Man United Verdict/VAR Ranting Thread

[groundhogwolf]

Just calling it as I sees it. I also blame Sa to be fair, and it was not a great goal to concede as a team. But if Semedo gets goal side of his man rather than let Varane steal a march, then it probably isn't a goal. It's worth mentioning from a tactical perspective because it's not the first time. RAN was faultless - he was already man-marking the winger as you can see at the top of the picture. The gap is in between, possibly could've been plugged by Gomes (sitting in no man's land)?

Which man he was
Left with 3 to mark.

 

[Black Country Wanderer]

Just calling it as I sees it. I also blame Sa to be fair, and it was not a great goal to concede as a team. But if Semedo gets goal side of his man rather than let Varane steal a march, then it probably isn't a goal. It's worth mentioning from a tactical perspective because it's not the first time. RAN was faultless - he was already man-marking the winger as you can see at the top of the picture. The gap is in between, possibly could've been plugged by Gomes (sitting in no man's land)?

You dont see Kilman and Dawson both going to the near post and leaving Semedo with 2 men to mark?
Sa went too early to his near post and got stranded,but yeah Semedos fault lol

 

[Oh When the Wolves]

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That first highlight shows the importance of refs getting yellows right early on

Martinez would have taken him out if he wasn’t booked but as it was he couldn’t touch him

 

[Monketron]

Great video. Shows how important Nunes was to how we played.

 

[sedgwolf1980]

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[Madmalc]

VAR is equipment placed into the hands of PGMOL.
It's not VAR to blame, that's like blaming a gun, rather than the person who fired it.
A petition on Change.org demanding that individual PGMOL officials are fined by the FA for bringing the game into disrepute everytime they're ajudged to have completely got it wrong would be interesting.

 

[Kashmire Hawker]

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[Krispy Kreme]

Gomes was unbelievable combative the Pitbull was tenacious we bullied there midfield casemiro outclassed by lemina and gomes

Silva Geta three chances two saves one block gets in the area ran back ran forward he must be with cunha rather than sarabia , sarabia was not at the races. Hwang was positive also

Agree with this other than the putting down of Sarabia.

What did Sarabia do wrong whilst on the pitch? Puts the cross in for the Cunha chance plus others.

Runs ragged.

He was brilliant as they all were.

 

[Krispy Kreme]

The running from deep was sublime but shout out to Lemina and Gomes. Did the dirty work brilliantly and with some skills to boot.

Huge upgrade on Neves and Moutinho as a combination for me

If Caicedo is a £100m player then I expect huge bids for Gomes next year.

He covered every blade of grass.

No coincidence Semedo played better, Gomes was there covering time and time again.

 

[Fenrir_]

Also took penalties when on loan I think? I seem to remember the usual suspects "discounting" them when they counted up his goals and assists.

6/6 in senior football for Silva (missed a couple in Portugal age groups), and he's taken a pressure penalty, so I imagine he'd have been at the front of the queue

 

[Jefe]

You dont see Kilman and Dawson both going to the near post and leaving Semedo with 2 men to mark?
Sa went too early to his near post and got stranded,but yeah Semedos fault lol

As I've said multiple times now, it was a poor team goal and I'm not singling any one player out. Had Sa stayed in the middle of the goal, he could've claimed it, for example. Had Gomes not just sat in no man's land and dropped in to plug the gap, the ball wouldn't even have been played into the area in the first place. But Kilman and Dawson move over one man each, with Kilman going towards the man with the ball given that there is now an increased threat of a goal being scored from that position. Dawson then moves over to mark his man. You make it sound like they are to blame when this is perfectly normal behaviour in an overload situation.

 

[Krispy Kreme]

Sarabia had one short of Netos 4 key passes (the most of our players), he was on the pitch 2/3 of the time.

He had less touches than Cunha in that time, but it's not his style to be involved in that way.

Great and drifting into the half spaces.

He has got a role to play this season for sure and doesn't deserve any criticism.

 

[Novawolf1]

Somewhere in last night’s comments GON talked about the plan to overload midfield with 4 players against MU’s 3 and I believe Sarabia would have been key to that …and probably why Silva didn’t start.

For Saturday Brighton will have noted how we had Cuhna and Nunes breaking from deep and will want to counteract it, though we may bring Silva in as we’re at home. Depends on how Brighton approach their away games too but I’m not aware of that. Whether it’s Sarabia or Silva who knows…

 

[groundhogwolf]

You dont see Kilman and Dawson both going to the near post and leaving Semedo with 2 men to mark?
Sa went too early to his near post and got stranded,but yeah Semedos fault lol

The lengths the Semedo detractors will go, surprised he wasn’t blamed for all the changes we missed, as they had no bearing on the game whatsoever.

 

[Ned]

Another harsh reality of last night (obviously it doesn’t make the VAR farce any better) is that it, quite frankly, shouldn’t have mattered. I’m not saying we should finish every half chance and chance but the game should have been dead and buried by then. We should have been 3/4-1 up and with the cigars out.

We were brilliant last night, got robbed of a penalty by inept/corrupt idiots BUT we can’t afford to miss so many chances in games - in some ways we didn’t deserve to win because you can’t miss those chances and half chances and expect anything out of the game.

But I’ll take that overall performance every day of the week and twice on Sundays - we just need some confidence in our attacking play.

 

[Darvo]

Can't remember being so positive after a defeat! My German neighbour who watched the game was raving about Cunha constantly!

For gawd’ sake … ”don’t mention the war”.

 

[Northampton_wolf]

You love to see it nunes gomes Silva etc insta posts

 

[Wolf 82]

You love to see it nunes gomes Silva etc insta posts

The lads feel properly together, fighting for one another.. the change of the guard was really needed in hindsight.

It’s a bit early and don’t want to get over excited.. but this midfield could be talked about a lot this season.

 

[Abbobrom]

I watched the match in the bar on a campsite in Catalonia. There were three M U supporters, one Blackburn, one Everton and a Spurs fan , plus a scattering of Dutch fans sat with me.

They all, including the red supporters shouted penalty. I was the only doubter, not because I thought it wasn't, but you get f all at Old Trafford, and you are lucky to get that.

In the end we were all correct, it should have been and today's events confirm it.

Come May, that possible point may prove costly, although I witnessed enough last night to suggest it may not matter.

 

[Bryce]

I hope we ****ing stuff them 5 0 in the return game to prove a point

 

[nomadwolf]

Best ever 12 minutes of watching Wolves get beat?...

 

[Sussex Wolf]

Another example of Man Utd players getting away with things other players don’t happened after their goal on Monday…

Former official claims referee made second big blunder in Manchester United vs Wolves — Manchester Evening News

Man Utd beat Wolves 1-0 at Old Trafford but were handed a slice of luck when the referee and VAR didn't rule that Andre Onana fouled Sasa Kalajdzic

apple.news

 

[Northampton_wolf]

any doubting gaz's imapct need to read this one from dawson

Dawson | 'We need to turn performances into results'

Craig Dawson has highlighted the importance of the Molineux supporters as Wolves return to the stadium for their opening home match of the 2023/24 seaso...

www.wolves.co.uk

Change style of play:

Before Man United] we had four days together, so we had to take a lot of information on board and try to change the style of play, but you could see in the performance that the lads took everything on board and it was great to see.

 

[Hollywood Wolf]

Another example of Man Utd players getting away with things other players don’t happened after their goal on Monday…

Former official claims referee made second big blunder in Manchester United vs Wolves — Manchester Evening News

Man Utd beat Wolves 1-0 at Old Trafford but were handed a slice of luck when the referee and VAR didn't rule that Andre Onana fouled Sasa Kalajdzic

apple.news

Hooper and his co - conspirators are all off this weekend. Still getting paid so their penalty for getting it all so massively wrong is having to take his wife shopping.

 

[Jay Jay de Wolf]

Just watch on SKY Spurs 2- 0 Man Utd ..

Wolves played better than Spurs did against Man Utd

I don't have to tell you the scoreline being the obvious different thing that counts on the day!

IT'S GOALS THAT CHANGE GAMES AND MAKE THE DIFFERENCE AS WE'VE WITNESSED TODAY AGAIN V BRIGHTON!!

In 2 games now 38 shots at goal with only 1 goal to count for this