Manchester United 19/20: You can't win anything with kids (revisited)

[Badgers]

Utd have to be favourites on paper for the Leipzig game. Only need a draw to go through.

Not a walk in the park though. Leipzig have won 7/7 at home scoring 18 goals with 4 conceded. Held Bayern Munich 3-3 this year too.

 

[Pickman's model]

Utd have to be favourites on paper for the Leipzig game. Only need a draw to go through.

Not a walk in the park though. Leipzig have won 7/7 at home scoring 18 goals with 4 conceded. Held Bayern Munich 3-3 this year too.

play up leipzig

 

[AverageJoe]

Leipzig win is 13/10
United win is 9/5
Draw is 13/5

 

[The39thStep]

Could go anyway this game tbh but Manchester United's away from has been better than their home form andshould be favourites in this match to qualify.

 

[The39thStep]

I take it all back

 

[donkyboy]

oh dear.....europa here we cometh!

 

[The39thStep]

oh dear.....europa here we cometh!

Could have been 4-0 down but one goal and you are back in it . Funny old game

 

[agricola]

Can't really think of any side in Europe, even the RS, who would have got those two decisions.

 

[The39thStep]

You’d have to say United must be one of the favourites along with Arsenal for the Europa League

 

[N_igma]

Ole’s at the wheelbarrow

 

[Shechemite]

Fuckkng shit year

 

[Jay Park]

Utd have to be favourites on paper for the Leipzig game. Only need a draw to go through.

Not a walk in the park though. Leipzig have won 7/7 at home scoring 18 goals with 4 conceded. Held Bayern Munich 3-3 this year too.

toilet paper? scrap paper? paper mache?

 

[Wilf]

Man Utd: Paul Pogba 'unhappy' and 'has to leave' - agent - BBC Sport

Manchester United should sell midfielder Paul Pogba in the January transfer window, says his agent Mino Raiola.

www.bbc.com

Well, we've got an opportunity to hawk him round some minor European cities every Thursday now.

 

[Jay Park]

Well, we've got an opportunity to hawk him round some minor European cities every Thursday now.

if he was at all ever interested in playing for United, Ferguson would never have sold him

 

[planetgeli]

Pretty good summation from Barney at the Guardian I thought.

Solskjær's lack of champion-manager edge was brutally exposed in Leipzig | Barney Ronay

Manchester United were tactically inadequate in Germany, where a carefully honed plan met their hopeful one

www.theguardian.com

Somehow United had three full-backs on the pitch, but also no full-backs at all.

This wasn’t an off day, or a case of “starting slowly” as United’s captain and manager later maintained. It was what happens when a carefully honed plan meets a hopeful one.

This was a safe pair of hands up against a maniacal eye for detail; a fully realised opening assault against a manager who came to a shootout with a banana in his hand.

Maguire’s passing can be a real asset in a back three. In a back four he can be exposed, an elite level centre back with all the easy mobility of an abandoned alien monolith.

Is there any real sign of progress here? United have the players now, or at least most of the players. They should be at the tactical cutting edge, should be pushing forward what football can be at this level. In Leipzig they were instead the passive partners.

 

[donkyboy]

 

[chilango]

United are top of the WPL though.

 

[Jay Park]

On the first day of Christmas my VAR gave to me,

a decent decision

 

[The39thStep]

Dire game tbh , Sky commentary is appalling all ra ra Man Utd , really miss the supporters .

 

[Badgers]

Dire game tbh , Sky commentary is appalling all ra ra Man Utd , really miss the supporters .

Looks like a dead rubber match.

 

[planetgeli]

On the first day of Christmas my VAR gave to me,

a decent decision

There's one a season. A football season, not spring, summer etc.

Dire game tbh

Someone on BBC online coverage just said it's not as good as that.

 

[Jay Park]

There's one a season. A football season, not spring, summer etc.




Someone on BBC online coverage just said it's not as good as that.

tactically intriguing I thought, Pep obviously scared of the counter which in the first half was getting through. But Foden and Silva just left watching whilst Sterling runs onto a through ball and then - as habit prevails - loses it

 

[Dandred]

tactically intriguing I thought, Pep obviously scared of the counter which in the first half was getting through. But Foden and Silva just left watching whilst Sterling runs onto a through ball and then - as habit prevails - loses it

Yeah, Ole is a tactical master......

 

[Jay Park]

Yeah, Ole is a tactical master......

United knocked the ball about well at times and deffo upped the tempo of their game.

 

[planetgeli]

6-2 with 15 minutes left. So far there have been 31 shots at goal.

Is this 5-a-side?

 

[Wilf]

Well, top of the table (ish). They've got there by winning ugly and with a mountain of luck, but fair play to OGS who was supposed to be a game or two from the sack. Is this the first time they've been top (ish) since Fergie, give or take league table after one or two games?

Don't see them winning it as Liverpool are just a better team (citeh too) but they could well be in the mix for 2nd. I sort of wish they were out of the league cup and even the europa league to give them a chance in the league. Ironically though, those will probably be where united have a chance of silverware this year.

 

[Wilf]

So, we've got 5 games in 14 days - citeh, Watford, Burnley, Liverpool and Fulham (assuming they are covid free by then). Something's got to give, unless we start getting 2 penalties per game.

 

[Jay Park]

Got a feeling we won't be seeing them top of the league again

 

[Jay Park]

Yeah, Ole is a tactical master......

wonder if he'll rescind his like if you beat them on Sunday?

 

[J. B. Henderson]