Match Day Thread Vs Man Utd (A)

Yeah it usually gets to us a bit when we're 2 or 3 ahead.

 

1 nil and nil nil last season, I dont think we can gloat to much about either performance

 

As Fool says, we need to avoid being brought down into a dogfight.

Whilst we are now capable of still winning the dogfight, we just need to stay calm and composed and let the gulf in ability shine through.

 

Exactly this.

 

Main things i took from that game were the Ref appeared to ignore alot of fouls (home side preference) which if some had been given, there may have been more opportunity to test De Gea with freekicks / efforts outside the box(Harry Wilson comes to mind).

Dire game but still unbeaten, silver lining and all.

 

One utd fan ejected for racially abusing TAA. Beggars belief, especially when your own team is full of non-white players. I'm starting to think that the high profile the anti racist stance has taken is encouraging more racist abuse than diminishing it.

 

Or was the problem already there but is now being highlighted more?

 

UTD Tactics then. Utd had an interesting set up, the back 3 was quite deep and it changed to a back 5 quickly when we had possession. The spacing then was odd, the midfield pushed up and the forwards pushed up leaving plenty of room between the lines yet we could not seem to exploit that. Play us like that and 9 times out of 10 we'll play through the lines and hammer a team but the desire to close us down quickly was stopping us doing this and making us look for that long ball or perfect pass. So credit to them as the formation and spacing along with the work rate caused us problems.

 

It was his own fans who turned him in. Stewards may have new instructions to look out for it more but fans will have always reacted from a sense of what's acceptable and what isn't.

 

Well done to those fans.