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Opposition fans in tears. Bruno conning refs. Ole's shameless Reds. We are BACK.

If Ole makes top 4 @ circa 70 points & thereabouts a final / winning a Trophy it’s no fluke & successful season for me. I’d still question his squad management (January signings shud’ve been in last summer) & players poss benefitting less pressure no crowds etc. But none of that matters- I’ll happily eat my words, you need luck. He’ll have produced, teams looking good, he deserves all the plaudits he gets & Kick on from there What I’d say Ole has benefitted from hugely (& I find bit sickening) is massive support from ex United players/pundits in the media. Massive underrated factor, kept there criticism down, the fans on side / pressure off Board & management team. Previous recent UTD Managers deserved more of that. FCK it though, don’t really care, enjoying watching UTD for 1st time in long time last Few wk’s - onwards & upwards

I think that, as a defensive unit (i.e. all XI players combined), we actually are pretty decent. Unfortunately, I can never discount the fact that one of the central trio -- Maguire, Lindelof and, for the last two seasons, De Gea -- always has a mistake in him. Maguire is lauded for his quality and composure on the ball -- which maybe the case if the barometer for comparison is archetypal English centre halfs of his mould -- but he just never inspires much confidence in me. I think the situation today from the 80th minute onwards is an example of where the likes of Rio and Vidic were unparalleled -- rock solid in fending off long balls and set pieces. I was not confident at any point that we would navigate through S'oton's attacking intent successfully. Perhaps I'm being a little too harsh on them, but I tend to have my heart in my mouth every time I see De Gea, Lindelof, and Maguire exchanging passes at the back. S'oton cordoned on to this with their high press and, mercifully, De Gea started to resort more towards long balls in the second half.

Tomorrow will be a big test of our mentality now. The past few years we've been horrible at taking advantage of our rivals slipping up, obviously we've done better in that since Janua..Bruno came in but tomorrow feels like a chance to show we've turned a real corner in that regard. Really can't afford to blow it now. Some weekend of results for us this weekend.

TM loves a good goal difference.

Any time you hammer a team with that wanker Pepe Reina in it, it’s a good day.

Clearly my stream is light years behind.

Was our best player up to that point. Showing more urgency than anyone. Had a great switch on the counter which would have led to a goal had Bruno got the pass right. I think you were on to something about his growth affecting his dribbling. He’s looked much more confident running at people since the break where he filled out his frame a bit. It’s crazy exciting. Rooney/Ronaldo days exciting.

Btw, been really impressed with Martial's pressing since the restart. He made the second goal by winning the ball in our own half.

Pogba tries that all the time and don't think he's gotten so much as a free kick. #BlackDivesMatter.

Anybody else been excited for this game since the Bournemouth game? like genuinely looking forward to it and been disappointed when you remember it's x amount of days away? First time in years i've had this feeling about United and our matches, the past few years it's been a sense of I have to watch it more than actually wanting to and it feeling like a chore. Not even just wanting us to win but actually excited to watch us play too. It makes a nice change. With all that been said bet we end up fucking losing tomorrow now

We are who we thought we were it seems... still can't get over the hump no matter how much flattering to deceive we do. It is amazing how we've gone from top 4 being a pipe dream to being a disaster if we don't get it, there has been progress but it would be catastrophic to miss out now and I genuinely fear we might

For now as I understand this UEFA can actually appeal this decision to the Swiss Tribunal (Swiss public Court) If they have case to over run the CAS verdict then they should and Tebas at La Liga (say what you will about La LIga) that CAS is not fit for purpose. Expect the continental leagues Spain, Italy, Germany, to pressure UEFA to appeal this CAS verdict to that Swiss court it will remain to be seen if UEFA has the back bone to do so. If UEFA wants have glimmer of hope to keep its credibility and legitimacy then they appeal this CAS decision if they don't actually care about their reputation they don´t. With that said If UEFA lose all credibility and legitimacy then I cannot see how UEFA champions League and UEFA Europa League can continue to function as legitimate tournaments if the body organizing them has lost all legitimacy and credibility.Would be funny if UEFA were forced to announce that they cannot run these tournaments going forward and the European club football would case to exist and then the arabs would be left with no European football as the tournament the tried so hard to stay had to be abolished since they fought so hard to stay in them and in the progress managed to render them meaningless. But there is a deadly global pandemic on going so travel restrictions could be reimposed in the autumn on the short notice so we could very easily find us all with no european football some time next season. We can continue to thank UEFA for destroying fabric of football by abolishing Cup Winners Cup as it continues to turn out be a horrendous decision. So club like Arsenal started to settle for 4th place bullshit instead of aiming to win the domestic league and cups and in the long run that approach hurt them dearly, and we have seen this crap creep in by United fans ever since SAF retired and most would have expected United to cool of insteed of hit the ground running (and we all knew that United was running the risk of repeating some of the mistake United did post-Busby and they have). This so called elite cartel man city underdog mongs speak nicely about only ever "started" after CWC was abolished as there was no constant top four prior to that.

I was very impressed tonight tbf. He probably should have scored that 1 vs 1. But I think that big hand from McCarthy was better than most people realise. Good assist, great goal, almost scored a sensational individual goal, and also set up Rashford for another chance.

Bottled that didn't we

Absolutely superb hold up from Martial

Sod fourth, I want third. And the Europa League trophy.

Ludicrous that they won't televise all games when you literally can't attend them. Obviously not profitable. Fuck there are some countries that do show all games. Fans don't matter.

Lay off the spice.

SOMEONE TELL ME THE GOAL DIFFERENCE!!!!!

You’re still not even clear of the James debacle, tbf...

Spot on. Particularly the bold.

20 goals and 15 in the league is a pretty decent return so far all things considered, all from open play and for the first part of the season he was supplied by the likes of Lingard and Andreas worth remembering he missed two months of the season too. He's improved his hold up play and work rate this season too imo and links up well with our other forwards and Pogba and Bruno and also allows us to play a pretty fluid front three with him Greenwood and Rashford all capable of interchanging positions. Scored against City and Chelsea home and away Think he's earned himself another season at least as our main striker tbh especially when there's such a dearth of strikers at the moment available who would be an upgrade, better off been patient and seeing what the options are in a season or two and how Mason develops in that time through the middle rather then buying for the sake of buying. He's more then capable of scoring 20-25 goals again next season with Pogba, Bruno and possibly Sancho supplying him. I actually liked that he was pissed off coming off last night, even though the game was won it should a hunger for goals that he's often been accused of not having, was nice to see imo. Think there are areas in the squad that need addressing more urgently then replacing Martial right now, especially off the back his best season as he should now be entering some of his best years.

Chatting shite.

Future Ballon d’Or winner

Dejected after that, could and should have finished them off earlier on in the game with some better finishing from Martial and Rashford. We couldn't handle the press, they didn't allow us to work our way out and we resorted to hoofing it long which isn't going to be ideal with our forward line not exactly being target men. In the last twenty minutes we just got deeper and deeper, changes didn't really make much of a difference and of course the injury to Shaw and then Williams didn't help. I think we all considered this to be the toughest game before Leicester and i kinda think even given the form a draw would have been acceptable beforehand given their good form but to mess it up like that especially when we had the chance toe cement our place in 3rd. Now we're still in 5th which does fuck all for us.

We won't score another goal between now and the end of the season.

Genuinely feel sick.

@MikeM EXACTLY why we need depth - losing Pogba then Bruno turned us into a Pub team. Not that Pogba was sparkling before that but he’s always capable of something....

What a shambles. Sums up second half performance

What a block

That top speed stat. @TheManc in absolute shambles.

Turncoat prick.

It's been overturned. No ban. UEFA has lost all credibility and legitimacy. This is our world. It doesn't matter what you do just what you can pay.

Drop it, hef. We weren't buying your shit when it came to Bale, and it's no different now with Rambo.

Why do none of his coaches or teammates from United, Juventus or France see this toxic character? Not counting the wonderfully pure Mourinho of course...

Chelsea are just awful. Which means we are guaranteed to go out to them in the Cup.

If we make top 4 and or win a trophy, Ed better not give Ole a new fuckin contract. Its never worked out for us to give managers new contracts after one small success. It barely worked for Ole the first time..

The guy can’t win he? He’s clearly enjoying his football and was unlucky not to score last night.

Lord Bendtner isn't retired yet, mate?

First team in premier league history to win 4 games in a row by 3+ goals. Another very good win and another game we were comfortable in without even been at our best which was great to see. Could have been 5 or 6 easily too tbh. So much to like about this team at the moment. Good to get another clean sheet too, surprisingly enough we have one of the best defences in Europe this season in all competitions All in all another good night. Looking forward to the next game again already

AWB always conspires not to score.

Greenwood is honestly a joke, such a talent. Scary to think he's still eligible to be playing under 18s football this season. Martial did brilliant in the build up too.

Bakes a mean Red Velvet, too!

Contract ‘n’ Chill

Took the money and ran. Ed played like a fiddle.

Vindaloo is some low level concoction for the West. There's some real arse burners out there.

Walker randomly not starting two games in a row. Misses the most nailed on clean sheet of the season. My great form ded. Pep is the ff killer. De Bruyne doing fuck all as captain too.

Done this to Mustafi last night. Deemed an accident. All the love he gets is nauseating. He seems to be a genuinely vile piece of shit on and off the pitch. His wife too. You can just tell that if he wasn't in football he'd be one of those brexiting cunts on twitter with the st. georges/union jack flags giving out about Muslims and calling Covid a hoax. Clearly knew what he was doing. Absolute scum. If he isn't banned someone should snap his legs. Liability.

The EFL are a fucking disgrace. Fans of all clubs should actually boycott the league for what's happening here. They have owned the club for a few weeks and there was evidence of dodgy loans being taken out by them prior to the takeover - What the fuck is that "fit and proper" test supposed to weed out if not such obvious crooks? The whole game is gone. If clubs aren't a money laundering operation they're used for state propaganda or United's case a cosy source of profit. The sport is being destroyed by these parasites and the governing bodies are quite happy to go along with it so long as they get rich too. Mass executions the only answer.