Casemiro now at 20 G/A for Manchester United in 58 appearances pic.twitter.com/9NfBvCkHO4

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Calvin Phillips is looking quite underwhelming in a rare match from the start. Man City are mostly fielding fringe/rotational players, but this is his chance to show why they bought him.

Sergio Gomez as well, no end product.

They had a ton of possession, but were toothless up front and quite unreliable defensively, on the few occasions that Newcastle managed to attack them. Looked like it was going to be a stalemate for the longest time.

Looks like Alvarez has been practising his freekicks a lot lately. Just scored one right into the top corner to equal the score against Wolves

Wolves might break City's winning streak today. City have looked panic-y at the back.

Calvin Phillips is shit. No wonder he hardly saw any game time last season.

Maguire

Firenze wrote:even though I think it's mostly the shitters in the team (I knew Rashford's hot streak last season was fake news) I think ETH's time is close to being up, 4 losses from 7 games in the league, get him gone

His subs have been pretty odd lately, but it's going to be hard for Man United to ever find stability when there's a new manager and new philosophy every other season.

Firenze wrote:his subs were very odd last season too I cut him some slack cuz we have an injury crisis and very little off the bench but he seems out of his depth tactically, there's no diff at all from how we play with this team until the last 2 managers

I don't think we should sack him but it looks like we probably will, we always do

he also spent 120M (nost of our budget) on players that we didnt need

I think you have a better team now than you've had for a long time, but it still looks like a team that was either put together by different managers, or partially orchestrated by someone in club management. Pep rightfully deserves a lot of praise for what he's achieved with Man City, but the luxury he's had with having the arguably most competent DoF in football, a high budget every season, and as much stability as you could ever hope for as a manager, really has to be a big part in how he's been able to thrive with City.

A lot of fans like to argue that x manager would be able to come in and fix whatever mess is already there, but team building will always be the primary factor that determines a team's success, and it takes a lot of time to fix a team that's been built with little rhyme or reason.

El Gunner wrote:

https://twitter.com/OptaJoe/status/1708156278780907918

All on Arsenal now next weekend. We gotta beat 'em. Lay down a statement for ourselves more than anything else. Rodri and De Bruyne out.

Rodri is obviously a fantastic player, but I also think it matters a lot that Calvin Phillips has been pretty poor as his replacement. It makes a lot of sense that he was hardly featured last season when you see how he's performing right now.

HOW IS THIS OFFSIDE FOR THE LUIS DIAZ GOAL pic.twitter.com/EijDu2pB8w

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