Manchester United (Red Devils) | Special Thread

Manchester United (Red Devils) | Special Thread

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76 min What is Van Gaal not doing right?” asks Katura Anderson. Well, he’s not got a grooved, cohesive team, but he doesn’t seem any closer to the best formation or line-up than he was when he arrived. The best football United have played was at Leicester, but he dispensed with the system he used - a diamond, with Herrera right and Di Maria left - when a makeshift defence conceded four times in 20 minutes.
 
80 min Another chance from United, Mata skipping past two challenges at inside-left and flicking wide to Herrera, who finds Blind outside him. His cross is good again, and finds Mata arriving around the six-yard box. All he has to do is use its path to turn past Forster, but gets underneath and skies the finish.
 
84 min This has been an exceptional defensive effort from Southampton - they handled losing Alderweireld, and they’ve ceded only two serious chances. It does not, however, say much for United’s imagination, nor Van Gaal’s deployment of his resources.
 
84 min United hammer at the best chest in world footballTM, and Fellaini controls, sending wide to Valencia. He cuts back a cross that finds Mata, arriving on the edge of the box, and he clumps a shot into the ground and on the bounce, that loops wide of the right-hand post
 
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86 min Southampton are defending deeper now, and break with Tadic - but he overruns, United break, and botch their way to a left-wing corner. Rooney takes it - understandable when Van Persie and Falcao are on the pitch, now not so much - and hits towards the near post. Nothing happens.
 
88 min Lovely from Tadic, taking possession from Ward-Prowse along the left and measuring a ball behind United’s defensive line for Pelle. He watches it onto his foot, and lashes a low shot wide of the far post.
 
90 min Van Gaal has positively affected very few games from the bench this season - most recently, at Stoke, they got worse when he removed Falcao, and today, the hooking of Van Persie doesn’t appear to have helped much.
 
90+1 min Tadic is hurt in a conflab with Jones, and staggers off - Southampton will fancy him back, because they’ve used all their subs.
 
90+2 min United are hitting long balls at Fellaini, tribute to how well Southampton are controlling them.
 
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