Man Utd vs Aston Villa post-match thread

[OCD]

McCoist was sooo fucking pleased for them he even said it  , it was embarrassing

One of the most nauseating things about last night's commentary was that in the first half the pair of them seemed to have so little interest in the football that they spent most of it engaged in 'bantz' and other inane chatter about anything except what was happening on the pitch. Come the second half, their excitement in the game knew no bounds, though from the perspective of course. I should have turned the commentary off well before the end, so that even though we needed a goal, the final whistle at least brought the immediate relief of just turning it all off.

Apart from the first few minutes when the commentator told the audience about the 'half-time treat' that Mrs McCoist had prepared for them. Who gives a fuck? He's said similar before in one of our games.

[VillaTim]

Annoying result , annoying commentary and I'd normally have put my foot through the TV but I wasn't at my house watching so it wasn't really an option.

[RamboandBruno]

Is it just me or are we always shit on boxing day?

I can't recall our last win, but I remember defeats to Chelsea, Liverpool, Spurs, and a shocker away at Brentford in the Championship.

Yesterday was fucking shit from start to finish. Festive my arse.

Swansea 2-1 away in 2018, Norwich at home 2019, a really scrappy 1-0, ala relegation dogfight. Palace at home 3-0 in 2020 lockdown. Lost to Chelsea at home in 2021 and Liverpool at home last year.

[olaftab]

Annoying result , annoying commentary and I'd normally have put my foot through the TV but I wasn't at my house watching so it wasn't really an option.

So how many times have you actually put your foot through your TV Tim?

[TonyD]

Weird performance. 
We played like it was a testimonial game. 
No urgency whatsoever. 
Lacklustre. 
When we should have ripped them apart.   

[VillaTim]

Annoying result , annoying commentary and I'd normally have put my foot through the TV but I wasn't at my house watching so it wasn't really an option.

So how many times have you actually put your foot through your TV Tim?

17

[Cropley10]

Thoughts after letting the disappointment sink in.
We badly missed Kamara and playing SJM out of position didn't help.
JJ has a way to go to get back to where he was.
Duran is nowhere near being a PL quality striker TBH.
I've been saying for ages; we have to speed up our attacks at times.
Our slow play from the back does no favours at all to Watkins and Diaby particularly and the second half was I crying out for us to go long!
Playing Konsa at RB just loses too much in the centre of defence.
I hope at the end of the season, Utd aren't in a CL spot and less than 3 points ahead of us!

[Deano's Mullet]

I couldn't believe Evra at half time saying they'd been all over us despite being two down -  and that he could only see them winning 3-2. And the most annoying thing was the fucker was right in the end.

[Proposition Joe]

I couldn't believe Evra at half time saying they'd been all over us despite being two down -  and that he could only see them winning 3-2. And the most annoying thing was the fucker was right in the end.

It really was an MUTV takeover on Prime yesterday.

[Villan82]

I couldn't believe Evra at half time saying they'd been all over us despite being two down -  and that he could only see them winning 3-2. And the most annoying thing was the fucker was right in the end.

It really was an MUTV takeover on Prime yesterday.

It was disgusting.

[TonyD]

I couldn't believe Evra at half time saying they'd been all over us despite being two down -  and that he could only see them winning 3-2. And the most annoying thing was the fucker was right in the end.

Anyone could see it was going to be 3.2 within about 10 mins after we went 2 up. 

[Richard]

Yeah Evra was spot on, and unfortunately it's a few times now where we've been 2 up on these bastards and thrown it away. Thankfully it's not long to the home game to exact revenge.

Incidentally was the pre and post game summarising as bad as the half time one? The whole discussion was about what Man Ure had done wrong and there was nothing said from our perspective. Gabby Logan was useless and I'm glad Amazon are losing their contract with the EPL.

[Beard82]

Still annoyed about this one.  Mainly from the sheer predicabllity of the whole shit show.

My reflections are - we have 11 - 14 players up to this level - but whenever we make too many changes (albeit enforced in this case) we become shit.  Couple that with the fact that we have Diaby and JJ hideously out of form we struggle to do what we do well in most games - control it. 

I was worried about the Kamara red costing us - but thought we might get away with it due to the opposition - but clearly that wasn’t the case.

I think Unai will have been very unhappy with what’s happened over the last 3 games.  A lot of it has been self inflicted


Like others have said why didn’t after they scored the offside goal - we just go back to last seasons away structure.  They had sussed our high line and Carlos and Langlet are not quick enough. 

We desperately need Diaby, JJ and Zinolo to find some form as we’re relying too much on Bailey

Not convinced by konsa at RB mainly because he is our best defender.  Not convinced with Carlos - did ok first but was awful in the second half. 

I can only assume that Unai didn’t think he could do anymore to solidify us what he had at his disposal

We do need to bounce back from this - our amazing form gave us a cushion to mean these last two poor performances aren’t the end of the world but we can’t afford too many more if we are to finish in the top 5

[TonyD]

It was a bit like playing with 9 men. 
Doug and JJ went completely missing. 

[danno]

Yeah Evra was spot on, and unfortunately it's a few times now where we've been 2 up on these bastards and thrown it away. Thankfully it's not long to the home game to exact revenge.

Incidentally was the pre and post game summarising as bad as the half time one? The whole discussion was about what Man Ure had done wrong and there was nothing said from our perspective. Gabby Logan was useless and I'm glad Amazon are losing their contract with the EPL.

The only thing I like about Amazon’s coverage was the ability to select stadium noise as the audio track.