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A sinking ship that needs a saviour.

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Way off pace United has come to a point where it needs a savior, again.

Unfortunately, Ole Gunnar’s reign needs to be cut short, the journey that started on the basis of emotional decision has crumbled.

It was 8th May 2013 when we got the news we had all been dreading to hear. The man who has been with the club for 27 years would retire leaving us with the most decorated Premier League club.

We were so used to the glory we forgot we had a mastermind who has won Premier League with Ashley Young, Tom Cleverly, Danny Welbeck. Yup, He made average players play well and won the league.

Let's dive into our past and our cluelessness regarding the future.

David Moyes

Some of us knew Moyes was a piece of bad news since the day we heard the rumor cause even though he had a competitive spell at Everton he had not won anything with them and here he was taking on the biggest challenge with the biggest PL team.

SAF had left a legacy behind which Moyes failed to continue miserably. United won 27 games in 51 games under him but unfortunately, he was shown the exit door after just a single season, he left United trailing at seventh position.

And here we were looking for another man the very next season.

Luis Van Gaal

When LVG came on we were quite hopeful- his successful time in Bundesliga was quite tempting.
He had the ability to set up foundations and had an eye for young talent. But he was no tactician who could drag United back to where SAF had left us, favorites for every trophy and champions.

His time at United was a total blunder, after 10 league matches United was in ninth place with 13 points and three victories, their worst start to the season since 1987-87.

We were mocked and laughed at and his stunts on the pitch did not help either. Some say he should have given more time and this is something which I believe in as well but passion and aggression to do everything and get the club back on the top is not something that everyone has.

The Jose Mourinho

Enters Mr. Mourinho, the tactical genius. The man who had an amazing spell at Porto, Chelsea, and Real Madrid. To be honest I had a very negative feeling about him. He was constantly falling out with players and fans at his previous clubs. As much as I respect his work I never had much respect for him as a person.

He did manage to win us some titles and at that moment we were relieved to be back on the winning road but it bought in a lot of negativity and instability along.

He was followed by negativity wherever he went and that’s exactly what happened at United as well. When the club denied his request for new defenders, he felt they failed him and turned against the whole system. His disinterest and hopelessness cost him control of the dressing room.

It was time, to get a new boss again.

Ole Gunnar

Ole Gunnar was not a new name at Old Trafford. People adored him. He was our “super-sub” and when there were talks of him replacing Jose, everybody was delighted.

But I somehow did not feel he was ready for the role, from Molde to United?
It was a huge responsibility. No doubt he did amazing there but managing United is one of the toughest jobs in World Football

All the doubts and barriers were broken down when he managed to win 14 of his 19 matches in charge, we finally had the guy we have been looking for.

The board was supportive, we got players that we needed and were finally playing the United way.

Ole had been taking us in the right direction, from boring defensive football to proper attacking football in the earlier stages.

But Mountains were to be climbed.

Last year at this stage of the season, we had 19 points in 10 games, and this season with a much stronger squad we have 17 points in 11 games. I totally understand the frustration of the fans, we should be competing for titles this season but it looks like we have regressed, we have fewer points than what we had last season.

But we all know what happens when the new manager comes in, new mentality, fresh squad, and the same old story of waiting 1-2 seasons to actually get good results.

I am not saying Ole is good or that he should continue, he did what no other previous managers could do. We got our old United back, we also were able to get Ronaldo back which is a very big deal. But this is as much he could do, he doesn’t have vision or style of play or tactical flexibility, which we desperately need.

So all in all I think we need to be very careful before choosing Ole’s successor. The board needs to hunt down a person who actually matches the club’s visions because I know we cannot afford to spend another 2 seasons just “experimenting”. We have a very talented squad, just a few changes in the back and we are ready to compete with the top clubs because trust me facing humiliating results week in and out is getting too much and is not good for the club’s reputation.

Ole was perfect to stabilize the team and clear the deadwood, he has done a pretty decent job of getting us back to UCL qualifications, but if we want to get back on road to success we need a mastermind, a different beast of a manager, who can work his way around and get us results every MUFC fan is dying to see. We might have big names in our squad, but we do not know if they will stick around and wait for another few seasons to lift a trophy.

We have to make some serious changes starting with who will lead the ship, before getting lost in the loop again, Glory Glory Manchester United.

Who do you think should succeed Ole Gunnar?

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The deadline day transfers.

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Even though the Reds could not sign Jordan Sancho they kept themselves busy on the last day of the transfer window

The red devils managed to complete the signing of Alex Telles, Edinson Cavani and Amad Diallo, as well as young centre-back Willy Kambwala and Uruguayan youngster Facundo Pellistri.

The signings that United made on the deadline day.

The total of five signings before the 11pm deadline window got shut.
But the major problem still looms, did they address all the areas they needed to strengthen?

We needed a CB, CDM, RW but we went on to strengthen every other position but these so I would say no, the problem isn’t solved and we did not fill the gaps that were needed to be filled.

The last day signings were clearly a panic buy I would say since non of these signings were properly planned.

The horror show

The current mood of the fans have bubbled up after the horrendous performance against Tottenham Hotspurs.

And on top of that these signings did not make them happy either since the club failed to get in the players that were desired by the manager.

Despite a busy deadline day transfers United failed to fill the CB position, a key position which needed strengthening specially after horrific display from Maguire, Bailly and Shaw against Spurs.

The reds failed to sign a single of their top targets in every area they were looking to buy.

When Maguire thought Shaw was playing for Spurs.

But the fans knew no such thing is gonna happen when Woodward made it clear the club doesn’t wanna splash in the wake of the loss they suffered in the pandemic.

Ole’s ideal plan was to create a young team. He got rid of the dead wood in the first season itself but we went on to sign a 33 year old in the next. This could be a good signing provided he stays healthy.

I would have been jumping with joy if we would have signed Cavani 2 or 3 years ago, I have always admired that player but right now I am having mixed feelings, is he going to be another Falcao? I really hope not.

Cavani has to quarantine and won’t be available before CL games.

Our board is clearly clueless, they did not pre planned for the transfer window.
Cavani was free agent since six month and yet we chose to get him in on the last day, why? cause he wasn’t even a part of our plan.

If money was the problem why didn’t we got rid of players like Marcus Rojo,
Phil Jones, Romaro to clear out the funds for fresh players?

We needed players for completely different position, we wanted a quick fix so we can compete for the title THIS SEASON. We needed to close the 33 points gap to the leaders.

18 year old Facundo Pellistri.

We cannot wait for our young signings to mature five years down the line till they become worthy of the first team.

If you look at other teams in the Premier League everyone including Arsenal and Everton have made remarkable signing and I won’t be surprised if they finish above us.

The manager is always the scape goat irrespective of weather they had the backing of the board.

I would only urge everyone to not stop pointing out the flaws we have at the club and to not push the manager under the knife.

What do you think about the transfers?
Comment down your views.

Match Preview: Manchester United vs Crystal Palace.

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After the dramatic end to last season, we welcome Crystal Palace to Old Trafford for the first game of the 2020/21 season.

Having lost just once against the visiting team in the previous 22 games. That loss is still fresh in every MUFC fans mind (hard to forget that last-minute fuckery)

After scoring in the 93rd-minute goal CP’s Patrick Aanholt become the first and to date only visiting player to score a 90th-minute winner away against United in the Premier League.

Crystal Palace have never won back to back league trips against United, only six sides have won away at Old Trafford in consecutive PL games- Man City, Bolton, Liverpool, Southamton, Spurs and West Brom.

Analysing the opposition.
CP are unbeaten in their last four PL away games, one of them being Manchester United. The last team that went unbeaten in their last five PL away games was Chelsea. Will CP be the next team to secure this record? (hell no, why would you think that?)

CP has started their 20/21 campaign with a 1-0 win over Southampton. However, Red Devils have won their opening game more times than any other side (19)

On the other hand, CP has never won two consecutive games at the start of any top-flight campaign.

Me when I see Bruno score 😀

Manchester United have lost just one of their last 17 Premier League games at Old Trafford (ohh yeaahhh)

With just one month and three daybreak, one friendly against Aston Villa (and one hell of a Sancho transfer drama) United are back in the business.

All eyes will be on on their newest and the only addition- Van De Beek. After participating in the only pre-season game against Aston Villa the Dutch forward will probably come on to make his debut at the 60 minute mark. MUFC fans have to be patient with him, he will take time to adjust to his new environment, teammates and style of play.

Our new addition. :*

The hosts will be favorable to win but cannot underestimate the team which defeated us twice at home last season.

Injury update
Phil Joans and Axel Tuanzebe are still unavailable 
“Phil Jones is still out,” Ole told in his exclusive pre-match interview with MUTV. “Axel is not 100 per cent back with us yet, but he’s on the grass running, which is a positive. Apart from that, we don’t have any serious injuries, but, as we’ve said, the players are at different stages of their training programmes.

  • I don’t know why but this is our third kit this season 🙂

“We need points and the players need games but some of them haven’t trained enough or had enough football. Some of them have been in quarantine, it’s just one of these situations which we’ve adapted to really well before and the players have done well.”


Ole

Lineup Prediction
David De Gea
AVB, Maguire, Lindelof, Shaw
Matic, Pogba
Greenwood, Bruno, Rashford
Martial.

What are your score predictions? Comment down below.

Thank you for reading. 😀

2019/2020 Season Review

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The longest season ever has come to an end, even though United have lost too many semi-finals we have a lot to take away from this season.

From 14th position in October 2019 to fighting and finishing in top 3 was a big achievement. Ole’s first season was all about fixing the team and that’s what he has done.

Getting rid of all the deadwood and making space for the young fresh talent. weren’t we cribbing about this for years?

That’s what United is all about that’s our culture and 99′ squad have proved everyone who was against this culture wrong.

But is it helping us now? I would say yes, the biggest proof we have is Greenwood. Had Ole not given him enough chances he wouldn’t have able to show what he can do.

Then there is Williams who sent a player like Shaw to the bench, McTom is another example, he replaced Matic when Ole came in.

The first half of the season was bizarre. We drew too many games, played like a championship team. Our most important players Rashford, Martial and Pogba were injured. And the team was in charge of players like Lingard, Pereira, Mata.

Maguire was a good addition to the team after Smalling was sent away to Inter.
We conceded 36 goals compared to 54 goals in the last term, we have the third-best defence in the PL and we cannot forget countless mistakes that David De Gea made.

Last season we earned 66 points same like this year but last year we finished 6th 66 points for 3rd place was too bad, shows how bad we were. Before December we had picked up only 34 points from 24 games win rate was 37.5% and we conceded 24 goals in 29 games which are total rubbish.

I would blame the injury of our key players, within first four games of the season we lost Martial and Pogba, which affected our form terribly and by the mid of Oct we were thrown down to 14th place on the table, we earned only 9 points from 8 games before the international break.

By this time we had only two goals since August and the only goal we scored without Pogba was through penalty.

After the international break, things started to look bright for United when they drew the yet to be defeated side- Liverpool. What changed? The mighty Frenchmen Anthony Martial had returned and by December we defeated Spurs and City within a week.

We earned 59 points from 29 games after his arrival, only Liverpool and City had more and if would have played at this pace we could have probably earned more than 73 points.

When Bruno arrived we did not had to change the style of the play rather he fit the team so well that we not only started winning but started scoring good number of goals in most of the games, the goal percentage went from 1.74 pg to 2.33 pg.

we played Chelsea and City eight times and won six of them but the main problem lies against the small teams who come to the pitch which the sole purpose of parking the bus in front of the front men.

There are a lot of places where we need to improve. Qualifying for Champions League shouldn’t be our aim but rather fighting for the title and going ahead in Champions League as far as we can.

Over all according me Ole has done a decent job. He cleared out the deadwood that we have been dragging along since so many years, he made a clear space for the young fresh faces from the academy.

He made Greenwood in to a first team player when he had no more than 1 first team start.

Fred who wasn’t even a second choice midfielder had a great team under Ole

Nemanja Matic did not even look eye to eye with Ole is now an important part of the team. Even though he came into the light after McTom had to be dropped due to injury.

What do we need to do to be better?
Well, it’s no secret, We really really need to add squad depth. With Van De Beek our midfield will be strong and stable but we need a good LB, RW and a good second choice attacker who can come on for Martial.

How will you describe this season in one word?

Ole speaks about DDG’s form and our summer target Jack Grealish.

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United play their 4th game in 12 days. With games coming in thick and fast, Ole has to be in front of the media every two days.

Speaking to the reporters via video call, Ole began answering questions about our next opponents Aston Villa, David De Gea’s form and gave us an update on the injury front.

He spoke about Scott McTominay’s learning experience from the rejuvenated and in-form Nemanja Matic and the Red Devil’s fight for a top-four finish.

Read more from the press conference down below: (via Manutd.com)

Morning Ole. You’re fighting for top four, Villa fighting for relegation, so where do the big threats come from in this Villa side?

“I think they’ve shown since the lockdown that they can hold their own. They have been tight games, the games they’ve had. You can see that they have clearly worked on their shape and their counter attacks are one of the most powerful ones in the league. They spring quickly, so you’ve got to be ready for that and set plays, good deliveries and good first contact players. And of course there are some individual players there.

David De Gea is about to overtake Peter Schmeichel in terms of his appearances for Manchester United. Having watched him from afar Ole, and now obviously working with him – firstly, did you think he would develop into the keeper we see today and secondly, is that loyalty becoming more rare in football, with the nine years he’s had at the club?

“Yeah. David as you say, he’s had some fantastic seasons here now and next year is his 10th and I think he’s proven Eric Steele right, that we believed in him. He had a little bit of a tough ride early on, with the physicality of football in England, but for me he has been the best goalkeeper in the world over the last nine or 10 years. And just to work with him closely, you see he’s still keen to learn, he’s still working hard. Richard [Hartis] coming in with Craig [Mawson] as the coaches, I think they’ve reignited a little bit of a spark in David and he’s working really hard in training.”

Ole reacts at the final whistle during the UEFA Europa League round of 32, second leg game between Manchester United and Club Brugge at Old Trafford.

Jack Grealish was the standout player when you guys played at Old Trafford. Is he going to be the main threat again and just how impressed have you been by him, because he seems to have really kicked on since his last spell in the Premier League?

“Well I think in the last game obviously they caused us some problems, both Grealish off the left and El Ghazi off the right. He [Grealish] caused us problems, he scored a fantastic goal, so there’s been lots said and talked about him and we need to be aware of him. Whoever is close to him, if he’s off the left, or he’s in the middle, on the right, what he does is attract players to him and creates space for others. There’s not just one player in that Villa team, there are many of them.”

Manchester United’s summer target Jack Grealish

You gave Nemanja Matic a new contract this week – Scott McTominay was one of the standout players before lockdown, so can he learn from Matic?

“I think Scott obviously is still a young boy, seven or eight years younger than Nemanja and Nemanja has been on record saying that he sees himself in Scott, so the two can bounce off each other. It’s never easy. I’ve told Nemanja before that Scott is going to play and he’s all right because he rates him and vice versa. I’m sure Scotty can learn a lot from Nemanja. The way he’s gone about his job in the last few seasons here has been good.”

There was an awful lot made of your remarks to Nathan Ake after the game on Saturday. Did you really mean you wanted a left-footed centre-back? That’s what you seemed to say to him…

“I have got seven centre-backs so I don’t know where that came from! We’re fine.”

The Red’s celebrating in front of the fans at Old Trafford.

Team News:

United’s next game will be played on Thursday night at 12:45 IST.

After Victor Lindelof sustained a minor back injury in the game against Bournemouth, Eric Bailly will most likely take his place.

With a handful of games to go, we might see a squad rotation or Ole would stick to the same line up which has served him well in the previous 3 PL games.

“There are not many that haven’t played in the last two weeks,” 
“They all know they’re fit and available, that they’re valued. It’s not an issue. There are so many things to play for. Trophies – the FA Cup, the Europa League – but also the top four in the league. The group is very tight-knit and they all know they’ve got a part to play.”
Ole explained at his pre-match press conference. 

Do you think we will continue our unbeaten run?
Whats your predicted lineup?

Exceptional Performance- Ole Gunnar is impressed with his team.

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Manchester United showed a wonderful display against Brighton last night as they continue their great form and unbeaten run.

18 year old Greenwood showed some amazing footwork scoring past the seagulls defender Lewis Dunk to give United a lead.

Bruno Fernandez who has scored 5 goals since his signing netted a deflected volley to give United an advantage over the hosts.

David De Gea who was highly criticised by Roy Keane made some wonderful saves when Brighton posed a threat in the second half.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu-0yUJFXIs
Full match highlights.

United share the 5th position on the table with Wolves will look for an entry in the Champions League since Man City has been banned from the European competitions.

Ole’s Post-match words:
“I knew there was a leader there, a winner and we knew we needed that type of player. Fair play and well done to the club for making the deal happen. It was hard because of course you [Sporting Lisbon] don’t want to sell your best player and he’s come in and been fantastic. His second goal was good defending on a set-play and we know we’ve got pace and we wanted to counter quickly. It was a great pass by Nemanja, a great cross from Mason and fantastically finished by Bruno so I’m very, very happy with all the goals.”

All smiles after the game.

“I rate this performance highly. Fantastic from the word go. The boys were full of confidence and quality.”

Ole

Here are the unmissable stats from the game that Manutd.com noted down.

The unbeaten run
The Red Devils have continued their unbeaten run of 15 games: winning 11 games and drawing 4. Bayern Munich is the only team in Europe’s top 5 leagues who has a better record: 25 games without defeat.

Greenwood
Mason Greenwood is the first player to score 4 goals at the age of 18 or young in a single Premier League season since Wayne Rooney scored 9 for Everton in 2003/2004.

Mason Greenwood scored an opening goal in 3-0 win against Brighton.

Best start since Robin Van Persie
Bruno has been directly involved in eight goals from his first eight league games for United and only Robin van Persie had more goal involvements (nine) after as many games with the club.

That assist
Aaron Wan-Bissaka’s assist for Greenwood’s opener was his fourth from 29 Premier League appearances with United: one more than he provided in 42 league games for Crystal Palace.

Bruno Effect
Since making a debut in February Fernandes has been directly involved in more goals across all competitions (10) than any other Premier League player – six goals and four assists.

Bruno Fernandez celebrates after scoring against Brighton.

Most celebrated United Duo
Paul Pogba and Fernandes have spent 219 minutes on the field together. In that time, United have scored eight goals and conceded none.

League double after 38 years
We completed a league double over Brighton for the first time since the 1981/82 season, with Tuesday night’s 3-0 success being our first Premier League away win over the Seagulls at the third attempt. They were promoted to the top flight in 2017 after a 34-year absence.

Greenwood dedicated his goal to Angel Gomes who is set to leave United at the end of the season.

Our goalkeeping genius
David De Gea made his 397th United appearance on Tuesday and the goalkeeper is now only one match behind Peter Schmeichel, who played 398 times during his iconic career as a Red. 

The clean sheets
United have kept eight clean sheets from the last 13 Premier League games, which is more than the Reds managed in Solskjaer’s first 40 games as the boss (seven). Furthermore, only Liverpool (seven) have conceded fewer Premier League goals in 2020 than United (eight).

A brilliant performance after a long time, we showed quality and played proper attacking football. Hope we continue this form and qualify for the Champions League next season.

United will play Bournemouth on 4th July, 7:30 IST

Finally after seven years, United managed to score a hat-trick.

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The hat-trick drought is finally lifted by Anthony Martial, who became the first player to score three goals in 7 years. The last player to do so was Robin Van Persie in 2013 against Aston Villa.

United hosted Sheffield United at Old Trafford with the aim of stealing all three points and they did just that. Which mean the Reds continue their unbeaten run (13 games) in all competitions.

Manchester United move closer to top 4 who are just 2 points away from Chelsea who plays Man City in their next fixture.

Martial’s firsts: Anthony Martial has scored his first hat-trick and scored in three successive PL home games for the first time in his United career.

After Sheffield United’s loss yesterday they are three consecutive games without a win since the PL resumed and sitting on the 8th position on the Premier League table.
Over a week ago Sheffield was two points behind United with a game in hand.

With Martial’s three wonderful goals he has equaled the the number of goals (19) scored by his fellow team mate Marcus Rashford in all competitions.
Who do you think will be the top scorer in 2019-2020 season?

Rashford provided two assist yesterday.

Another amazing stat: Rashford, Martial and Greenwood have now scored 50 goals between them this season.
Source: Manchester United.

With Pogba back United are much stronger and looking confident.

Fans were quite impressed by Matic.

Anthony, well done. Your first hat-trick for United, how did it feel?
“I feel very good. It’s my first hat-trick in my career, so I hope I will score more. I’m happy because the team played very good today so I think it’s good.”

Was your favourite goal the hat-trick one? It was a great build-up.
“The last one, I think the last one. It was a very good goal. The first two were two good goals, like a real number nine and I know the manager is happy for these to go in. He was happy.”

You’ve got 19 goals, Marcus has got 19 goals – is there a little competition to see who gets to 20 first?
“He gave me one or two assists today, so the most important  [thing] is to win. I tried to give him a chance to score – no competition, we just want to win.”

Obviously, you’d love to score a hat-trick in front of 75,000 people screaming your name.

“It was really nice. The fans were happy… no, it was a little bit strange! I know they will be happy for me and it’s good to play like this.”

Anthony Martial
Robin Van Persie tweeted after the game.
wtch full match highlights and Martial’s first hat-trick.

United play Norwich on 27th, 10:00 Pm IST.

Match preview: United vs Sheffield United

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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was encouraged by Manchester United’s performance against Tottenham Hotspur on Friday evening and he is expecting all three points against Sheffield United today.

In the reverse fixture, United was two down in the first half itself but made a come back after 70′ min in the game. But 90′ minute goal by Sheffield’s McBurnie led it to a draw.

Sheffield has had a bad start since the Premier League was resumed, they lost against Newcastle and had their goal disallowed against Aston Villa.

United celebrate goal against Sheffield.


After drawing against Spurs the Reds will look for 3 points today. Ole is determined and happy with the performance of his team. Manchester City’s Europe ban gives United an advantage to compete in the Champions League and United will leave no chance to work towards it.

It will be hard to see six-goal thriller again today but Ole will make sure United do not share or give away the points today. United have conceded only thrice in their last 12 fixture.

The Red in the training earlier this week.


Solskjaer will be looking to start Pogba and we will likely be able to see his much-awaited partnership with Bruno.

After the game against Spurs, most of us would agree on starting players like Greenwood, Pogba and bench Martial and James.

When the teams clashed the last time.

“We looked at the game and evaluated, and I think we should be happy with the performance. We’re never happy when we don’t win a game, but we created chances, we were closest to winning the game. We didn’t really have too many moments when we felt under pressure during the game. Yeah, it took a little bit of time to get going, as you would expect after three months, but some of the play was excellent and some individual quality was excellent. So we’re disappointed with one point still, but looking forward now to Sheffield United”.

Ole

Since Bruno Fernandes’ debut, no United player has scored more goals (4), created more assists (4), had more shots (38), shots on target (15), created more chances (26) or played more passes into the penalty area (98).

Scott McTominay signed a long term contract which will keep him till 2025 at the club.

“Yeah. We don’t have any other injury issues. I think they all managed to get through the game. They were tired towards the end, some of them, but we’ve got another 90 minutes under our belt and we’re ready to go again.”

Ole on injuries

Manchester United vs Sheffield United tonight at 10:30 Pm IST.

Ole on the reverse fixture which ended in 3-3.

“Yeah, it was one of those that we showed in moments there what we can do. In those 10-15 minutes in the second half, we were exceptional, and then they also proved how hard they are to play against. They’re hard to break down, good on set plays, they’re strong, they’re fit, well organised, and they had the fans behind them. It’s a difficult place to go to, Bramall Lane, when you meet them on a day like that. Or anywhere that Man United go, it’s a cup final for the home fans. So it was an extraordinary game. Too bad we didn’t hold on to the three points.”

3-3 match highlight of our previous meeting with Sheffield.

“Disappointed with one point, I think we deserve more”

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The much-awaited game after lockdown has been played and I as a United fan wasn’t satisfied with the result. We lacked quality and stability, at one point we were running across the pitch with good counter and losing possession in the next second.

It was Spurs who scored first at 27′, their January signing Steven Bergwijn scored a stunner collecting the ball 40 yards from goal, soaring past United defence and firing at David De Gea which could have been saved easily.

In limited time Pogba proved how important he is for the club he completed 17 out of his 18 passes against Spurs, including 3/3 long balls, and was successful with both take-on attempts. Only 1/18 passes were backwards.

Both the team displayed “Black Lives Matter” on their shirt.

Daniel James seemed to have a dull game, he managed only 31 touches and losing the ball quickly.

Mason Greenwood and Pogba’s addition to the team made a good difference, Greenwood almost scored a winner but unfortunately, his strike went wide and with just 45 seconds of entering the game Pogba managed to hit a shot at goal but was blocked by the Spurs defender.
Both the sides looked for more goals and United had upped their hopes when they received a penalty again only to be ruled off by VAR and rightly so.

Jose tactics seemed to be working as United have not been able to defeat them on their home ground yet.

In the Post-match interview, Ole said he was disappointed with one point.

“Good performance, disappointed with the one point. I think we deserved more. I think the performance deserved three points,” 

“We started off slow, dominated possession yes but too slow then we conceded a sloppy goal – disappointed with that one. We had a bad five minutes after that one but after that, I think it was only a matter of time before we got the goal. Hugo Lloris made a fantastic save and we should have had more goals.”

However the team did not look dangerous and hungry for goals, the overall performance was sloppy and lacked quality. United had a total of 12 shots in the entire game with 61% possession

Praises for Paul

“Paul Pogba is a fantastic player and is finally fit again. He has had a horrific injury-hit season and he is desperate to make up for lost time, It is great to see him show his qualities and the contribution he made was big in us getting a penalty. I think he showed how good he is as an all-round midfielder.”

On Pogba and Fernandez’s partnership

“It is a definite partnership that we want to build on, they have trained together now they have had half an hour on the pitch together. We want the best players on the pitch of course and want to find a balance in the team.”

The Partnership.

United play Sheffield United in their next game on 24th June 2020, 10:30 pm IST.

Should Ole be the Permanent United manager?

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It was just Christmas and United had lost all hopes. Finishing in the top four almost looked unlikely, forget about competing in CL and winning FA Cup.

Who would have thought just in few months our baby faced assassin will turn the tables completely?

It would be a miracle if Manchester United finished in the top four this season this is what Mourinho said in December. The fourth position looked almost impossible, Chelsea sitting on that spot comfortably with 11 points clear of Man Utd but in just after one and half months, Ole managed to do the impossible, miracle eh?

Jose’s Pressers had become toxic and we all detested it, what is he gonna say next about the management, the players or how is he gonna embarrass the club, it was all messed up. United needed change. At first, I was sceptical about Ole, we couldn’t afford another manager who will take his time to settle with the club but Ole knew what he needed to do.

Ole’s Paris travelling squad included 12 players who were on tour last summer but did not “belong” to Jose’s United and with the same team, Ole has written history “No team in Champions League history had overturned a 2-0 deficit from the first leg.” United are the first team to do so and without their 10 first team players. Ole passed his biggest test as United manager and he did it in United way.

With 0-2 down in the first leg against PSG and limited options Ole had to build the team with young players.

20 years on from the CL comeback against Bayern in Barcelona, United repeated the history by scoring winner goal in the extra time. United eleminated the CL “favourites”

With just eight games Ole had already made it to the history books, the first manager to win all first eight games with the club. United have won 11 games out of 13 and lost just one. United are now at the 4th position 2 points ahead of Chelsea who is on the 6th position as of now. He got positivity in the club after all those media rantings and even after almost 10 first team players injured United have managed to win the games at home and away.

Ole Gunnar understands the club and knows what the fans and the club really want and most of all he understands the United way, that belief in the team and the history was missing since the departure of SAF and I feel we have found it in Ole. United are playing the way United should.

With 10 first team players missing Ole managed to get best out of players like Lukaku who was struggling to score sitters, Pereira, Smalling, Herrera, Lindelof all have improved under him. Playing the players in their natural position, pushing the full back higher so there’s no empty gap, Anthony Martial, Marcus Rashford, Jesse Lingard, Paul Pogba playing in their favoured position. All these basic changes which were needed to get the results. Fred, the player who has been constantly struggling to keep up with the rest of the team has been improving under Ole and was impressive against PSG.

These issues he had previously mentioned to Ryan Giggs:

“I was at a game next to him, and he was pointing out to me, ‘Look at the full-backs, they’re not high enough’. Things that we were used to, things that you associate with Man United teams,” Giggs said.

‘Ok you score two, we’ll score three’ and I think he’s brought, he’s instilled that back into them that we need to score goals, we need to attack and if we’re all higher up the pitch then it just poses the opposition that question. All of a sudden teams are going from, ‘Right it’s Man United, we’ve got a chance today’ to actually, ‘Oh yeah, we’ll be defending, we’ll be deeper’.

“As a supporter, it feels like we’ve got our Manchester United back,” says Phill Neville

“Ole’s done an unbelievable job. He’s embraced everything and let the players play with a smile on their face. I think it’s impossible not to give him the job.”