1] Druss. FFS man. A ridiculous slagging off of Ibe for no reason again. Playing out of position against Martial, he didn't do too bad across the whole game. Even got forward quite nicely in the first half.
2] Man U and their mega million pound players have decided to start playing again and are capable of beating any team in the league. Especially at OT. Their forward players are great when on form.
3] Having said that [ and the first goal was hugely annoying as Ake should have put Rashford into touch ] we didn't actually do too bad in that first half. Could have had two goals, both from Ake headers. And yes, frustrating to concede the next two goals, I know we will look at the back three but we also need to stop crosses coming in that easily too.
4] Ashley Young, easily could be a red. I have seen reds given this season for very similar tackles in other games. He has a habit of making those kind of stupid tackles, he isn't in control and there is a risk of injuring the opponent, which he did.
5] Eddie seemed really down about the second half but again, think we did ok in spells. I do think Stan and Josh don't hold the ball anywhere near as well as they should do though and it leads to a break up of any build up play. We know they have the skills, which makes it more frustrating.
6] Yet again, officials make errors which could have changed the whole course of the game. Whether we deserve to be winning or losing is irrelevant - they need to get these pretty basic things right. Its a penalty for that challenge on Charlie, Mason looking right at it too. That could have been a red card challenge for dangerous play as well. No guarantee of course but I'd fancy us to convert the penalty, 3-2 against ten [ should have been nine mind you ] for twenty minutes.
7] Obviously Utd fans will just say they would have stepped up again and just scored when they wanted anyway. Maybe but then again, we would also have stepped up.
8] Lukaku, a yard offside at least, 4-1 when it could have been 3-2. Absolutely typical of our luck
9] Sky Sports - bunch of Utd loving goons. While they did raise the errors during the game, it was with no real gusto or with any sense to highlight the wrong doing. In the studio after, it took twenty minutes for Jamie Redknapp to be asked about us, he did mention the high kick, they all just said it was a penalty and giggled about the kick. They vaguely mumbled about Lukaku being offside, as though it didn't matter.
10] Some hugely negative types on Twitter yet again. Trying to avoid them. The bigger picture is - January is about to arrive. A couple of nice signings where we need them and Smithy to get back soon after, things can start to turn around just as easily. We need to keep positive and look to the top half.