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While up the other end a bloke who gets paid £300K a week did the sum total of f**k-all himself. I think Mane has potential, but it didn't come off for him tonight.At least he was trying to make things happen, even if he did make the wrong decision at times. Was he any worse than Long? Or Pelle? Or Tadic? No.

Oh so Mane is tonight's scapegoat is he?

And Fonte does get booked for an equally innocuous elbow. Go figure.

Yeah that would really help us out wouldn't it.

Yes, yes. We should have signed Di Maria and Sanchez in the summer. Like it or not, Mayuka is our only real option off the bench in that position at the moment. How about actually supporting the team instead of slagging the players off all the time, which is all you ever do.

Clearly you didn't see those world-class saves against Arsenal then.

Disgusting that you and your pathetic bile are getting this much forum time. We all know Mayuka ain't exactly up to the required standard, but what other options do we have?

Sorry... did I miss the FT whistle?

Absolute f***ing C**ts! Totally undeserved on the balance of play. I really, really hate Manchester f***ing utd

If he could just cut out the clumsy fouls he inevitably gives away multiple times every game, he would be even better.

Pelle goes close. Good build-up.

Long should have at least made De Gea work there. He'll be disappointed he didn't do better.

Decent half from us and we would be deservedly leading if not for a brain fart from Fonte giving Van Persie an early xmas present. I would so love for us to beat them. They are badly disorganised at the back and there for the taking.

Good to know that we have forced LVG into a tactical change. He's obviously very concerned about their defensive ability against us.

Utd are definitely vulnerable at the back since Smalling went off. We just need to put more pressure on them.

YYYEEEEESSSSSSSS Pelle you absolute beauty!

So annoying. Utd hadn't threatened our goal once and yet we're 1-0 down. I guess we used up all our luck in the first 12 games.

FFS. We play really well for the first ten minutes and then go and giftwrap it to RVP.

AS 'Arry would say: "We're down to the bare bones". The first 11 should be good enough to give Man Utd a decent game, but Look how inexperienced that bench is.

What change would you have made then?

Andre Marriner - what do you expect... professionalism? The guy is a prize tit. The bias he showed towards Arsenal tonight was so obvious it was embarrassing.

No, me neither. Mane looked like he might be a good acquisition when he first arrived but he doesn't look interested now, and has an air about him that displays a bad attitude problem. I get the sense he isn't well liked among the rest of the players.

You would have preferred he stayed on and made his injury a lot worse would you? Jeez - what is going on in here tonight? We ran sh*t out of luck tonight with injuries and horrendously biased refereeing. Up until about 80 mins we were looking really good value for a point IMO.

Yeah, because he was psychic and could foresee that Toby would get injured wasn't he. The level of moronity always goes up a notch on here after we lose.

Have you actually watched these games? Have you seen what limited options we have on the bench? In no way can Koeman's substitutions be blamed for either of these defeats. In all cases they were a result of an injury rather than tactical. We were already a bit lightweight on the bench, now after Arsenal kicking lumps mout of us all night we've lost another 3 players tonight. Gonna be playing kids from the Academy against Man U at this rate.