Manchester United 2025-26 Thread

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Bruno.
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what a goal! take a bow Bruno
Thunder18
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Ironically the least handball call of the game leads to that
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Cunha!!!!!!1
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Hahahaha...this team is so wild. And this time I mean that in a good way!
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So glad Sesko stole that off Mbeumo. Cunha deserved one
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This game is certainly entertaining. Neither team knows how to even spell "defense".
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Thunder18 said:

Ironically the least handball call of the game leads to that


I actually don't think it was handling. But he tried to chicken wing it.
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yall are welcome. i tune back in and we start scoring.
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F
Dre_00
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And now they're back to be wild in a bad way
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Welp. Fun while it lasted. Heaven and Kobbie both way out of position there
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This is so so bad. It's just defensive incompetence.
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8' for what?
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Cunha has been a beast. Mbeumo has been a donkey today
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Sesko is Hojlund 2.0
Dre_00
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Sesko has one job and it's to gamble for balls like that from Bruno
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god dawg it. that has to be a goal. TF are they doing out there.
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Mathguy64 said:

8' for what?


Petrovic was injured for a spell. So was a Bournemouth defender for the "head" injury. That's at least 5-6 minutes right there.
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we could lose this completely
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what a save by Lammens
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Furlock Bones said:

what a save by Lammens


Nice of him to make 1 today
Dre_00
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That back three now consists of a woefully out of match fitness Lisandro, a 19 yr old with less than 10 EPL starts, and left wing back.
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Bournemouth should be ahead 5-4
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Lammens saved a point. Twice.
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I will reiterate that you have to win at home to be successful.
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Almost blew it at the end there. Absolutely atrocious defending and positional awareness. Kobbie showing why he hasn't been getting any time. He has no idea how to play his role in this system
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If there is a warm body CB to be had any way any where they have to find them. Maybe 2.
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This team is a defensive nightmare an it's about to lose its only breathing offensive players.
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Mathguy64 said:

If there is a warm body CB to be had any way any where they have to find them. Maybe 2.


Jonny Evans stepped away from his role with the club. I smell a comeback!
Dre_00
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Mainoo coming on was the signal. Mount going off was the confirmation. The lack of defending thereafter was a feature, not a bug.

I think Amorim decided that his team was going to give up dangerous opportunities regardless so he decided to make the game a coin flip and go full throttle chaos. It nearly worked, but he pressed his luck when he asked that team to try and defend for 10 minutes with a 4-3 lead.

The fact that Ugarte couldn't see the pitch when up a goal in the 80th minute is damning for him...or for Amorim. I don't know. But the easy, obvious choice would have been him on for Mbeumo after Cunha scored. May not have mattered but those 11 players were highly unlikely to hold a 1 goal lead for 10 minutes plus stoppage time.
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A good piece in the Athletic about how United morphed between a 3-5-2/5-3-2 and a 4-3-3 depending on how Bournemouth marked and attacked (with direct quotes from Iraola).

Didn't realize that Casemiro's yellow means he misses Villa on Sunday through accumulation. One would assume that, away to a good team, a defensively minded player like Ugarte would be the natural replacement but he has played a grand total of 31 minutes in the last two months and that's not because United have been defensively sound. But a Bruno/Mainoo central midfield away to a good team also seems unlikely. With the AFCON players gone, Casemiro suspended, and De Ligt/Maguire still out (I think), it's likely to be a patchwork team/formation.

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This is probably going to get me labeled a bigot or racist or something, but the amount of backbending that UEFA and FIFA do for AFCON is absurd. Having AFCON the same year as a World Cup is ridiculous.

How about the African Federation get in line with the rest of the world schedule?
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you're not wrong.
 
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