Cicero 5,265 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Pogba does really look a player when given space. No wonder he excelled in Italy. Can see Fred being benched for Herrera tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny 2,200 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Shaw has been decent today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluewolf 7,161 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Lucky deflection but well pounced upon and nicely finished... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadLinesman 5,938 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 3 minutes ago, Cannabis said: Vardy! 2-1! Not seen you this excited since Barsa last played. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny 2,200 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 United were shit but managed the 3 points in the end, Leicester good for midtable fodder this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Palace Fan 3,400 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Professional job from Manchester United. All the individual time that Mourinho has invested in Luke Shaw may be about to pay off. I thought Leicester gave Pogba far too much space, and both Amartey and Iheanacho were poor, but there was enough to suggest they'll improve as the season goes on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cicero 5,265 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Not convinced by United despite the result. Thought Fred looked average but still early days. Any side with a decent attack would've punished them today. Bizarre tactics from United given the quality on the pitch. But that's Mourinho for you. The players will get sick of it soon enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6666 1,310 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Only watched the second half and it was pretty terrible. Alexis was enjoyably poor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Liquidator 259 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Bang average, but a good start as far as result for United. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluewolf 7,161 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Performance aside United get the 3 points.... Leicester lost their way a bit in the second half after finishing the stronger just before the break and it cost them at least a draw.. first game of the season is always a bit ropey, takes a while to get into any sort of form.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,362 Posted August 10, 2018 Author Administrator Share Posted August 10, 2018 Meh. Was travelling to Edinburgh so only caught bits and pieces of the match. Heard some encouraging things mainly about Maddison but couldn't capitalise on possession we had and a couple of chances. Didn't expect to win so not too disheartened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber RandoEFC+ 7,640 Posted August 11, 2018 Subscriber Share Posted August 11, 2018 Saw the first half. Reminded me of getting really excited for a World Cup only to end up watching Iran vs Morocco as an opening game. United are crap to watch and falling well short of the sum of their parts. A team with Sanchez, Pogba, usually Lukaku, Mata etc. should be a pleasure to watch but they're not. Some individual player thoughts: - Mourinho gets a lot of shit for not trusting young players but for me Rashford is vastly overrated. United fans will know better than me and maybe he hasn't had enough chances but he looked shite for England whenever he played in Russia and aside from his brace against Liverpool last season I can't remember what else he did. He would be nowhere near a top six side if he hadn't come through one of their academies. - Maddison looked good for Leicester even if he did do that big dive to buy a free kick off Pogba (or someone). - Sanchez continues to look pointless in a United shirt. - Pogba also gets a lot of stick but United could be relying on him a lot this season. I expect his general play to be poor but for him to produce the goods at key moments, but the matches where those key moments don't fall he'll get massive stick for doing nothing. - Chilwell looked really exciting at times but needs to work on his end product. - If Bailly gets a run in the side and stays fit I think he can be a really good Premier League centre half. I saw the opening stages of the game without commentary, but it seemed to me that Amartey was playing right back, I've heard that Ricardo Pereira has been playing right midfield in pre-season, where was he playing today? From the bits I saw today I still think Puel is a really good bet to be the first winner of the Sack Race. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Dan+ 1,915 Posted August 11, 2018 Subscriber Share Posted August 11, 2018 I don't think that game could've gone any more how I expected it to. I can't be arsed going into big detail on the game but there are three things I take from tonight. One is that we knock the ball around very nicely at times, given our reputation as a pure counter attacking side, we play a far better keep-ball game now even if we haven't necessarily mastered it. I think this will be our plan going forward. The other two things are both negative. We're still conceding absolutely stupid goals. Both tonight were just bullshit. That first is absolutely criminal from Amartey, utterly brain-dead. It really was last year all over again, going behind almost immediately in the opening game on TV. The second... we looked all over the place to me. It didn't look a good goal, just more beneficiary of poor defending from us. The other was that for all of our possession, we created very little really. Vardy should've scored that chance late on (and did score an even easier one after) but before then there wasn't enough created. The problem is we skewed the whole game by going behind effectively from kick off. I saw enough to say we're not all bad, but haven't seen enough to say that we've totally eradicated our faults from last year, and I do worry teams are going to be able to get a point off us without much trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Dan+ 1,915 Posted August 11, 2018 Subscriber Share Posted August 11, 2018 Oh and I've got to be honest, I wasn't impressed with Manchester United at all really. I couldn't believe the ease we passed it around them at times. Not a sense of bitterness from me but I did feel they were a bit there for the taking tonight but, as usual with us these days, silly errors have cost us getting anything. We've lost that killer instinct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry 1,437 Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 United have a squad that has the potential to be interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bozziovai 195 Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 10 hours ago, Cannabis said: Thoughts on your adopted club for 2018/19 @bozziovai? well, if the line Trial By Fire is a Clche, then tonight's game against City would be exactly that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bozziovai 195 Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 1 minute ago, Cannabis said: City ? i requested Arsenal to be my adopted team not United they'll be up against City in their first match Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bozziovai 195 Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 3 minutes ago, Cannabis said: Unfortunately, that's not the rules. i never was updated on who was my adopted team mate, i requested, but you never replied or acknowledged, so i assumed i got Arsenal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bozziovai 195 Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 3 minutes ago, Cannabis said: Whopper so, let's get this matter sorted out who is my adopted team please ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bozziovai 195 Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 1 minute ago, Cannabis said: Leicester. oh man !!!! that's ............... nevermind hahahahah. oh well, let's get it on haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Artful Dodger 1,831 Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 Win is a win, a Mourinho side is never going to be particularly pleasing to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pig on the Wing 289 Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 I was in the exec suite at OT for the first time last night, courtesy of work. Dripping with fat, arrogant dullards - never again. United were shocking. Really, really poor. The ease that Leicester had strolling down the left with Chilwell, Gray and Maddison was almost embarrassing - shame for LCFC really; as has been said, they had very little killer instinct. Sanchez was a joke, he really hasn't picked up after last season. Pogba was a class above at times though, he was all over the pitch breaking it up and pinging lovely balls around. Fred did nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Dan+ 1,915 Posted August 11, 2018 Subscriber Share Posted August 11, 2018 It does feel very much like the first day last year. I feel that was as good a chance as we'll get to win at Old Trafford but we still lost. Likewise with Arsenal last year. There are positives for us but I do think we're going to be decent to watch, but ultimately not a particularly effective side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burning Gold 599 Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 29 minutes ago, Dan said: It does feel very much like the first day last year. I feel that was as good a chance as we'll get to win at Old Trafford but we still lost. Likewise with Arsenal last year. There are positives for us but I do think we're going to be decent to watch, but ultimately not a particularly effective side. Outside of key moments, I thought you played quite well and were a bit unlucky. You missed out on a good chance to win, as you said, but if Vardy had had the chances Iheanacho had instead, he'd have put at least one away, so there are reasons to be optimistic I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Dan+ 1,915 Posted August 11, 2018 Subscriber Share Posted August 11, 2018 9 hours ago, Burning Gold said: Outside of key moments, I thought you played quite well and were a bit unlucky. You missed out on a good chance to win, as you said, but if Vardy had had the chances Iheanacho had instead, he'd have put at least one away, so there are reasons to be optimistic I think. Yeah I agree, there's enough to be positive about, I just worry that the issues aren't new issues. Time will tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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