Poor defending cost us two goals, poor attacking choices have cost us 3 or 4 clear chances. They are there for the taking but we don't look like we have the players needed to do it.
I don’t really see the view as it being a free hit. To me it’s just a silly transfer that brings us next to nothing for the next 6 months. We had 2 years of seeing what he could do in the Prem, it wasn’t pretty and then at Leipzig he’s barely gotten off the bench this season… I mean how many red flags does a player need for a club to finally avoid them?
Odd half - should be level but United more clinical. Would still like to see Donley as he can't be worse the Hojbjerg who has constantly given the ball away and slowed our game to a crawl. Van De Ven a little rusty, Porro great going forward but Struggling with Rashford, would be tempted to play him where Johnson is bring on Royal at RB
I didn’t understand why we signed Werner, but as others pointed out, it was worth a punt and probably the best we could do in this window. but he’s not played in an Ange system, and hasn’t got many minutes under his belt recently, so let’s give him longer than 45 mins before we make our minds up. let’s not forget that Vicario was utterly terrifying in his first game, and has gone on to be brilliant. Johnson on the other hand, needs to up his game. He’s had plenty of game time, and is currently looking like a **** Aaron Lennon.
We look like a team with 3 of its best players missing and another 3 on the pitch who have played an hour of football between them in the past two months.
That's a really good call. Johnson has been woeful and Porro further forward increases our chances of scoring.
Richy is in good form but we’re missing the cutting edge and creativity that you’d expect us to be missing with Kulu and Son out and both 10s also unavailable. Going to need to brute force this one in the second half. Set pieces look very threatening.
And you know praising backwards passing isn’t anything to actually praise. We saw that with Winks for 5 years.
How much did we pay for Johnson? What a colossal waste of money. Werner is doing okay but can’t shoot. CBs are rusty but to be expected. I suspect Romero will be subbed at some point due to fitness. We’re still in the game.
Having to listen to fecking Sherwood talk about United as 'we' is not improving the mood.....Judas Twat!
We’ll get more chances, we’ve already hit the bar and had one cleared off the line. Just need to keep it tight at the back and keep running the ball at their defenders. Frustrate the midfield and get them riled. AWB on a yellow too, get at him.
I wonder if he’ll do anything funky with the midfield? Dragusin on, maybe VdV at LB or Radu at RB and one of the FBs into midfield?