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Should have been sent off imo.
He had a swipe at Stones from behind but wasn’t even fast enough to foul him.
Horrible footballer.

Even Neville was saying in commentary he was running around trying to "do" City players. I think Anthony then also took a huge swipe and missed the target.

There's fouling. There's cynical fouling. Then there's trying to hurt someone. He is guilty of the latter - not sure he does any other kind of foul but the snidey, sulky, trying to hurt the oppostion type.
 
What makes you fancy them?? On their previous performances i cant see how they win enough games to get through.

Because PSG and Dortmund are two of the most overrated sides in the world. AC Milan at St James Park will the big one and with a cracking atmosphere I fancy them. They need to step it up as they were terrible in Milan and last week against Dortmund.
 
Because PSG and Dortmund are two of the most overrated sides in the world. AC Milan at St James Park will the big one and with a cracking atmosphere I fancy them. They need to step it up as they were terrible in Milan and last week against Dortmund.
Newcastle are comfortably top of that league.

Dortmund are a very good counter attacking side as they shown v Newcastle.
They need to beat AC at home and
try to get a result at either PSG or Dortmund. It wont be easy.

I'd be surprised should they go through.

CL football is a different beast.
 
Newcastle are comfortably top of that league.

Dortmund are a very good counter attacking side as they shown v Newcastle.
They need to beat AC at home and
try to get a result at either PSG or Dortmund. It wont be easy.

I'd be surprised should they go through.

CL football is a different beast.

Not really as I don't think anyone rates them. They've just signed well, got a decent manager and are punching above their weight with a real team effort. On paper I don't think many of their side would get into the likes of City, Arsenal or Liverpool's sides.

Dortmund are a banter club, always hyped up but win nothing and sell their best players. That was the best I've seen them for a long time during the week, not sure they can do the same at home. Hopefully Newcastle can get through those two aways and need a win at home to Milan to make it.
 
Just seen the penalty that City got, flippin eck it’s soft. But like I said when Akanji got sent off A couple of weeks ago Doing exactly the same when he was on a yellow.Players are thick when they do that. They give the ref a decision to make. As MOTD Has just shown it happened again later in the game.
The biggest problem is consistency. There is none.
 
Just seen the penalty that City got, flippin eck it’s soft. But like I said when Akanji got sent off A couple of weeks ago Doing exactly the same when he was on a yellow.Players are thick when they do that. They give the ref a decision to make. As MOTD Has just shown it happened again later in the game.
The biggest problem is consistency. There is none.
That's why we have VAR. Who only act for clear and obvious errors and are consistent.

Ohh, hang on, they are a shambles. Mike Oliver was VAR. He is a good referee to be fair, but a good on field referee. As VAR is here to stay, the sooner they employ VAR specialists the better. Rather than having guys running about on pitch one day, then stuck in a studio another day.
 
Just seen the penalty that City got, flippin eck it’s soft. But like I said when Akanji got sent off A couple of weeks ago Doing exactly the same when he was on a yellow.Players are thick when they do that. They give the ref a decision to make. As MOTD Has just shown it happened again later in the game.
The biggest problem is consistency. There is none.

The players aren’t thick, Tash. They are confused. As are the rest of us. I’m quite sure Hojlund has been on the wrong end of far worse challenges than that and seen referees wave appeals away, so perhaps thought, with some justification, that his actions were acceptable.

You either give them all, or you give none. The lack of consistency from officials is staggering.
 
Antony’s behaviour was so obvious from his demeanour on the bench. What was ETH thinking by bringing on an angry, volatile player? If the ownership issue does see Ratcliffe take control of the football side of things I really could see Man U looking for a new manager especially if they fail to get out of their CL group.
 
The players aren’t thick, Tash. They are confused. As are the rest of us. I’m quite sure Hojlund has been on the wrong end of far worse challenges than that and seen referees wave appeals away, so perhaps thought, with some justification, that his actions were acceptable.

You either give them all, or you give none. The lack of consistency from officials is staggering.
That was the point they were making on MOTD last night When they showed Maguire? who had hold of Haaland later in the game.
If it is a small positive Maguire rated MOTM for Utd again on BBC.
 
Just seen a stat re top goal scorers in the Prem league

Haaland 11 goals
Man Utd 11 goals

😳
Clearly, to score you have to have the ball and for large part of yesterdays game City would not let Utd have the ball. It was their ground as well Tashy, come on.......But, when they did Utd didn't seem to throw many men forward, the young lad up top seemed very isolated. As someone who has watched their team isolate a striker for 2 pervious seasons, you don't score many goals that way. Hard to judge any team when City are playing that well but even so.....
 
When he first arrived in 2020 he was a breath of fresh air. I was at Old Trafford for his first few home games before Covid struck and he was a level above anyone else in a red shirt - with and without the ball. His range of passing was exceptional and his movement off the ball phenomenal. I’ve rarely seen a player create space for himself, and therefore time, in quite the way Bruno did.

Now, whilst we see flashes of that, he is largely a shadow of that player. And he is a nasty, argumentative player, always complaining and never in a month of Sundays is he captaincy material.

Your captain should lead by example - too often Fernandes sets an appalling one.

Who made him captain? Who sat down with the recruitment team prior to the last 3 windows and said, “this is the system I will be playing and these are the players capable of playing it. Go and get them. We’re his choices right? Doesn’t look like it.

Ten Hag got rid of a couple of problem players, and instilled some discipline. But that team is not playing his way. They seem rudderless, or they just don’t want to play for him. Honestly, I think he’s lost the dressing room. One, two or three players having a mare happens but the whole team? Something very wrong there at present… and I think the manager is part of the problem.
 
Onana voted 23rd best footballer in world. Think that was the 2nd GK on list after Martinez.

He must have done some things right before Utd decided to buy him.
3rd behind Ederson, but again he had an excellent season for Inter Milan

😳 don’t know where I got 3rd from.
 
Onana voted 23rd best footballer in world. Think that was the 2nd GK on list after Martinez.

He must have done some things right before Utd decided to buy him.
If someone thinks he is the second best gk in the world, even 3rd thanks Tashy, then I would question the judging panel by quite some way. Based on this season, he isn't even top 10 in the PL.
 
Weird how voting works, as I didn't see Ederson anywhere on list of top 30 of main players.
Yea it makes no sense to not just award the Yashin trophy based on the order of goalkeepers from the Ballon d’Or. Onana wasn’t even top three for Yashin but second of all goalkeepers in the main award.
 
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