Man Utd vs Aston Villa post-match thread

[Brazilian Villain]

Gutted, but I blame Doctor Who with their Xmas special 'let's go back to 2004' timeline.

As Christy Moore once said, 'Any day you get home in one piece is a good day". Annoying, but hopefully just a blip on our march onwards and upwards.

[andyh]

Got what we deserved, could not match them for passion or desire in the second half, sloppy passing and far too many players did not put in a shift.
I hope we have a list of recruits for Jan

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I agree. We stopped competing

[Tony Daleys Shorts]

Please, please! I thought we’d stopped with this - my therapist said this type of nightmare was behind us.

I can’t express in words how much I despise Manchester United FC.

Christmas utterly ruined.

[Lsvilla]

What was Digne's injury?

Hurt himself sliding in to try to stop their second. Had to be carried off, so assuming something nasty.

Hurt himself trying to stop an attack that should have been stopped already as it was offside. Thanks IFAB / PGMOL / whoever said not to flag.

[Stinkin_Thinkin]

Why does he keep shoving Konsa out wide to RB to play a mediocre pairing at the back. Konsa is the best defender and the most comfortable on the ball out of those 3 and they get keep getting the shirts.  It's costing us.

Who else plays at rb?

I'd put one of the mediocre centre halves there where they can't cause much damage. Or Ramsey. Konsa should be central.

[Risso]

Playing McGinn that far forward was madness. He was hardly involved at all, and should have been dropped further back to support the midfield when it was clear we were being totally overrun.

[hipkiss92]

So 14 points from 7 game since the last nternational break. Now 4 (maybe 5 if we get oast Boro) games until the end of January, so time for proper recovery and hopefully get Tielemans and Torres back in the side. Kamara big loss today as well.

Take the same points in the 7 league games to end of February, and today will be forgotten.

[SamTheMouse]

We need to find a way to control away games like we do at home. We never seem to keep the ball, which is weird because it's Emery's whole philosophy and would really stop opponents from building up a head of steam and getting their fans behind them. Instead we go for Hollywood passes and cough up possession far too quickly.

I can only assume Emery is telling them to do it - if he's not, he must be even angrier than we are right now.

[nick harper]

We were out tonight so I only saw the second half. At 2-0 I was hoping to frustrate them and hit them for a third but all I saw was a team that looked hesitant, nervous and unable to retain meaningful possession.

The warning was there with the disallowed goal and we then decided to go into meltdown - starting with a shite ball by Carlos to Luiz who was outmuscled and boom , we concede and then crumble. None of the players played well in the 55 minutes I saw but the collective falling apart was really worrying. I saw zero leadership and a serious lack of game management. Worryingly not a single substitute arrested the decline.

I really think it was a mistake to continue to play the high line. The warning signs were there in the first half and United’s only tactic was to try get their quick forwards away over the top and to be fair they are good at that.

There were games last season away, Brighton being an example, where he made us very compact once we were ahead, extremely difficult to play through. We are a bit of a soft touch away from home, and too open this season.

[Villafirst]

Having Torres, Kamara and Tielemans out is too much. We simply have to bolster the squad in January! Still annoyed with Kamara after that daft sending off!

[Beard82]

Very disappointed - mainly at the complete and utter predictably of this.  Never thought we would win it - even when we were 2 nil up and was certain after 5 mins of the second half where they just continued to dominate us and we had no answers

We had very limited options on the bench and the better options like Zaniolo and Diaby are out of form.  Ramsey looks like a shadow of the player and dendoncker is up to this level. 

What really disapointed me is they worked us out and went direct earlier and we had no answer.

Surely we could have at least shut up shop.  But seems like ETH worked out Unai and Unai couldn’t answer it.

We had important players out but we shouldn’t be dropping points from two nil up against any side if we’re serious for CL. 

Need some players back - or at least some others back on form. 

[Nev]

Sometimes, just sometimes things conspire. It's an awful place for us to go,  the number of unexpected and bizarre occurrences is somewhat beyond belief over the years. Players that never score, score, unexpected comebacks and ridiculous scorelines. But we are still OK, still a good side, let's not panic because I'm sure the Manager isn't 

[malckennedy]

Surprised that there has been little comment about just how poor McGinn was tonight, at both ends of the pitch. Thought he should have been replaced long before he was.

[pauliewalnuts]

Still annoyed with Kamara after that daft sending off!

Yes, absolutely fucking infuriating, pointless red card and we are definitely feeling the impact of that.

[Dave]

Don’t know what’s more embarrassing

Their fans or Emery’s subs

Stupid post.  What's he supposed to do with the players we have out?

I thought that the narrative (see Spurs and Newcastle fans) is that we don't bleat and whine about players being missing because that is why we have a squad of players?

Our bench meant we had to play Dendonker and Emery brought on big Tim.  Who else is there?  Yes we have a squad, but no Buendia, Kamara, Tielemans.  Let's blame his subs when he has the chance to select from a fully fit squad eh?  Not sure what this has to do with Newcastle or Tottenham as I don't follow them.

But you understand that other football exists? And when we beat Spurs and their fans are all crying about their injured players, and we laughed at them.

And we think it's great when Newcastle get spanked by Bournemouth and their fans are all crying they that they don't even have enough players to fill a bench. And we laughed at them.

And we're down to the bare bones of the £15m  Belgian international who everyone loved two hours ago after his impudent back-heeled goal, and now we all have to all cry into our beers about how we can't possibly compete while we have losers like him in our team.

It just makes us sound like all those whiny bell-ends that we were laughing at four weeks ago.