Off to the kitchen.

now let rudiger annoy mctominay some more now he is on a yellow 

The good news is we have a lot of fire power on the bench, but we can do a lot better in the second half need at least 2 goals

I guess I'll have to listen to Scholes at HT saying how great Utd have been and how they have been the best side and their defensive unit is far better that Chelsea's.

Not impressed with our lacklustre attacking players.

We're certainly the better team even though we look so toothless in attack. I actually think Barkley could be useful here in order to break them down, as Mason isn't at his best right now. 

Not a bad first half, totally dominating apart from the goal, i expect Tuchel will tweak something.

CHO has let me down a bit, he has all the ability but his decision making has been questionable. If your striker is free in the box pass the ball to him it's as simple as that. You go for personal glory once the game has been secured not before

Tony Gayle is so anti-Chelsea its diabolical

A nil nil battering so far.

United are a mess. No excuses if we don't win this. 

think we need to look at options off the bench

1-0 will do 

This was always going to be a tough game. We have struggled against United in recent seasons, even with their ropey defense. 

Seem to be in control of the first half. But it’s 0-0 sadly CHO doesn’t have end product which lets him down 

I expected better....

Pretty disappointed with that half. Too slow on the ball, and the attackers are not attacking the space for the few crosses we’ve had. 
CHO should have scored - must take those chances. After that not really created that much clear cut. 
RLC needs to release the ball quicker also. Timo stay in the middle or bring on Havertz or Rom 

Not a good half by us. Too many touches and poor decision making in final third. Werner looks well off the pace, not sure we can make do with Alonso long term at LWB.

Alonso looking way off .. slept off for the Sancho chance .. clearly not match fit.. costing our attacking play given how much of the ball he has given away.

RLC also been quite poor .. lost the ball 2/3 times in our half.. 

CHO should have scored .. Werner is looking lost .. he is not making the right runs..

need havertz on for Werner.

I think it's very obvious that Alonso is rusty after not playing for some time you can see it on his first touch but even so he sold that yellow card so well because he doesn't really have the pace for that.

70% possession, Man United look like a mid table team if I'm to be honest. We can only blame ourselves for not scoring in this first half.

Just now, LongtimerLurker said:

CHO has let me down a bit, he has all the ability but his decision making has been questionable. If your striker is free in the box pass the ball to him it's as simple as that. You go for personal glory once the game has been secured not before

If we drop points in this game it would be on CHO. Around the 5th minute all he had to do is to square the ball for Werner and it would have been 1:0.  It's infuriating how greedy and selfish(or stupid) some players are.  

We have edged this though haven't created enough good chances.

Expect changes needed for goals.

Could see Havertz coming on.

Honestly not much too complain. We need to be a bit more precise and clinical , the game is a bit too fast for Alonso but he is still fine. 

Just now, forbzy said:

This was always going to be a tough game. We have struggled against United in recent seasons, even with their ropey defense. 

Can make it a tiny bit easier for ourself and not play Ziyech(hollywood), who makes every pass and shot way to complicated. Trying to dribble when he as 2-3 free teammates around him....

Werner is also completley wrong as a focal point against such weak defenders as Lindelof and Bailey. Get Mount and Lukaku on asap!

 

3 minutes ago, Valerie said:

What do you mean, YOU're the one that's being a prima donna!

I. Am. Prepared. 

Me & @mojo will be organising our second half synchronised wee during half time. 

4 minutes ago, Valerie said:

Excellent effort at counterjinx!

I can’t deny that crossed my mind. I like it when someone quotes it later after we win 3-0 and calls me a c#@t (but Yorkley isn’t around still is he?)

Sadly though, I fear I’m going to be right today. It was inevitable that United would make some manner of improvement for this game, even if it is just being less sieve like. Add that to our cows arse and banjo finishing and there you go.

2 minutes ago, CFCCAN said:

I expected better....

 

we should be better, this isn't good enough, you need to be 3-0 up against such a poor side