My football highlight of #2025wrap was going to the #Sidemen #charitymatch at @wembleystadium in March!

🚨🎙️ | Michael Carrick reacts to Bruno Fernandes' comments where he seemingly questioned the tactics: "We actually half pressed man-to-man in the second half and conceded from that. "If you don't RUN, don't run forward and you don't run back you are NOT going to win."

DISGRACEFUL CAPTAIN OF THIS ONCE A GREAT CLUB.

🚨💬 Bruno Fernandes’ quotes in FULL to @footballontnt… INTERVIEWER: “Do you, as a group, have confidence that you can work as a team and solve the problems that you need to out there?” BRUNO: “Of course you can, but it’s the decision from the staff to not press man-to-man, and sometimes leave a little bit of space in behind and trying to get the ball in the first moment - to wait for them, to give them the ball. “But sometimes when you give too much the ball to these teams, they get confident, you know. They have so many bodies behind the ball that make you run a lot, make people get frustrated. “And then, obviously, when you recover the ball, the legs and the brain are much more difficult to make it work.” INTERVIEWER: “On that, then, do you feel like tactically, it was wrong tonight? You made the decision not to press, and that’s what hurt you in the end?” BRUNO: “That’s on the manager and on the staff to see it, it’s not on me. “I just said that, sometimes, we have to be more brave under pressure, trying to take a risk of getting that press very high and making them uncomfortable - as they did to us. As you saw, the centre back is coming all the way to mark me in my own half, and I think sometimes, we had to do that as a team, and we were not really able to do it. “And a team that wants to play through the middle and likes these small connections, if you give them too much time on the ball to think and rotate on the middle of the pitch, then they create a big space on the outside, that’s what they did, and the first goal comes from that.” #MUFC

Pressure has been piled onto Michael Carrick after this defeat. In 2021, Man Utd sacked Ole Gunnar Solskjaer the day after a 4-1 away defeat by Watford.

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Bruno Fernandes to TNT Sports: "It's a decision from the staff to not press man to man and sometimes leave space behind and try to get the ball, wait for them, but sometimes when you give space to these teams they get confidence." On whether he is saying Michael Carrick got his tactics wrong: "That's on the manager and staff to see, not me. Sometimes you have to be more brave under pressure, take the risk of pressing high and making them uncomfortable."

Feck

History is like poetry

Glazers. Ineos. Wilcox. Berrada. Please get fucked out of this football club.

#mufc are winless in 7 consecutive games in all competitions for the first time since a run of eight matches between November and December 2015 [@OptaJoe]

INEOS took over Manchester United February 21st, 2024. Three days later, Como drew Parma 1-1 in Serie B. What these two clubs have done with the time in between could not be in more staggering contrast.

RT @UtdXclusive: ABSOLUTE CLOWN. #INEOSOUT #GlazersOut.

URT WE ARE LIVE NOW COMO 4 - 1 MANCHESTER UNITED MATCH REACTION #COMOMUN HIT FOR 4 FRESH START? HOLD THAT INEOS/GLAZERS COWARDLY FANBASE THAT WON'T UNITE TO DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE #GlazersAndIneosOut youtube.com/live/ds5uAvnc1QM… via @YouTube

Como got Utd in a coma. The gulf in class is honestly frightening. Just absolutely poor from everyone at the club. #glazersout #INEOSOUT

Man Utd fans singing against the Glazers and Jim Ratcliffe.

Como got Utd in a coma, dark

Bruno Fernandes lost possession 15 times against Como, the most of any #mufc player.

The staggering thing, watching #MUFC, is that they went into this season believing they had finally addressed their longstanding weakness in midfield. Three midfielders signed at a total cost of around £150m — two of them starting tonight — and they're outplayed, outrun and outfought in almost every game they play. Hard to see what it's even meant to look like. That's some rebuild