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I’m starting to really dislike Almiron again. His decision making is absolutely woeful. I know we don’t have anyone else at the moment but fuck me, it’s infuriating how thick he is.

Of course not ? As I said in my previous post, hindsight is a wonderful thing. But I’ve posted on here a number of times about Eddie’s stubbornness when it comes to swapping players out - particularly Dan Burn when he was going through a dodgy patch but still being picked every game. It just seems like an obvious thing to do when we’re stripped bare by injuries and playing every 3 days doesn’t it? That’s not rhetorical, I can’t be the only one who thinks it’s logical to rest players when you can, surely? And honestly, I think Eddie has enough good will in the bank that if he came out and said ‘we’re rotating the squad to give certain players a well earned rest’ and then we lost, most would be understanding and reasonable about it.

From the start IMO. I know he’s not one for needlessly rotating the squad, but I think steadfastly sticking with same players game in, game out when we have such a relentless calendar could come back to bite us, and potentially did tonight. As everyone on here is at pains to point out, the players are knackered. It’s a risk to keep playing them, just as it’s a perceived risk to rotate them, but realistically which is the better option?

I totally agree with him as well, I think Hall has looked poor. But isn’t it better to risk putting him, Dummett, Krafth in and resting others for the Spurs game rather than further tiring them and risk losing both games or worse, picking up more injuries? It’s a weird one, I don’t want to question his judgement but it does feel like poor squad management in a period of so many games.

Fullback is literally the only position at the moment where he doesn’t have to. I know Krafth and Hall are significant steps down, and the benefit of hindsight and all that, but what is the point of having players available who can step in when others are clearly knackered, and not using them?!

That’s quite the leap! I didn’t mention anything about there being no link. Performance-wise I was talking about Miggy’s shit finishing, Gordon’s criminal finishing, Dubravka making Onana look world class etc. Maybe some of that is down to fatigue as well, who knows?! The poor general play and defensive slips, yeah absolutely.

It’s not the result, it’s the fucking awful performance.

Mistakes happen, that’s fine. But fluffing massive chances over and over again isn’t, ever! Our finishing has been awful

Gordon taking it easy on his own team!

Fuck!

Shit, is that right?! Every time I see them they seem to be shipping goals. It must be that run of 10 wins on the spin that helped their goal difference.

Spurs will be wide open at the back though. They might score a few but they concede for fun as well

They’re doing a very good job of denying us space and stopping us playing. It’s frustrating as fuck to watch but fair play to them.

I guess it depends in what capacity he's going into the club. If it's head of performance it makes perfect sense. He's probably as good as anyone in sport at squeezing more performance out of athletes, using data. If it's chief goalkeeping coach, they're absolutely right, but which club is stupid enough to do that?! There are certain areas where I agree a background in the game is essential - case in point, these fucking morons who have never played the game systematically ruining it by implementing refereeing systems and rules that don't work, to justify their existence. As for pundits, i'd far rather watch some of the women than the likes of Merson, Clinton Morrison or God forbid, Bruce - a proven failure with no tactical knowledge at all, giving his opinion on Pep's team setup. Fucking chancers!

Rashford was fucking disgraceful tonight. My Man Utd supporting mate can’t stand him and I can see why after tonight. Toys out of the pram, no effort, no heart, no desire. Embarrassing!

One of the most underrated CBs the Premier League has ever had IMO. I can’t remember watching another CB in my lifetime who is as good at going forward as him, as good at long range passing as him, as good at striking a ball as him, and then add to all that his brilliant defending. He’s a class act!

Schar has been absolutely sublime all game. What a player!

Almiron’s decision making is infuriating at times.

Man Utd are shit! They’re there for the taking if we could just get our shooting sorted

Yep

The only way Tino can avoid that completely is to have his hands behind his back. If defenders are defending with their hands behind their backs, something is very broken. Why are none of these arseholes looking at this situation and thinking 'lads, we've fucked up massively here'. They are literally ruining football for the players, managers and fans. It's fucking criminal what's going on. Deliberate handball worked for 80 years or more. This whole silhouette bullshit makes no sense. Go back to what worked and stop fucking up the game FFS!

Do people really watch cunts like this?! What an irritating prick!

Hopefully the crowd has learnt a valuable there

What is wrong with Joelinton’s head?! We should be getting it checked out really, it’s triangle shaped or something. Get the doctors to take a look

Totally forgot he was on tbh. It’s almost like he was finished as a PL player 3 years ago