The high line.

[Villan82]

The negativity tonight is draining. We are well, well in the race for our best season in three decades. Honestly.

[wince]

The negativity tonight is draining. We are well, well in the race for our best season in three decades. Honestly.

Just let things simmer mate. Post match nobody is rational. Just need to keep the faith and utv!

[AGRIPPA]

The negativity tonight is draining. We are well, well in the race for our best season in three decades. Honestly.

Well said….im sure a few on here want us to lose so they can moan…..

[Demitri_C]

The negativity tonight is draining. We are well, well in the race for our best season in three decades. Honestly.

Sha we have a party celebrate tonight then instead? 😉 its only natural people are gonna be annoyed after losing a game for our main rival for 5th. It was a must not lose game and we lost AGAIN to those losers

[DrGonzo]

Seems that way, I do my best to ignore the noise.  We have been massively unlucky with defensive injuries this season and I thought the back 2 tonight did ok.  The first goal was poor marking on Maguire by Kamara, what I don't understand is why kamara was marking him in the first place and certainly after he left hum for dead from the previous corner also, that's a question for Austin McP. Most of our problems came from players lapping around Cash and Moreno and creating good crosses into the box.  These are a poor run of results but let's look at them through the prism of us being 5th in the league a position we would have been excited by occupying at the start of the season.  UTV.

[paul_e]

Well its not working now is it unai? You need to start coming up with different ideas as its so easy to play against now

Which of the goals came as a result of failings with the high line? Personally I thought the defence looked much better than it had in the last few games but we got done by a few set pieces and a very good cross.

[ozzjim]

I'm still sure (not seen the replay!) Mainoo is miles off in the build up to the second goal

[Ads]

Well its not working now is it unai? You need to start coming up with different ideas as its so easy to play against now

What was wrong with it yesterday?

[SoccerHQ]

There was nothing wrong with it yesterday, we caught Rashford offside countless times in the first half.

[paul_e]

I'm still sure (not seen the replay!) Mainoo is miles off in the build up to the second goal

I'd really like to see a better angle for a couple of things in the build-up to the first as well, I'm not entirely convinced it was a corner, Emi caught it very close to the line and was pretty pissed off that the linesman flagged. On top of that I thought there was an offside in the play leading to it that got missed/ignored.

[dorsetvillian]

The high line was very good yesterday.

[paul_e]

There was nothing wrong with it yesterday, we caught Rashford offside countless times in the first half.

Only twice where we actually got a free kick but plenty of others where he stopped because he knew he was off or where we won the ball back before the flag went up and played on. 2 each for Garnacho and Hojlund as well.

All in the defensive line was very good yesterday and it feels weird that someone chose now to complain about it.

[ozzjim]

I'm still sure (not seen the replay!) Mainoo is miles off in the build up to the second goal

I'd really like to see a better angle for a couple of things in the build-up to the first as well, I'm not entirely convinced it was a corner, Emi caught it very close to the line and was pretty pissed off that the linesman flagged. On top of that I thought there was an offside in the play leading to it that got missed/ignored.

Casemiro was miles off, it wasn't a free kick and wasn't a corner. All apparently stated by Keane and Neville. We do seem on the wrong side of a lot of decisions since the Arsenal game.

[Demitri_C]

Well its not working now is it unai? You need to start coming up with different ideas as its so easy to play against now

Which of the goals came as a result of failings with the high line? Personally I thought the defence looked much better than it had in the last few games but we got done by a few set pieces and a very good cross.

How much space were united finding when we kept losing the ball? Everytime garnacho was loving it

Also we conceded two goals. Thats 8 in the last three home games. Its not working anymore been found out

[paul_e]

Well its not working now is it unai? You need to start coming up with different ideas as its so easy to play against now

Which of the goals came as a result of failings with the high line? Personally I thought the defence looked much better than it had in the last few games but we got done by a few set pieces and a very good cross.

How much space were united finding when we kept losing the ball? Everytime garnacho was loving it

Also we conceded two goals. Thats 8 in the last three home games. Its not working anymore been found out

Garnacho was finding space where we were happy for him to have it and nothing was coming from it because we were setup to defend against it. This is what is meant when people talk about setting traps, you encourage people to play where and how you want them to and, yesterday, it worked.

I don't care much about the previous 2 games because we all know there were problems there but yesterday we'd fixed those and things went exactly as we planned, unfortunately we conceded 2 goals that were nothing to do with the defensive line (and would both be considered controversial if they'd happened against other teams).