Well that was easy. How it should be really, considering that United are fucking shit and probably the easiest team rot play against in the entire league. The ease with which we dispatched them here just makes what happened last season (twice) even more shameful. This is what is supposed to happen.
I actually think we did this in third gear and had we needed to go up another couple of gears we could have. We didn’t need to, because they’re shit and they’re just so fucking wide open. For 20 minutes or so they gave it all they had and the game was relatively even, but once their initial flurry fizzled out we just took control of it and they were exposed for the badly coached, disorganised mish-mash of has beens, never will be’s and Koby Mainoo.
He’d never admit this, but I’d be willing to bet that Slot - much like Klopp and Lijnders last year - will have been rubbing his hands together when watching the analysis of United to prepare for this game. I know fuck all compared to Slot and other top coaches, but even I can see they’re a fucking shambles and they’re really easy to play through because there are gaps everywhere and most of their midfield and defenders can’t fucking run. The only pace they have is from their wingers, and the only threat they pose is counter attacks.
Slot will have been looking at all that and he’ll have known that this game was going to be easy. We knew who to press, when to press and how to do it and we got three goals from it. That wasn’t co-incidence, you can be sure that Casemiro will have been a point of emphasis in the team meetings, and probably Mainoo too, because as talented as he is, the way United play means if you can nick it off their midfielders you’ve got a free run at the two centre backs. I think Slot kind of gave away a little bit how he knew they were shite when he said his half time team-talk consisted of having a go at Diaz for not tracking back and then pointing out a sloppy back pass Trent played that Alisson almost didn’t reach, and then basically telling the lads “don’t do any of this shit as that’s the only way they’ll get back into the game.”
That’s what happened last year when Quansah played a sloppy pass at 2-0 and we saw what happened then. Slot and the players all know that United are shite and that they can’t beat us. We can only beat ourselves by missing chances and doing something daft at the back. We did neither of those things in this game and we won 3-0. Actually we did still miss chances, but we took three of them so it was fine.
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