[norm87cro]

1 Cavani, 2 Greenwood 3 Pogba and a fantastic mention to Henderson

 

[Member 58925]

Let’s get the one negative out of the way first: Kavanagh was abysmal, just like his performance as VAR when we played Chelsea away.

And now on to the positives! We had an indifferent start where we and Spurs cancelled each other out for the first 10 minutes, before we grew into the game and were much the better team. We poured forward at sublime intensity against a team who brought on a DM (Sissoko) for an AM (Lo Celso) while drawing at home. Robbed by the ref and Spurs (Son and Rodon in particular) were absolute cheats, but even that served as a positive as Ole probably used that to light a fire in us to win the game.

Analysing each player man for man:

Henderson - Terrific and should definitely be our number 1 at least next season now. Clearly a good shot stopper who will only get better, but his proactiveness and distribution is genuinely admirable. De Gea is a club legend and in his prime was possibly an equal to Schmeichel in terms of shot stopping, but Dean’s proactiveness and distribution is already better than DDG’s ever was.

Defence - All solid, and Luke Shaw is just so, so good. I’m so happy he showed it against Mourinho’s team as well instead of wilting (he doesn’t wilt). Imagine bullying a 20 year old just off an awful leg break because he was at fault for one goal against Watford.

Midfield - McFred was iffy in the first half, but both were excellent both on and off the ball in the second. Fred following in to score was fantastic too. Bruno once again was extremely direct and Pogba, wow, keeping him is as important as getting Sancho. Sublime player. Have him in the double pivot against lesser teams, but give him a free role against any top side, and he will be the best player. Caf mods, I’m requesting 11/10 ratings on the player ratings

Attack - Rashford was not there at all today unfortunately and we looked better with Mason, whose cameo was genuinely one of the best United sub appearances I can remember for a long, long while. Cavani was poor until his disallowed goal, and from there, he turned into Napoli and pre-2020 PSG Cavani. A world class performance by a genuine legend who was clearly fuming that his first goal was disallowed. Class.

10/10 ratings for Henderson, Shaw, Pogba, Greenwood and Cavani.

Much more important IMO.

 

[Crustanoid]

Great that this thread is actually getting a lot of posts after a win

 

[Solius]

That second half was unreal. Such fantastic play. Pogba imperious.

 

[SirMattlives]

Wish Son would be asked on live TV to explain why he rolled around on the floor for more than a minute. Even if we have to swallow the goal being ruled out, his antics were ridiculous. Watching the replay you can see him still face down in 'agony' after the ball is in the net and the Spurs players are surrounding ref. Unless players are called out on this publicly, it's never going to go away.

But on the match...well, I have to say the satisfaction after that comeback is mighty. Justice served.

 

[Buchan]

Thought Henderson was great again today. People still questioning why he's getting a run of games starting in the PL surely have to be changing their opinions after that performance.

He's decisive and dominates his defence, which reassures them.

His communication is fantastic too, it must be noted. Watching games without the artificial crowd noise recently and he’s often heard marshalling the defence and being generally commanding. It cannot be underestimated how important that is when you have a ‘keeper with the presence and confidence to pull it off well. Well in, Deano!

 

[Okey]

Not sure how I didn't get in trouble at work watching that. The buzz is still through the roof. Bags of character. Oodles of self belief. One of our best results in recent times considering the circumstances. Can't speak highly enough of the boys tonight.

 

[AndyMUFC]

Justice done after that first goal. Brilliant second half and Pogba was terrific.

 

[The Brown Bull]

Enjoyed that immensely.
Well done lads.
Cavani my motm.

 

[DavidDeSchmikes]

The most satisfying win of the season so far

 

[NoLogo]

Great comeback, despite the bullshit happening in half 1, great stuff from the lads.

 

[United Hobbit]

I can't find Ole's interview anywhere, did he moan about the dodgy VAR decisions in the first half?

It was the most fired up I've seen him, so hopefully he does despite our win

 

[SwedishFish]

That is all.

 

[DavidDeSchmikes]

 

[Judas]

Ole literally saying "games gone" over the disallowed goal

 

[mu4c_20le]

Ole smiling and laughing as he destroys the ref

 

[Ramshock]

Lads can we have a moment of reflection for the plastics and their fallen toxic idol?

 

[El Zoido]

Ole is killing it in this interview.

 

[12OunceEpilogue]

That was a great second half of football, my hats off to the lads. They showed strength, character, and presaverance, it was me I would have gone out the second half and tried to break Son's leg. That was as rewarding of a win as I have seen in some time. So angry at half time and then so happy at full time.

That was very pleasing. They could have gone out moaning and bitter but they went about their business so well. Credit to the players and to the coaches.

 

[RUCK4444]

Ole classic interview!! Need a gif of when he said ‘this is how I run’ with his arms flapping around

‘If my son goes down like that and has ten of his mates helping him up then he’s not getting any food!’

 

[Rolaholic]

Glorious

 

[Irrational.]

Love Ole’s post match interview for once!

 

[Jaqen H'ghar]

What a brilliant second half performance. Pogba, Cavani, Shaw, Mason all excellent, Henderson commanding, the defence much stronger as a unit and the midfield dusted themselves off after a poor half and worked their way back into the game.

I must say I’m getting a bit sick of Ole in his post-match laughing off the questions about our poor first halves and coming from behind, if we fecking played like that from the off we’d blow most teams out of the water. The contrast between halves this season has been ludicrous and I’d love to see us start matches more positively.

That said, I’m absolutely delighted with another comeback win, where we left the bitterness of the perceived wrongs from the first half in the past and got on with dismantling that shower of fecking pricks.

Where's the fun in that?

As a kid my favourite superhero was the incredible Hulk. Now I support United. Coincidence? Probably not.

 

[Ramshock]

That is all.

feck me spurs version of troopz is worse than troopz

 

[Ramshock]

Love Ole’s post match interview for once!

why what was wrong with his other ones?

 

[sglowrider]

We were always in control of the match. We always knew we could step up a gear when we needed.

 

[Ramshock]

feckin love it

 

[DomesticTadpole]

Glorious

 

[Jazz]

Ole classic interview!! Need a gif of when he said ‘this is how I run’ with his arms flapping around

‘If my son goes down like that and has ten of his mates helping him up then he’s not getting any food!’

It was hilarious

 

[calodo2003]

That is all.

More contrived horseshit like AFTV?

 

[RUCK4444]

It was hilarious

His best interview without doubt.

 

[dave1956]

Slightly off the main theme of the match but why is a referee who was born in Manchester allowed to Referee a game involving a Manchester Club. I thought you were not allowed but seems rules have changed.

 

[12OunceEpilogue]

Where's the fun in that?

As a kid my favourite superhero was the incredible Hulk. Now I support United. Coincidence? Probably not.

Yeah 28 points from losing positions is a bit weak, more handicapping ourselves next year please

 

[calodo2003]

Someone please post the interview.

 

[Irrational.]

why what was wrong with his other ones?

It’s about time he started calling out the refs and having digs at the opposition. The only other time I’ve seen him like this was when he was complaining about the fixture congestion. He needs to moan more just like Klopp and Pep do, and maybe more things will start going his way. His interviews are usually too ‘vanilla’.

 

[Tony247]

What did he say. I have turned over to watch the Arsenal game?

He said if his son did what Son did, i mean play acting, then he will not get food that night.

 

[Heinzesight]

Keane championing Keane or Haaland.

 

[Ladron de redcafe]

Glorious

That's beautiful. There were another couple of funny shots when Mourinho approached Shaw and looked pallid, while Ole was giggling and excited as he too, approached Shaw.

 

[Redfrog]

Ole must have given one inspirational half time team talk.

He is good at it ! We won 28 points from loosing position this season ! That’s great !

 

[buckooo1978]

one of the most enjoyable wins of the season.

Watched with the crowd noise off and the screaming from Spurs players was infuriating. Son laying like he'd been hit around the head with a baseball bat from McTominay did nothing for my mood.

Spurs have become a perfect representation of their wanker manager.

United superb that second half - brilliant boys - let's see a bit more of that the next couple of months