21 Sep 2025 18:58:36
I've been less than convinced by RA, but I thought he had the team up for it yesterday, they were pumped and took his feedback on board.
The energy and aggression was clear from the start and continued throughout, our continuing challenge is converting the chances we create.
MDL was immense and popped up everywhere, someone put a rocket up Shaw, and Maguire was hyped. Mbuemo looks like a great buy, and it was good to see Cunha and Mount back.
The worry I guess we all have is CM, it continues to look light. In those conditions, it would have made sense to take Cas off after an early booking, but hey ho, it worked out OK.
If we can keep that passion and aggression, it augers well for the next games.
22 Sep 2025 09:25:50
I think there has clearly been a big push from the mainstream media to try and put pressure on Amorim with the aim of getting him sacked.
Our form this season so far has been massively blown out of proportion. When we played City they were BELOW us in the table yet nothing was made of that.
We have the toughest fixture list to start the season, by a long way. In our opening 5 games we have played 3 of last seasons top four teams. With a respectable record (given where we are currently) of won one, drew one, and lost one.
If games against the top four are the toughest games you should play in theory at least, and we've played 3 of those 8 games, we've already played 37.5% of the toughest games we should face this season.
We've also had to do so while dealing with injuries. Our big three summer signings, brought in to transform our attack, haven't been able to start a game together yet.
Despite all that we are actually amongst the top teams (actually top for many) when looking at key performance statistics. Despite playing with key injuries against some of the best sides.
The players look committed, they are fighting for the team and the manager in a way that we haven't seen in ove.
22 Sep 2025 11:10:05
I would argue about the aim of the mainstream media is to get Amorim sacked, however, Manchester United headlines certainly bring more attention then any other club in this country so I suspect the mainstream media “wants” Manchester United to either thrive spectacularly or collapse dramatically because it gives them a clear story line.
I think Amorim summed it up perfectly in his press conference before the Chelsea game where he said we are playing better but it's around each box we need to improve and for me, it's hard to argue this. Decision making at both ends is a bit of a problem at the moment. Versus Chelsea, Fernandes should be rolling Diallo in to make it 3-0 but tries to reverse it to Sesko which is the harder pass, 3-0 and that is game, set and match but 2-0 up is a dangerous score line, especially when you ae lacking some confidence.
Versus Fulham, Dalot tries to recieve the ball on the turn whilst it's in the air when he should just control it, set it back to the CB who could then lace it or keep better possession but he loses the ball and Fulham equalise. Against Arsenal, their corner comes from Fernandes and Yoro both trying to play out of the box from an Arsenal cross, both could have laced it but Arsenal won it back and won a corner from which they scored from.
So we could and perhaps should be sitting on 10 points and in the top 4 but we are on 7 which, on reflection, isn't horrendous, same points as City, 1 off of Chelsea and 3 off of top 4.
The next 2 games, for me are the important ones, if we beat Brentford and Sunderland I would say it is a good start for where we were last season and considering who we have played.
22 Sep 2025 18:13:53
Think RA is doing fine job on his own to get the sack he don’t need any help from anyone…. stat man back on % but in reality we never had a problem against top teams where we are useless is against lowly teams, Grimsby being perfect example….
22 Sep 2025 19:54:13
Nice to have you back German.