Man Utd 3-0 LCFC - Post-Match

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

I think after the Mendy booking we knew we’d get diddly squat today and our heads went. Move on. 

[KingsX]

3 minutes ago, TK95 said:

No point analysing that. Move on

 

Those of us who turned it off after the VAR reversal can't analyze it!  I'll take your advice and move on.

[shiv]

Played well first half but that second half display was woeful. 
 

Maddison probably had his worst game of the season. Faes and Castagne ticking time bombs and weak links in our defence.

 

Wasn’t helped by some horrendous refereeing mind you.

[lcfcdamo]

Lets cancel that game didn't happen move on to arsenal now 

[LVFox]

Brilliant first half hour, should have been ahead. United should have been down to 10.

 

However, far too open at the back, far too careless with possession 2nd half. I can forgive the former more. Still early days for Faes and Souttar and I think both are defenders who have the occasional shocker in them.

 

We need to work out our better midfield pairing. To me that's currently Mendy and Youri. I have no idea what Soumare has ever offered us other than laziness and its a crying shame we aren't making more of an effort to get Ndidi back in form.

 

 

 

 

[Dames]

Any sort of adversity and this team crumbles. Its been the same story for way too long. Way too soft under this manager. 

[CosbehFox]

Soumare appeared to forgot that he has to track back when he came on 

[st albans fox]

1 minute ago, HankMarvin said:

The way the second half panned out you would think we played on Thursday 

Good point 

[Vazman]

Result as expected, thought we did well first half though.

 

Yes VAR and Ref were awful, but should have made our chances count against these, its crucial, Utd are a different team under TH.

 

Too easy for Man Utd in the end.

[crisp packet]

Not even a yellow ,never mind checked by Var

[Matt]

Played well first half. Excellent infact. Really enjoyed it, as I have the Villa and Tottenham games.

 

Then came the 2nd half. Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. The return of the Leicester and a Rodgers team I know and ****ing hate.

 

People can look towards and blame the officials all they want but a proper team would create abit of siege mentality, at bare minimums give a go and look bothered.

 

We were 2-0 down and bring Tielemans and Soumare on. Jesus. Do me a favour. They're the opposite of what you need when chasing a game. Constantly slowing us down, creating blunders leading to our own downfall.

 

I said yesterday I wasn't going to dwell on other teams results and that we have to do it for ourselves, if we play as we did v Villa and Tottenham we'll be fine, if we revert to what we've seen over the last 2 years it'll be down to wire and struggle, on the 2nd half showing it'll be the latter.

 

Edited 19 February 2023 by Matt

[STEVIE B]

2 minutes ago, Tielemans63 said:

Congratulations to Stuart Attwell and his Man United squad.

 

Big win for the betting syndicates that run this league.

If you truly believe that, why bother following City or having any interest in Premier League football ? I know it’s a forum & everyone has an opinion. I’m just curious. 

[lcfcdamo]

Just now, Mark 'expert' Lawrenson said:

I think after the Mendy booking we knew we’d get diddly squat today and our heads went. Move on. 

Yes that ref and var wouldn't of let us get anything today if bin close game 

[leicesterlad1989]

First half was great at times. 

Second half was the Leicester we've seen for most of this season. We imploded.

 

Usual VAR and refereeing complaints. Getting boring now. 

 

Soumare substitution was strange. Not a player you want to bring on when trailing. Arguably not a player you'd bring on in any situation given his obvious lack of awareness.

[ARM1968]

Blip or back to the usual. Not sure the next game will tell us, but we move on. Not a great day at the office, but you need everything to align at Old Trafford - and not for the home team as usual. 

[MrsJohnMurphy]

1 minute ago, Mark 'expert' Lawrenson said:

I think after the Mendy booking we knew we’d get diddly squat today and our heads went. Move on. 

Me too, get back in your bed Leicester 

[Lesta2014]

Should be in the lead and Man Utd down to ten at half time but go in losing. Then VAR proves how corrupt it is again! Then we have a 10 min collapse that really kills us and Brendan takes off bother energetic central midfielders for a couple of lumps. Southampton games absolutely huge. We won’t get nowt next week against arsenal var and fa will make sure of that.

[Foxdiamond]

3 minutes ago, kingfox said:

The type of game where it’s difficult to enjoy the Premier League nowadays.

We have the club running through our veins so we are stuck with it but otherwise I could just forget about football at this level. It is rotten to the core

[cityfanlee23]

Completely different game if we take our chances early on, the corruption debate will blaze on, but there's no excuse for how we downed tools when decisions went against us. 
Had some great spells, but ultimately dominated by a better side 2nd half.

[foxes_rule1978]

Just now, ARM1968 said:

Blip or back to the usual. Not sure the next game will tell us, but we move on. Not a great day at the office, but you need everything to align at Old Trafford - and not for the home team as usual. 

At old Trafford you are always against the officials as well, tough place because you don’t get many decisions there

[Lesta2014]

2 minutes ago, Mark 'expert' Lawrenson said:

I think after the Mendy booking we knew we’d get diddly squat today and our heads went. Move on. 

Where was even the foul! Blatant cheating by a match official and we are too nice about it all!! 

[Jobyfox]

Our problems haven’t disappeared after two decent performances. Getting anything away at Old Trafford was always a long shot. We won’t be defined by these sort of games this season. 

 

If we stay relatively injury free for the remainder of the season then we should be fine, but we have to accept our defence is still suspect and our goalkeeper is below average. That won’t change until the summer 

[Chrysalis]

Very good football from Manchester United, showing up our defensive disorganisation. Which was masked over the past couple of games.

 

Defensively we wont be fixed until is a coaching change this I always maintained in the defender signing threads.

[Blue ROI]

We played alright in the first half. 

 

It's easy to stick the boot in for the second half given how a lot have gone this season but after Mendy got booked for winning the ball after half time and that 2nd goal being allowed to stand for once I'll spare the lads. 

 

Var and its officials. Amateur hour. 

[Sunbury Fox]

Fancied us before kick off as I thought they'd be tired after playing in Europe on Thursday and they were missing Casemiro. Felt vindicated up to their first goal as we literally played them off the pitch during that period. But as soon as they went ahead we looked a beaten team. 

 

Some very poor performances in the second half. Faes was beyond awful, we may as well have had a hologram in goal and Soumaré appeared to be playing in a suit of armour. 

 

Overall, we were just far too open, I thought. Looks like we're just going to try to outscore opponents.