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Moyes could have brought on Antonio, Bowen and Lanzini at half-time and lost two of them to injury.
That would have been a much bigger travesty than losing (pretty unluckily) 1-0.
I appreciate Antonio as he is pivotal & our only striker. I felt four key players was excessive & didn’t support it but Moyes is the manager at the end of the day & has done wonders for us.
I just felt we missed a trick. I don’t want us to be happy to accept defeats because we rested players & we have another game Thursday. Surely we all want the club to develop the mentality of winning every game?
I feel disappointed, given how poor & sluggish Chelsea were, how subdued the ground was etc, I felt disappointed we didn’t show more intent to try & take 3 points.
Now, need to find a dominant centre-back for the next EPL game.
And anyway, we still may have lost. It's not like we ever win big away games under Moyes, and we've only won one away game in the league this year.
Another fantastic season. We aren't entitled to anything.
Let’s hope the EL pans out well.
How Bennie gets the nod ahead of him for todays game is beyond me, we needed a battler up top and I think that Vlasic could fulfill that. He has had a couple of opportunities to shine and faltered but I would have given him a starting place today to give him another chance to show us why he was last years Russian player of the year.
Always going to be a difficult game and feel we were unlucky overall.
Dawson still in the running for HOTY in my mind
As Wolves got beat, United got beat and Spurs only drew it looks like we didn't have a bad weekend.
We do want to still give the league a go as we have an outside chance of 6th but in all reality everything that means anything now is to do with Frankfurt and a potential final.
candbsky, I understand Dawson only misses the Arsenal game.
"I think Daws should have met the ball and not given the ref a decision. If you are going to wrestle with players you give refs a decision to make. He had played very well before that. I thought it was our day to get something. A point would have been important for us. Coming here is never easy. We were very close.
"We hung in the game. We didn't have loads of chances. It is the first time we have chosen to change some of our stronger players. With the game midweek I felt it was important. We have ben in good shape and spirits all year. We shouldn't be downbeat by today. We need to play better. When you have a period with these upcoming games it is difficult. This time you need a strong squad and to give some players a break. The other players did a great job today."
Vlasic has been in a side with 12 more games than usual, has looked lost on the pitch, and has been in a side that has been on the front foot for the majority of games. We should absolutely have seen much, much more of him.
Chelsea have only failed to score in a Premier League match three times this season, twice against City and a 0-0 draw with Wolves
We kept them goalless until the 90th minute and conceded after our only centre back had been sent off
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Fornals 2019-20
40 appearances, 27 starts, full 90 minutes 11 times, Unused sub once
2,422 minutes
Benrahma 2020-21
36 appearances, 17 starts, full 90 minutes 4 times, unused sub twice
1,717 minutes
Vlasic 2021-22
35 appearances, 16 starts, full 90 minutes once, unused sub 14 times
1,622 minutes
Never mind about Moyes not giving the kids a chance, we've got full internationals like Kral and Vlasic not getting much of a chance!
Well, we've achieved that in spades and still some are unhappy. 🤔
We could have bought four players in January and they may have been crocked within a month, or not shown up at all. The small squad argument doesn't hold water as United have a large squad of internationals and are two points ahead of us with an inferior goal difference.
I won't speak for anyone else, but I review my hopes/expectations half way through a season based on where we are and how we've performed.
If, in January, we were 15th and struggling, then an 8th place finish in May and a EL semi-final would be good; but we were 4th and had, IMO at least, an opportunity to push on and try to stay there for the second half.
As for the argument that "we could have bought four players in January and they may have been crocked within a month, or not shown up at all", that's true of any signing in any window. But given the impact Lingard had the previous January, and that of Bowen and Soucek the year before, it wasn't without precedent that January signings can have a hugely positive effect on the second half of the season.
You can still reflect on a game & that doesn’t change the feeling.
Top 7 I feel we should get, based on the season & what I have seen of other sides, but top 10 is always a very solid year.
Imo Johnson could be a top CB, he has all the qualities needed.
Onwards and upwards ...