Cf

The saving grace here is they've come out flying and have no bench.

Poor from Murphy there.

We didn't crash out of the CL. We were in by far the hardest group and if not for a ridiculous last minute penalty decision against PSG things may well have been different. And on the injuries a couple of points. Firstly there was plenty of rotation and substitutions going on. Go look at our games last season before the injuries happened. Frequently using all 5 subs and rotating if players. This thing about him not rotating is a bit of a myth to me. He mainly stopped doing it when he didn't really have a choice. And secondly a number of the injuries were just freak ones that weren't really to do with game load. The sort that can happen any time and just so happened to occur at the worst possible time. That's not to say lessons won't have been learnt from that season, or that the increased load doesn't present a challenge. But I'm no way near as pessimistic about it, especially as after a few windows of pain I expect we should be able to strengthen.

He's only won 9 in a row. If we really want to kick on we should be looking for managers who routinely win 10 in a row.

When it was put to Amorim has he considered playing a system that suits the players he has and he said that would be a betrayal of his principals and they may as well get another manager in instead I think that told you everything you needed to know.

Fucking Ipswich.

Nah. Was Fernandes that got booked for pointing out the dive.

Nice to see the Man Utd fans are behind their team.

Good commentary there. More of that please.

Stopped them talking about Isak at least.

I don't think Amorim helped with his pre match comments along the lines of "it's hard for us at OT because the pressure is on us", especially if that's the sort of thing he's instilling in his players.

Nah. The whole point of buying a football club is to put your advertising up for free isn't it?

We looked good in Rafa's last half season here. European places good. If ever Ashley had any intentions of backing Rafa and the club then that was the time but of course we all know how that turned out.

Really don't know what to make of Murphy. Not long back I classed him as not even PL standard. And I still can't help but think that at times. Often when the ball gets to him you can just tell he's not on the same level as those around him. But then he keeps putting in the goals and assists and seems to have an almost telepathic connection with Isak. Really pleased it's working for him. As previously stated there's maybe an argument that his form means we can go for a younger RW to develop but my fear is if he doesn't keep this form up his shortcomings will be all too evident again.

This cunt on a plane yet? (Love you Miggy)

People should just be wise to it and not buy him. Let the Chelsea's of the world sit there with their massive squads and wage bills. In 3 years time when he realises he's messed up his career he either signs another contract with them deciding fuck it I'll just take the cash or goes elsewhere on a free.

I know it doesn't score him points with us but in football terms EH has also done this with Bournemouth just to further big up his achievements. I credit Rafa with this for us too, perhaps in a slightly more low key fashion. Sticking with us in the Championship, and then managing to establish us in the Prem again, ultimately leading to the takeover. Bruce so nearly undid the good work. Life is full of ifs and buts but there's a good chance we aren't where we are today without Rafa.

He'd be a model if not a footballer.

Another game where I've not been entirely convinced but again we did what we needed to do.

Earlier in the season I thought he was part of our strongest lineup. No idea what has happened to him. It's like he's had the anti Eddie Howe effect applied to him.

Wtf are we doing

Love VAR me.

I wondered that and whether it would be considered a different passage of play or not. I don't think they'd go that far back for a foul.

Haha basically the same goal.

I've liked this ref tbf. Let most things go.