elampiro:


They attacked, except no cutting edge. We need a match winner, like Neymar. A match winner would have opened them up badly. I am afraid to say, Martial is not that person. He had chances to go behind the defence line before anyone knew what was happening, he couldn't. He delayed his moves. He didn't prove to be an improvement on Mkhitaryan

PietroRico:
the team attacked quite alright, but most of the forays into their attacking third were dire and we looked bereft of ideas.
The several claims that Jose's teams don't do attacking drills In training as ridiculous as it sounds may have some elements of truth in it afterall.

There's no other reason to explain the total lack of off ball movements and generally poor patterns of attacks.


The distance between the person with the ball and the nearest teammate at times was shocking

afrodoc2:


I am surprised this is coming from you, were you not defending JM just a couple of days ago? What changed?

PietroRico:
if you observe closely enough, I have never absolved Mourinho of any blame, I also do not shy away from a good/balanced criticism. What ends up turning into a full scale defence most times are the several baseless claims that fly around anytime we drop points.

Just like someone coming here today for example to say we drew today because Mkhitaryan, martial etc were made to track back.

What I defend against is when people just pick up any 'Mourinho sin' past, present or even future and try to make it stick in situations where it has no business being mentioned.

nonsoroyalty:
Dantedasz the real mufc fan I see you

CapitalCee:
what!!! 145 comments the hustle is real. Happy New year All

afrodoc2:


Fair enough. I am just waiting for analysis from the real fans, we would really benefit from their wisdom and wealth of experience in these baffling times.

afrodoc2:
Dante log in and log out sharperly, e no wan enter inferno. LOL

raumdeuter:


Bros how far. We need some analysis

nonsoroyalty:
I will wear a manchester united jersey to church tomorrow so that it will DRAW me closer to God

PietroRico:
Somebody(people) , not sure who dey yarn say we no attack just now.
I get that you are frustrated. I am too, probably even more than you are

But common..

PietroRico:
We looked our most dangerous when young was released on that right hand side with enough space to whip in a cross, but they kept on ignoring his runs all through the game.

PietroRico:
We looked our most dangerous when young was released on that right hand side with enough space to whip in a cross, but they kept on ignoring his runs all through the game.

CapitalCee:


We are not dangerous at any point. we need a new lease of life. this team might keep dropping points.

afrodoc2:
Dante log in and log out sharperly, e no wan enter inferno. LOL

afrodoc2:


What we had as attack today did not seem organized or practised. We had men forward yes but the spacing was atrocious, the movement was non existent and the less said about the accuracy of passing/crossing the better.

There were times we had 3,4 players within 10 yrds of each other on the left touchline while Lindelof, Mata and Young were in yards of space on the right. Other times we had a man on the ball and no passing lane open to him going forward.

I know they practise attacking plays BUT they are obviously not doing it right. Southampton's attacking forays looked better rehearsed, we just had the better players.

raumdeuter:
Nihilist eph12

Mourinho: How can man utd compete with Southampton when they sell defenders for the price of world class striker