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Man U 15th 😂😂😂..... there is always one dragged into the relegation battle - let’s hope it’s them 😀😀😀
Well, that was quite spectacularly awful.
Pogba back to his very worst I-really-can’t-be-arsed form, then some inexplicable substitutions
#OleIn
They accidentally awarded the +1 head start to the wrong team. I wonder how many games Man U have won in the last season and a bit where they didn't get a penalty awarded.
Spank the Bundesliga leaders 5-0 then put in a performance like that?!
Ole's record is weirdly good against top teams/managers and pretty terrible against lesser teams. Like Arsenal.
We were absolutely dismal against Chelski last weekend too.
Just watching Harry Maguire half-arsedly describing how bloody awful we were, but he doesn’t really understand why. He doesn’t seem particularly bothered by this
YOU’RE THE ****ING CAPTAIN 😡
Ole is a crap manager, that's it really. Lovely guy, just well out of his depth. 100th game in charge, long may it continue.
Up the Arsenal
Up the Arsenal
All the way to Europa League glory!
Sure, what's wrong with that?
All the way to Europa League glory!
Oh, how quickly we forget? 😉
In other football related stories: liking the look of the championship at the moment.
Oh, how quickly we forget?
Sorry, just checking, it was you who wrote that binners, without a hint of irony? Really? 😀
Oh, aye oop. Won A* premiership, have you?
*’A’ - denotes singular, not plural. Less than 2
😀
Remember when Man Utd fans used to endlessly accuse Liverpool fans of living in the past?
That would be Liverpool: current Premier League champions and current Premier League leaders. And Man Utd, er....
Does lockdown mean all leagues are stopping now and the positions stand? Asking as an Ipswich fan....
And Man Utd, er…
are shite!
Inexplicably, we were absolutely fantastic in Europe midweek, walloping last years semi-finalists 5-0, beating the finalists pretty convincingly the week before to sit top of the group, but have been absolutely gash in the Premiership with consistently woeful performances
Which, when you think about it, up until the last couple of seasons, was always Liverpool’s natural territory
While we’re doing irony 😃
You’re lucky to have seven points. How you beat Brighton - Brighton!! - I’ll never know and you left it very late v Newcastle.
Big match next weekend - City v Liverpool. Seems odd Liverpool are top given they’ve been pretty stodgy and all the injuries too.
He is such a nice bloke Ryan Giggs - real role model in the football world.
Prior to Marcus Rashford coming along, it's always mystified me why anyone would ever look to football players to be role models.
In other news, Leicester are second and looking good.
He is such a nice bloke Ryan Giggs – real role model in the football world.
He also "allegedly" beat up Danni Behr in a Manchester nightclub back in the day, but united managed to mainly hush it up.
Prior to Marcus Rashford coming along, it’s always mystified me why anyone would ever look to football players to be role models.
There have been quite a few decent ones, Kompany campaigned a lot for the homeless in Manchester. But largely they are working class kids who react to fame and fortune at an early age with predictability, god knows what I would have been like if I was a 20 year old millionaire. Their misbehaviour does make the headlines more frequently than the same from the bulligdon bullies though.
It seems Ole is really good at counter-attacking against top sides who go at them, and pretty woeful at working out what to do when teams sit back more. I think they should just cut their losses and get rid of Pogba.
Liverpool haven't been great but still grinding out the 1 goal margin victories. I don't think going behind is part of the plan but I do think they try to conserve energy for when it's really needed. VAR/refereeing luck hasn't been as good this season, must all be part of the conspiracy somehow.:)
And yeah, Leicester were brilliant last night.
VAR/refereeing luck hasn’t been as good this season
It did you well with the Salah dive at weekend.
I honestly don't understand why Ole is persevering with Pogba.
We generally look a worse team when he is on the pitch and with VDB coming in I expected Pogba to be on his way out. Even without VDB, the team looks better with Mata in the side.
The praise for Arsenal by the pundits was mystifying though. They barely had a shot on goal and if it wasn't for a daft challenge, it would have been a pretty mediocre 0-0 albeit they looked better than we did. I guess any win against a (former?) top 6 side is progress though.
The media poster boy Bielsa was tactically outwitted by our man Rodgers last night.
The Sky pundits and commentators were so desperate for the Leeds win that they just decided to talk as though they had won regardless.
I can only imagine the cringe levels of fawning if Bielsa had been the manager who engineered the win in that way last night.
I don't think we can continue to operate on this level with Europe every Thursday and mounting injuries but credit has to go to Rodgers for getting the team to be versatile and play in multiple styles depending on the game.
I agree re Rodgers/Bielsa, Leicester absolutely took them apart, it was almost embarrassing at times.
It did you well with the Salah dive at weekend.
He was fouled and exaggerated the response to make sure he got the pen. He also gets fouled all the time and doesn't go down and gets nothing.
Until VAR starts getting it's shit together and giving fouls when people stay on their feet, it's going to keep happening. See Raheem Sterling in most games for further evidence.
It's funny how the Masouaka just accepted it but salty City and United fans are outraged
Jota is on fire!
I thought at the time that was potentially the best move in the transfer market of any club.
I suppose thats what happens when you have the manager deciding what players he wants, rather than some bloke in the boardroom who doesn't actually know anything about football
He was fouled and exaggerated the response to make sure he got the pen.
Exaggerated? He might as well have gone all out and put his Speedo's on
I honestly don’t understand why Ole is persevering with Pogba.
You, me and everybody else. What was inexplicable was keeping him on the pitch and taking other, better players off. He was dismal at the weekend. Absolutely woeful. He is in every game apart from the three times a season he actually bothers to turn up. He didn't even look remotely arsed that his stupid, clumsy challenge cost us the match. He's just like Ozil at Arsenal. Lazy and disinterested. He should be being treated the same. we should have got shut of him a year ago.
Yeah Jota is flying and the young lad at the back is playing well, admittedly against not the best attacks. However City could be a different game at the weekend of course.
I'm still struggling with football though at the moment, be it the CV19 situation in the world, or maybe just the lack of crowds, but i'm finding it more being the VAR i think that's taking away of lot of the spirit of things, the excitement of celebrating a goal.. I'm finding football challenging, when for most of my life it's been a clear passion for me
I'm kind of the same weeksy but I quite like having something to focus on that essentially doesn't really matter that much. The world is a fairly depressing place right now. One thing I've found is that I now prefer watching without the fake crowd noise. At first I couldn't cope without it but now it seems too discordant and weird to have it on.
The VAR thing is ridiculous though. Jota barely celebrated his goals last night and I wonder if it's because of the one that got chalked off the other night. You can never be sure a goal means anything now until a few minutes later.
Exaggerated? He might as well have gone all out and put his Speedo’s on
A Man U fan complaining about penalties awarded to other teams is like Hitler complaining about Allied war crimes. 🙂
I’m still struggling with football though at the moment
You should try being a United fan 🙁
Or a Man Utd player
well yeah, it helps that Liverpool are still doing well, i think i'd have thrown the towel in if performances were as bad as yours are apparently.
I thought VAR would be good as there wouldn't be any feeling aggrieved after a game due to poor decisions but actually it's taken the fun away, I don't celebrate a goal any more as you always have that feeling that it might be chalked off. I still think VAR can work (like in rugby) but needs work.
On another note, my Sunday leave has obviously been postponed but word from the local FA suggests the current league won't be able to continue even though it could only be four missed games. Last season was cancelled completely even though it was only a couple of games from completion. Seems to me that four weeks could be easily caught up, seems a strange decision that won't keep grassroots football alive.
Istanbul Basaksehir 2-1 Manchester United
Ouch
Will Ole go before Trump?
Classic Solskjaer. Thrash the champs then lose to a minnow.
The defending for Djemba Ba’s goal. 🙀
#OleIn
Even worse than Atlanta’s for Salah’s goal last night.
I reckon a poor performance and result v Everton on Saturday will get Ole the sack.....pundits and the media will do for him during the international break. Someone please employ Poch ASAP!
blimey that was harsh for Rennes penalty and a red card for a ricochet of his knee!
Salahs goal was class. How many times have we seen that from Liverpool from an attack or set piece in their own half - certainly the one v Man Utd last season 🤗. He’s so fast with the ball he gets it on to his left foot inside the defender before the defenders can react. it’s only poor defending if they tried to cover it and failed - so leaving 4 men back.
It was a great finish but poor defending. Like the goal v United he was all on his own in his own half, no defenders near him. The defender gets back, that’s the difference, Matic trying to catch Ba was like watching a slug on tarmac, but when he gets back he carefully ushers Salah inside onto the only foot he can kick the ball with. Naive!
I did think it was predictable what Salah would do but he does it so well. He has scored quite a few with his right foot though so maybe the defender wasn't 100% sure.
After the absolute shambles midweek, and the abject performances against Chelski and the Arse, I’m not sure if I actually want to watch this.
Ole’s last game if we lose, if the rumours are to be believed. Not that sacking the manager will make a blind bit of difference any more than the last 3 times they did it.
Not while the club has those parasites owning it and that clown Woodward calling all the shots. Just more clutching at straws
To get away from sulking Trump I just watched MOTD and cannot believe how Leeds and Everton have gone down the plug hole.
I can. They weren’t as good as everyone said they were a few weeks back and they aren’t as bad as the stick they’ll get now. This season it seems teams and results are more inconsistent.
@binners - good result for you.
Even better for the rest of us as OGS gets a stay of execution to prolong the comedy
🤪
Of his first 100 games he’s won more than Klopp did. If someone tells Ed that he’ll give him a 20 year contract tomorrow.
Seriously though. How can Bamford's goal be offside. Mad.
Klopp's solution for whether to drop Firmino for Jota - play both! I like.
Liverpool are playing 4-2-4 with Salah, Mane, Firmino, Jota - pretty scary line-up. Sort of a soft pen they just got but they've been pretty dominant so far.
It's weird how apart from De Bruyne City now seem pretty average going forward. Sterling is obviously good and has moments of brilliance but they just seem to have been drifting for a long time.
Seriously though. How can Bamford’s goal be offside. Mad.
When they start adding the little dots down from the bit of the arm to decide on a goal no-one was complaining about it's time to step back and reflect on what the hell we are doing.
Oh FFS that's a ridiculous pen against Gomez. How are you actually supposed to run as a defender in the box without using your arms?
De Bruyne misses though! Crivens.
The number of penalties in football is really spoiling it though, it's turning into a shit game of rugby.
Can't believe de bryune missing like that.
Pretty much the last person you would expect to miss. Not even that close either.
41st penalty of the 80th game of the season. Hideous, defenders are going to end up playing in straight jackets.
RM.
Ole will get to see the season out unless it goes horribly wrong. There's very little pressure on him from the fans. Only really the media trying to stir things up for stories.
We are generally excellent against the top teams under Ole and always setup excellently.
Still struggling to break teams down when they defend in numbers though. When Fernandes is playing his best it helps a lot with this so hopefully that picks up again.
Better without Pogba too... No surprise there.
Liverpool will be happy with a draw.
Probs a fair result in the end. Liverpool better first half and the opposite in the second. Looked pretty hard to play decent football in those conditions.
Anyone watching the Euro playoffs? Decent enough start by Scotland.
It'll never last.
#gloriousfailure
Watching Ireland playing another team from the British Isles.
Watching the Green and White Army against Slovakia, playing well!
Can’t stand watching Eng-rr-land. Not since Euro 96. That was a good team when it clicked
Watching the Serbia Scotland pens, no misses so far. Could be a second set!
Edit: nope, Scotland through - nice one 🙂
Well done Scotland!!
Get in! What a save.
Great save but a bit of a tragic moment afterwards, where Marshall looks to the referee for a few seconds trying to work out if he was going to get done for coming off his line, before he could finally start celebrating.
YAaasss. Maybe 2020 isnt all pisch 🙂
Were coming fur ye England! 🤣
Fair play to Scotland eh. Don't usually give a hoot, but even I got a wee bit excited last night! 😆 3 great fixtures next year.
What were they subs all about though, playing well, dominating the game, defending from the front, I know what I'll do, this is too easy and not the Scotland way! Front 3 aff, lets put these diddies on! 😆
Aye, that was bizarre! Just invited them onto us!
To be fair I think Dykes and Christie were knackered. Some shift Dykes put in, pretty old fashioned centre forward play but he won everything in the air and never gave their centre halves a yard. The guy at the back, Gallagher, was immense. Not really seen him play before.
Anyone else making the mistake of watching England just now?
Bollocks to that. Life is too short for that shit.
All these internationals are is an annoyance that there’s no proper football on during another cold, wet lockdown weekend, and an opportunity for a load of players to either get injured or get Covid
I’d be quite happy if there was no international football ever again. Be honest... who’d miss it? Apart from those idiots with their trumpets playing the theme from the Great Escape? And agents who bump up a players price on a couple of half decent World Cup performances only for them to be appalling in the premiership and then quietly sold to a French second division side twelve months later?
It’s almost universally absolutely dire and pointless. And spirit-crushingly tedious in the case of Engerland
I enjoy the World Cup (not particularly watching England though) - the rest of it I could live without TBH.
It beggars belief that they are playing international friendlies this season.
The fact that they’re playing international friendlies (and the ‘nations league’ is just a glorified friendly) in the middle of a global pandemic, with the domestic fixture list like it is, is utterly and completely insane
I see Salah has tested positive for Covid already. I bet Juergen is chuffed about that. How many more will? Or pick up injuries?
It’s madness!
Yep, would’ve liked to have been a fly on the wall when Klopp got the news about Gomez. The managers should just invent injuries like Fergie did for Giggs.
Did the same with Keane - 67 caps in 14 years.