2022/2023: PL MD5 - Leicester v Man Utd

[kevthebad 861]

If Ronaldo had scored that it would have been a killer.

[O 20,315]

Now that there's some space, we look dangerous.

All we can do is counter.

[Albert Quixall 3,757]

Crawling our way up the table inch by inch.

[1Day 104]

Vardy for Fred

[O 20,315]

Jermaine Jenas is sucking off Ronaldo and also thinks we should play like Spurs moving forward.

 

[kevthebad 861]

Bruno only had to hit the ball in the middle 

[rezzy 4,622]

"Your wife is a grass..."

 

[Albert Quixall 3,757]

Just now, O said:

Jermaine Jenas is sucking off Ronaldo and also thinks we should play like Spurs moving forward.

 

Spurs when he played for them?

[O 20,315]

Bruno has been awful and they sing his name.

We honestly don't deserve success.

[rezzy 4,622]

Ronaldo greed nearly costing us there.

[1Day 104]

Ronaldo nearly Newcastled Utd

[rezzy 4,622]

Still a lot to improve on.

Getting Casemiro and Antony into the starting XI is desperately required. Getting Martial fit also.

[kevthebad 861]

Phew! Glad we got over the line. Arsenal game will be the real test though!

[O 20,315]

Undeserved win again. But better than Southampton.

That ball needed to fall to anyone but James Justin.

We could have had 2 points instead of 6.

That's 2 games in a row where we've lost control in the 2nd half.

 

 

[Albert Quixall 3,757]

5th.

[TFIA 14,888]

We’re still pretty shit tbh but we’re much more solid defensively. Not enough goals in that starting XI. The subs calmed us down a bit. 

Huge game on Sunday now. I’d probably go with the same team with Casemiro starting instead of Scott.

[O 20,315]

Just now, TFIA said:

We’re still pretty shit tbh but we’re much more solid defensively. Not enough goals in that starting XI. The subs calmed us down a bit. 

Huge game on Sunday now. I’d probably go with the same team with Casemiro starting instead of Scott.

Had we conceded the 1st goal in either game, I think we fall apart.

Getting their noses in front has given them a bit of pride in keeping clean sheets. You can see that the defensive unit want to keep goals out. Celebrating tackles and clearances.

It's a bit like 1-0 to the Arsenal under George Graham.

[TheManc 4,007]

DDG - 7. Did well.

Dalot - 7.5. Was good i thought

Varane - 7.5. Looking really good

Martinez - 7 was ok

Malacia - 7 was ok

Eriksen - 6 - Average. Never MOTM.

McTomminay - 7.5. My MOTM

Bruno - 6.5 Was crap up until the last 20

Elanga - 5. Crap.

Sancho - 7. Average bar the goal

Rashford - 6. Crap minus the assist and one cross.

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Casamiro - I thought he gave the ball away a few times tbh? 

Fred - w/e

Ronaldo - Pretty poor tbh

 

3 minutes ago, O said:

Had we conceded the 1st goal in either game, I think we fall apart.

Getting their noses in front has given them a bit of pride in keeping clean sheets. You can see that the defensive unit want to keep goals out. Celebrating tackles and clearances.

It's a bit like 1-0 to the Arsenal under George Graham.

I'm loving that tbh. Reminds me of Juventus/Italy.

8 minutes ago, O said:

Undeserved win again. But better than Southampton.

That ball needed to fall to anyone but James Justin.

We could have had 2 points instead of 6.

That's 2 games in a row where we've lost control in the 2nd half.

 

 

I think we definitely deserved the win but it was largely because of his shite Leicester were, especially in the first half. If we had ounce of quality in the final third, we win that easy.

Not a good performance though. Objectively it was an awful game.

[John Locke 1,142]

The second half was much worse. Many times we couldn't done them on the counter but our execution was poor. I guess we might've been thinking a bit conservatively given we lost our opening games. 

[nirav 1,110]

No control of the game once we score. Better team will pick us off. 

Some nice passage of play but mostly l chances coming through counter attacks. Huge improvement required to achieve top 4.

[PVAD 4,370]

7 minutes ago, O said:

That's 2 games in a row where we've lost control in the 2nd half.

 

Fully agree with this. The starts are promising but teams can stretch us and we only have the counter to play with. 

I'm not knocking 3 wins on the spin though, god we needed that, but like I said earlier there are about 5 players that can't control an entire match or have massive lapses.

Casa and Antony will be in for Mctominay and Elanga I'd say but Rashford Eriksen and Fernandes all look ropey.

We can stick in Martial for Rashford (who would have thought) and VDB for Eriksen but Fernandes at this stage is basically undroppable irrespective of how he plays.

[Deez Nutz 324]

Leicester are far too good to be bottom of the table.

We Lack goals, Rashford has the movement, but no finish, and you can't trust Martial, Big spend on strikers needed next summer. 

[O 20,315]

6 minutes ago, TheManc said:

DDG - 7. Did well.

Dalot - 7.5. Was good i thought

Varane - 7.5. Looking really good

Martinez - 7 was ok

Malacia - 7 was ok

Eriksen - 6 - Average. Never MOTM.

McTomminay - 7.5. My MOTM

Bruno - 6.5 Was crap up until the last 20

Elanga - 5. Crap.

Sancho - 7. Average bar the goal

Rashford - 6. Crap minus the assist and one cross.

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Casamiro - I thought he gave the ball away a few times tbh? 

Fred - w/e

Ronaldo - Pretty poor tbh

 

I'm loving that tbh. Reminds me of Juventus/Italy.

I think we definitely deserved the win but it was largely because of his shite Leicester were, especially in the first half. If we had ounce of quality in the final third, we win that easy.

Not a good performance though. Objectively it was an awful game.

The same could be said for them.

We only created 2 solid chances all game. The goal and the Ronaldo pass to Eriksen, which would have been a tap-in.

We had an xG of 1.02 by HT and they had just 0.03 by then. It finished 1.26 to 0.55 in our favour. The Sancho goal was obviously a high quality chance. But they fought back well in the 2nd half and could have nicked a draw from the Maddison free kick or Justin at the death.

 

[Alexander 225]

Disheartening performance. There's literally no hope.

Sancho didn't once try and take on his man, he never fucking does. Never a winger. Honestly reminds me of Ashley Young.

Rashford running so fast he can't sort out his legs and then when does so he scuffs his shot. This is right after he spends the entire first half pretending he's Berbatov instead of stretching that defense with his pace.

Elanga can't win a duel to save his life. Nothingn player.

Bruno, as awful as he is brilliant.

Commentators pretending Ronaldo is still remotely close to world class, in spite of the evidence before them just compound what a stupid signing that was. It's a circus even when he behaves well. He's a huge threat when he's in the box, but outside of that he's hopeless.

Martinez recovered well but he was getting bullied by Vardy physically in the first half, which is just wrong. Still and upgrade on Maguire.  I thought he did well, in spite of those warning signs. I like the partnership between him and Varane. The latter is the only saving grace. Rolly Royce.

As upsetting as this is to the lot of you, Malacia has been rubbish at going forward, zero threat, if he keeps this up Shaw will be back in the team. I have time for Dalot, he's getting better defensively.

McTominay is not good enough. I didn't enjoy Casemiro on the ball, I suspect that part of his game will be tested now that Modric and Kroos are no longer around him. Eriksen was all right but you can't depend on him at his age. He doesn't have the legs.

 

 

[TheManc 4,007]

2 minutes ago, O said:

The same could be said for them.

We only created 2 solid chances all game. The goal and the Ronaldo pass to Eriksen, which would have been a tap-in.

We had an xG of 1.02 by HT and they had just 0.03 by then. It finished 1.26 to 0.55 in our favour. The Sancho goal was obviously a high quality chance. But they fought back well in the 2nd half and could have nicked a draw from the Maddison free kick or Justin at the death.

 

I thought in the first half we had 3-4 chances where we were one, relatively straight forward play away from having a great chance. Elanga and Rashford are/were just too rubbish to do anything in general.