Watching this reminds me of watching spurs in the 90s. Just constant grind in watching us struggle in endless sh*show games...
Was thinking this the other day, can see English & maybe Spanish teams winning it most years.Raises worrying questions about the quality of the Europa and how diluted it's become for the bigger Champions League.
Davies was trying to play offside. BUT the obvious play, given how central Bowen was, is Davies just tracks Bowen as close as possible and Spence shows some urgency to get out to the wideman when they balls played out there.Davies standing watching Bowen. Brutal defending
I don't blame him. He was playing well. Man of the match. Then dropped as soon as porro and udogie were fit. That's bad man management for me.
It's almost as if it's two teams near the bottom of the table playing each other.What a dreadful game of football
Vicario looks a different player when he has players he trusts in front of himAwful awful awful. What coaching have we done for two years that prevents us from gaining a foothold in midfield? We are so poor as a collective. And individually there appears to be wholesale regression. The fact that Vicario is captain when he is an accident waiting to happen speaks volumes.
Only good thing I see is that this further reinforces that we need a new coach.
What a brick game of football. So many players off form. Kulu might as well not be on the pitch. Spence form has nosedived in recent weeks.
Do the players not know we have a right wing? Everything is down the left.
Playing is not a word I would use haIt's almost as if it's two teams near the bottom of the table playing each other.
You have him here, these match threads are so fun and positive.At least we had a ginola, Klinsmann or sheringham. A player you enjoyed watching play football.
That's inexperience or lack of concentration or laziness.Davies was trying to play offside. BUT the obvious play, given how central Bowen was, is Davies just tracks Bowen as close as possible and Spence shows some urgency to get out to the wideman when they balls played out there.
Bilbao are decent. They’d had 8 shots before Utd’s first which made it 0-1. Then Utd’s 2nd shot was the pen which was also a red card to Bilbao (I’ve never seen a red card for that type of incident btw).We've played the 3rd place team in Germany, they were brick. United just beat the 4th best team in Spain 3 nil away from home - there's no quality on the continent in comparison to the PL outside of a handful of CL teams
Kinky boots should be playing I would have thought, but I guess Ange wants Vicario to get consistency with being brick.Vicario looks a different player when he has players he trusts in front of him
If we had a well drilled organized team and squad where everyone knows their job, you should not have such a drop off. We have a few patterns of play (hit immediate low cross along the six yard box without thought) but everything else seems so haphazard.It's literally our B-Team, so one shouldn't expect scintillating play, but yes it is very scrappy with lots of fighting, everything is on our left, not a lot of nice passing.
We have a VERY strong bench to come on.