Win na win. Plus CS too.
But no be this kind win we want. We totally surrendered in the 2nd half. I wont even blame anybody sef. All i know is Matic-Fellaini pivot na dead and lacks zero creativity

lekkie073:
now read my post carefully.
I made mention of lukalu scoring a hatrick while d team does 'not' play attractively.

why do u just rush to reply a post without digesting d message

Playing poorly is different from not playing attractively. You can play unattractive football and not play poorly. Today we were unattractive and poor. We gave the ball away easily and weren't in the game for almost all of the second half.

It's not so bad if we play unattractively as long as we win. I won't bat an eyelid if we play a game poorly and win as long as we aren't poor in the next game. But we've been poor for the past 3 or 4 games (except the mid-weak Carabao cup game) but our wins (and goals galore) keep overshadowing it.

This run of poor games is what's raising red flags to me. If we keep playing poorly it's only a matter of time before we lose a game (or start losing games). If we play against Tottenham or Liverpool like we did today we'll surely get beat. Lukaku won't get the chance to score because he won't get into goal-scoring positions.

We really miss Pogba, but he was in the game against Madrid and our performance in that game was awful as well.


That's what I'm saying.

Caveatemptor:
Those who are disappointed and unhappy with this performance should be prepared for more unhappiness because this is how Mourinho is going to set up his team to play against certain kinds of opposition this season.
He realised the team was having a bad day and chose to win in a defensive way.
I personally am happy with the win because last season this would have been a certified draw.
I think we defended very well and we showed we can keep a clean sheet and hit our opponents on the counter.
I am so confident that any team that will beat this United team will have to be extra special.
The way some fans are going on ,you would think United are in the relegation places. Naa Waa!

If we get served this same sh*t in the UCL and next weekend, we should forget the league.

Lana1:
Win na win. Plus CS too.
But no be this kind win we want. We totally surrendered in the 2nd half. I wont even blame anybody sef. All i know is Matic-Fellaini pivot na dead and lacks zero creativity

Was it Ryan Giggs and David Beckham that played in the 4-0 win against Everton last weekend? Remind me abeg

JayKayMaybachz:
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eph12:

Meaning?

The most creative player gets the stick, because he is bound to make mistakes

I announced my homecoming when I joined few months ago I think.

Don't think u've chatted since I joined or maybe I don't look at names of people chatting.

elampiro:
Wura27 and Kingtom, are you new here?

I see new names nowadays

joeace2020:


You see why you may not succeed as a manager. Disrespecting the opponent. Southampton are not a shit team. If they were, they won't beat Liverpool en route the EFL final. If they were they won't qualify for Europe. If they were they won't produce some of the best players in the EPL and one of the best in the world today. Mourinho knows teams he can easily dispatch off and he'll send in Martial for those teams. This Southampton team would have punished us if we didn't build a wall around the goal. It was obvious this was another shitty day as there were too many players playing poorly at once. The manager did what a manager will do. He can't go an control Herrera's leg or Make Mikitaryan be physical enough to withstand players or even make easy sensible passes rather than behaving like a Pius Ikedia. Instead he did what he could do to get a point and keep the confidence high in the team. Nothing deflates more than playing badly and dropping the points but a win masks everything and keeps players, fans and everybody buzzing for the next game. Imagine if we had drawn, we would have been so deflated evem with Chelsea playing City next.

so you drop your most inform winger because you want to "respect" Southampton? I'm happy with the win, the display not so much. we had 6 defenders on the pitch in the end, SIX.

NAH

Too many angry fans this evening o, I don't like this

Something happened today which I still don't understand. We played well in first half before everything went downhill in the second. It was due to the bad play that Mourinho had to change to defensive football.

Is it that motivation reduced on our part and increased on Southampton's part? Was it d half dressing room talk that killed our morale?

Whatever it was, cheer up my Manutd fam because I know Mourinho would fix it

Leyqute:


Playing poorly is different from not playing attractively. You can play unattractive football and not play poorly. Today we were unattractive and poor. We gave the ball away easily and weren't in the game for almost all of the second half.

It's not so bad if we play unattractively as long as we win. I won't bat an eyelid if we play a game poorly and win as long as we aren't poor in the next game. But we've been poor for the past 3 or 4 games (except the mid-weak Carabao cup game) but our wins (and goals galore) keep overshadowing it.

This run of poor games is what's raising red flags to me. If we keep playing poorly it's only a matter of time before we lose a game (or start losing games). If we play against Tottenham or Liverpool like we did today we'll surely get beat. Lukaku won't get the chance to score because he won't get into goal-scoring posit

That's what I'm saying.

I understand u. just that all team have their own dynamics. mancity team on their worst day would still play beautifully without winning.
ok, assuming u r left with two options.... a- play poorly and win.
b- play superbly and lose.

which would u choose?

funlord:




Afroman does not live in the u.k mate!

Funny thing I just got into the U.K. an hour ago.
London one week then heading north to watch our game with Crystal Palace next weekend.

eph12:

Like seriously? His team at Chelsea, Inter and Madrid looked like fluke until the end?


We played poorly and this performance shouldn't repeat itself simple. All these excuses they make person purge aswear

It's all fun and games till a team takes advantage of it...... Good thing United still have DDG in-between the sticks..

lekkie073:
d team dat was winning 1-0 week in week out in 2004-2005 season looked like fluke.
d inter team dat won d UCL looked like a fluke.
d Madrid team dat had a record goals scored in a season, tell me they finished all games with more than one goal.

It's not the goals brother but the performance. A 1-0 scoreline does not mean the team was poor. We had a lot of draws last season but with some great performances. So it's not the goals but the piss poor performance today.

Wura27:


Too many angry fans this evening o, I don't like this

Something happened today which I still don't understand. We played well in first half before everything went downhill in the second. It was due to the bad play that Mourinho had to change to defensive football.

Is it that motivation reduced on our part and increased on Southampton's part? Was it d half dressing room talk that killed our morale?

Whatever it was, cheer up my Manutd fam because I know Mourinho would fix it

na u start am

Lana1:
Win na win. Plus CS too.
But no be this kind win we want. We totally surrendered in the 2nd half. I wont even blame anybody sef. All i know is Matic-Fellaini pivot na dead and lacks zero creativity

that pivot is the cause of that display. let's hope Pogba returns quickly. he is irreplaceable in this team for now.
those wey think say him be waste of money don see say that 89m for still dey inside account & team for still no get head or tail.

eph12:

It's not the goals brother but the performance. A 1-0 scoreline does not mean the team was poor. We had a lot of draws last season but with some great performances. So it's not the goals but the piss poor performance today.

ok, would u have been contented with great performance ending in a draw today other than what actually panned out?

SailorXY:
that pivot is the cause of that display. let's hope Pogba returns quickly. he is irreplaceable in this team for now.
those wey think say him be waste of money don see say that 89m for still dey inside account & team for still no get head or tail.

cc elampiro

joeace2020:


You see why you may not succeed as a manager. Disrespecting the opponent. Southampton are not a shit team. If they were, they won't beat Liverpool en route the EFL final. If they were they won't qualify for Europe. If they were they won't produce some of the best players in the EPL and one of the best in the world today. Mourinho knows teams he can easily dispatch off and he'll send in Martial for those teams. This Southampton team would have punished us if we didn't build a wall around the goal. It was obvious this was another shitty day as there were too many players playing poorly at once. The manager did what a manager will do. He can't go an control Herrera's leg or Make Mikitaryan be physical enough to withstand players or even make easy sensible passes rather than behaving like a Pius Ikedia. Instead he did what he could do to get a point and keep the confidence high in the team. Nothing deflates more than playing badly and dropping the points but a win masks everything and keeps players, fans and everybody buzzing for the next game. Imagine if we had drawn, we would have been so deflated evem with Chelsea playing City next.

this guy and another guy are the only ones that made sense with their posts.

I can't understand why mourinho is being slammed here for doing the right thing. Shey na mourinho dey pitch de play this nonsense our players played in the second half? Or maybe na him tell them to play nonsense intentionally. He did what any sensible coach will do when his team is winning by a solitary goal and playing shiit, shut up shop and get the win then go and bang heads in the dressing room after the game instead of bringing in attackers and just because we are United and they are soton thereby dropping points. The most important thing is that we won, we got the 3 points despite playing badly, we were able to eke out a 1 - 0 win from a tough match. This soton team regularly gives us trouble whenever we play them even during SAF's regime. We played poorly today and we should never repeat this display again.

I see some folks crying over city and their goal difference bs, una de expect us to win 4 or 5 each match day? Haba!! Also for those complaining about our draw at Stoke and Chelsea trashing them, remember that Stoke played with one recognized centerhalf today since shawcross, Cameron and zouma(ineligible to play against Chelsea) were missing and on top that, Hughes committed hara kiri by removing indi when 2 goals down and bringing in a midfielder which ultimately backfired.

KingTom:

Was it Ryan Giggs and David Beckham that played in the 4-0 win against Everton last weekend? Remind me abeg

Bros. Everton ate presently worse off than Southampton. It seems u've forgotten how they were giving the ball away b4 we finally got lucky with the one Fellaini intercepted. Even at that, there were moments in the 2nd half vs Everton when they were all over us in midfield and failed to score.

Today was simply an eye opener that a team with a better midfield ll run riot over Matic-Fellaini.


Am happy qnd all for Fellaini's improvement so far. But we need someone else to pair Matic in Pogba's absence going forward

lekkie073:
I understand u. just that all team have their own dynamics. mancity team on their worst day would still play beautifully without winning.
ok, assuming u r left with two options.... a- play poorly and win.
b- play superbly and lose.

which would u choose?

If you play well and take your chances, you won't draw or lose many games.

If you play poorly and give the ball away cheaply, you won't win many games.

That, there, is the difference between Manchester City and Crystal Palace.

And I'm afraid we're slowly (emphasis on slowly) tending toward Crystal Palace's direction.

SailorXY:
that pivot is the cause of that display. let's hope Pogba returns quickly. he is irreplaceable in this team for now.
those wey think say him be waste of money don see say that 89m for still dey inside account & team for still no get head or tail.

Exactly. He should try Matic-Herrera next game.

lekkie073:
I understand u. just that all team have their own dynamics. mancity team on their worst day would still play beautifully without winning.
ok, assuming u r left with two options.... a- play poorly and win.
b- play superbly and lose.

which would u choose?

You seem not to get the point.

If a team plays superbly consistently and loses games initially it will a matter of time they start getting favourable results, but if a team plays poorly and but wins we all know that is not sustainable.

Man u should not be having this type of display even in a day we play terribly. The performance in the 2nd half was a disgrace.

Itvwas there was no fight in the team and we just surrendered the midfield and hoped that theybwont score.

We all know there would be difficult games where we would need to grind out results but today was an eyesore, the 2nd half specifically.

ToyinDipo:

The most creative player gets the stick, because he is bound to make mistakes

LOL! If to say u dey near me and you be person wey I senior na backhand you go collect with this talk

Lana1:
Exactly. He should try Matic-Herrera next game.

This was what I expected Mourinho to do.

@lekkie, a good example is Everton. They started well but along the way, began playing poorly. As a result they lost 3 consecutive games. If they didn't put in the effort today they'd have lost as well.

elampiro:


The mistake against Stoke was matching them strength for strength, instead of technique for strength.

Exact stuff SailorXY is pointing out, trying to counter the other team tactics despite being the better team... They should be the ones scared of United tactics, not the reverse..... Southampton brought on Gabbiadini, United brought on Smalling ...

Man City are the big shark - when teams swim with us we gobble them up."

lekkie073:
ok, would u have been contented with great performance ending in a draw today other than what actually panned out?

What about an ok performance with a win. Does this sound ok to you?

to those downgrading the lethal strength of the Southampton attack line, can u please show me a more lethal attack quartet than
,......,.............Shane long.........
Redmond...Davies.........Tadic.



leave the top 6 EPL teams' attack line out the discussion.

eph12:

What about an ok performance with a win. Does this sound ok to you?

sounds pretty good. but in d absence of d ok performance, I would take any performance with a win. any day anytime. d end justifies d means bro

our lack of creativity anytime Pogba no play na serious problem,same thing last season.
that is what Jose should be trying to fix.

ukaku,jones,de Gea and Bailey.na them win this game for us.