Pranav Nair
Twitter reacts as Manchester United bottle chance to go top against Sheffield United
Manchester United fell to a surprise home defeat to bottom-placed Sheffield United at Old Trafford on Wednesday.
It was the club’s first loss in the Premier League in 15 games, costing us an opportunity to regain top spot from Manchester City.
Kean Bryan stunned United as the Blades took the lead in the 23rd minute. United dominated possession and created chances, but lacked the impetus in the final third.
We showed more intent in the second half and skipper Harry Maguire got us back to level terms against his former side.
The killer blow came in the 74th minute when Oliver Burke scored the winner for Chris Wilder’s side. United have only themselves to blame following a series of poor defensive choices that preceded the goal.
The Red Devils pushed forward but Sheffield United held on for a famous win. Their first at the venue since 1973.
It was all in all an exceptionally poor performance. If we do fall short of the title come May, United will have only themselves to blame.
Fans livid as United bottle chance to regain top spot
The worst performance I’ve seen from a united team in a while
— MBCKaylan (@Kaylan_fut) January 27, 2021
@ManUtd this was just another example of poor managerial decision making in team selection. OGS never learns. Same mistake he made at Leipzig. OGS didn’t wanna win this match. He underestimated Blades and thought let’s save our best players for Arsenal 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤷♂️
— Andy (@andybrianme) January 27, 2021
We’ve played so well of late, it’s just a shame that we always seem to have the chance to drop a stinker of a performance like this every so often… onto the next one and let’s bounce back stronger
— Ben 🏃🏻♂️ (@b_hartshorne) January 27, 2021
haven’t seen us play this worse under ole
— Bruno 🔴 (@MbakweJ) January 27, 2021
Man Utd play start most games soo slow, we were too rigid & not good enough tonight. Not surprising because we have gotten away with dead performances like this. Reality Check needed
— Odogwu🤴 (@Daddy_Nomso) January 27, 2021
Disgraceful & Embarrassing
We are just a charity team, give Sheffield UTD their 2nd win of the season, give Istanbul their first ever UCL win and Arsenal their fist win at OT in about 15 fucking years, just useless.
— Isacc♦️™️ (@IsaccUtd) January 27, 2021
We’re so finished man Ole needs to get out. The only players who put effort out there were Bruno and Rashford the rest were spineless especially Pogba. Ole needs the sack immediately if we’re serious about this title
— Phil🔰 (10-8) #PogbaOut (@PhilUTD_) January 27, 2021
More Manchester United News
- Four Manchester United stars helping Edinson Cavani in team meetings
- New boy Amad Diallo impresses in Manchester United training clip
- Solskjaer refuses to rule out Lingard and Williams exits from Manchester United
No matter how well we are doing we always have this sort of result in us. Sheffield Utd had lost 16 out of 19 games before tonight. And now we’ve given City a massive advantage.
— 💯 ™ (@Prime_Utd) January 27, 2021
What’s the point in getting our hopes up, because when it really matters, they let us down. Pathetic
At least I can lower my expectations now and just see us as a ‘fight for top 4’ club
— . (@BismiIIah_) January 27, 2021
We’re not winning the league with this defence.
1-3 Palace
1-6 Spurs
0-1 Arsenal
1-2 against 20th place Sheffied
no teams lose 4 homes games and believes they can win the league
Disappointing, shameful, painful result!!! The game had the relics of our Arsenal, Basaksehir and Leipzig defeats. Painful part about this loss is that we were never up for it. Never showed any sort of urgency to reclaim top spot from the start. Disgraceful performance all round.
— Anthony Chukwu (@centanthonyc) January 27, 2021
