Manchester United were ‘lucky’ and Bruno Fernandes is an ‘absolute melt’

Liverpool fans are lining up to say that Manchester United weren’t that good anyway and Bruno Fernandes gets a kicking.

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Manchester United are only decent
As a Liverpool fan am obviously rather giddy this morning but can’t really bring myself to really stick the knife in on the Utd fans as my team have already done that.

Let’s be honest, ETH looks like an excellent manager who has cleared the decks of the rot (read: Ronaldo/Pogba) and has put together a decent team. But that’s what they are, decent not great – yes they’d gone on an unbeaten run in the league but really hadn’t played anyone of any note and won the Carabao Cup without coming across a team that could stretch them.

Meanwhile Liverpool had lost the vast majority of their strikeforce for most of the season and had to play their new signings without the time to integrate them into the team (and the way of playing) combined with losing our first-choice centre-halves but have somehow managed to stay in touching distance of the top four.

Nunez scores more goals per minute than Rashford yet the former is a flop and the latter is world class having the season of his life..?!?

Anyway, onto yesterday’s game – we were always going to batter someone soon once the squad was back and the stars aligned in the most magnificent way that it was against our most prestigious rivals. We did get quite a few lucky breaks with the ball but that generally happens when you’re trying harder than the other team for most of the game.

Fernandes is a disgrace and should never be captain again.
Jim Fleckney

(Not quite sure where that Nunez/Rashford stat has come from; it’s bollocks. Whether Premier League or all comps, it’s nonsense – Ed)

…A few thoughts following the game yesterday as a LFC fan.

It was a freak result. It doesn’t solve any of Liverpool’s issues in midfield, we were fortunate that United collectively lost their heads in a way that we’ve never seen before (or will again).Yes, it could have been 9 or 10, but equally if Rashford scored when through on goal at 0.0, we may have lost our heads too.

My potential ‘hot take’ is this though, ETH could be the manager that both teams supporters want, Utd want silverware (obviously, who doesn’t) and I am happy for Utd to win them all apart from the CL/PL.

I didn’t expect them to have a series of OGS or Ralfs for the rest of my life, they have the spending power to shoot them to…