Monday 6 May 2019

Reaction: Huddersfield 1 - 1 Manchester United

Mbenza on target
Well, it comes as no surprise, but a major disappointment, that United seem to be ending the season
as they began it.

A disappointing run of form that has been going since Ole was confirmed as manager continues. A Mbenza strike cancelled out the McTominay goal, and, despite Pogba hitting the bar a couple of times, the team was not able to get ahead, against one of the weakest teams in the league.

The game extinguished any chances we have of staying in contention for a Champions's League place. The annoying and depressing thing about this is that this team of players, who seem to lack drive, desire and ambition, are responsible for ensuring we don't have top european football next year, but several of them want to league so they can go and get it elsewhere.

Juan Mata, Paul Pogba and Alexis Sánchez did cut through the Huddersfield defence in the first half hour, before McTominay scored with a casual attempt on goal, which Jonas Lössl failed to keep out.

The disappointing thing was how Pogba and Sánchez didn't do more to convert our domination into more goals to confirm victory. No surprise there, given how week we have been for the past couple of months. Sanchez eventually hobbled off, and there are calls from fans for him to never play for us again, and I can't blame them.

When Isaac Mbenza went ahead, it boyed the stadium, who got behind their team. We had three chances towards the end, with Pogba hitting the bar, and Chong and Rashford going close.

We just lacked the quality to finish, which, given the players we have, is simply not good enough. Whether it's confidence or effort, something is not connecting, and we need to do take action to do something about it this summer.

A major clearout of players is in order, with Pogba and Sanchez at the top of the list. Pog has been a really bad influence on the team, and this virus of no effort, has infected even loyal, good players like De Gea, who has been a rock for six seasons.

Sanchez seem more interested in chasing girls and enjoying his money than actually playing football. We will never be able to go back to the nineties, but it would be good to see guys who actually care about the shirt and are willing to fight for it.

As it stands, Gary Neville's conclusion it was“A group of players that looked like individuals, nothing there, no real spirit and he dismantled it piece by piece and Ole needs to dismantle this piece by piece." We have to agree.

The younger players like Rashford, McTominay and Dalot can still be part of something special if we can get in Chong, Greenwood, and Gomes onboard, we can get a spine of young, hungry players to build something special at United.

It's such a shame we got rid of Ibrahimovic, because he represented and old school approach of passionate, aggressive players like Cantona and Roy Keane. Guys would fought for the shirt, leaders on the pitch who actually care, and drove others to do the same.

Everything depends on what players go in an out this summer. Let's hope the board actually make some good decisions for once. 

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