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is the ball hitting the bar from Pogba's subsequent free header down to great defending or luck?

agreed, equally they tore us to pieces in the first period and we could have been a couple behind. I wasn't that impressed by our performance to be honest, we have played a lot better and lost. I guess we dug in and looked solid, and that has been missing. As I said earlier in a post, happy with that, but there is huge room for improvement. Avoiding two straight defeats is massive.

I also prefer Stephens to Bednarek, but its like choosing between the two keepers. He won the ball well that helped us with the goal,but equally his marking of Pogba from one corner was absolutely dreadful.

Forster would have saved that one today, as he is great saving the stuff close to him, but in general, McCarthy makes more of the tougher saves. I have little faith in either, but there wont be a change so lets get behind them as best we can...and maybe appreciate when they do stuff well. We know there will be many more errors to moan about.

We simply can't afford it. Thats the only reason, surely.

no it wouldn't.

good point. More bodies when legs got tired not less.

you are right, we haven't conceded, but I disagree. It was pure luck United didn't score in the first half from the free kick. They nearly scored three times from the same free kick, hitting thr bar and having a ball cleared off the line. Massive amount of luck.

someone tell Ralph to knock this high line and playing offside shit on the head. Every game we rely on luck instead of player skill and determination. How they didn't score in the first half from one free kick I will never know. It's a bullshit tactic. Trust your players.

He has read the room. 4222 is not the answer to every question.

I said the same thing. You could also say, the whole team are responsible in a small way for goal conceded. United dominated for long periods - thats down to outfield players not being as good as them, but only errors get highlighted.

fair summary. I'd add that we looked lightweight on the middle. Romeu doesn't look at his sharpest. Has he struggled to get a full preseason under his belt?

Armstrong takes his chance, we win it. it's not all on McCarthy.

fair play saints. They murdered us early on, but we rode our luck, dragged ourselves into the game and got our goal. Second half was better, and if Armstrong has taken his chances we'd of won. Very good point considering the opening games. Happy with that.

give it a rest.

good workrate from Armstrong

makes him look poor, which is unfair.

hell yeah. attacks better than our wide men. Full of skill, pace and adventure.

Romeu nosebleed.

they are massive. looks impossible to score from a corner.

yeah. good spell for us. we can win this.

no it's not. its poor finishing and thats the difference between winning and losing etc. Defeders get crucified for making mistakes. That miss needs to be highlighted too.

that's as bad as McCarthy error. Got to score there. Poor effort on his weaker?? foot.

live link up.

get a striker off. Reshape again.