Would've been weak but he pulled him back clearly

From behind walker grabs out and pulls Marcus back. That's SPA

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How is that not a foul on walker?

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Look, Stephen Warnock told you 5 times it's not a foul, it's a contact game. Get it?

As always, City get away with more than any other team can

Ref calls THAT tug on Dalot but Walker has been allowed to tug/push/pull at will

And he gives Ake a nothing call.

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I think Pep got his attack all wrong that half. They were heavier to their left with Doku against Dalot. They should be working Foden against Lindelof.

I'll take every little bit of help he wants to give.

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He seems to have fixed it unfortunately

Don't worry, I'm sure Howard Webb will give us an apology after the game.

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Would've been weak but he pulled him back clearly

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Did his leg not make a little contact with Rashford, too?

Yep. They are 100% down Foden's side now.

The inconsistencies are infuriating to me, you can't let it go when we're on the break and then give little tugs every time City asks for a foul

Just don't see how United can hold on another 20+ like this…just can't get out of their own half at all

Someone please punch that face.

Little rat ****

Fill Foden

Haaland does nothing all game and celebrates like he won a WC.

I remember thinking Amrabat would be a good signing. Boy am I dumb.

Sorry but every player Ten Hag wanted brought in have been absolutely horrible. Such a braindead play there

Every sub Ten Hag brought in was worse than the player they replaced. It's just a poorly constructed squad that is compounded by a squad decimated by defensive injuries.

Once again my decision to plan a dinner out during a United game against a top team is vindicated. Loved the Rashford goal though. Loved.

It sure seemed for a long while like parking the bus after the early goal would result in a point. City is just too clinical.

Eric the record setter

Records broken by Erik ten Hag:

- Manchester United hadn't lost 13 games by Christmas since 1930, until Erik Ten Hag

- Manchester United hadn't gone 4 games in a row without scoring since 1992, until Erik Ten Hag

- Manchester United hadn't lost back to back games to West Ham… pic.twitter.com/bdIwe1W0K2

— Pie Sports Booze 🔞 PARODY (@piesportsbooze) March 4, 2024

I mean sure when you say it like that it sounds bad.....

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Records broken by Erik ten Hag:

- Manchester United hadn't lost 13 games by Christmas since 1930, until Erik Ten Hag

- Manchester United hadn't gone 4 games in a row without scoring since 1992, until Erik Ten Hag

- Manchester United hadn't lost back to back games to West Ham since 2007, until Erik Ten Hag

- No Manchester United manager has conceded 20 goals to Liverpool/City in their first 7 games against them since Alfred Albut in the 1800s, until Erik Ten Hag.

- Manchester United had never finished with as few as 5 points in the CL group stages in the competitions history, until Erik Ten Hag

- No English club had ever conceded 15 goals in the CL group stages in the competitions history until Erik Ten Hag

- Manchester United had never lost 4 of 6 CL group games in the competitions history, until Erik Ten Hag

- Manchester United had never failed to keep a clean sheet in 5 of 6 CL group games in the competitions history, until Erik Ten Hag

- Manchester United had never lost 12 of the opening 23 games of the season, until Erik Ten Hag

- Manchester United hadn't finished bottom of their CL group since 2006. Until Erik Ten Hag.

- Bournemouth had never won at Old Trafford, Until Erik Ten Hag

- Bournemouth had never scored 3 goals at Old Trafford, until Erik Ten Hag

- Bournemouth had never kept a clean sheet at Old Trafford, until Erik Ten Hag

- Manchester United had never lost 7 of the opening 16 PL games, until Erik Ten Hag

- Manchester United hadn't lost back to back league games against Newcastle since 1972, until Erik Ten Hag.

- Manchester United hadn't lost 3 games in a row to Newcastle United since 1922, until Erik Ten Hag

- Newcastle hadn't kept 3 clean sheets in a row against Manchester United since 1897, until Erik Ten Hag

- Manchester United had never lost 6 of the opening 14 games of a PL season, until Erik Ten Hag

- No English team in CL history had ever conceded 14 goals in the first 5 CL group games, until Erik Ten Hag

- Manchester United had never conceded 3+ goals in 4 different CL games in a season, until Erik Ten Hag

- Manchester United had never lost a CL game they were leading by 2 goals, until Erik Ten Hag, twice since.

- Manchester United hadn't lost a game they were leading by 2+ goals since 2014, until Erik Ten Hag

- Manchester United had never dropped this many points from a winning position in CL history, until Erik Ten Hag

- Manchester United had never conceded 4+ in two CL group games, until Erik Ten Hag

- Manchester United hadn't lost 9 of the opening 17 games since 1974, until Erik Ten Hag

- No team had ever give away 4 penalties in their first 4 CL group games in the competitions history, until Erik Ten Hag

- No player as young as Roony Bardghji had scored against Manchester United in the CL, until Erik Ten Hag

- Manchester United hadn't lost 8 of the opening 15 games in a season since 1962, until Erik Ten Hag

- Manchester United hadn't lost 5 of their first 10 games at Old Trafford since 1931, until Erik Ten Hag

- Newcastle hadn't won at Old Trafford since 2013, until Erik Ten Hag.

- Newcastle hadn't won a cup game against Manchester Uniteds since 1994, until Erik Ten Hag.

- Manchester United hadn't lost twice in a row to Newcastle since 1972, until Erik Ten Hag

- No post war Manchester United manager had conceded 20 goals to City and Liverpool in their first 6 games against them, until Erik Ten Hag

- Manchester United hadn't lost 5 of the opening 10 league games in 36 years, until Erik Ten Hag

- Galatasaray hadn't won a game on English soil in 117 years of existing, until Erik Ten Hag.

- Manchester United had never lost the opening 2 CL group games, until Erik Ten Hag.

- Manchester United had never conceded 7 goals in the opening 2 CL group games, until Erik Ten Hag.

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I may be in the minority, but I'd keep ten Hag.

Winning percentage of Manchester United permanent managers (all time):

1. Eric ten Hag (60.00%)
2. Sir Alex Ferguson (59.67)

That said, our next 5 games will likely tell the tale;
Everton
Liverpool (FA Cip)
@Brentford
@Chelsea
Liverpool

Need minimum of 3 wins and 1 draw, in my opinion, and honestly it could take 4 wins since I'm not sure he could survive a loss and a draw to Liverpool in two matches at Old Trafford. But I think after those 5 we will pretty much know one way or the other. Plus, none of the circulating names are that great: Teuchel? De Zerbi? Nagelsman (stuck at Germany until after Euros)? Potter? If Inzaghi at Inter were interested I might flip, but none of the above are worth sacking ten Hag in my opinion (I'd like Nagelsman if it weren't for Euros this year).

I don't want Manchester United to turn into a revolving door of coaches, and I want to support ETH but my question is does he have what it takes to take the team to another level. There I have my doubts.

he's coaching for his job given the new minority ownership and sporting control. losing to man dhabi is one thing. playing like your an 18th place squad trying to nick a point by parking the bus for the entirety of the game is other kettle of fish.

I don't think you are being realistic though. If we play high press attacking with 35 year old Johnny Evans, Varane, Lindeloff (playing out of position) and Dalot at the back with Casemiro also aging and hurt most of the year… against Man City…(edit: I'm not saying Dalot isn't pacey, but as a group, I don't trust them to beat City's front lines back.)

You are looking at a result potentially worse than last year's game at Anfield. If you are mad we spent 80M on Antony who is completely useless, I am too, but counter attack was our only chance for getting any result yesterday in my opinion.

ETH came into a very difficult situation.

I'm happy for the new leadership to do what they think is best. We need to have some kind of consistency between the type of game the manager wants to play and the players we get to execute that system.

Is ETH's the right one? Honestly I don't follow closely enough to know.

I doubt he'll go mostly because there are more pressing concerns for Ratcliffe to manage first and he doesn't have the money to do it all at once.

The most pressing needs at United are the footballing operations and the squad. First and foremost they need to continue building out the organization and that means paying for Ashworth to join. Then they need to do a lot of work on the squad. Won't be done in one transfer window but they also can't just make 1-2 moves. That's going to cost money. Given FFP and the fact we aren't going to qualify for CL, firing ETH just doesn't make sense because you not only have to pay him 10 million to go away, you also have to pay compensation for his replacement (unless they go for someone like Potter who is available for free but I just don't see that happening).

His contract ends in June 2025 but United have an option for an additional year. It's unusual for a manager to enter the last year of his contract because of the uncertainty that inherently brings. That's about the only signal short of a catastrophic meltdown in the final 11 games of him perhaps leaving at the end of the season. But if I were betting, I'd bet he stays. If they manage to get in a lot of quality over the summer and the team still looks poor, he'll be gone by October.

A lot easier when the other team's defenders keep committing stupid fouls in the penalty area.

This is so hard to watch.

If anyone doesn't like the team that got picked…. You don't want to look at the bench. It's Amad, Antony, Amrabat, Erikson, and lots of youth players.

No doubt. This was the injury list.

Manchester United injuries: Maguire (knock), Martnez (leg), Shaw (muscle), Wan-Bissaka (leg), Malacia (knee), Mount (calf), Forson (knock), Hjlund (msucle) Martial (groin)

40% of the starting lineup - out. The rest were spot starters and 1st off the bench depth players.

12+ minutes at a minimum to watch Arambat.

Well. That was. Something.

Hey 3 points are 3 points but if we're primarily using the rest of this season to prepare for next then that game did not do anything for ETH's chances of being the manager in August.