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posted 7 minutes ago
Clearly the lure of a reunion with the great McTominay is hard to resist
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Think I read somewhere that McT hated Nacho…
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I read somewhere that Zuckerberg was having a half-human half-dog baby.

Can't believe everything you read online.

comment by Pun (U21588)
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comment by Jalisco Red (U4195)
posted 7 minutes ago
Clearly the lure of a reunion with the great McTominay is hard to resist
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Think I read somewhere that McT hated Nacho…
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I read somewhere that Zuckerberg was having a half-human half-dog baby.

Can't believe everything you read online.
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As he is neither human nor a dog, I don't believe this to be true

Amad Diallo (22 years, 189 days) becomes the second-youngest Manchester United player to score a Premier League hat-trick behind only Wayne Rooney (21 years, 4 days vs. Bolton).

My star boy

comment by Jalisco Red (U4195)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Pun (U21588)
posted 50 seconds ago
comment by StringerBell (U11749)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Jalisco Red (U4195)
posted 7 minutes ago
Clearly the lure of a reunion with the great McTominay is hard to resist
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Think I read somewhere that McT hated Nacho…
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I read somewhere that Zuckerberg was having a half-human half-dog baby.

Can't believe everything you read online.
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As he is neither human nor a dog, I don't believe this to be true
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He's a werehyena

comment by Jalisco Red (U4195)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Pun (U21588)
posted 50 seconds ago
comment by StringerBell (U11749)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Jalisco Red (U4195)
posted 7 minutes ago
Clearly the lure of a reunion with the great McTominay is hard to resist
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Think I read somewhere that McT hated Nacho…
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I read somewhere that Zuckerberg was having a half-human half-dog baby.

Can't believe everything you read online.
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As he is neither human nor a dog, I don't believe this to be true
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yeah, he's one of the lizard people

comment by The Red Side™ (U11275)
posted 1 hour, 50 minutes ago
Amad is better used as a wing-back because he sees more of the ball and he can arrive later in the box from a slightly deeper area.

It's been a constant theme since Amorim's been in charge that we play better and score more goals with more attacking players at wing-back.
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He played wingers at wingback incessantly at Sporting.

Different league, different opposition, obviously. But I would bet heavy money that if we had a Trincão to play at ten next to Bruno, Amad would be playing almost exclusively at RWB.

We’ll be buying a left footed left back or a left footed ten in the summer to team up with Amad, without doubt.

comment by Barf Vader (U15867)
posted 1 hour, 21 minutes ago
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posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Pun (U21588)
posted 50 seconds ago
comment by StringerBell (U11749)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Jalisco Red (U4195)
posted 7 minutes ago
Clearly the lure of a reunion with the great McTominay is hard to resist
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Think I read somewhere that McT hated Nacho…
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I read somewhere that Zuckerberg was having a half-human half-dog baby.

Can't believe everything you read online.
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As he is neither human nor a dog, I don't believe this to be true
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yeah, he's one of the lizard people
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Mark Suckerburp

comment by #4zA (U22472)
posted about 2 hours ago
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comment by Pun (U21588)
posted 50 seconds ago
comment by StringerBell (U11749)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Jalisco Red (U4195)
posted 7 minutes ago
Clearly the lure of a reunion with the great McTominay is hard to resist
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Think I read somewhere that McT hated Nacho…
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I read somewhere that Zuckerberg was having a half-human half-dog baby.

Can't believe everything you read online.
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As he is neither human nor a dog, I don't believe this to be true
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yeah, he's one of the lizard people
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Mark Suckerburp
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Amorim’s post match interview with TNT was interesting.

- The players were tired after Arsenal, physically and mentally.
- The problem wasn’t enthusiasm, it was “speed”.
- We had a big problem defending space between the lines. Ugarte and Mainoo kept arriving late. (No mention of Mazraoui doing the same.)
- We lost a lot of duels and made a lot of small individual errors which all added up in the first half.
- The players are still learning the system, but don’t fully understand it yet. There hasn’t been enough time to train.
- When pushed, he agrees that some players will fit the system, and others won’t.

We have games Thursday-Sunday the next three weeks, so it’ll be interesting to see how he manages rotation if the players are bugggered after two games.

All of that was in response to a brilliant point raised by Scholes to him. That after the Liverpool game, Amorim had shown frustration and anger that they weren't putting in the same mentality and effort in other games as they did against Liverpool.

The point still stands. We should've been all over Southampton. Even if we couldn't do it for 90 mins there's no excuse for that first half. We were pathetic from minute 1.

In fact we have Southampton so much of the ball in that first 10 minutes we actually helped them find their rhythm very early.

*gave Southampton so much of the ball

comment by Playmaker (U22780)
posted 53 minutes ago
All of that was in response to a brilliant point raised by Scholes to him. That after the Liverpool game, Amorim had shown frustration and anger that they weren't putting in the same mentality and effort in other games as they did against Liverpool.

The point still stands. We should've been all over Southampton. Even if we couldn't do it for 90 mins there's no excuse for that first half. We were pathetic from minute 1.

In fact we have Southampton so much of the ball in that first 10 minutes we actually helped them find their rhythm very early.
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He was very clear in his answer (if we take it at face value) that the problem last night wasn’t application or mentality, though. He pointed squarely at physical and mental fatigue.

There was a real sluggishness about us last night (which given Sunday shouldn’t be a huge surprise). We didn’t get tight to them, then we didn’t read balls between the lines quick enough, then, when we’d spotted them late, we didn’t close them down quick enough.

When we did manage to close them down, Yoro and Martinez were both turned, couldn’t react quick enough and couldn’t catch their forwards.

We lost a lot of duels, and we were weak on the ball.

I don’t know whether after Sunday (or at all with two games a week) the players were or might possibly have been able to give another such focussed an intense performance.

comment by RRRU-ben a-moo-REENG (U17054)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Playmaker (U22780)
posted 53 minutes ago
All of that was in response to a brilliant point raised by Scholes to him. That after the Liverpool game, Amorim had shown frustration and anger that they weren't putting in the same mentality and effort in other games as they did against Liverpool.

The point still stands. We should've been all over Southampton. Even if we couldn't do it for 90 mins there's no excuse for that first half. We were pathetic from minute 1.

In fact we have Southampton so much of the ball in that first 10 minutes we actually helped them find their rhythm very early.
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He was very clear in his answer (if we take it at face value) that the problem last night wasn’t application or mentality, though. He pointed squarely at physical and mental fatigue.

There was a real sluggishness about us last night (which given Sunday shouldn’t be a huge surprise). We didn’t get tight to them, then we didn’t read balls between the lines quick enough, then, when we’d spotted them late, we didn’t close them down quick enough.

When we did manage to close them down, Yoro and Martinez were both turned, couldn’t react quick enough and couldn’t catch their forwards.

We lost a lot of duels, and we were weak on the ball.

I don’t know whether after Sunday (or at all with two games a week) the players were or might possibly have been able to give another such focussed an intense performance.
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You're absolutely right about their failings but his answer I think was trying to protect the players. A more accurate reflection of how he felt about the performance was from his subs. Mainoo off at half-time and the manner in which he took off Ugarte and Hojlund so early in 2nd half was very telling. The look on their faces said it all.

I can understand they may be feeling the games played but to be so poor straight from kick off, against a team bottom of the table struggling on 6 points, can't be explained by tiredness. If they'd come out and given their all but declined at the end of the half I could've understood.

I can understand they may be feeling the games played but to be so poor straight from kick off, against a team bottom of the table struggling on 6 points, can't be explained by tiredness.

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This (should) go without saying. Its an insult to the Soton players too. And not winning your personal battles on the pitch is unacceptable.

comment by RB&W - Our representative on the pitch (U21434)
posted 13 minutes ago
I can understand they may be feeling the games played but to be so poor straight from kick off, against a team bottom of the table struggling on 6 points, can't be explained by tiredness.

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This (should) go without saying. Its an insult to the Soton players too. And not winning your personal battles on the pitch is unacceptable.
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You were at the game, you could see the atmosphere around the ground go flat very early on. And the players did very little to raise it. That was despite the fans trying to urge them on every time we won the ball.

I mean, we've known for a long time that we need fitter players, sharper players, stronger players, more focussed players, more physically and psychologically resilient players.

Some of that can be trained and conditioned in to existing squad members. Some is going to require player turnover.

comment by Playmaker (U22780)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by RB&W - Our representative on the pitch (U21434)
posted 13 minutes ago
I can understand they may be feeling the games played but to be so poor straight from kick off, against a team bottom of the table struggling on 6 points, can't be explained by tiredness.

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This (should) go without saying. Its an insult to the Soton players too. And not winning your personal battles on the pitch is unacceptable.
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You were at the game, you could see the atmosphere around the ground go flat very early on. And the players did very little to raise it. That was despite the fans trying to urge them on every time we won the ball.
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Amorim also talked about the pressure of playing at OT after the game, pointing out the three previous losses and the fans’ expectations.

Of course he’s right, and the players looked absolutely petrified in that first half to me, which is a big, big problem requiring serious attention.

comment by Playmaker (U22780)
posted 33 seconds ago
comment by RB&W - Our representative on the pitch (U21434)
posted 13 minutes ago
I can understand they may be feeling the games played but to be so poor straight from kick off, against a team bottom of the table struggling on 6 points, can't be explained by tiredness.

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This (should) go without saying. Its an insult to the Soton players too. And not winning your personal battles on the pitch is unacceptable.
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You were at the game, you could see the atmosphere around the ground go flat very early on. And the players did very little to raise it. That was despite the fans trying to urge them on every time we won the ball.
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I was. OT has been like this for a while now. Its a beano day out for away fans these days.

I also heard boos at half time. Which was unusual for United fans.

comment by RRRU-ben a-moo-REENG (U17054)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by Playmaker (U22780)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by RB&W - Our representative on the pitch (U21434)
posted 13 minutes ago
I can understand they may be feeling the games played but to be so poor straight from kick off, against a team bottom of the table struggling on 6 points, can't be explained by tiredness.

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This (should) go without saying. Its an insult to the Soton players too. And not winning your personal battles on the pitch is unacceptable.
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You were at the game, you could see the atmosphere around the ground go flat very early on. And the players did very little to raise it. That was despite the fans trying to urge them on every time we won the ball.
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Amorim also talked about the pressure of playing at OT after the game, pointing out the three previous losses and the fans’ expectations.

Of course he’s right, and the players looked absolutely petrified in that first half to me, which is a big, big problem requiring serious attention.
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Yeh very much so.

I can understand that from some players, but not why it affects so many? I can probably count on one hand players who seem comfortable regardless of ability.

The problem is that fear spreads and infects new players.

comment by Playmaker (U22780)
posted 1 hour, 2 minutes ago
comment by RRRU-ben a-moo-REENG (U17054)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by Playmaker (U22780)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by RB&W - Our representative on the pitch (U21434)
posted 13 minutes ago
I can understand they may be feeling the games played but to be so poor straight from kick off, against a team bottom of the table struggling on 6 points, can't be explained by tiredness.

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This (should) go without saying. Its an insult to the Soton players too. And not winning your personal battles on the pitch is unacceptable.
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You were at the game, you could see the atmosphere around the ground go flat very early on. And the players did very little to raise it. That was despite the fans trying to urge them on every time we won the ball.
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Amorim also talked about the pressure of playing at OT after the game, pointing out the three previous losses and the fans’ expectations.

Of course he’s right, and the players looked absolutely petrified in that first half to me, which is a big, big problem requiring serious attention.
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Yeh very much so.

I can understand that from some players, but not why it affects so many? I can probably count on one hand players who seem comfortable regardless of ability.

The problem is that fear spreads and infects new players.
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It’s a little worrying, if understandable, when you see it in the likes of Yoro. But when it’s Martinez and Mazraoui as well, that’s a real concern.