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Manchester United 3:1 Southampton

Post-match discussion


Thu, 16 January 2025

I feel confused, happy, sad, delighted and disappointed. Yes im confused! Amad, how on earth has he not been played until this season, blow my mind.

Hopefully the win we needed to kick start in the league again. Hopefully we start playing from the start. Hopefully other players decide to actually turn up.
 
Embarrassing performance. Nearly every single player needs to take a good long look in the mirror and decide if they want to play here. Amad of course excepted.
 
We were horrific.

Do we carry on thinking the problem is lack of time to implement five at the back? At what point do we say the problem is the formation itself?
 
Team was exhausted and everyone underperformed. Credit to Amorim replacing our worst performers throughout the match and the performance picked up.

Amad had a poor game IMO till about the 70th minute, but hey, do that every week and score a hat trick lad. Quality came through.
 
Credit to Amad obviously but the changes the manager made were brilliant - Zirkzee, Collyer, Eriksen all brilliant coming on

Mainoo and Hojlund deserve to be benched on that snowing
 
That was the Amad show. De Ligt, Onana and Zirkzee with good games. Eriksen with a great cameo/assist.

So many question marks over some players though. Garnacho just has no football intelligence. Feel like we need an entirely new left side.
 
I was bellyaching for most of that we needed to get our wingbacks forward. Low and behold we did and our right wing back scores a hat-trick and wins us the game. Don't hold it against me for feeling more than a little self-satisfied amongst all the relief.

The kid's alright ain't he that Amad?
 
Amorim has already spelled out where we come up short and lo and behold, he's being completely transparent. Yoro was torn to shreds and they targeted that chipped pass over Mazraoui too to a decent effect. Our possession game in the final third is super poor. We are still a counter attacking team and it'll take a while for Amorim to turn us into a progressive side.

Amad amazing. De Ligt the other standout performer I thought.

Great subs. Antony though, ffs.
 
Needed 3 points awful first 55 mins. Improved when zirkzee and collyer came on. Zirkzee must start the next game. Amadonna bailing us out again. Beautiful little fecker
 
What a difference Zirkzee made! Great hattrick. Midfield bad today (tirsdag?).
De ligt didnt step up like a leader like warranted pre game. Too many slow sideways..
 
a mixture of happiness and relief
Amad did well, what a player, always worked and I've seen him play better in other games. De Ligt did well, shout out to the subs Zirkzee and Collyer. Yoro struggled and I don't think Mazraoui is a wingback, better as a RCB imo.

Horrible game, great fightback

LET'S NEVER SPEAK OF THOSE 80 MINUTES AGAIN
 
Well, a game of 2 halves, 80 minutes and the last ten.
Brilliant Amad.
We were bad for a lot of that, but the refereeing team almost helped to micro-manage a Southampton win.
 
The introduction of Zirkzee and Collyer changed that game for us tonight.
 
Its been a long time since we've had one of these matches.

Reminds me of the Fergie days. Especially at OT, we'd play poorly for the majority of the match, but you knew we'd always win it in the end.
 
Shocking really. Zirkzee coming on changed the game in our favour but it still took Amad being unleashed for us to really do anything. He’s so far above every performer we’ve had all season, he’s virtually a 1 man team.

Amorim didn’t set us up right and should take some blame for that but his subs were positive and did change the game.
 
Where we need to be on th efront foot, Zirkzee is a better option than rasmus.

But what we need more than anything is an actual 20 goal striker. More than wing backs, more than goalies or midfielders.

If we can only have one new signing, it has to be someone to put the ball in the net.
 
I think the only positive that I see with United is Amad nailing down the right AM or RWB role. Hat trick in 14 mins to save this game. I think Zirkzee needs to start ahead of Hoijund. Zirkzee offers alot more to our game with distribution then Hoijund who practically does nothing almost all the games. How can Amorim continue to start Hoijund is beyond me?
 

Man of the Match

Provisional results
Amad Diallo image Amad Diallo 96% of 325 votes

Runners-up

Player Ratings

Provisional results
5.8 Total Average Rating

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Score Predictions

177,6,6
  • Man Utd win
  • Southampton win
  • Draw

Detailed Results

  • 30% Man Utd 3:0 Southampton
  • 29% Man Utd 2:0 Southampton
  • 10% Man Utd 3:1 Southampton
  • 9% Man Utd 4:0 Southampton
  • 7% Man Utd 2:1 Southampton
  • 6% Man Utd 1:0 Southampton
  • 3% Man Utd 1:1 Southampton
  • 2% Man Utd 4:1 Southampton
  • 1% Man Utd 2:3 Southampton
  • 1% Man Utd 1:2 Southampton
  • 1% Man Utd 0:0 Southampton
  • 1% Man Utd 5:0 Southampton
  • 1% Man Utd 0:2 Southampton
  • 1% Man Utd 5:1 Southampton
  • 1% Man Utd 6:0 Southampton
  • 1% Man Utd 1:3 Southampton
Compiled from 189 predictions.
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Match Stats

  1. Man Utd
  2. Southampton
Overall possession
58.7% 41.3%
Shots
23 13
Shots on target
9 5
Total touches in the box
48 18
Goalkeeper saves
5 6
Fouls
7 10
Corners
5 4

Referee

John Brooks