We didn’t play well against Palace but we were undoubtedly the better side and a lot went against us.
An almost perfect pen somehow managing to come off the inside of the post and not go in, another stone wall pen denied, Palace scoring twice from about 3 attacks all game etc.
If we had scored 1st we would have gone on to win comfortably imo but we didn’t and we lost. We just have to move on.
The plus side is that none of our top 4 rivals have taken advantage so far.
I’m not gonna count Liverpool and City as I think they will be top 2 regardless.
If we win Saturday we’ll be ahead of at least one of Spurs and Arsenal by the weekend and ahead of Chelsea.
No need to panic yet we just need to stay in the race.
Have to get back to winning ways
posted on 26/8/19
Pogba giving the ball away for their winner looked like a little further evidence of the fact that he needs two other midfielders on the pitch with him.
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He had ditched playing deep by then. we didn't really have a midfield for the last twenty minutes.
Mata and Greenwood came on too late.
I think it is time to give Gomes a go in Lingards role. He can't do any less. We certainly need better options than what we had on the bench.
posted on 26/8/19
Sounds like we needed a lock-picker yesterday, rather than dynamism.
It would’ve been good to see if Gomes might have made a difference.
posted on 26/8/19
comment by rosso is facking happy (U17054)
posted 29 minutes ago
Sounds like we needed a lock-picker yesterday, rather than dynamism.
It would’ve been good to see if Gomes might have made a difference.
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Yeah gomes should be the first of the youngsters on the pitch. He has more experience and we have nobody else with his attributes.
posted on 26/8/19
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 1 hour, 13 minutes ago
comment by rosso is facking happy(U17054)
posted 29 minutes ago
Sounds like we needed a lock-picker yesterday, rather than dynamism.
It would’ve been good to see if Gomes might have made a difference.
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Yeah gomes should be the first of the youngsters on the pitch. He has more experience and we have nobody else with his attributes.
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He is the player with the skill set we need probably more so than Greenwood just now for a place on the bench at least. Testing times for Ole to get this right as it won’t come from Lingard
posted on 26/8/19
Pereira will start next game ahead of Gomes and Lingard I bet, this is still a massive improvement on Lingard in my opinion. He works just as hard but with superior creative capabilities.
I hope to see Gomes on the bench at least.
posted on 26/8/19
comment by Kung Fu Cantona 🙏🏼 🇵🇸 (U18082)
posted 29 minutes ago
Pereira will start next game ahead of Gomes and Lingard I bet, this is still a massive improvement on Lingard in my opinion. He works just as hard but with superior creative capabilities.
I hope to see Gomes on the bench at least.
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Still isn’t the answer though we’ve got hard working in McT would love to give Gomes a chance no brained to me
posted on 26/8/19
Brainer
posted on 27/8/19
Like I said earlier, it is going to take some time and there will be inconsistent performances and strange results all season.
Playing style and performances are what I am interested in and I like what I am seeing so far.
Pogba should play higher up the pitch and Fred/Matic next to McTominay. Lingard shouldn't be starting games and the jury is still out on Lindelof as far as I am concerned
posted on 27/8/19
I don’t see how we’d be worse off with McT as CDM, either Pereira or Fred box-to-box and Pogba playing inside left right now.
I’d still be starting:
—————McT
——Pereira
———————Pogba
James——————Martial
————Rashford
posted on 27/8/19
Big game for us against Southampton. We saw last season how things changed after a couple of defeats. We’ll never know exactly why but perhaps the players just felt they had nothing to play for. Another defeat at Saints - compounded by two weeks’ international break to dwell on it - and who knows how they’ll react? It’s largely the same squad as last season, and I remember understanding Gary Neville’s point when he said something along the lines of there not being a lot he liked about the current United squad as they don’t show enough character when the going gets tough.
I’m not making any rash predictions at all; just developing the OP’s point about the importance of winning the next game.