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    Post Match Discussion: Southampton 0-1 Manchester United

    Thanks @IDFD I can't have stressed enough over the page that the issue is nothing to do with results or goals. I'd happily take a 1-0 win away from home every game if we set out to play positively for 90 minutes. It's the intentional negativity in our play I can't stand.
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    Post Match Discussion: Southampton 0-1 Manchester United

    "Ferguson set up defensive quite often" hahaha. Where the heck do people get this stuff from? I can only think that the desperation for Mourinho to succeed is leading to perception altering of Ferguson to fit what we see at present. Thank you for the example of the Arsenal game. It's misleading...
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    Post Match Discussion: Southampton 0-1 Manchester United

    It wasn't so obvious in the first half but Matic and Fellaini refrained from getting forward so much to support the attack and instead sat deeper in midfield after we scored. Another indicator was in the 35th minute when a ball ran through to De Gea - he waited and waited to pick it up and get...
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    Post Match Discussion: Southampton 0-1 Manchester United

    Wahey! That's me, you and The Independent: - "Instead, he went the same way he nearly always does, and looked to lock things down against an inferior side that United had been dominating. ... "In an era when goal averages are at a high, and the norm is expansive football, why does one of the...
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    Post Match Discussion: Southampton 0-1 Manchester United

    At least you're honest about not being objective. If I only read the results then I'm sure that I'd enjoy every victory. But when I watch every game I don't think it's too much to ask for some entertainment in the deal. Anyway, show me a game under Ferguson where we went into a deliberate...
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    Post Match Discussion: Southampton 0-1 Manchester United

    I love a bit of GOT. This is my favourite scene: -
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    Post Match Discussion: Southampton 0-1 Manchester United

    Do you disagree that we put in a deliberately defensive display after the goal was scored?
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    Wenger: Champions League has lost ‘attraction power’

    I'd second that - prevent making the group stage largely a formality in the way it's fixed for the big clubs to progress. Of course, I'm sure the big clubs wouldn't agree. I'd also like to see a limit on clubs from the big leagues. It takes away the prestige and is also a bit pretentious...
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    Post Match Discussion: Southampton 0-1 Manchester United

    I don't want to convolute the discussion by going into other games or Mourinho's long history of anti-football too much. The concerns I have stated are in regard to and clearly demonstrated by the match yesterday. It was a deliberately defensive display and perversion of the club's traditions. I...
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    Post Match Discussion: Southampton 0-1 Manchester United

    Who played a bad game? Because I didn't see a single player have a bad game out there - they did exactly what the manager asked of them.
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    Post Match Discussion: Southampton 0-1 Manchester United

    Check if the concerns are valid? Did you not see the game yesterday - the deliberate rearguard action with eventually seven defenders and two sitting midfielders on the pitch? There can be no clearer demonstration of the validity than that. The only question is if that's the type of display you...
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    SEA's Lineups Prediction Game 2017/18

    Aghhh I totally forgot to enter again. Getting in early this time... Champions League: CSKA Moscow vs Manchester United - 27th September 2017 Team: De Gea, Valencia, Bailly, Jones, Blind, Matic, Fellaini, Herrera, Mkhitaryan, Lukaku, Martial. First goal: Mkhitaryan.
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    Post Match Discussion: Southampton 0-1 Manchester United

    It's a bit of a moral dilemma: the club I love playing the type of football I hate. Do I stand by quietly while the soul of the club is ripped out or express my thoughts? There's only one thing a concerned supporter of the club would do.
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    Post Match Discussion: Southampton 0-1 Manchester United

    It's not results or player performances I'm taking issue with. It's the negative, defensive tactics that come from the manager. Southampton enjoyed the lion's share of the play after our goal (particularly in the second half) not because they suddenly improved or because we suddenly got worse...
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    Post Match Discussion: Southampton 0-1 Manchester United

    I just want to watch a good game of football - a game where two teams of talented players set out to go toe to toe and score goals. You don't get that with Manchester United anymore. It doesn't matter how many we score, it's the way we set out to play - have you not noticed almost all of our...
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