Line-up announced : Manchester United team to face Leeds 20/2/22
Manchester United have named their team for today’s game at Elland Road. Ralf Rangnick, speaking before the game, gave an update on a new player being available for selection again. “The good news is that Nemanja Matic was training for the first time after a couple of days,…
Reaction and Player Ratings : Manchester United 2-0 Brighton
Manchester United are back in the top four, the singular objective presented to the squad by the manager Ralf Rangnick for the remainder of this season. The position was achieved by a fairly unconvincing win over Brighton, and isn’t technically United’s to hold, considering Arsenal’s games in hand…
Reaction and Player Ratings : Manchester United 1-1 Southampton
The front of Old Trafford was covered in a new advertisement for Tezos, one of those block-crypto-pseudo-nobody-seems-to-quite-know things. Front and centre there is Cristiano Ronaldo, smiling, and not quite looking like himself, ominously looking soullessly out on to the forecourt where the statues of Sir Matt Busby and…
Reaction and Player Ratings : Burnley 1-1 Manchester United
Manchester United took a first half lead and had two goals disallowed and yet still failed to win against a Burnley team rooted in a relegation battle. Ralf Rangnick dropped Cristiano Ronaldo but was left to call on him when a decent first half performance gave way to…
Line-up announced : Manchester United team to face Burnley 8/2/22
Manchester United have named their team to face Burnley tonight. Ralf Rangnick spoke about his frustration following the Middlesbrough cup game in his build up to the trip to Burnley. “The more we watched those opportunities, those chances, that we didn’t make use of, we wasted, the more…
Reaction, Highlights and Player Ratings : Manchester United 1-0 West Ham
Goals change games. They also change the perception of games – and that was the case at Old Trafford as Marcus Rashford’s last gasp injury time winner gave Ralf Rangnick all three points after a tight afternoon’s work against West Ham. David Moyes admitted to being ‘pissed off’…
Line-up announced : Manchester United team to face Brentford 19/1/22
Manchester United have named their team to face Brentford tonight. Cristiano Ronaldo is back in after missing the weekend’s trip to Villa with injury, so Edinson Cavani misses out – but Harry Maguire remains on the sidelines with his hip injury causing him grief. Ralf Rangnick confirmed that…
Reaction and Player Ratings : Aston Villa 2-2 Man Utd
The Liverpool connection at Aston Villa denied Manchester United a win after Ralf Rangnick’s team had taken a 2-0 lead; but Villa boss Steven Gerrard brought Philippe Coutinho on to the pitch, and the Brazilian created one then scored the equaliser in an entertaining game. Rangnick made a…
Line-up announced : Manchester United team to face Aston Villa 15/1/22
Ralf Rangnick has named his Manchester United team for this evening’s Premier League trip to Villa Park. Rangnick is without Scott McTominay and Luke Shaw with the pair suspended, while Paul Pogba remains sidelined, but otherwise, the German boss spoke positively of the build-up to the trip to…
Reaction and Player Ratings : Man Utd 1-0 Aston Villa
Manchester United are through to the fourth round of the FA Cup after an early Scott McTominay goal was enough to beat Steven Gerard’s Aston Villa – though the former Liverpool man would have felt his side’s domination of the early second half was more than enough to…