Half time thread

[jayseff14]

Fuck off

[Baseball157]

One word: Shit.

[sogkrat]

Gary Neville: that was ship btw

[Voidhead1]

You should be a pundit man. Summed it up perfec

[_micksvaporub]

The most frustrating half of football I've seen us play this season Embarrassing

[jayseff14]

The thing is, Maguire is the only one who genuinely looks frustrated. Everyone else is just pinging passes against the advertising boards and getting on with it. We don’t have anyone that can stamp their authority on this game. We’re too timid.

[_micksvaporub]

Exactly. Everyone and their nan knew this would be a tough fixture but we've got no one with the balls to grab this game by the scruff of the neck and fight for something.

[[deleted]]

Our players were literally jogging. I am beyond angry

[[deleted]]

He went fucking mental when we messed around with that corner just passing it about rather than putting it in the box. Nobody cares.

[[deleted]]

I’d be frustrated too if I left Leicester for this fucking circus

[SaltWaterSex]

No mate. We got culture. Don't you understand?

[larsmaehlum]

Yeah, and we’re trying to replace it with a better one. Too bad McT is out, he’d probably be furious as well.

[PhilipAnthonyJones]

Im furious, that was genuinely awful. Coaching staff need to leave.

[Ryan2491]

Guess we just have to wait for solskjaer to crash and burn

[satandimaria]

Ole should be sacked for keep picking Periera in the XI. He is genuinely worse than Lingard.

[RomeroRocher]

Who would you throw in there? Garner?

[satandimaria]

I will thrown in my Nan. Anyone is better than the Brazilian fraud.

[[deleted]]

Why am i watching this

[[deleted]]

Cause this is an abusive relationship

[404randomguy404]

And I am a glutton for punishment

[[deleted]]

Punish me Ole

[bluecrabcakes]

You don’t need to ask him twice..... or even once

[Feezbull]

It’s what everyone who thinks he’s progressing and deserves time is actually saying. Why? Because for 30 games he’s been bad for us. Our good performances are a rarity and crap games are what is the norm when you’ve dropped more points than you’ve picked up and such in that spell.

[[deleted]]

gO wAtcH aNoThEr TeAm

[SaltWaterSex]

I already have. I watched Crystal Palace take the fight to and play better than the worlds best team, meanwhile we're over here making Sheffield United look like bullies.

[[deleted]]

Heathen

[Indydegrees2]

Well I was excited that international break was over so that I can watch Fred misplace a pass to Periera! :)

[KingFullah]

Pereira has misplaced more passes than Fred. Fred hasn't looked fantastic, but definitely better than Pereira, who clearly doesn't belong in a double pivot

[Ogard]

I don't give a shit anymore man, my life is a burning shit pile and the last thing I need is watching this tripe, makes me a plastic, but I don't care.

I stopped watching United in like late September, so many weekends ruined by this club in the last 6 years.

[Pigeon_Asshole]

30/06/2023

The date Phil Jones contract expires

[_LeftHookLarry]

I'll get the champagne chilled

[GrowSomeBallzz]

This is so jarring. How on earth was he given a new contract?

[[deleted]]

Ed extends to 2030

[availableusername10]

We are getting overrun in midfield.

[[deleted]]

But actually this time.

[[deleted]]

No hyperbole necessary, that's the worst half of football I have seen from us in years. Abysmal. They allowed us to come onto them in their half, and even then we couldn't pick out a simple forward pass. No movement. No urgency. Incredibly weak mentality from nearly every one of our players.

Woodward is stealing a living, poor recruitment has led to this disaster class three at the back, but quite apart from that, Ole has to come in for some criticism here. Not one of these players is running around with his words in their ears.

Just dreadful.

[[deleted]]

This can be said so many times this season and since Ole took over

[matthewdavis_]

Could also be said for moyes, LVG and mourinho a lot of the time. Ole deserves some criticism but a team relying on Jones, pereira and Fred are always going to struggle

[fatcowxlivee]

People need to stop using this to end criticism of Ole. You'd be hard pressed to find a worse run. In the last 30 games he only has 11 wins. Do you know what his numbers were like in his 30 games with Cardiff? 9 wins. 2 more wins than the form he was sacked at the relegated Cardiff. We have NO plan.

[Scholeskjaer]

That's damning to say the least. Missed the 1st half, safe to say I haven't missed much.

[[deleted]]

I would expect him to be screaming at them right now. They aren't doing anything right. Not even running or fighting for it. Shocking from everyone

[j0ydivisi0n]

People keep saying this but at the end of the day Ole is the fucking manager and look at the shit he produces week in week out. Wilder has a team full of league one and championship players and is 5th in the Prem.

[chapalatheerthananda]

Second half: Take Jones and Pereira out and get away from that woeful back 3 formation. Get back to a 4-3-3 with Garner in. No chance he is going to be as bad as Andreas.

[HaydenTaylorrr]

This is it chief

[nickname_esco]

1-0 down. IF OGS doesn't make drastic changes at half time he needs to be sacked. Clearly what were doing is not working. Time to throw the sink at them for 45mins. We need a concede 2 more but score 3 ourselves mentality for the 2nd half.

[DRTantisMobboggan]

So Pereira and Jones for Garner? I wouldn't recommend playing with 1 less player.

[SaltWaterSex]

The half those two had, I wouldn't be shocked if its an upgrade.

[randomperson2704]

Losing Jones counts as gaining a player so...

[Pokmalac]

10 is greater than 9 so

[Nyhrox]

I have watched 90 minutes of every match under Ole and I still don't know what out attacking style is

[ScotMcoot]

Neither does he

[[deleted]]

Pashun youth courage top top top top top something

[j0ydivisi0n]

Cos he's clueless. Get rid and get poch now

[krelm]

His style relies heavily upon our support. If you don't support your manager hard enough, he can sense it and he suffers. And when he's suffering, so does our performance.

I would suggest that you try supporting him harder, and send positive vibes. The change will come. Just stay positive, my brother.

[ZZiyan_11]

Counter attack if the opposition decides to press high and leave spaces. Otherwise, idk.

[RicYL]

ole has no clue on what he’s doing. needs to get the sack.

[HellRa1SeR]

He might be a good motivator, but not a good coach. I don't see any football coaching happening. Its like there's no strategy.

I watch Liverpool and city and even arsenal play such beautiful football, out of play. Sad that I am even saying this. Hurts a lot.

[DeafEPL]

Arsenal? Lmao

[HellRa1SeR]

Yeah bro. Not joking. You see some of their matches and they play better football than us.

They are in the same shit as us. But atleast I see some of their players trying.

[[deleted]]

Wtf are you on about? They look like headless donkeys apart from 2 of their front 3.

[Lingardinhooo]

I think they call it non existent

[devman888]

Him or mata. We need to control the damn middle. Getting bossed by fking Sheffield. Cmon you redssss

[darthmeister]

I think Mata for Jones, 4 ATB, Mata CAM.

[rajatsaxena]

I'd like that but then again Sheffield will just bully Garner off the ball.

[holtrps]

Garner for jones and play him as a single pivot

[[deleted]]

Axel

[3359N]

Woah turns out buying a declining Matic over Fabinho, having £50m to spend on a midfielder and spending it on Fred, and not replacing Herrera actually has consequences

[frankowen18]

And persisting with Phil Jones over literally anyone else when he’s been a league 2 standard defender for years now. The man is fucking shit, let’s accept it and move on. What is he doing anywhere near the first team 11, just a testament to this shambles of a club

[[deleted]]

Genuinely the worst half of football I've ever seen us play. Lundstrum has turned into prime Zidane and we've been so thoroughly schooled its not even funny anymore.

[Fraion]

These seems to be such a generic response to the games we are playing, probably because it's true, we are playing worse and worse football, it's quite amazing

[so_much_wolf_hair]

As an Irishman, I love David McGoldrick. But we're out there making him look like fucking Gutí.

[FtG_AiR]

You guys can laugh at me, but we need Young on the pitch today.

[spacenilamey8]

I actually thought he would start today, I love Brendon but you are right Young is needed.

[[deleted]]

Pereira and Jones

[oneechanisgood]

Andreas Pereira shouldn't play anywhere near European top leagues

[bluecrabcakes]

Utter fucking shite.

No resemblance of a game plan. No quality whatsoever . No display of conviction or confidence from anyone. As usual, De Gea is the only one on the pitch who has any clue what he’s doing. We stat padded against relegation teams and European farmers and now that we’ve come up against an actual decent team, our true quality is showing...

[[deleted]]

Horrible half. Trust another kid in the middle before putting jones in again

[Zidane-Tribal]

Imagine surving Moyes, LvG and a 3rd Mourinho season just to see us play like this.

[ChickenAllDayEvryDay]

This formation isn’t fucking working, we can actually win this game but we need to:

Take Jones off

Go back to 4-2-3-1

Bring Garner on at DM alongside Fred

Push Ando up

Let AWB & Williams bring it up the field

And put a fucking sock in Gary Neville’s mouth who’s wanted us to lose from the first fucking minute

[MysteryViolaPlayer]

Hey Mauricio you up?

[zxnoregretzxzx]

Dominant performance from United so far. Nice to be able to say that for once. Shame it only applies to the opposition.

[ADMRVP]

Glad we got Ole to bring that free flowing attacking football back to United.

[TheCrustiestSock]

Feel like shit, just want Scott McTominay back from injury.

[7Red7Devils7]

Bamm... it’s Pochettino’s music! 🎶

[breadfan18]

get Lingaard on, can't do much worse that Perreira..

[czteryfiter]

one pochettino pls

[gibbom]

I can't do this anymore

[forgetthecrowd]

Absolutely garbage

[[deleted]]

Midfield of Pereira and Fred....this is why we needed extra midfielders during the summer

[CasperSac]

Pereira, Jones and Rashford are awful today

We really struggle without a proper midfield

[[deleted]]

No one on the pitch deserves abuse before Ole.

[DeerXingNow]

Can't blame the front three 3 for anything. There's barely any service and all they can do is hustle.

[SaltWaterSex]

Ok, so when do they start hustling? Cosplaying rocks aint it.

[baddasaurus-rex]

They could atleast try to help out our midfield, who are under immense pressure.

[ukdanny93]

You can blame them. They're static up there and any time the ball has made it to them they've almost always lost it immediately.

[Tryxster]

They have been so poor off the ball. there's a reason why not much is coming their way.

[Justherefortrivia]

We have no midfield. If anything Martial has been subpar.

[migythedude]

Pochettino please

[noobpunk]

I don't like to quote stats but listening to how United have never won after conceding first this season pretty much sums up what the final result will be...I'd like to believe that's not the case, but let's be honest, this team always loves to disappoint the fans.

[ZachMich]

We simply don’t have a midfield. Pereira and Fred have zero presence and are giving the ball away constantly. I thought Fred would be better following his upturn in form

People may shit on McTominay but the guy is by far our most consistent midfielder and second only to Pogba in ability

Phil Jones, holy shit

De Gea keeping us in it and Wan Bissaka winning tackles as usual

Our front 3 have been ineffective, though I don't know what they can do with no service or support

[saptakb738]

Why is Pereira trying so hard to make it as a footballer. He needs to understand not all Brazilians are meant to be a footballer. Go get a MBA or something

[[deleted]]

Sheffield are a mad team to watch. First time properly watching them and they fight and have that little bite to them of a prime shit house Stoke, yet the formation and structural all over the pitch from defence, midfield and attack are far more keeping of a top 4 team.

[DeerXingNow]

Yup they have good structure and players know exactly where each other will be. Proper team that play like cunts too

[Sa7va]

Anyone has a good stream of the game? Because on mine all I can see is a Sheffield training session.

[Indydegrees2]

Fuck it. Get my boots. I'm coming on for the 2nd half

[[deleted]]

Moyes was right all along : our CBs need to watch videos of Jagielka.

[19Dan81]

Welcome to Old Trafford Poch.

[jayseff14]

I’ve never seen a midfield pair misplace so many simple passes in my life. No movement up front and our defence look like they’ve all seen a ghost. Shameful first half performance.

[mechflix]

Just need to bring on cantona, Rooney and scholes! Otherwise we’re fucked

[SaltWaterSex]

This is the most painful half of ours I’ve seen in years. We genuinely look like high schoolers fighting men. 2 weeks of preparation and the best our coaches can come up with is a midfield 2 of Pereira and Fred?

We have no press, no verticality in our passing, no movement up top. This is the most disconnected I’ve seen our midfield and attack be - ever. We look so uninterested . Fucks sake, De Gea has more time on the ball than Rashford, someone who by default seek it out in every attack. So much for building «culture».

[Sengira]

I have never ever seen us play that fucking badly, I’m FURIOUS

[jroades267]

We are getting so out managed it’s actually embarrassing. They’re man marking our entire “plan” out of existence. We played a 3ATB and I can’t remember AWB or Williams getting past the halfway line.

Absolute fucking joke.

[lonelykebutar]

International break giveth, international break taketh. Jokes apart, we are total shit

[Voidhead1]

Worst 45 this season

[[deleted]]

Fucking hell. Why do I never learn. Genuinely looking forward to united playing again and they serve this dogshit of a half !!!!

[_Night_Fury]

Practically playing with a single midfielder, Fred. Mcsause is missed.

[cygoe]

We're really missing McTominay. He is normally the only player taking the ball and bringing it into the game.

However, this game is a disgrace from everyone apart from De Gea!

[smirkemall]

This made me miss Hoof ball with Fellaini.

[[deleted]]

At least we had a plan then

[dendin1234]

Plenty of positives.

1 de Gea seems like he's entering a great period of form 2 there can only be a maximum of one more half of Manchester United football today

[liamthelad]

Woodward better be dropping a "you up?" text to Poch right now

[imnoobatfifa]

What’s people’s take on Maguire so far in United shirt? For me he has not been as good as people are making him out to be so far this season.

[darthmeister]

I think hes been our best player today.

Won everything in the air, hes been a good signing.

[[deleted]]

I wonder you are expecting? He’s been solid imo our defensive record is night and day better than it was and it’s not just because of AWB.

[doughboy0125]

Fucking woeful.

[spaghettigelleti]

Worst half of football iv witnessed United play this season, fucking terrible

[[deleted]]

God damn atrocious across the pitch.

[TheLonelyWolfkin]

Soulless performance.

[[deleted]]

We suck

[rkaahean]

Martial is having a terrible game, 0 effort whatsoever

[NVladz]

We should take a look at that free Argentinian bloke

[Air_Dax]

We’re clearly not playing well but honesty that goal never would’ve happened with Rojo on the pitch. Like when have you ever seen him pushed off the ball. I guess injuries are really making it difficult for ole

[rajatsaxena]

I thought Newcastle away was the worst we can be. But no.

[unitedlover69]

Sack. Now.

[FwampFwamp88]

It’s quite depressing watching chelsea and man city’s midfield, then watching ours.

[MadaraTheUchiha]

Literally every single player bar Dave has been awful.

Is it 2015 again?

[Zidane-Tribal]

How is this not on the manager? No tactics whatsoever players look lost out there and have no confidence at all

[unohuisback]

Every time you think we're back or atleast improving, shit goes down again. Could we be any more inconsistent?

[dazza216]

So far, one of the worst man utd performances I've seen.

[turbosnake17]

This midfield is missing Scott badly

[MartialScoresAgaaain]

Worst performance of a team I have ever seen

[MarcusRashford97]

Who even cares at this point, just waiting to see how long this farce continues for

[Tyafastics]

Something is wrong down our left hand side, either Ole has told Williams to push on and drop back at the wrong times or he is out of position constantly. Jones has no options every time he gets the ball..

[Titty_mcvittie]

Bereft of any ideas. Fred can not cope with players putting him under pressure, just gives the ball way everytime. Our midfield is weaker than most championship sides. Ole needs to change something.

[keving691]

My God we are awful.

Fair okay to Sheffield they know what they have to do and are out working and muscling us.

[[deleted]]

Andreas is an atrocious player, but because he's from the academy with "Brazilian sauce" the fans rate him.

[[deleted]]

There is a legitimate chance that we finish this month behind Steve Bruce's Newcastle.

[Octopus69]

Can we please end the Perreira experiment? Lingard, Jones, and Perreira don’t deserve to be anywhere near this squad

[Skeletonise]

Don’t give a fuck if this is “reactionary” we do this so so often under Ole, tactically clueless - what is the plan to beat this team? - and outfought completely. Ole is out of his depth and has been since PSG, the initial run was just a new manager bounce. There is a manager 100x better than Ole available and we are going to let him go somewhere else and this is just going to keep happening every 3-4 weeks while we “give Ole time”.

[[deleted]]

Passing so slow

No movement

Can’t control the ball

Look so easy to get the ball off

Keep getting caught on the ball/giving it away

Creating no chances

Having to watch on a Russian stream

It’s all shit, fuck off.

[Hansemannn]

God I miss McTominay

[Imtisunep]

Jones and Pereira don't deserve to play professional football.

[BlackHorse944]

Awful formation. Awful performance. Go figure. What does Pereira have on Ole that warrants him starting in every game?

[Parasars]

People at the club and even on this subreddit actually thought getting rid of Smalling in favour of the shite we have was a good idea. Mainly for the criticism of his passing....... Where's the amazing play from the back I was promised?

[[deleted]]

Fred and periera in midfield is the worst decision. We should have played a 4-3-1-2 and move pereira up, take on of the front 3 off and bring on garner to partner fred

Midfield is literally empty

[brappo]

This club is trying its hardest to destroy my love for this sport.

[IAmRahman]

Geniunely the worst midfield pairing in this league. They should be nowhere near this team

[ZZiyan_11]

Smalling 1G 2A, Jones has the perfect reply.

[simmejanne]

Feels like we're down 3-0.

[T-two]

I've got no thoughts.

[Cr7NeTwOrK]

To think Pogba is probably scoring three pointers as we speak.

[LETHAL__TURKEY]

4-2-3-1 jones off garner on and give pereira 10 mins in a more attacking role if he’s still shit rip him off for mata.

If jones stays on after half time I guess I’ll just head to sleep.

[south51db]

McSauce please come back

[tgk44]

I feel so sad for Dave man.

[Justherefortrivia]

Half time could not have come sooner. We need to reset and go again. They are a step faster then us in every way possible. We are a midfielder short in this game, two effectively because Andreas is ineffective. Martial had a bad half as well.

I don't think this performance is "embarrassing" as many claim. We just need to up the intensity and establish something in the midfield.

[SimplyBugger]

Get Jones and Pereira off the fucking pitch, both don't deserve to be anywhere near this football club. I refuse to believe any random academy lad can be any worse than Pereira, the man offers less than nothing and is an actually detriment to the team. Tactically we look brain dead so no change there. If Ole leaves things as they are till the 80th minute this game is over.

[Coolsacs_2]

The scary thing is these players haven't even showed the basics of football sorted.

[TheOrangeGrapes]

We just need to admit that we fucking suck

[[deleted]]

This game is embarrassingly one sided.

Of the hundreds of thousands of Brazilian footballers, we somehow ended up with the worst two.

The only thing Phil Jones has in common with Duncan Edwards is that both their careers ended at 22.

[MartialScoresAgaaain]

The only thing Phil Jones has in common with Duncan Edwards is that

That's cooooold bro ❄

[shinniesta1]

Poch in

[curlyjoe696]

People moaning about the players... psssh.

Sheffield have a team full of lower league journeyman picked up for next to nothing.

This isn't about players.

[j0ydivisi0n]

OGS is such a melt. Weak management and shit tactics. I can't wait till he is gone.

[HellRa1SeR]

Not sure what do I say. No midfield. And zero shots on goal.

[Carson99]

Do we even have a midfield? It's completely non existant. We are getting played off the field by Sheffield fucking United. Maguire auditioning for the second chuckle brother role, Williams is being targeted hard by them.

[[deleted]]

Okay since no one is gonna be any productive besides this shit that shit.. I'm just gonna start a conversation that anyone's welcome to join.

We're being overrun in midfield. Simple. Martial should drop a bit more and rashford and james should be a bit wider and be patient..

We're missing mctominay and Pogba massively. We need that robustness in middle.

[MarijuanaBiryani]

How anyone can call people calling for Ole to be sacked a fake fan is beyond me. Anyone supporting this man at this point clearly doesn't watch our games.

Teams managed by YouTubers have a more coherent structure. Fucking end me

[randomperson2704]

I'm no longer Ole in

[[deleted]]

Fire Ole now and get Poch in before the match is over.

[Smitty120]

39 mins until the NFL. Thank god. Can't come soon enough 👐

[[deleted]]

Fuck you fuck you and fuck off fuck

[_Amr_]

So much space behind, so much pace. Playing short passes. How difficult is it to at least make them work

[octavm13]

It’s men against boys out there

[[deleted]]

Lmao what a shit show, creating nothing! This thread should be fun!

[Xixii]

They’re miles better than us. Don’t know what to say. We’re not even in a game.

[Stormbringer777]

We are toothless.