Manchester United 1-0 Newcastle United (26/12/25) | post-match from pg. 54

[Rod]

Knicker wetting tonight is off the scale. Some of you "fans" need to take your "support" elsewhere. 

[toon25]

19 minutes ago, Rod said:

Man utd ended up with a flat back six. It's a tall order to break that down. We played very well tonight.

 

Rod's had a tipple too many, like. 

[alexf]

That was a tough watch. 

 

It's happened to often now to not be obvious that we have been figured out, atleast away from home. 

 

Tonight exposed all our weaknesses. We lack creativity to break down a low block. We struggle against counter attack pace, we are poor at attacking from corners and we are good for conceding a goal currently, as Ramsdale isn't keeping any out that aren't straight at him. Think there is a reason most of his career has been in teams flirting relegation.

 

Really feels time to try something new from Howe atleast on the road because it's the same story over and over. 

 

Hall was our only stand out. 

Again losing patience with Gordon being ahead of Barnes all the time for left wing. Makes zero sense to me that we don't even try and switch Gordon over when we are struggling.

 

 

[TaylorJ_01]

The only antidote is 5 baileys and a night of indigestion

[Rod]

Just now, toon25 said:

 

Rod's had a tipple too many, like. 

I haven't actually. I was furious after the mackem defeat. Tonight I was just frustrated. We were by far the better team.

[Displayname]

First time Man Utd won without Bruno since 2022, second clean sheet of the season.

[Myleftboot]

1 minute ago, Rod said:

I haven't actually. I was furious after the mackem defeat. Tonight I was just frustrated. We were by far the better team.

Their keeper didn’t have a save to make man.😂

[Rod]

Just now, Myleftboot said:

Their keeper didn’t have a save to make man.😂

I've attempted to explain that earlier. Keep up.

[HaydnNUFC]

1 minute ago, Displayname said:

First time Man Utd won without Bruno since 2022, second clean sheet of the season.

Aye, but have you remembered where we were?

[Si67]

Cups are our only chance of getting Europe now - spineless and insipid 

[TaylorJ_01]

3 minutes ago, Displayname said:

First time Man Utd won without Bruno since 2022, second clean sheet of the season.

 

That can't be true ffs rough

[Dr Feelgood]

Could have played until midnight and we still wouldn't have scored.

 

Our attack is so predictable. Only Hall showed some initiative and had a go.

[The Prophet]

1 minute ago, Si67 said:

Cups are our only chance of getting Europe now - spineless and insipid 

 

There was clearly no issue with the application, we just looked utterly toothless.

[Myleftboot]

One striker up against three centre backs is going to struggle. Isak used to when he played for us.

[Kid Icarus]

27 minutes ago, duo said:

If the pen had been given (which was blatant) the result would have been different - in that we'd have gone on to win it.  Bet Sky don't question that.

 

 

 

Would have been the first time anyone's done that in 41 years.

[Froggy]

1 hour ago, Mike said:

That @Froggy post is gonna land harder than a motherfucker.

 

I'm just glad we didn't play our first team or it could have really ruined your Christmas. 

[Myleftboot]

Spoilt me bastard Christmas.

[Sir Joel Inton]

The only positive from this is it makes Amorim look like a tactical genius and will keep him in a job. This version of Man Utd is fantastic. Never in my lifetime did I expect to see them defend a 1-0 lead at home against us for 45 minutes with a flat back 6.

[Jonas]

Completely standard performance. Neither good nor bad, just meh, if this league season was a player it'd be Christian Bassedas. "Powderpuff" as the bloke next to me back then used to mutter.

Clear all season that we have an extremely blunt cutting edge. Its like missing Shearer for the first part of 97/98 and ploughing on with a striker, anything goals that do come feel like a bonus rather than inevitable.

 

Special thanks football powers that be, that was by far the shittest boxing days football since I got into football rounded off by a poor game in a non-atmosphere between the teams/clubs that typically produce something this time of year and without financial restraints probably would have again. 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 26, 2025 by Jonas

[Geordie Ahmed]

Would be nice to play Man U at home on Boxing Day for a change, maybe next season 

[El Prontonise]

34 minutes ago, Smal said:

we were really poor and didn’t create anything decent against a really, really bad Man U side. 

 

2 poor sides in all honesty.

[Jonas]

34 minutes ago, alexf said:

That was a tough watch. 

 

It's happened to often now to not be obvious that we have been figured out, atleast away from home. 

 

Tonight exposed all our weaknesses. We lack creativity to break down a low block. We struggle against counter attack pace, we are poor at attacking from corners and we are good for conceding a goal currently, as Ramsdale isn't keeping any out that aren't straight at him. Think there is a reason most of his career has been in teams flirting relegation.

 

Really feels time to try something new from Howe atleast on the road because it's the same story over and over. 

 

Hall was our only stand out. 

Again losing patience with Gordon being ahead of Barnes all the time for left wing. Makes zero sense to me that we don't even try and switch Gordon over when we are struggling.

 

 

I think its the same at home really, labour to score we just manage to force enough to cover for it but it takes ys a lot of effort pressure and time to do what takes teams very little to do unto us.

[woody]

Upside: my wife let me sit in bed and watch the game as she cleaned ahead of guests coming over tonight. 
 

Downside: had to watch that match 

[nemtizz]

9 minutes ago, woody said:

Upside: my wife let me sit in bed and watch the game as she cleaned ahead of guests coming over tonight. 
 

Downside: had to watch that match 

 

[Conjo]

That was frustrating. Team simply wasn't in synch at all.

 

First half i thought the main problem was our movement off the ball. It's like the players were hoping to get a breather when we had it instead of putting in the work to make themselves available for the pass. We got overrun by man utd.

 

Second half man utd gave us the initiative and defended deep. When our players made good runs, the ball carrier was too late to play the pass. When the pass was played quickly it was either mis-hit or the receiver didn't make the run (or ran in the opposite direction of the pass). 

 

Unless we had equalized in the last few minutues I'm fairly sure man utd would have upped their game and won 2-1.

 

Dissapointing considering that we finally had some time to work on things we need to improve on, and it was very much the same as we've seen all season.