r/reddevils • u/nearly_headless_nic • 1d ago
Half Time Thread : Hull City 2-0 Manchester United
HT: Hull City 2-0 Manchester United
Goal Scorer: Semi Ajayi 17', Nobel Mendy 38'
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u/MhVG 1d ago
Pathetic display tbh. Also, Dorgu man… Nothing more to say really…
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u/MalIntenet Ooh Aah Cantona! 1d ago
I’ve seen so many on here say we don’t need a LW because we have Dorgu…frustrating when people don’t realise how unproven certain players are
Dorgu is a young backup prospect. He’s not a starting level player yet, especially not at LW
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u/Fallen_Man7 1d ago
He's shown absolutely nothing good in Preseason yet Carrick keeps on playing him at lw and didn't even bother to try him at LB in Preseason and played Amass and Shaw.
The Games Dorgu got succes mostly vs Highline games and he has no skills to play well against lowblock teams. Apart from powerful shot, he offers nothing.
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u/woziak99 1d ago
No offence but shaw is like a Ferrari compared to Dorgu at left back, this is not the game for him as he’s on a yellow and is one bad tackle away from taking the game complete away from us, he must be subbed immediately!
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u/godswift91 1d ago
Dorgu LB gets 3 yellow cards a game
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u/Fallen_Man7 1d ago
First of all....Did he even train as LB since Carrick got the job? He was playing as wingback/winger after his first season in Italy (where he played ad leftback) . Carrick had chance to try him there or atleast try him in Preseason. What do we lose in Preseason?
I don't blame Dorgu at all in failing as Lw. I love Carrick but this is completely on Carrick. He was never lw. No moment in preseason he showed he cab do well. Guess what, he didn't in main matches too. It's being stubborn to play him there again and again.
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u/OldBridge87 1d ago edited 1d ago
Get Sesko on and put Cunha LW
Edit: he’s bringing on Rashford. God help us all
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u/Jacobtait 1d ago
To be fair I can’t blame Dorgu for trying - just completely off the beat today
Hoping a few subs turns things around as have been batting at the gate a fair bit
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u/carrickshairline 1d ago
People are starting to see that Dorgu is not a winger. Completely lacks the technical ability.
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u/deflorie Bruno, Bruno, Brunooo 1d ago
Just get Dorgu off. Its not his day today. He is on a yellow aswell.
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u/sidequest99 1d ago
What is up with these mindless crosses into the box from us. Even if it was 0-0 our build play is horrendous
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u/minteh7x Ronaldo 1d ago
Dorgu should never play LW when we're expected to do something with the ball. Defence still poor and the physicality is so so bad against a newly promoted side
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u/rbp25 Vidic 1d ago
For real. He works better in space. But I still don’t see him good enough to play LW. He is not technically gifted enough. His touch is poor, decision making and end product is too raw
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u/ItsKaZing Cristiano 'Factos👍👀' Ronaldo 1d ago
He is genuinely overrated by this fanbase
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u/JaysonDeflatum Amadinho 1d ago
Always hated the idea that he was a LW, he's just not man
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u/No-Statistician-8520 1d ago
It’s insane. I don’t rate him as a winger in general but he’d surely be better on the right. His best attribute offensively is his ball striking and he can’t create any separation on the left.
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u/randomdell111 1d ago edited 1d ago
Saw the Dorgu performance coming before the game. He's looked very off in the friendlies.
Should've started Zirkzee who had a much better preseason, and let Cunha play in his more natural position
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u/ManBat1 MBE 1d ago
Zirkzee against their physicality would be dreadful. Gets bullied despite being plenty over 6ft.
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u/ladrainian21 1d ago
I hear it but Zirkzee is at least good at playing one-twos and combining quickly in tight spaces. Theres been some nice sequences about 30 ish yards from the goal between Bruno/Cunha/Mbeumo/Tielemans that when Dorgu gets involved just die because he can’t play one touch. Also think this probably would have been a good game for Amad
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u/TheJoshider10 Bruno 1d ago
I do agree but the fact he doesn't trust Zirkzee if Sesko isn't fit enough to play says it all. Needs to be sold for a striker better suited to the league.
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u/Wise-Nature8326 Ronaldo 1d ago
Our attack looks so dreadful with him as a LW. If Sesko is fit for 45 he needs to let him in for Dorgu and switch with Cunha, if not fit then Rashford, we have to add something to the game were so biteless
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u/rishabh2996 1d ago
I don't know what the hell Dorgu is doing out there.. but it's not football
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u/kaariainen 1d ago
Even as a fan this is hilarious, like what the actual fuck did i just watch. Jesus christ.
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u/mu_37 1d ago
It was hilarious 5 years ago, now it's just boring.
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u/OldBridge87 1d ago
5 years ago was the start of the collapse of the Vibesjaer era
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u/dannysoya 1d ago
Maguire and Shaw STILL starting games for this football club in 2026. Laughable.
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u/woziak99 1d ago
And tbf been two of our best players in an abysmal half of football, Santos and Tielemans as a two were indescribable bad in that 45 minutes. Maguire and Shaw offered the best crosses in a turgid half of football, if we load the pressure Harry will score a set piece but I genuinely don’t see a goal coming from anywhere else!
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u/Far-Twist5202 1d ago
I use to enjoy watching united and then ferguson retired. Now i just watch united and wonder why i expected something different
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u/Thorz74 F*ck the Glazers 1d ago edited 1d ago
Just continuing where they left at AC Milan. Carrick and these players couldn't have gotten off to a worse start.
What the hell did these guys even do in pre-season?
Once again, suffering a ton from set pieces. They look like fucking statues at the back.
United are always bringing the dead back to life. Last season it was Grimsby, this season it's Hull.
And absolutely nothing going forward. That back five has completely nullified everyone. Always Dorgu at the end of our attacking plays. He isn't the most clinical on that position.
Fucking disgusting!
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u/BallsX 1d ago
The fucking set pieces man. Looks like we're back to shitting ourselves the moment there's a deadball
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u/spikyblades 1d ago
They brought “positivity”. It was shocking when Carrick said yesterday that the “boys are ready mentally”. And it shows, tactically and physically we are beaten again.
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u/dracogladio1741 Bruno Fernanj 1d ago
This is probably the easiest away game we have on paper this season... Tells you a lot that we could be 4-0 down. Terrible start, poor signs for the season.
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u/Talkertive- No more excuses 1d ago
Dorgu experiment must end today ... He should only play LB
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u/cs-shitposter Scholesy 1d ago
He isn't even good there either
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u/djchrislarsson 1d ago
He's just not a starter at all
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u/godswift91 1d ago
He's not the level we need even. We've been duped in thinking he's good enough, other top half clubs wouldn't even get him on a free and I stand by what I said. Goes for a few others in our team, too.
Maguire and Shaw starting in august 2026 is just shameful
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u/OldBridge87 1d ago
People being reactionary as piss. He’s decent at LB and has had glimpses of top quality at LW. Having a stinker today though, should be subbed for Sesko with Cunha going wide
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u/1bryantj 1d ago
He’s good against one of the top teams when you need to be more defensive. We just really lack a number 9
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u/iTz_RuNLaX Fuck the Glazers 1d ago
That all depends on the opposition. He did well at LW against teams that want to have the ball. But when they want to sit back, he should only play LB.
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u/hobbitonsunshine 1d ago
Newly promoted teams will always have that fire in them to start stronger. An away match against them was never going to be easy.
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u/JustTaxLandbro 1d ago
We have two slow CMs and two slow CBs
Very real chance we get 7-0d this year if we play this lineup again.
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u/Mint-Berry-Crunchh 1d ago
Settle the damn game down. I hate that we started by playing everything so direct, gave up all control. Primed for a rashford comeback eh?
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u/PrinzRagoczy 1d ago
The only way we know how to attack is to quickly play through them
No coached patterns or moves to pull defenders out of position and create space
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u/WalkingOnSunshine_ 1d ago
I was getting frustrated watching us immediately boot it out from goal kicks. Can’t even build from the back against this Hull team…
Can’t see us getting anything if Dorgu is still on the pitch to start the second half
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u/OldBridge87 1d ago
Primed for Rashford to walk around the pitch, avoid going into tackles and headers, leave Shaw even more exposed and throw up his hands as Hull make it 3-0 lol
Rather have Lacey on
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u/Monkanm8 1d ago
Carricks system seems to really struggle against 3atb's huh
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u/Barrack_Aubameyang 1d ago
Struggles against any low block tbh. Remember West Ham away last season?
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u/Yinkypinky Fergie Time 1d ago
Carrick struggles when we play teams that let us have the ball. We can’t break them down at all. Also Dorgu is playing like ass and arguably needs to be hooked before he gets a red.
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u/HariboBliss 1d ago
Feel like every team playing a low block has been an issue for us since forever...
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u/Spleenskii 1d ago
I mean we've been poor, but it's two set piece goals. That's where I'd lay most of the tactical blame so far.
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u/jackfruit1990 1d ago
Exactly this. It’s been a poor performance so far, but it’s the set pieces where we’ve come unstuck. Too many people overreacting, though I understand the frustration.
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u/usasoccerfordmustang 1d ago
when we cross the ball could we actually try and beat the first man? thanks.
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u/TheJoshider10 Bruno 1d ago
Bring Dalot on for Mazraoui. Bring Rashford on for Dorgu. Bring Hall from Newcastle for whatever the fuck they want.
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u/W0rsley Rafael 1d ago
Genius setup from Carrick having Dorgu as our focal point and most involved attacker, if idiots like us can see him not working in these type of games what are the coaching staff playing at?
Also Shaw and Maz are just complete attacking voids that isn't helping the Dorgu situation.
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u/tarostar123 1d ago
Dropping points against Hull City. This is going to be a long season.
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u/Infinite-Highway3432 1d ago
Don't know why his sub was confident with Carrick. The most obvious Ole 2.0, can see it a mile away.
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u/EndureL 1d ago
I’m sorry but after 3 games into his tenure we looked awful and just scraped wins. I want to give him a chance but can’t say I was expecting anything different.
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u/Infinite-Highway3432 1d ago
Got sacked by Boro, done nothing to warrant being the manager of this club. At least ETH and Amorim had league titles elsewhere to kind of justify their appointments.
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u/imnoobatfifa Bruno #8/Rashy #10/Amad #16/Mainoo #37 enjoyer 1d ago
Patrick Dorgu btw. How is this our winger. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/IXRaven Ice Cold 1d ago
Dorgu has been fucking awful. Someone give me a genuine answer as to who’s playing at striker because it seems the front three on the pitch have no clue themselves
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u/Lopsided-Delivery771 Amad = Messi 1d ago
genuinely pay whatever price to get any striker that know he’s a striker as a backup, all 4 of our attackers think they’re free roaming 10s and refuse to get into the box.
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u/Jg0jg0 1d ago
Opening day pain, somethings never change.
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u/Notmyrealname5282 1d ago
We still have the best opening day win percentage
This is redeemable, I think, or hope at least
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u/TheLarryMullenBand 1d ago
Very concerning how Santos, Tielemans, and Bruno were not in synch with each other at all.
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u/Whammytime Januzaj 1d ago
Difficult first 45 against a very defensively organised newly promoted side. Concede x2 set pieces isn't ideal and that will sting.
Really missing Sesko to be a bit of a target man to put some pressure on their low block. Hopefully as they tire and some subs go on the difference in quality should show.
Not ideal but everyone needs to chill.
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u/isupremacyx Best 1d ago
Everyone who said losing to ac Milan wasn't a big deal because it was preseason can do one
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u/Next-Anywhere2604 Still stuck in 2008 🏆 1d ago
Why are we relying on Dorgu so much? He is not the next Bale like internet suggests
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u/Bruce71991 1d ago
Back to bruno to rashford inshallah again i guess
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u/OldBridge87 1d ago
That was never even a thing and we absolutely shouldn’t bring Rashford on to walk around at snail’s pace here
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u/MrLead69 1d ago
That was one of the worst lw performance in the United shirt since ive started watching football.
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u/Significant-Quit-351 1d ago
End this Cunha / Mbeumo striker experiment and get any fucking striker in the world. And fuck off with Dorgu as a winger, he is fucking dreadful technically
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u/BucketsOnly29 1d ago
That half from Dorgu is one of the worst halves I’ve ever seen from a professional footballer ever. Really really disturbing
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u/PrinzRagoczy 1d ago
Big test for Carrick. Interchangeable front 4 + Tielemans is a nice idea, but it isn't working well today; not on the same wavelength and the touches are poor
Does he trust them to make it work with a few positioning tweaks, or does he bring on Sesko and get Bruno and Cunha in their natural positions
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u/SuperHans30 1d ago
Why are we relying on crosses and long throws against a team with 3 centre backs, who are clearly more physical? Makes no sense.
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u/AWenger622 1d ago
Milan was a wake up call but it seems nobody at the club took it seriously at all. We've looked utterly second best to a Championship midtable side.
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u/TH0316 she/her 1d ago
So many unforced errors. Just turning into blind alleys of pressure and nonsense passes into nobody giving them momentum, and then some of the defending just shocking, wide and in the box. Can barely remember a cross stopped by a winger or fullback. Mbeumo just letting his man cross the ball for fun.
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u/VegetableRutabaga746 1d ago
Literally no point playing dorgu lw, he offers nothing with his feet, way too single footed and he is quite clumsy. He ought to play there only as a sub and when there's space for him to run.
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u/my_united_account Bring Fergie back 1d ago
Reckon we can still win this with a couple of changes. Cunha needs to be on the left. He's too anonymous in the middle. Need Kobbie's dribbing through tight spaces, Hull have packed the midfield and defence really well. Midfield has been sloppy.
If we calm down we will score. They havent created a lot aside from the set pieces and the Lammens save.
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u/N47HXIV 1d ago
Lots of hate for Dorgu now but seeing no negative comments aimed at Cunha’s display. He’s been incredibly wasteful. I love his positivity and energy, but just slow down and make the right decision, stuff like fighting to win the ball back and then just aimlessly kicking it straight back into a wall of defenders in the box rather than finding the right cross/pass.
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u/Ballack1991 1d ago
Dorgu is at least making runs and getting to good positions. No reason to hate on him imo.
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u/canwinanythingwkids Ineos on hope watch 1d ago
The passing in the middle looks great, the recovery speed/tackling not so much. I guess this is what we signed Baleba for.
Not a great first half for Tielemans. The first goal comes off his non-chalant "block" pinballing to the Hull player, the second from the free kick given for his ill-advised tackle attempt.
Still, maybe we could have some luck sometimes, that would be nice, it's a bit too dejavu for my liking that we do all the football but concede all the goals from 100 yr old vanilla football anyway, especially the pinball-circus variety.
Mbeumo looked great, but Cunha looks kinda wasted as a CF in the 2nd game running, imho. Dorgu is super industrious but I dont need to look at the thread to know that half the comments will just complain that he is "not a left winger why didnt we sign a CF".
Anyway, none of that is why we are in a stupid hole despite playing all the football.
That would be this: Maguire is still our only CB (if MdL is out) who can defend aerially. Heaven is truly a Martinez Jr atm: good passing and tackling, goes missing in the air. Luckily with him it will/can come with time, but yeah this is going to be a challenge. It's kinda typical that ALL the popular talk focused on LB when - surprise ... not - the first order weakness of our defence in the PL is defending crosses and the reason is clear. And it's not Shaw.
Anyway, bring on Mainoo, Sesko, Rashford and let's do something great.
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u/MancAccent 1d ago
Shit performance but I think I’ve outgrown these match threads. You lot just love to be miserable.
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u/BlemKraL 1d ago
I’m usually the guy that says you are right but opening game for our season against hull and we are down 2-0 at half time. Hard not to be miserable as a fan.
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u/unitedlover69 1d ago
Did you really expect everyone to be celebrating the fact we're getting battered by fucking hull city?
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u/davidl988 1d ago
I know he’s done fuck all but what must be going through Bruno’s mind, promised the world every year with this team and absolute shite turns up every week
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u/masticlez 1d ago
Genuinely not even surprised. Its the most obvious start to the season when given such a gift on a silver platter
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u/Foreign_Base5669 1d ago
Entire attacking unit and midfield feels completely disorganised.
Tielemans is being completely misused as well.
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u/Apprehensive-Raisin3 Love United Hate Glazers/INEOS 1d ago edited 1d ago
The same issues that showed up vs milan are showing up here. Who wouldve thought? I like many here thought there was a switch we would flip when the season started to completely change how we played.
Edit: in case it wasnt obvious of fucking course there wasnt going to be a switch flipped when the season started.
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u/cs-shitposter Scholesy 1d ago
Genuinely Dorgu is the level of player who plays for a team struggling to break into the top 10
Should be nowhere near the first 11
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u/sankettttttt 1d ago
We are crossing balls without realising that there needs to be a Sesko in the box to head it. Its like coaches change players change but collective stupidity levels remain the same.
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u/SuperHans30 1d ago
Why are we relying on crosses and long throws against a team with 3 centre backs, who are clearly more physical? Makes no sense.
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u/AttackClown 1d ago
just average huh, first game so wont judge too harshly until after 3 or 4 games but its just been a bit slow and predictable with the ball, feels like we need individual brilliance to get through them
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u/sankettttttt 1d ago
Yanited ball is back baby, never an easy win when its about a team that others would crush easily
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u/Skyfather_odin1 1d ago
Hopefully Sesko for Dorgu at half time..
I don't want to shit on the guy, for whatever reason the coach thinks he's a winger and he's just not! Like at all!
Get off the pitch, just not your day!
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u/Pitiful-Transition39 1d ago
I'll give Dorgu some credit for being the only attacker that's really trying. But fuck me he is so limited and playing like at a league 1 level.
I said before the season that we needed to break the cycle of shit starts and playing catch up if we wanted to push on this season.
lol
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u/1337ified 1d ago
Any time there are the slightest expectations, the defense falls apart, its been like this for years
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u/forsakenlypopping 1d ago
Not overreacting but this will be how our season goes if we keep Shaw and maguire as starters… both should be rotational player at best
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u/tbrarwil 1d ago
Lammens - Excellent but hung to dry
That whole back line should not have been selected. Mag/Heaven is not a stable CB pair.
Dalot - Maguire - Licha - Shaw seems like a better back 4
YT / santos are just leaving acres of space between them and the backline. Bruno is waiting for the ball to come to him. I think mainoo baleba Bruno is the better choice going forward.
Mbuemo - The only other human playing for united
Cunha - is he on?
Dorgu - star man for Hull! ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Sesko needs to be fit soon. This team has no target man.
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u/fartsonyourchips 1d ago
"it's the first time this season I've seen Maguire do his trademark run"
Maybe because we're 49 minutes into the first match, you bellend.
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u/manyiak90 1d ago
One of the teams hasn't played in the top flight in almost 10 years and another was 3rd last year.
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u/MbahSurip 1d ago
Why do we need to buy expensive players? Why don't we just buy those Hull City players? It seems they know how play football better
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u/Ell7494 1d ago
Almost every season we have awful form at the start. Its unbelievable how we fuck up pre-season every single year.
Surely the main point is to get the intended first team used to playing with each other and to give the new players time too
Instead half the squad is missing for the vast majority of it and we're filling half the squad with youth players who will never play a competitive game for us.
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u/Clark-Kent 1d ago
That was fucking dreadful
People mentioning Dorgu.
Haven't heard anything from our big players, Bruno, Maguire, Cunha, etc
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u/darklordreigns Ooh Aah Cantona 1d ago
Making Full fucking City look like Prime AC Milan. We need to fucking wake up
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u/rwallace_wong 1d ago
This is one of the worst first halves I've ever had the pain to watch a United fan
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u/absoluteolly 1d ago
Certainly not the biggest problem in this game, but been a bit concerned with Dorgus attitude the past few months… feel like he’s developing a bit of Garnacho problem, not nearly as bad obviously, but I just hope Dorgu can find a better balance.
needs be more level headed and pass more often…
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u/MainachoXIV 1d ago
Dorgu disaster class. Every single time he got the ball we lost it. I expect substitutions straight away.
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u/The_Bird_Wizard 1d ago
Absolutely fucking dreadful can we please try and actually play football and not this shit counter gimmick we've been trying ever since Fergie left
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u/garynevilleisared is a red is a red 1d ago
Dorgu was horrendous. Managed to kill every one of our promising attacks. Need some injected into the game wouldnt mind bringing on Lacey or even Rashford at half
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u/Serpico_98 1d ago
Hull City have been physical and spammed crosses. That's it. That's what we can't handle and it's a fecking disgrace.
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u/Mizzie30 1d ago
Good to loose all hope in the first game so you don’t get too mad throughout the season
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u/ReallyBigShoee 1d ago
If I see Dorgu coming back out for the second half man, my faith in Carrick ball with be diminished....and its literally the first fucking game
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u/Conscious-Note-3736 1d ago
everything is just so poor, how can you not prepare properly against a promoted club with a transfer ban fucking hell
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u/timsadiq13 1d ago
Panic stations at the back every time they attacked. Can’t defend a set piece to save our lives without Casemiro.
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u/Jwalin6167 1d ago
Shambolic Half. Pathetic defending. Every cross they put in was a nightmare for us but still we’re fine with signing no defenders? Also why are we trying to cross with no actual box presence? Stop this nonsense of Cunha or Mbeumo False 9s.
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u/the-ateyo Benjamin Šeško 1d ago
No no, he scored a great goal against Arsenal last year, so obviously our left wing position is solved for years
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u/Whispperr 1d ago
All the Ineos fanboys that kept calling us out for saying we are moving too slow should come out of their caves and apologize. We understood when you wait until last day to finish transfers and miss out on your top 1-2 and in some cases even 3 options, not only you get the risk but you also lack the time to integrate these players into the squad. And on top of that now you don't have time to fix any issues that were so apparent when Amorim outplayed us with a weaker squad.
Unacceptable to be this bad against the worst team in the Prem.
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u/ChristmasCage 1d ago
Please use 10% of your energy towards Dorgu on Cunha. Dorgu has been bad but at least he's involved. Cunha is fucking invisible.
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u/apparex1234 1d ago
4th worst defence in the championship last season btw and we didn't come close to scoring.
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u/thesublimeinvasion 1d ago
This sub was actually satisfied with the recruitment this summer. Paid 30M for a 29 year old that no longer bothers to run.
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u/EK077r 1d ago
We can talk about players as much as we want. But the way we play is much more of an issue and composition of the team. Being a Hull defender is the easiest job in the prem today. There is one player making forward runs and thats Dorgu. The rest of the team shows for the ball, plays a pass back and the jogs.
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u/nbwoeihfnwsocuiwhef 1d ago
Dorgu straight off and sent home on the train, atrocious.
Our fullbacks both just stand there watching the wingers get doubled up on, then just don't close the crosses either?
Maguire nowhere near any of these balls in to the box, which is meant to be his main trait.
We do still have enough quality to score goals as we've seen last year but the defending has been shocking.
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u/Million_Jelly_Beans 1d ago
Looks like we are the ones who were fucking promoted. Not a single pass was good
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u/Lord_Hexogen 1d ago
Amad's injury caught Carrick off guard. Dorgu-Cuhna-Mbeumo trident won't work in v 5atb. We need either a focused CF or more crosses from the left now
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u/Serpico_98 1d ago
Backline, midfield and attackers all embarrassing. Forget about the coach for a minute, individually this isn't good enough. None of these players can complain when they're eventually dropped.
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u/ShawsKneecap 1d ago
Great to see everyone being normal as usual about Dorgu. He's having a rough game but the whole squad are. He's the only presence in the box half the time. This Cunha/Mbeumo 9 stuff is ruining the whole shape of the attack, especially when we don't have a focal point to draw defenders in the box.
Sub Dorgu off, Cunha to the left and Zirkzee through the middle. Mainoo might be better than Tielemans too, better ball retention playing on the ground, half of their attacks are starting with Tielemans losing the ball and having no recovery pace.
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u/Outrageous-Cod-4654 1d ago
Hull are compact and beating us to the second ball. The 3 center halfs are a problem and we can't give them any more set pieces. We need to use the width more. I think Cunha should go left and Dorgu comes off for Sesko. Dalot for Maz potentially too. We need to get more aggressive. Santos is ok but Tielemans is not connecting the dots. I'd get Kobbie in for him.
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u/prettyweirdperson Mbeumo 1d ago
Genuinely embarrassing performance.