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Feels like we have been winning the physical battle, but lacking in the finesse dept so far.

it would be nice, but it's Man U not Southampton, and we don't have Eddie out there either. Just a win at the final whistle will do.

Gordon and Osula are the only two players on the bench with pace to trouble the opposition if we need a goal. Every other player on the bench is defensive mode only.

At this stage I'll take a draw all day long.

Just counting down the days until he's banned tbh. We had to take our medicine on the chin with Tonali, this cunt has been playing an extra season while waiting for his case to go to court.

Who's going to play up front in his absence though? Can't see any out and out striker in that team, unless you count Zirkzee as one.

Man U might be going through a transition, but they still have good players. I've watched them in recent games, and while they are a bit powder puff, they are still a collection of technically good footballers who can pass it about pretty well. This will be a tricky game, we need to make sure we don't give them any foothold in the game through gift goals or sloppy shape.

They will, just as soon as they've had long enough to doctor them sufficiently to back up the refs decision.

How would you know? Not like they've shown the lines on the replay, they just confirmed the refs decision as quickly as they could

This is the only correct anwer.

Do you still feel this way? Since his sub appearance against Liverpool he barely seems to have had a kick when he's been on the pitch. I'm wondering what Eddie is seeing that would make him think "yeah, he'll do me if we need to give Isak a rest".

Yep. I'll bet Jack Colback's passing stats were 95% positive, can't imagine he gave the ball away at all considering he passed it backwards before anyone could get near him.

Definitely. When you are only getting injury time then you feel like you have to prove everything in 5 mins. Once he starts getting longer spells as sub I think he'll be a bit more measured.

He's a real handful that's for sure. Just needs to add some finesse and clinical edge and you have a real player on your hands.

There you go. It's just not meant to be.

Good to hear tbh. It means Howe will be a lot more patient with him and is happy to keep working on polishing his game.

You could have made an argument for selling him in the summer as his valuation will have peaked this season, but he's probably now considered a key squad player even if we do sign a RW. For all his poor touch at times, he does a lot of things well. He can cross, he can shoot with both feet, and as he showed yesterday, he will get on the end of crosses at the far post, something a lot of more fancy wingers sometimes forget is part of their job.

I could be wrong but it felt like more of a Mitchell signing than a Howe one.

We are just destined never to score a goal from our own half. Rob Lee had one ruled out for offside decades ago, this time Schar hits the bar and misses by literally inches.

This is my take on it. We win our games and CL takes care of itself regardless of what any other clubs do.

Was thinking of Zola, but feel as he didn't win a cup with us that takes him down a peg unfortunately.

Must be the best ever Italian to grace the PL.

Think we'll catch them tbh.

The subs seem to consistently make us worse, week in week out.

Also need to give credit for getting in at the far post, always pissed me off when wide players fail to do that.