Dan Johnson

Was speaking to my Utd Supporting mates this afternoon, genuinely, which players in that starting 11 today, and subs who came on, would you take here? Mbeumo and Cunha of course, but how many wouldn’t you take, not Lammens, Dalot, Yoro, Heaven, Diallo, Santos, Zirkzee, Tielemens, Mount, Lacey, Martinez. As someone who grew up with Utd Dominating, it’s such a damning indictment of where they are, when as a fan of a team 6th in the league below Utd, you look at their squad and see at best, only a handful of players you’d debate about wanting in your own squad, let alone in our starting 11.

I think I’ve commented 2 or 3 times before on this post about how much I rate Azaz and how underrated I think he is. He always works exceptionally hard and he’s always in the top 2/3 of our players for yards covered. he can get stuck in, he can dictate games, pick a pass, his vision is exceptional. For me, he’s our most important player by some way he's a premier league player, we’re lucky to have him!!

£30m+ keeper every day of the week, absolutely sensational today.

Like Saturday, I feel the result is more important than the performance to keep pace with the top two. At this stage of the season the -4pts affects the optics of the table, but we were in the mist of a terrible Will Still slump this time last season and we still managed to claw back an almost insurmountable pts difference, there’s so much football yet to play. I thought everyone was a solid 6.5-7 out of 10 today, with Jander the stand out player. a professional performance and another clean sheet

His best game for us, encouraged by his overall performance, looks good in flashes, some great turns and a few driving runs, decision making at times was frustrating. hopefully will play his part this season with a few goals

Started a little slow, probably down to the fact he wasn’t warm and came into an active game, grew and grew and grew into the game and by the end he looked every bit the player we saw last season, forgot just how good he is! Should have scored, lack of goals and being clinical are the only slight downside to his game, otherwise he’s exceptional. did everything else right tonight, miss aside. my MOTM

Very much This, clearly his second position. Got caught early with a ball over the top where it’s almost like he forgot he was supposed to be the right back while in a CB position. thought he grew into the game but we looked way more balanced with Bree

Shlotterbeck has been nothing short of sensational to be honest, especially given the context of his arrival, he's only been here 7 weeks, SEVEN!, and he's arguably one of the first names on the team sheet. He plays with the commitment of a player who has a seven year relationship with the club, not just seven weeks. I like everything about him, i was gutted when THB left, I'm too old to have "Favorite players", but THB was my favorite because of the way he played, his attitude and ability were a real asset, but i've not missed THB because of how good Shlotterbeck has been. It's like your dog dying, being devastated, then getting a new dog straight away who is everything your old dog was without having to put any effort into training him 🤣 I just wish we'd seen a THB\Shlotterbeck pairing, that would have been truly immense.

2 ex players, very typical finish from Armstrong, how many times of the years have we said "he should have scored" in positions like that. Always found with Baz that he'd make a number of saves like the one at 1:27, where he doesn't have time to think. It was always the looping style shots or mis positioning that seemed to go against him

ditto. Part of my whole match day experience

They’ve already asserted guilt, he was charged on the 22nd July. There’s been no appeal from our side over that assertion of guilt, we’ve accepted the charges. We’re just waiting the punishment. its an absolute farce, the fact we’re nearly in October, that Eckert has managed 10 football matches since his charge, yet there’s still talk that his actions were so severe that he deserves a complete football ban for 6 months+ yet not severe enough that it’s not been expedited to prevent him taking part in football after his charge on July 22nd!! Fucking pathetic from the FA

Our punishment was handed to us by the EFL, not the FA. We haven’t received, as yet, any punishment from the FA.

Hugely frustrating result, we were miles better than Wrexham who looked allot worse than last season. We should have won that comfortably. Leo's injury impacted the game, Edozie was anonymous when he came on, should he be coming on in place of Dobbin? I dont think so! Has his transfer request skewed the managers thinking, he's done nothing to deserve his place ahead of Dobbin when he's been called upon. Off day for Larin too.

Great bit of banter

I thought his position was untenable so I’d have got rid of him too, despite the fact before the spygate story broke, I don’t think the club/fan base have ever been behind a manager so comprehensively as we were all behind Tonda back then. i think the majority of the fan base still are now, I certainly am, but we can’t deny that this is still a distraction and could have the potential to be a bit of a momentum killer should the decision go against us