Can anyone tell me what Cajuste brings to the team? Otherwise utd ****, we're looking better, although they do look dangerous on the break
Everyone played well, some exceptional, but I remain puzzled by Muric, often kicking ball away to give.away possession, like the 2nd min crass goal. We can hold our heads high and will on that 1st half display, stay up.
Omari MoM for me,at times he's unplayable and his energy level is amazing.Another good point but we need to turn a few more of these draws into wins.
Good atmosphere for a Sunday late kick off, although hopefully I won’t regret the few pints in the morning! I thought we looked great value for a point, particularly a really encouraging first half display after going a goal down. Hutchinson man of the match. Morsy and Cajuste were excellent in the middle, and we missed Cajuste when he went off. O’Shea and Tuanzebe were brilliant at the back. Really positive team performance and gives me a bit of confidence going into a busy December schedule.
Very enjoyable game to watch at my desk. The ladies playing scrabble in next door room said the board shook wen I roared at Omari's superb goal! I can see both teams climbing up the table but I wish we had more options up front to cover for injury. Glad that Ali Hamadi got a run around. We did very well on the world stage, the team, KM and all at the Club can be proud. Gamechanger will get the chequebook out in January.
Great performance, really one to reflect on how far we've come 4 of those starters were with us in League 1 and 2 from last season in the Championship and we outplayed a multi million Man United team. Starting to see the team knit together and why McKenna has brought some of the players in, like O'Shea who whilst I still feel Woolfenden has better parts of his game, we couldn't have played how we did yesterday with him in the team. We play a risky game and having O'Shea with his pace really helps. Defensively we looked good although Davis still gets beaten a little too easily for me sometimes and for me there's still lots of question marks around Muric...when he has time to make a decision he's poor aka passing and when to come off his line. When he doesn't have a decision to make he's very good. I think Morsy and Cajuste are fast becoming the favoured CM pairing. Still room to grow in the role for Cajuste and needs to do a bit better covering that left hand side but for me he's showed far more than Phillips so far and is more mobile than Luongo. Morsy outstanding again, he's unreal. Burns looks like he's lacking confidence and he's has some niggling injuries. Didn't really see him be direct with the full back at all although credit to him he was the player who probably created most of our chances yesterday so still contributed and he covered that side well. Hutchinson great again and finally he's hit a shot which has got off the ground. I'm definitely now of the thought though that on current form I'd stick him wide right and bring Chaplin into the centre. Delaps been great all season but is definitely developing and understanding his role in the team as a whole. When Hirst came back into the team for all of Delaps goals and superb performances I really noticed an uplift in the performances of the other forwards players and how we were better in the press and how Hirst positions himself created more space for others around him. But we are starting to see more of that all round game now but still a long way to go to add to that raw talent. The slight concern for me yesterday was I didn't think Taylor or Al Hamidi showed the same energy that they have in previous performances, particularly Al Hamidi. I've always felt he was a bit of a rough diamond who could go on to be a very good player at least at Champ level and his scoring record is very good for us plus his terrier like performances last season helped us score some of the later goals but yesterday he looked a bit timid.
A great performance which shows how the squad is adapting to the Prem, but unfortunately it's another 2 points dropped. After just over a minute Muric made another costly error by waiting for the ball to come him instead of going to meet it and Rashford nipped in and scored, then a mixture terrible finishing and quality goal keeping denied De Lap twice and Chaplin near the end so a comfortable 3 points was lost and we had to settle for a draw. Morsy with Cajuste alongside him was immense, Omari was full of trickery and pace and scored with a deflected shot into the top corner, Tuanzebe had Garnacho in his pocket and the rest of the defence was impressive. There has to be serious questions as to whether Burns can step up to this level, his input is minimal now the quality of opposing full backs has increased and must be a worry to McK, De Lap needs quality crosses to attack but there's a shortage of them coming from our winger.
Burns and Al Hamadi haven’t been playing. It took the others plenty of games to adapt to the pace and quality. Omari was anonymous in the first few weeks - but now look at him! The games come thick and fast in December, I think the fringe players will have a big say.
