Manchester United (h) 17Dec2023

[Slinky Skills]

It probably would have helped if the ****y ref pulled UTD up for constantly time wasting. They must have wasted 20min all up. Each goal kick went for the full 30sec or more sometimes. And they had plenty of goal kicks. Stuffed our momentum.

So did Alison to be fair. He took an age distributing the ball from defence.

[Harv]

Oliver blew his whistle after just over 5 mins of stoppage time as well. Despite wasting about 2 of it sending their player off and then waiting for him to walk off the pitch.

[Exiled_red]

The stats suggest we had 34 shots, but I can barely recall any decent chances we created from open play, I remember forcing their keeper to make a couple of saves from headers from free kicks at corners but those were mostly straight at him, best chance I remember is TAA's shot that went past the post with the keeper rooted to the spot, I know we had quite a few shots from the edge of the box, but I feel that our play in the final third and decision making in particular was poor.

One thing that I liked about Klopp's Liverpool 1.0 was that we didn't waste possession by having pot shots from distance, we worked the ball and created better chances - yes you can argue that we didn't really have the players to shoot from 25 yards then and our current players are more suited to it but yesterday in particular I felt like we were letting the opposition off. Yes it could have worked but surely statistically those types of chances only go in a few percent of the time.

[Irishnev]

The stats suggest we had 34 shots, but I can barely recall any decent chances we created from open play, I remember forcing their keeper to make a couple of saves from headers from free kicks at corners but those were mostly straight at him, best chance I remember is TAA's shot that went past the post with the keeper rooted to the spot, I know we had quite a few shots from the edge of the box, but I feel that our play in the final third and decision making in particular was poor.

One thing that I liked about Klopp's Liverpool 1.0 was that we didn't waste possession by having pot shots from distance, we worked the ball and created better chances - yes you can argue that we didn't really have the players to shoot from 25 yards then and our current players are more suited to it but yesterday in particular I felt like we were letting the opposition off. Yes it could have worked but surely statistically those types of chances only go in a few percent of the time.

We had 2.7 xG but that was volume based rather than quality. I think Diaz’s chance was the best one (pen incident) and a cooler head there would’ve probably seen him score. Trent’s was the closet but it was still a shot from 20 yards

Onana is **** and was flapping from the off, the most disappointing thing is that we didn’t test him more

[Kenneth]

Konate had a turn and shot from six yards but hit it straight at the keeper, that was probably our clearest chance imo.

[Big-Red-Ed]

I see that eejit Crooks put Onana in as his goalie of the week. He only made 1 routine save from the Van Dijk header and kicked for touch constantly as if he played rugby union.

YNWA

[kingfunk]

Konate had a turn and shot from six yards but hit it straight at the keeper, that was probably our clearest chance imo.

TAA had the clearest chance. He had 3/4 of the goal to choose from… ffs

[Kenneth]

The Dalot red card was all referee ego.

[Exiled_red]

The Dalot red card was all referee ego.

The issue with that red card is consistency, I don't know exactly what was said but from TV you would draw comparisons with the Haaland incident a few weeks back where nothing was given.

[danperkins]

TAA had the clearest chance. He had 3/4 of the goal to choose from… ffs

it was a sitter

[frank the tank]

I see that eejit Crooks put Onana in as his goalie of the week. He only made 1 routine save from the Van Dijk header and kicked for touch constantly as if he played rugby union.

YNWA

He's a ****in pleb.

Watch united lose to West Ham and Villa in their next 2 games

[Paul12]

It probably would have helped if the ****y ref pulled UTD up for constantly time wasting. They must have wasted 20min all up. Each goal kick went for the full 30sec or more sometimes. And they had plenty of goal kicks. Stuffed our momentum.

I suspect we could have carried on playing well into the night without giving the keeper cause to get his knees muddy.

[Paul12]

The issue with that red card is consistency, I don't know exactly what was said but from TV you would draw comparisons with the Haaland incident a few weeks back where nothing was given.

Dalot's was two yellows wasn't it...albeit it seconds apart. Haaland's fit was a single action wasn't it, so probably deserved a yellow (always depending on what words are actually used) but the ref was probably too embarrassed by his own error to get his card out.

[Norbs]

**** em

[Exiled_red]

Dalot's was two yellows wasn't it...albeit it seconds apart. Haaland's fit was a single action wasn't it, so probably deserved a yellow (always depending on what words are actually used) but the ref was probably too embarrassed by his own error to get his card out.

Yeah it was 2 yellows for Dalot, but Haaland didn't get any despite losing his **** at the ref. The ref at the weekend could easily have just booked Dalot once and deemed it a single incident and no one would have thought twice.IMO if you are going to book someone twice for that you need to make sure that you are consistently booking people who do similar things once.