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Ronald Koeman discussion

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In football sometimes you get more than you deserve. Today, we deserved more than we got.

At 1-0, Ashley Williams makes a big mistake, and after that it was over. But what I saw from the team today makes me happier than last Thursday.

After half time, a really difficult start, we grew in our game and confidence. Not many teams will get the two big chances that we did today, twice one against one against De Gea, but we didn't score the goal.

It's not ambition. It's confidence. It's confidence of the players and the team. We tried to get higher but it's something that's in the head of the players after a tough period.

As a manager you try to help them, but after the whistle we started too afraid.

After that we pressed and after that you see that United are not that 'big' team, which is difficult to say because we lost 4-0.

In football you need to be clinical. united showed us how clinical you have to be. If you're not and you make mistakes, then you can't do anything against a defeat.

Now we need to win the next coming days. Realistically, we knew before the start of the season we did not expect to get nine points out of Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United.

But every game is difficult. We have four home games and we need to win, or we have problems.
 

roydo said:
Lets face it, we are on a dreadful trot.

But today we played well. We carried a goal threat, and on another day, could have walked out with 1, maybe, at a stretch, 3 points. They scored a worldy on 3 minutes, and 3 in the last 5 minutes or so. One a mistake, one a pen, one dead scruffy. Not like we were carved open.

We were awful in Italy mind. IMO, Koeman will sort this. Signs were there today. Just had one of them days.
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It's so obvious this is the case if you just take a step back and understand why this start has happened. Yes, it's frustrating as hell but there's reasons behind why we're here.

If we go through the next couple of months and it's still bad then that's the time to worry. But not after you've had the fixtures we have with the changes in the squad.
 
roydo said:
Lets face it, we are on a dreadful trot.

But today we played well. We carried a goal threat, and on another day, could have walked out with 1, maybe, at a stretch, 3 points. They scored a worldy on 3 minutes, and 3 in the last 5 minutes or so. One a mistake, one a pen, one dead scruffy. Not like we were carved open.

We were awful in Italy mind. IMO, Koeman will sort this. Signs were there today. Just had one of them days.
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On 80 minutes I even said to the missus it's ridiculous we aren't winning the match let alone drawing as we were making all the running, pushing higher up, they were on the back foot. Such a woeful pass from Williams and it all unravelled very quickly

I think he'll be under pressure though mate to get 4 wins out of 4 coming up
 
Top 6 was no longer an option when the board and Walsh failed to bring in a striker to replace Lukaku. Blame Koeman all you want, his tactics, team selection, etc however, more questions should be asked as to why was Lukaku allowed to leave without a replacement signed at the beginning of the window.

Forget top 6 play for top 10.
 

BlueToff said:
Burnley have had tough ones like, it's no excuse.

Had a mare recently. Need to hammer your boys on Wednesday (sorry! ;) ) now
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Hopefully you come on here to praise Koeman to the hilt should we turn over Burnley in a couple of weeks time as they are such a quality side that we can only aspire to.
 
dannyboy said:
Your post is just ridiculously knee jerk though. We've lost our two best attacking players, completely overhauled the squad and had a nightmare run of fixtures. Whilst no one wants to be in the position we're in it's understandable why it's happened.

Things can change very quickly in this game. We've got some very winnable games coming up that'll hopefully allow the lads to grow in confidence. You can shout from the rooftops about how bad we've been. It doesn't need to be done, we can all see it with our eyes. Hopefully you can be feeling a lot happier in a couple of months time when things have settled down and this nightmare start has been put to bed.
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I got to 'winnable games' and stopped. Sorry mate.

Not scored for 4 games. Barely a shot on target in all 4 of those games. Knee jerk after watching the 8 games so far this season ?

Formations all over the place. Hasn't a clue who our best 11 is. Hasn't a clue who should play where. Weird tactics.

Aye
 

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