye patches and busted lips.

 

[Zlaatan]

Poor performance overall and when we can't even send a decent cross in during the last 10-15min it's hard to say we deserved to win, let alone get top spot in the group. Sociedad makes a fecking mockery out of the game with all that shithousery though, hope they get thumped by about 9 goals in the next round.

 

[Todd]

Better hope we draw Sporting, Salzburg or Shaktar now. We'll have a chance against any of that lot.

Any of the other 5 clubs and we're going out.

 

[CallyRed]

Why a short corner there at the end there with Maguire and Ronaldo in the box and desperate for a goal?

The resistance to get the ball in the box at the end was shocking

 

[Gandalf Greyhame]

All those blaming EtH for the tactics, what can he do when the ref doesn't allow football to continue? He had to change because the ref was lost and was giving every single contact a yellow card to a United player. He had to adapt, and I'm very pleased he tried something different.

 

[Chief123]

Pretty bad to not go through from this group. Shame on everyone but Ten Hag

You do realise we’ve qualified right?

 

[Real Name]

We really missed Antony tonight, his hold up, dribble and link up play would have giving us an avenue to keep the ball better.
We have no striker to call off the bench, Rashford isn't it, the thought of Maguire coming on to play CF made it a more Ugly watch.

Where was he btw?

 

[ElectroManiac]

That was the most annoying part of the match. Awful decision making second half. Are we also the only team that doesn’t send the big goalie up for a last minute corner? Can’t remember us doing it for ages.

I don't understand why we are overdoing the short corner thing and that at the end is the most dumb moment to take a short corner

 

[King Eric 7]

I hope we get the toughest draw. We need to either knock the best out early or win this competition. Not go deep into it and lose the semi or final.

 

[The White Pele]

We really should have kept the formation similar with the subs and just freshened up the personnel.

If we had brought Rashford on from the left and moved Garnacho or Elanga to the right with Bruno going more central then I think we would have had more joy.

Shaw was having real trouble playing out because he seemed to have nobody ahead of him on the left to give an option.

It was all just really sloppy. Maguire up top, McTominay popping up on the right, just all over the place.

Disappointed in Ten Hag’s thinking on this occasion.

 

[TheNewEra]

Poor performance overall and when we can't even send a decent cross in during the last 10-15min it's hard to say we deserved to win, let alone get top spot in the group. Sociedad makes a fecking mockery out of the game with all that shithousery though, hope they get thumped by about 9 goals in the next round.

This is what bothers me the most, cant get down the wing and get in a cross. Have to cut back in all the time, its a piss take.

Casemiro, McTominay, Maguire, Ronaldo, Rashford all up top and can't even get a cross in.

Long punt from the midfield needs the ball heading down, so 2 actions instead of one.

 

[Glorio]

Don't think Bruno needed to highlight the early season Garnacho issue in the post match there. Apart from that, good interview.

Can't make sense of Rashford number 10 and Bruno on the wings

 

[brian017]

It’s crazy that the sole reason we have to play two extra games is because of that atrocious ref decision in the first game. There’s no other factors involved. Purely down to one incompetent man who we had no control over.

Only beating Omonia 3-2 and 1-0 had a factor in it too as it was the GD that was the tiebreaker in the end

 

[Tom Cato]

Where white text? Or you have been smoking whatever Erik had at HT

No it was worded like that in the live commentary on vg.no - im just repeating what I read, no need to be a phallos

 

[BeforeKeanetherewasRobson]

Sociedad never seemed like scoring but then again neither did we.
This United team is just too easy to defend against.

We scored?

 

[Red Royal]

A shame but in a strange way a 2 legged tie against a big team will be interesting.

 

[FriedClams]

Better hope we draw Sporting, Salzburg or Shaktar now. We'll have a chance against any of that lot.

Any of the other 5 clubs and we're going out.

Why bother trying at all?

 

[Shiva87]

Poor performance. Never put any real pressure on them.

They man marked Erikson and Casemeiro and we were done

 

[Rake]

We've been utter garbage for second game in a row... bizarre changes and tactics. I wish EtH played youth players instead of sticking Maguire as a striker.

Ref was shite, but he was not the reason we were barely able to string 2 passes together. The last corner we took just summed up the game for me.

 

[BeforeKeanetherewasRobson]

Only beating Omonia 3-2 and 1-0 had a factor in it too as it was the GD that was the tiebreaker in the end

Was it? Thought it was points then head to head?

 

[hellhunter]

Was it? Thought it was points then head to head?

Head to head was equal, so therefore GD

 

[AndySmith1990]

It’s crazy that the sole reason we have to play two extra games is because of that atrocious ref decision in the first game. There’s no other factors involved. Purely down to one incompetent man who we had no control over.

If we'd have scored more we would have topped the group. Considering how shit the teams in the group are and how much our squad is worth we only have ourselves to blame, not the ref

 

[MZX7]

Should have just put on more youngsters, Zodane Iqbal, Shoretire, Elanga, all of them. Surely they couldn't be worse than this lot.

The obligation to play Ronaldo will cost us a lot this season.

Also, Rashford is not half as talented as some of the caf make him out to be. Does not use his intelligence at all. Once he loses pace, he will have nothing left.

 

[DJ_21]

Embarrassing performance really… 4 shots all game. Should of just stuck to the 4-2-3-1 and we’d of destroyed them. Formation change cost us I think. Can tell the players weren’t use to playing it.