Burnley 1 v Manchester United 1. Another evening of missed chances costs us, this time on a wet and windy evening up in Lancashire at Turf Moor. Two disallowed goals and plenty of other opportunities to score more in a first-half we absolutely controlled and dominated.
Which was great to see when you think back to some of our opening 45-minutes this season when we’ve been outplayed and easily out battled against weaker opposition. Come half-time though, after so many missed chances you just knew that if Burnley got a chance they’d take it and they did. And no surprise it was because of poor defending from two parties who have been guilty of many mistakes this season. Shaw and Maguire.
Looking at the positives, which there were plenty of, Sancho looked good, Bruno did, Pogba too (even though he’s leaving). De Gea with an outstanding save and generally it was a very good opening 45 minutes. Mentality and weakness in the second-half cost us though, but we should have been three or four goals up by then. It was Middlesbrough all over again.
I’m also going to give a bit of credit to Rashford who had a decent game, but his play for our goal is what we’ve all been screaming out for him to do for a long time. Once again he had two or three players near him running into the box and this time he didn’t just run into them and lose the ball, he did actually play in the overlapping Luke Shaw and we scored from it. Maybe he is learning. I really hope so.
Play like that first-half more often going forward and in the future eventually the chances we created will start to go in more often. An awful draw overall and two easy points dropped. Next up Southampton in the league on Saturday. Another 12.30pm kick-off, but I’m off to Old Trafford this evening first to see United take on Everton in the FA Youth Cup 5th Round.
Enjoy Phil’s podcast below :
Burnley 1 v Manchester United 1 podcast
Tuesday 8th January 2022 @ 8.00pm
Premier League
Burnley 1
Rodriguez (47)
v
Manchester United 1
Pogba (18)
Referee : Mike Dean
Attendance : 21,233
2022
JANUARY – Premier League
3rd Wolverhampton Wanderers (H) @ 5.30pm 0-1
15th Aston Villa (A) @ 5.30pm 2-2
19th Brentford (A) @ 8pm 1-3
22nd West Ham United (H) @ 3pm 1-0
FEBRUARY – Premier League
8th Burnley (A) @ 8pm 1-1
12th Southampton (H) @ 12.30pm
20th L**ds United (A) @ 2pm
26th Watford (H) @ 3pm
MARCH – Premier League
6th Man City (A) @ 4.30pm
12th Spurs (H) @ 5.30pm
20th Liverpool (A) @ 4.30pm
2021
AUGUST results – Premier League
14th Leeds United (H) @ 12.30pm 5-1
21st Southampton (A) @ 2pm 1-1
28th Wolverhampton (A) @ 2pm 0-1
SEPTEMBER results – Premier League
11th Newcastle United (H) @ 3pm 4-1
19th West Ham United (A) @ 2pm 1-2
25th Aston Villa (H) @ 12.30pm 0-1
OCTOBER results – Premier League
2nd Everton (H) 1-1
16th Leicester City 4-2
24th Liverpool (H) 0-5
30th Spurs (A) 0-3
November results – Premier League
6th Man City (H) @ 12.30pm 0-2
20th Watford (A) @ 3pm 4-1
28th Chelsea (A) @ 4.30pm 1-1
December results – Premier League
2nd Arsenal (H) @ 8.15pm 3-2
5th Crystal Palace (H) 1-0
11th Norwich City (A) @ 5:30pm 0-1
14th Brentford (A) @ 7:30pm P-P
18th Brighton & Hove Albion (H) @ 12.30pm P-P
27th Newcastle United (A) @ 8pm 1-1
30th Burnley (H) @ 8.15pm 3-1
All dates/kick off times tbc/subject to change
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