14 Mar 2018 02:49:48
I may seem to be a plastic fan coming alive in the site when the team loses, but I have my 99 reasons.

Tactics. Poor team ethic. Poor team selection- all have been covered by fellow posters.
Let me add my cent of worth of opinion-

The biggest gripe I find when I watch our team is the lack of work-press they put in, it just feels that they are playing a friendly. Every other opponent always beat us with their work-ethic which United lack high time, it never justifies me how can an Athlete with such ridiculous wages just not run for 90 minutes. I would love to get beaten with our player's running like headless chicken instead of strolling in the park without any zeal and passion.

The management needs to have a serious look at the future roadmap for a very 'big' club like Man Utd. They can not take a back pedal and hence lose it over the years. It needs some serious sorting out, Spend money, get manager, get players but make some goddamn progress and win those fans back again who have been loyal from a very long time and deserve the best from United.

Sorry to say this, But City look minimum two times the team of United and they achieved it in two years with a dynamic new manager.

I think getting a ballsy upcoming manager should be the biggest change for a better faster great future

Surz.

1.) 14 Mar 2018
14 Mar 2018 03:52:28
Good post Surz. I watched the game overseas so I don't know if Steven Nzonzi interview was shown to the masses, but the last thing he said was, "We thought Utd would press us more, it was surprising" or words to that effect. For it to be remarked upon by a rival player shows how easy a ride they got on the ball.

We are so lazy off the ball, the amount of times we won the ball back on account of a bad pass (not our pressing) and it just showed most of the team trotting or walking, no effort to move into a decent position or to support their colleagues. This was after 10 minutes until virtually the end of the game. Sevilla have really struggled of late, but we literally looked like it was a warm up session.

2.) 14 Mar 2018
14 Mar 2018 07:01:58
Even when we did press it wasnt as a unit and if we didn't win the ball immediately we stopped and strolled back .
It was an unacceptable performance worst I've seen in ages.

3.) 14 Mar 2018
14 Mar 2018 07:57:03
Excellent post Surz and I've been harping along about our lack of pressing and lazy attitude for 2 years.

4.) 14 Mar 2018
14 Mar 2018 07:57:37
This is because we don't press, it isn't part of the strategy. We hold position, and pressing distorts the overall unit, it's almost like zonal marking. We hold position to minimise space, and wait for an error.

The only excuse I cam find is that jose doesn't trust the defence, but given his history I don't buy it, this is how he sets up a team.