re: Manchester United 16/17 Season-Long Thread: HEY SCH MAKE A NEW ONE THE TOUR STARTS TODAY

Got my alarm set for 6am.... Cant Wait!!

I need to get on one of those hoodies. I've got a birthday coming up so time for me to

About 20 miles outside Manchester. fricking nervous I hate derbies

Well, that sucked. If it wasn't for Bravo, that would've been ugly.

Posted this in the match thread but this is my break down of Saturday

The first 35-40 mins was a Pep clinic on football, the first goal was just sloppy play and the 2nd was Nacho just being a great poacher holding his run before the shot. City had us chasing the match.

The 2nd half was all United. Going to the 4-3-3 for sure worked. Lingard and Miki were really bad but they both are coming off being injured. Pogba was very strong on the ball and did a good job recovering the ball but was average on attack. Jose's halftime adjustments worked esp pressing the defenders and Bravo while trying to play it out the back.

Speaking of Bravo he should have been send off. Rooney was meh other than that pass to Miki. KDB was excellent. Sterling was pretty bad he was in Shaw's pocket all game until he was subbed off. Rashford was great and on that goal called back he skinned Stones alive.

The positive I can take from it was we made adjustments that work. From our seats (we were way up there) it was pretty awesome to see the tactics playing out

Also Ander is playing his way into being a starter.

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I would love to see a central midfield pairing of Pogba and Herrera. Have Herrera recycle position and provide some cover for Pogba to get a little further forward. Fellaini lacks the pace to really allow Pogba the freedom he needs.

I'm not too distraught about the loss on Saturday. Of course, I'd have loved to have won but don't believe the sky is falling. We have a whole lot of games ahead, seems there's been an overreaction to the loss on my Twitter feed.

I hated the way we gave up the first goal - on a straight, long ball that was flicked on unchallenged. For all of City's positive possession in the first half, it could have been Burnley who scored that goal. We should have made them work to beat us.

Jose is still working out who his first 11 will be in the biggest games. Defensively, Bailly is coming along so well but made a few costly mistakes that he'll correct over time. I'm still not stuck on Blind as Jose's first choice CB. I think we might see Smalling slide into that spot. For as good as Blind is positionally and technically, he just lacks the athleticism to play in that spot against the most competitive sides. Until Saturday, he hadn't given Jose a chance to replace him, though. Will be interesting to see how the central defensive pairings play out over the season.

I expect to see the Rashford show tomorrow

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6:00pm kick off blows

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Thursday nights

A completely bored team and a goal that should've been disallowed.

What made it really awful is that the linesman was right next to him