It was a great night League cup or not. Didn't get back until 3:30am because getting out of there is a fucking nightmare and surprisingly there were 72,000 there last night.....all driving back to London. The services at Warwick on the M40 London bound were full of 'mancs'
I thought we caught them completely cold, our interchange in play was quick and decisive and the goal was inevitable. I don't think that they started playing until we scored.
My thoughts on the performance
Areola - Is clearly a good shot stopper but punches the ball when he can catch it. Need to get that out of him. Decent though
Diop and Virgil van Dawson were immense. Would have been easy for Dawson to sulk now that Zouma has come in but played really well.
Kral was good. Took him a while to settle but he is a proper holding player who sat in front of the back 4 and played some nice passes.
Noble was absolutely class and it was a shame that he didnt put that ball away at the end (must not have warmed up
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Bowen was MoM. I thought he ran his nuts off. He is a real handful and never seems to run out of energy. Seemed to form a useful partnership with Vlasic at the end
Yarmolenko played ok but his legs are going now and this will be his last season with us. Should have scored when he hit the post.
No-one had a bad game though but some of our passing lacked a little bit of confidence (especially the fullbacks) but as someone said, Masuaku was very controlled and focussed on defending and was excellent. We really are a team and we do have a competitive squad. Just need a couple more additions and this team could win something.
On the way home all I heard were Mancs ringing up the radio saying their second string squad should have been enough to beat our team but they fail to realise than other than Bowen, that was OUR second string squad and they had a 70m winger in Sancho and a 50m forward in Martial on from the start who were fucking awful as well as 40m Van de Beek who was utter crap. And most of the rest of them cost a fortune.
I had no idea about that Matic challenge until I saw it this morning. Definitely fortunate not to get a red card.
We almost sold every seat and Man Utd were almost silent all night as they knew what was happening and only started making any noise when we kindly provided some incentive.
'Cockney boys we're on a bender, Cristiano is a sex offender' seemed to do the trick along with 'She said no Ronnie, she said no'.
They have spent millions on players but they are heavily reliant on Bruno and Ronaldo. They are no team.
Virgil van Dawsons Post from earlier.
