Yes, that's right. We've got 16 Conclusions on a game in which almost nothing happened on a day when two other games had almost everything happen.
Yes, that’s right. We’ve got 16 Conclusions on a game in which almost nothing happened on a day when two other games had almost everything happen. We’re very sorry. As with everything else, we suggest blaming Erik Ten Hag .1. Do 16 Conclusions on the United game, they said. It’ll be fun, they said. There’s narrative out the wazoo. There’s no way the game will be so dull you’ll struggle to find things to talk about, they said.
United’s bench was a graveyard of Ten Hag’s failed or failing signings and it cost more than Villa’s starting XI. The very fact United came here with the view that a point would be a brilliant result and being correct to think that is damning in itself. There is perhaps no clearer indication of just where United currently stand that the fact this game ended up being a terrible one played entirely into their hands. It’s undeniably glib, but undeniably true. Had there been any danger of a football match breaking out here then there seems almost no chance that would have ended up being to United’s benefit.6.
To the extent that what few decent openings the game did provide actually broke in favour of the visitors. That these chances when they came were apparently deliberately or at least consistently aimed at Emi Martinez or defenders’ shins just highlights the near total lack of confidence with which this United team currently goes about its attacking business.8.
And so there it was – a third straight Premier League game without a goal for United and a result that doesn’t so much save the manager’s job as delay the inevitable. Marcus Rashford! Knew it would come back to us. Marcus Rashford. He absolutely should have been sent off for a second bookable offence after a second petulant lunge of a tackle in quick succession.
That’s absolutely fine. Until, that is, you’ve taken the sport down a road that apparently leads to a flawlessly consistent decision-making utopia. Here there can be no room for such human frailty, so it must be enshrined in the laws and playing conditions themselves. It’s a reminder that trying to write laws and playing conditions that meet a benchmark of perfect correctness and fairness in all conceivable situations is something that simply cannot be done.
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