Made a good fist of it

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Up against a confident Utd side on a great unbeaten run I thought we did well last night.
Their football was tidy, and clinical. And though our performance lacked their finesse, we were in this game all the way through.

It is a credit to us that Utd had to defend with everything they had, and their goal, as clinical as it was, was against the run of play.

We built real pressure and their keeper was man of the match for me. We put immense pressure on them with so many precise corners that were causing total havoc. But no cigar.

We gave a great account of ourselves against a side high on self belief. On balance a draw would have been a fair result. But our lads can move on with increased self belief that though far from the finished article, they are on the right path and evidentially, after going toe to toe with the form side of the prem, we fans and Moysie can see improvements, and with more self belief, I for one, now more than ever, am confident we are on the right path.

Take coffee with your spoons breakfast my friend....

 

[JLW]

Honestly have to question people’s understanding of the game.

United have played well recently but were rotten last night - watch them get badly beaten soon.

The first half, both sides were poor, so many loose passes, no quality at all on show.

The second half we were better (and did deserve a point) but we never really looked like scoring. And as for the corners causing chaos! They only caused chaos to ourselves - United with Maguire and that keeper can defend floated balls into the 6 yard box all day long.

We lacked tempo, creativity, balance and pace.

Edit - I think the original post is a wind up isn’t it.

Not just the understanding of the game but the mentality, this is exactly why we achieve nothing, a derby win or a win against the bigger clubs is the highlight of a season. Koff

Sadly we have a manager who thinks the same, its no coincidence that wee Davey has been here for almost half time of us winning nothing for 30 years, because success means not being a relegation battle for a lot of our fanbase or getting a hard on about maybe qualifying for that diluted crap of a competition they call European comp

 

[NeilMorepies]

Sounds like what a lower league team would say after a cup defeat to a Prem side.

Also see the Knife, Gunfight scenario.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Fisted more like.

 

[james2805]

Up against a confident Utd side on a great unbeaten run I thought we did well last night.
Their football was tidy, and clinical. And though our performance lacked their finesse, we were in this game all the way through.

It is a credit to us that Utd had to defend with everything they had, and their goal, as clinical as it was, was against the run of play.

We built real pressure and their keeper was man of the match for me. We put immense pressure on them with so many precise corners that were causing total havoc. But no cigar.

We gave a great account of ourselves against a side high on self belief. On balance a draw would have been a fair result. But our lads can move on with increased self belief that though far from the finished article, they are on the right path and evidentially, after going toe to toe with the form side of the prem, we fans and Moysie can see improvements, and with more self belief, I for one, now more than ever, am confident we are on the right path.

Brave to come on here and have an opinion haha.

Not a bad post, agree with some of it. They've been good lately and league table shows they're having a decent season, they wasn't great yesterday though and were definitely there for the taking. But I don't think we approached the game particularly wrong, we just got caught on the counter, it happens. It's happened to far better teams than us, in games with way way more one-direction pressure than us vs Utd.

It's unfortunate, but it shows how much we're lacking to create and carve out the goal opportunites when the onus is on us to dictate the possession and attack a team. We definitely were the better team in the 2nd half against United and the side that was pushing to try and load players forward, the downside is if you don't score, you can get punished.

 

[Joey66]

Up against a confident Utd side on a great unbeaten run I thought we did well last night.
Their football was tidy, and clinical. And though our performance lacked their finesse, we were in this game all the way through.

It is a credit to us that Utd had to defend with everything they had, and their goal, as clinical as it was, was against the run of play.

We built real pressure and their keeper was man of the match for me. We put immense pressure on them with so many precise corners that were causing total havoc. But no cigar.

We gave a great account of ourselves against a side high on self belief. On balance a draw would have been a fair result. But our lads can move on with increased self belief that though far from the finished article, they are on the right path and evidentially, after going toe to toe with the form side of the prem, we fans and Moysie can see improvements, and with more self belief, I for one, now more than ever, am confident we are on the right path.

 

[COYB75]

Why is this in not in the match thread rather than having it's own one?!?

 

[Swartzy]

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I like it Joseph

 

[BlueAmigo]

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