Man Utd (A) 05/12 - Match Thread

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes

At least we don't support Millwall.

buffybegood

Just seen it again, absolutely no doubt that was out, 100%.

Disgusting.

MrsGrey

ScotHammer said:

So Sky and VAR have every possible camera angle all over the pitch, but cannot use them to see if a ball goes out of play. But if Gary Neville says it, it must be true!!!

I thought GNev said he didn't know?

BubblesNeverDies

As I said earlier, we have previous with this useless lino.

OutcastLondoner

Tbh I can see how a Lino trying to make sure they don’t miss the offside might miss the ball going out

OutcastLondoner

Ban the fans

Pearces_Left_Foot

Decent performance for the most part missing that clinical edge and got punished for it . We mugged villa on Monday and got mugged by Man U tonight

steve

Knew this would happen as soon as the fans were allowed back in

buffybegood

OutcastLondoner said:

Tbh I can see how a Lino trying to make sure they don’t miss the offside might miss the ball going out

Once the ball has been kicked, the offside decision has been made; he has seconds to watch the flight of the ball afterwards. Very poor officiating.

Hamstew

buffybegood

It's as bad as the offside not given against Liverpool the season before last.

Cuz1

And the sniper who took haller out

buffybegood

Hamstew said:

Ham, was this something BT produced to analyse it, or something a fan has mocked up?

Hamstew

Hopefully not BT otherwise it would be inaccurate. Just saw Trevor Sinclair tweet it tbh. Seems to be doing the rounds.

jay_in_cpt

While the ball looks out of play, sadly we also have ourselves to blame for poor finishing in-front of goal.. too many wasted chances Imo

Fortuneseeker

Got the rub of the green in the previous matches but I would have "loved it" if we had won today but sad we had to have a few poor decisions go against when playing the team that feel they have a divide right to win every game or at least the majority of their supporters believe they do. Do you get the impression I am not a big fan of the Red Devils or OGS.

alderz

It was 100% out of play.


But we should have taken our chances. Fornals first chance and Bowen’s at the start of the second half both should have gone in. I know there appears to be some debate over Haller’s, but I really think that would have been chalked off had he put it away - that said, if he doesn’t slip then at least they have a decision to make.

We also should have defended the goals better. Pogba was in acres of space for the first, and Ogbonna was about 5 yards behind the rest of the defence for the third. The second was a great finish tbf, not sure we could have done a huge amount about that one. Thing with the first goal is that it came from a loose ball by (I think) fornals, and if (I think) Bowen hadn’t chased it down Henderson probably takes a touch and doesn’t launch it forward.

We deserved more today, we deserved less on Monday.

whupathman

at least i don't have a nosebleed from 3rd

thornburyiron

I said on Monday that we may have used up all our luck for this season in that one game. We certainly had none tonight but I hope it just equalled out Monday and is not going to continue.

jay_in_cpt

whupathman said:

at least i don't have a nosebleed from 3rd

3rd is so overrated 😎

MrsGrey

We're not going to win every game.

ScotHammer

MrsGrey said:

ScotHammer said:

So Sky and VAR have every possible camera angle all over the pitch, but cannot use them to see if a ball goes out of play. But if Gary Neville says it, it must be true!!!

I thought GNev said he didn't know?

He may have. My comment was more about Sky/VAR using the technology when it suits them.

IronHerb

I don't think SKY/VAR have cameras that looks straight along the sides of the pitch.

buffybegood

IronHerb said:

I don't think SKY/VAR have cameras that looks straight along the sides of the pitch.

Maybe they should have, VAR at least.

Lukerz

Well they need to. If it is within VARs remit to check, then there needs to be cameras to check it.

IronHerb

I thought we played pretty well. We all rue missed chances but no teams score all their chances.
Fernandes is already my Player of the Season, he is just brilliant and made the difference tonight.
I don't understand this 'we were lucky against Villa so we won't be against United' theory. We were in the game until their second went in, and the fact it came so quickly after the first always makes it harder to respond.

thornburyiron

I would have thought the linesman’s first job is to check whether the ball goes out of play or not. They don’t flag for offside anyway unless the ball goes in when VAR checks anyway so why was he bothering to see if Fernandes was offside or not.

BubblesNeverDies

What's the point then of VAR if it doesn't cover the whole pitch, four cameras looking down the four sides of the pitch.

Fortuneseeker

https://www.goal.com/en/news/the-ball-went-over-my-head-west-ham-boss-moyes-claims-man/cobg16fxefhf1x15j1k8q4qmf

A fair assessment I think. Never a better example of the old saying "Goals change matches"

ASLEFshrugged

Forget VAR

Man U were simply a better side once they'd swapped Van De Beek, Martial and Cavani for Rashford, Mata and Fernandes. We totally dominated the first half but were outclassed in the second.

One positive is that Benrahma and Haller seemed to be linking up well, there were a couple of little moves between them that suggested there may be a lot more to come from that combination.

I think we might see Benrahma start ahead of Bowen or Fournals on Friday.