Other Football - 2018/19 Season

[an tha]

2 minutes ago, El Rojo said:

Porto leading against Roma now, a couple of minutes left in extra time. 

There's Man City's next opponents.

[El Rojo]

Would have been serious odds on Spurs/Ajax/Porto/Man Utd progressing. 

[Ne Moe Imya]

4 minutes ago, DirkDiggledinho said:

I think it's more that Mourinho did what he's done best in the latter part of his career and alienated and demotivated a pretty talented and capable group of players, and the board was slow to fire him because of the massive payoff he'd be owed.

 

It seems like Solskjaer is just likeable enough to get them playing at their actual level again.

Exactly. As @Orbinho pointed out on twitter:

Man Utd under Solskjaer

Goals 39

Expected Goals 29.8

Goals Conceded 13

Expected Goals Against 21.3

Games played 17 Penalties won 7

 

It's almost insane how lucky that is. United. Are. Not. A. Very. Good. Team. They will come back to earth, hard, and it's much better for us if they've committed fully to Solskjaer as a "miracle worker" before that happens.

2 minutes ago, Judge said:

United will most likely have a more succesful season than us, as it looks now. Who would have thought that 2 months ago?

Come on, now. Are you for real? We might end up with 90+ points and we have a much better chance of winning the CL than they do.

[Trumo]

3 minutes ago, The Guest said:

Peter Walton talking raw nonsense.  It took two former mancs to actually tell him it wasn’t a pen.  The rules could so easily be changed to make it clear as well.

 

If the ball is clearly heading into the net and it hits a player’s hand accidental or not then it’s a penalty.  The ball striking players hands innocuously does not really warrant such as harsh a punishment as a penalty.  If a player sticks his arms out to block a cross or shot then fair enough but it should be clear and not in cases like we seen tonight.

 

From next season, it would be deemed a penalty whether deliberate or not.

[an tha]

1 minute ago, Marko121 said:

Not looking forward to VAR in the league next season 

Going to make an increasingly shit game worse and you just know that the manc bastards will be the big winners and with our seemingly endless punishment in the 'funniest' ways by the footballing gods we'll probably lose league in 97th min of last game of season to worst VAR call ever

 

[Tony Moanero]

1 minute ago, Ne Moe Imya said:

Exactly. As @Orbinho pointed out on twitter:

Man Utd under Solskjaer

Goals 39

Expected Goals 29.8

Goals Conceded 13

Expected Goals Against 21.3

Games played 17 Penalties won 7

 

It's almost insane how lucky that is. United. Are. Not. A. Very. Good. Team. They will come back to earth, hard, and it's much better for us if they've committed fully to Solskjaer as a "miracle worker" before that happens.

Come on, now. Are you for real? We might end up with 90+ points and we have a much better chance of winning the CL than they do.

Got a nagging feeling that we won’t make the quarter finals.

[DirkDiggledinho]

4 minutes ago, Marko121 said:

Not looking forward to VAR in the league next season 

Yep as An Tha said earlier it's just going to lead to players blasting it at the opposition in the box aiming for one of their arms, then proceeding to mob the ref until he goes to VAR. Smart managers, of course, will coach the players on how to do it effectively as well.

 

It's going to be really shit.

[Megadrive Man]

Solskjaer is the best manager United have had since Ferguson left.

 

He completely understands what the fans expect, he's got the players behind him, and unlike all the previous managers he wants United to play 'The United way' rather than trying to impose his own philosophy on United. 

 

Its fucking depressing! 

[El Rojo]

Porto beat Roma. Good. 

 

 

[Megadrive Man]

Man City v Porto next round?

[Ne Moe Imya]

3 minutes ago, Tony Moanero said:

Got a nagging feeling that we won’t make the quarter finals.

That's entirely possible. The bookies have it pretty much 50-50 for us to go through.

[El Rojo]

Just now, MegadriveMan said:

Man City v Porto next round?

Can’t stand Roma. Not sure they’d give City a tougher game than Porto would either.

[DirkDiggledinho]

6 minutes ago, Ne Moe Imya said:

Exactly. As @Orbinho pointed out on twitter:

Man Utd under Solskjaer

Goals 39

Expected Goals 29.8

Goals Conceded 13

Expected Goals Against 21.3

Games played 17 Penalties won 7

 

It's almost insane how lucky that is. United. Are. Not. A. Very. Good. Team. They will come back to earth, hard, and it's much better for us if they've committed fully to Solskjaer as a "miracle worker" before that happens.

Come on, now. Are you for real? We might end up with 90+ points and we have a much better chance of winning the CL than they do.

Expected goals? What's that based on?

 

They're a good team, they've got some very talented players. They have absolutely no pressure on them as their season was pretty much written off as a car crash. I do not want them in the next round if we get through.

[3 Stacks]

33 minutes ago, Ne Moe Imya said:

Not having this at all.

 

Of course they've been better than they were under Mourinho - they could hardly be worse. But United have been on a massive heater in terms of outperforming the underlying numbers over the last couple of months. Is it possible that Solskjaer is one of the top 10 managers in the world?

 

I mean, I guess it's possible. But it's much, MUCH more likely that he's decent enough but not great and had the great good fortune to come into a team desperate to show that they would improve without Mourinho and then also went on a lucky finishing streak.

 

Seeing as the alternative here is that they go and give 40m to Tottenham for Pochettino, who could actually go there and be brilliant for 10-15 years, I'd much rather them sign up Solskjaer and take our chances going against them with Klopp and Edwards.

There's little proof of what he can really do anyway. Having a hand in relegating a small club and managing in Norway is inconsequential. 

 

Ferguson or not, what you can't deny is that he's pretty much made every right decision he could possibly make since he took over. And it's not like he's playing Di Matteo football either, they're playing some good stuff. They can easily rectify their squad issues as well as they have loads of money to spend. 

[Judge]

They are underestimated because of the ridicilous underachievment under Shitcoat.

 

There is no doubt that they have a better squad than us. I will not rule out the possibility of them getting top 4 and winning the CL and the FA-cup. 

[an tha]

Overlooked with the shite VAR call is that they went through on the shite away goal rule too.

 

This tie is the perfect advert for why the rule is shite and has had it's day...3-3 on agg PSG scored at home the mancs did not...why an extra away goal is so decisive nowadays i don't know.

 

They are due to look at it aren't they...hopefully the scrap it and get something right for a change

 

[Code]

8 minutes ago, MegadriveMan said:

Solskjaer is the best manager United have had since Ferguson left.

 

He completely understands what the fans expect, he's got the players behind him, and unlike all the previous managers he wants United to play 'The United way' rather than trying to impose his own philosophy on United. 

 

Its fucking depressing! 

You could put it like that, or say that Solskjærs philosophy is the same as the "the united way"

Depressing indeed, imagine living in Norway having to read all the shite about him on a daily basis.

Hope his wife tells him to get his arse back to Molde, I simply cant stand this shite.


 

[an tha]

We all live in Norway don't we...

[Red House]

Irrespective of today's decision, I still have no idea why the fuck the match referee has to go review the decision on the monitor instead of the VAR refs making the call themselves. First, it would save a considerable amount of time, which is the main criticism aimed at VAR. Secondly, how can you expect someone who's been running all over the pitch to have enough lucidity to make a better call in the 90th minute than the blokes who have just been sitting monitoring their monitor all game. And, third, there are more than one of them, which should increase the likelihood of getting it right. Just cut the drama and have the VAR refs make all the review calls, or am I missing something obvious here?

[Special K]

15 minutes ago, MegadriveMan said:

Solskjaer is the best manager United have had since Ferguson left.

 

He completely understands what the fans expect, he's got the players behind him, and unlike all the previous managers he wants United to play 'The United way' rather than trying to impose his own philosophy on United. 

 

Its fucking depressing! 

So you think Ferguson has left?

[niallers]

12 minutes ago, Judge said:

They are underestimated because of the ridicilous underachievment under Shitcoat.

 

There is no doubt that they have a better squad than us. I will not rule out the possibility of them getting top 4 and winning the CL and the FA-cup. 

Better squad? Are you suffering from some form of illness mate? Their keeper, pogba, rash and Lukaku are the only ones getting anywhere near our squad and they'd all be subs bar pogba. 

Give your head a wobble.

[Baltar]

They are the king of spawns, but credit to the cunts that was a great turnaround. PSG are a fucking joke. I'm glad they're out, just wish it wasn't the manc cunts that beat them. That makes me hate PSG more.

[Tony Moanero]

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[Judge]

6 minutes ago, niallers said:

Better squad? Are you suffering from some form of illness mate? Their keeper, pogba, rash and Lukaku are the only ones getting anywhere near our squad and they'd all be subs bar pogba. 

Give your head a wobble.

We have a slightly better first 11. We suffer from having a very mediocre midfield. They have a better squad.

[Aventus]

We'd beat all of the teams already qualified, get past Bayern and it's about 50/50 that we get a decent draw in the quarters.