Danger Man? For club and country in all competitions, Manchester United’s Alexis Sanchez has been directly involved in nine goals in his nine appearances at Wembley Stadium, scoring eight and assisting one.
Wembley Jitters? Manchester United have lost two of their last three matches at Wembley in all competitions (including this exact fixture last season), as many as they had in their last 15 at the ground (W8 D5 L2).
Ropey On The Road Man Utd have failed to score in 20% of their last 20 away games. The Red Devils have kept a clean sheet in 30% of their last 20 away games.
Manchester United have scored 1 goal or less in 8 of their last 20 away games, going on to win 1, draw 1 and lose 6 of these matches.
City Limits Manchester United have won just four of their last 17 away Premier League matches in London (D4 L9).
Lloris (C), Trippier, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Davies, Winks, Sissoko, Eriksen, Dele, Son, Kane.
They’ve still played a lot more good football than this United side this season
I would’v given KWP the 2nd half since tripp was back to he’s self destruct mode and offered nothing forward and yes chasing 1-0 behind it wouldn’t be a bad idea in bringing liorente earlier on, he did make an impression in that small cameo in fairness to him.
Unless it’s a false dawn I see the Spammers possibly going places!
No I thinks it’s his right ankle?
That’s not personal old boy…just replying to a daft comment…no harm ment….we played well 2nd half, I don’t blame Poch or the players (apart from Tripps), I blame the top..they take the money, they take the blame…
If they win another trophy while we hold on to 4th………pat on the back……..I’d consider it a failure on our part
Last time he was ot for 3 weeks with an ankle injury but only missed 2 games. However, I think this is his left and not the usual right ankle and could mena anything. We will all know in 24 hours how bad but I bet he will b back in time for Fulham
It’s also the Spammers cup final and on the evidence of their resurgent form will come to Wembley to win!
Poch is a driven, decent football maniac who brings the best out of his players.
ENIC are dull venture capitalists with no place at a top football club employing people with such different aspirations to theirs.
Con artists all the way…
Arsenal are sh*te…
Getting all personal. What’s wrong with you.?????
Usually optimistic for Arsenal dilly – what’s happened? They’ve been dropped too
This United team haven’t put in a truly great performance since they brought in OGS – this was a great result, not performance. How long can the honeymoon last? I’m thinking Spurs just about hang onto 3rd place, the other three in the running are very up and down.
If Chelsea don’t sign a ‘ready to hit the ground running’ forward then I see them maybe dropping out for Arsenal or United. Anyway, that squad with their two best players injured (say Hazard and maybe Kante) – that wouldn’t be pretty.
In theory LLorente provides a potent aerial threat of knock downs and can score!
Finishing always looks better when the keeper fails to save it…
He was the only option on the bench and we needed fresh legs and you can see kane by then was running on empty.
Ha ha,🤞🏽
depressing +1
We played well enough today, if we stunk the place out then I’d be moaning too.
At least it further ruins Woolwich’s season and makes OGS look like the messiah…
You miss the point as it gives them a direct route into the CL next season me thinks?
About what is anyone’s guess!!
Levy and ENIC do not speculate to accumulate, they just accumulate slowly at a glacial risk averse rate. Slow slow in fact that the world moves on and leaves them with defunct currency.
The NFL and lots of match day tat and booze to empty your wallet was still relevant in the early noughties, when this gaff was dreamt up…
I’m sorry but are you two completely deluded or what?? Why would you have thrown him on at HT Dilly? When will he score Mars? Aren’t you reading the facts, he has NEVER scored for us in the league when brought on as a substitute. Continually doing something and getting the same non result but continuing to do it in the hope the outcome will be different is the very definition of madness!
bUT we are selling our players with experience before they are done. hence Toby is off and looks liek Jan too. Experience to Enic is the devil. It means high wages with no sell on. Thats what we have.
Should have finished the first. Would have been a game changer. Forgive his 30 yard rockets to row z. It’s hard to put in perspective but thought him & Erik looked good together playing out of the back. Still think we need a crusher back there but we arnt buying one. Work with the pieces we got
Who me? I’m PC. Players&coaches.
Yes coz I am a dreamer!!
Throwing caution to the wind I would have either put Llorente on after HT or give him 30 mins in the 2nd half.
Cost of a stadium in what is one of the greatest city’s in the world was always going to be high. I think you give too much credit for anything being staged managed.
Walking in as champions to new stadium would sort a lot of sponsorship out and sales, but levy is like Gordon brown selling off our gold at the lowest price.
I’d still gloat if they won that, big deal. Miles behind us…
And banana flavoured peanut butter
Thats the problem Paddio, we will never learn.
The only positive is the level of performance today would be enough to beat 11 or 12 teams in the league.
Mainly some uninspired finishing to blame here – along with United having their tails up and defending with intensity.
We’re there cup final…………unless we blow it
and Winksy needs to brush up on his woeful shooting!
We didn’t even if it is a bit cutting our noses off to spite our faces, hopefully we learn from this because it is the same issues again and again.But we don’t, can not even really blame the team or Mgr as it is the way we operate
Yes to deserving the draw but our best ever performance under Poch???
And I’m tired of telling them
Gregorz Rasiak time!!
Yes, this is exactly what I expect. Lose the big ones….beat Huddersfield 6 nil….we are Arsenal.
It is what it is Easty, i’ve sat too many matches (usually against the big sides) where this script has played out over and over again
But they work? Be proud of them!
Dem no ripe an no ready fe pick yet. “What if kane gets injured” that “if” has arrived. We inna trouble
Play straight away players have to be very very good. The runway is too short now. Not wanting to be negative but I cant see a way out of this no kane no son situation. Though I know we’ll find one. 🙂
It’s been mindnumbingly obvious for so long, we’ve got enough to beat most but against the best we constantly come up short and then that becomes us being bottlers blah blah blah,
You want a team that can take it over the line you need leaders with character and experience and you need quality – that costs money.
Trippier is becoming a ‘luxury player’ though – wheeled out for five crosses and a few dead balls. To be fair he could have had a couple of assists today…but the other side of the equation is he’s a luxury player playing in our slightly lead footed rear guard.
U dun no bredrin. Real talk SG
Not much
hahhaahaha
Players are tired
It’s not what he’s saying as much as the continuous orgasm that it’s obvious we’re going to lose today – the way the match has played so far at least
WE lost 2 at ‘Home’ on the Trot. Step forward Botch and claim we must move to the New Place Soon. Levyspeak.
Dont disagree. Which is why we need to sign both for long term contracts & mix them in with foyth & Sanchez depending on the opposition. Manu set up to play fast up front. But neither foyth or Sanchez has the positional awareness as toby & van. Plus Van’s first game back after 2 months. Put the speed of those two being taught by the other two……..we have our future in a few years
Roll On End Of Season David. Thats about it to be honest. Can you see The Beast 666 making a serious attempt to sign someone of note ? Neither can I.
Our plan B, C and D relies on a 33 year old player who it can be shown beyond any shadow of a doubt has utterly failed by any metric you care to measure him by to be completely unable to do the job for which he collects seventy grand each and every week. He has never done it, he is never going to be do it. Just remember that.
How long was he out of action last time – 6-8 weeks me thinks?
Liorente will score but as we’ve seen too often he wants that ball laid to he’s feet literally made to fit……troy parrot young maybe so but i say bed’em in early.
No need to gloat because should Arse win the Ropey Cup this season don’t they enter the CL?!
Seriously. Are you one of the Levy clan?
There is just no ‘in fairness’ about it Dilly. He is an utter failure from start to finish from top to bottom, to keep him on and continue to pay him is utter madness. Any sensible business would have cut him, Jansenn and N’doodoo loose with a pay off long ago. Unless of course you’re ENIC and you need to preserve a particularly unpleasant illusion.
It’s all about expectation management, it’s all being stage managed. Levy isn’t interested in the title, if we win the title with no home ground where’s the justification for 1bn of stadium debt?
The whole stadium thing was based around selling a dream to the fans and it was regular Champions League, Poch has delivered that early so the excuses for the stadium shenanigans have almost run out.
Win the title and there are no excuses left…
They are legion
they effected a replacement groin
Skippy to the fore.
A few months ago would you have been sorry to see Sissoko leave the pitch
Cramp only I think.
Ratcheting ? I like this word.
Has to be Skippy or Eriksen would drop deeper, too negative.
pam
Come to something when we’re worried about sissy going off and who will replace him
Yep.
ENIC OUT
When will people realise that this team has so much but cant cross the line when they are exhuasted. All of this is down to ENIC. No new signings – and all of this in the blatant lying about the stadium. Fraud, blatant fraud. Who is going to lead the team up front now? Shall we bring that dutch bloke back? Him and Llorente in the league and just Llorente in the champions league. Fuck all of it.
Cheers Harry.
We live in age of double barrelled footballer names because they all come from broken homes.
In fairness LLorente was Swans top scorer before he joined Spurs. The fact that he his not suited to our style of play is another story following the likes of Jannsenn and Soldado to have failed to make the grade.
So why not select our starlet Troy Parrott to the first team???
Mutton dressed as lamb
That money should have been used to buy 3 players. There lies the problem. Bargain bucket mentality and obsession with property development. The sale of one of Lewis’s 4 yachts would fund what we need. ENIC out.
Will surely plunge Poch into the transfer market this month?
Their NLD was the false dawn they’d all been waiting for…
Thats only the mirror. No one anywhere else have suggested it except them and we all know how full of shit they are.
Might try & do a leeds & hire their manager if poch leaves
Panic buy time
Harsh
Injuries happen and all teams have key players but it’s the paper thin cover we have and the lack of midfield options.
It’s chronic, but then again if you have owners that would much rather prefer it that you finished a distant 4th than ever entertain the notion that we could win the league, what do you expect?
The smoke is the Prem being compiled of 14 teams that are toss and the rest we can’t beat.
Bugger.
No son no kane
Nor me but we’d be out of sight if it weren’t for him…
They rode their luck, they are ‘in a good moment’ as every foreign manager in the league would have it, and they toughed it out.
Really, on the balance of chances and play, we coulda/shoulda edged the game – I see it as the opposite of the Chelsea performance. We were like Chelsea in this game – and we praised Chelsea in the mid week…so we shouldn’t totally destroy the team for this one.
Officially out of the title race/in the mix up for top four again. Ah well. Cups are now the best chance of glory this season…as we all secretly expected from this headfook of a season at Wembley.
Mix it up I say
Why whats wrong with them?
Why you gotta be like that?????? Calling big man a likkle bwoy. Antagonist back off.
Spot on…and it drags the fans along in false hope…do we really think we can win the league cup…
I can point you to a children’s blog if its too much for you…
They have lots of pace, and pass the ball forward quickly. We are slower in our build up.
That’s it…..nothing to see here…..or v Palace…..or Newport……or Cardiff….or….my hand aches
The only place to watch Champions league in London said the poster. Might as well have put it on the side of a bus.
It’s strange how you never learn from being wrong so, so often.
HH said you were the eternal optimist, you top 4 prediction hardly bears that out…
Certainly not.