The honeymoon is over… what about the future of the relationship? Michael Carrick’s unbeaten run as Manchester United manager, which has lit a fire under the pursuit of Champions League football this season, is over.
In truth, it was a poor performance; the team had laboured even during a largely uneventful opening forty minutes. Of course, the level of incident changed dramatically at the end of the first half but, going in level at the break with Newcastle reduced to ten men, a victory seemed the more likely outcome.
We break down the reasons why that didn’t happen, what it means for the rest of the season, and the perception of squad depth… or lack of it. As always, we’re trying our best to maintain perspective in the face of another frustrating midweek result.
entropy_Green on
I believe in Carrick. Like he said, “ there’s a lot of things we gotta work on” he definitely will take us back to champions league football.
Various-Low4016 on
Hope its a wake up call for the players, the drop in the intensity and lack of aggression is simply non acceptable, if we play UCL and the Premier league next season, we have to find a way to be intense atleast twice a week otherwise we won’t go too far in either of those tournaments.
EdWoodwardsPA on
Bad few performances and it’s crap to lose against 10 men but he’s smashed all expectations I had of him for the interim role.
If he doesn’t end up with the permanent job I could definitely see him managing someone in the prem soon.
Lord_Sesshoumaru77 on
The lads are right, the team is incomplete and we need to make clever signings to have a way better team that can deal with anything. I really hope we can hang on to third because we urgently need Champions League money to improve the squad and attract better players.
mandingostrawberry on
deserved what they got this game. we were woeful against crystal palace before lacroix handed us the game with one mistake. didn’t even play well after we went 2-1 up. team is way too fucking complacent with these narrow victories. go out and batter a team one time for fuck’s sake.
AVWenckebach on
Ok but who’s the CM in Spain Andy was hinting at??
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The honeymoon is over… what about the future of the relationship? Michael Carrick’s unbeaten run as Manchester United manager, which has lit a fire under the pursuit of Champions League football this season, is over.
In truth, it was a poor performance; the team had laboured even during a largely uneventful opening forty minutes. Of course, the level of incident changed dramatically at the end of the first half but, going in level at the break with Newcastle reduced to ten men, a victory seemed the more likely outcome.
We break down the reasons why that didn’t happen, what it means for the rest of the season, and the perception of squad depth… or lack of it. As always, we’re trying our best to maintain perspective in the face of another frustrating midweek result.
I believe in Carrick. Like he said, “ there’s a lot of things we gotta work on” he definitely will take us back to champions league football.
Hope its a wake up call for the players, the drop in the intensity and lack of aggression is simply non acceptable, if we play UCL and the Premier league next season, we have to find a way to be intense atleast twice a week otherwise we won’t go too far in either of those tournaments.
Bad few performances and it’s crap to lose against 10 men but he’s smashed all expectations I had of him for the interim role.
If he doesn’t end up with the permanent job I could definitely see him managing someone in the prem soon.
The lads are right, the team is incomplete and we need to make clever signings to have a way better team that can deal with anything. I really hope we can hang on to third because we urgently need Champions League money to improve the squad and attract better players.
deserved what they got this game. we were woeful against crystal palace before lacroix handed us the game with one mistake. didn’t even play well after we went 2-1 up. team is way too fucking complacent with these narrow victories. go out and batter a team one time for fuck’s sake.
Ok but who’s the CM in Spain Andy was hinting at??