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Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread - Read Mod Warning in OP 7/1/15

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,521 ✭✭✭Giggsy11


    Evans is a liability. Always loses every 50-50 ball.

    Playing conditions are ****, just can't pass with precision when wind has so much say in it.


  • Posts: 19,923 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Evans has a more difficult job than the other 2 in fairness. Playing on the left side of a 3 for a right footer isn't the easiest, it's a quasi-left back role the way it's being played. He's good with both feet but other teams have it too easy to get at the left side of United's defence.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,746 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Serious man crush on Falcao. Touch looked a bit sluggish at the start, but he combines the exuberance and constant running of Chico with the predatory instinct of RvN. Really does work his butt off, which is admirable.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,832 ✭✭✭✭Blatter


    Liam O wrote: »
    Evans has a more difficult job than the other 2 in fairness. Playing on the left side of a 3 for a right footer isn't the easiest, it's a quasi-left back role the way it's being played. He's good with both feet but other teams have it too easy to get at the left side of United's defence.

    The mistakes he's made have got nothing to do with playing left side of a three.

    Just really basic stuff. A conference defender would've dealt better with that high ball that lead to Diouf's chance.


  • Posts: 27,583 ✭✭✭✭ Elliott Ugly Owl


    Toxic the match thread is today...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,182 ✭✭✭KH25


    Falcao off is baffling. Only reason I can think of was to spare him from stokes hatchet men.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,741 ✭✭✭Hococop


    Young injured ffs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,865 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    Rooney having a horror show today as well. His first time playing this bad in a good while.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,134 ✭✭✭✭Rayne Wooney


    We have gone a bit backwards lately

    I don't think Rooney should be playing midfield now that Herrera is fit


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    Lack of chances created away from home is worrying, on the bright side Herrera looked good when he came on


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,408 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    Christmas fixtures have been a bit of a disaster, combined with our rivals results.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,786 ✭✭✭Thepoet85


    Few players looked jaded out there today I thought. hopefully a draw for arsenal will limit the damage of that result.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,995 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    Disappointing. Dropping stupid points if they want to be champion contenders as they say.

    Rooney in midfield is way too hit and miss, usually missing more often than not.
    Januzaj was toxic when he came on.
    The defence aren't up to scratch at all.
    Falcao off while RVP stayed on was frustrating.
    Carrick had a nothing game.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    Another draw. Another injury.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    Two draws from two tricky away fixtures, not the end of the world.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,182 ✭✭✭KH25


    That was pretty bad.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    Is it worth my time watching?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,741 ✭✭✭Hococop


    Hopefully we get transfers done quick


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,863 ✭✭✭dmc17


    Time to hit the January sales Louis!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,140 ✭✭✭✭TheDoc


    That is another really poor result and performance.

    Should really ahve been 9 points from Villa, Spurs and Stoke. For all the squads talk of title challenge and credentials, they need to start actually wining games away from home.

    Our away form has been nothing short of disgraceful this season


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,760 ✭✭✭Donnielighto


    I hope Falcao asks LVG why he was taken off.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,408 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    Just looking at the table, Arsenal can close the gap to one point if they win.

    We're in serious trouble if away form doesn't improve.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,902 ✭✭✭MagicIRL


    Jones, Evans and Smalling should be made to walk home.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,689 ✭✭✭sky88


    Is it worth my time watching?

    The highlights on match of the day arent worth watching


    I just didnt get the jan subsittion at all he was terrible in everything he done. Obiovoys sub was to bring on raf switch young to the left if taking off shaw


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 687 ✭✭✭Dayum


    MagicIRL wrote: »
    Jones, Evans and Smalling should be made to walk home.

    Post of the day.

    They've been nothing short of toxic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,057 ✭✭✭✭adox


    That was torturous.

    Strange taking Falcao off but ok, maybe looking after him a bit after his injuries.

    I would have definitely taken Mata off for Herrera. When Mata isn't on his game, which has been more often than not in his Utd career so far, he's a liability.

    Defending from the opening goal set the tone for the match really. Sloppy sloppy sloppy. Smalling was the best of a bad bunch a n the back three. Evans was embarrassingly bad in the first half especially.

    Very disappointing display and feels more like a defeat than a draw. Keeps the run going I suppose. Top four is and always has been the objective. Arsenal will be there at the end of the season so I don't really know who else we are fighting with. Spurs perhaps? Southampton and West Ham will be out of the picture towards the business end.

    Hope Shaw is ok. Just want Rafael and Shaw fit so we can get back to a back four and abandon this poxy back three. Also hope against hope that a CB is bought. Two needed IMO, one more certainly needed in January and one in the summer. There's too much at stake not to sign one this upcoming window but I amnt confident we will either.

    Oh and Stoke should have had a peno, a stonewaller. Utd really created **** all which is really disappointing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,832 ✭✭✭✭Blatter


    Really poor substitions by LvG. Taking Falcao off when he was our main threat up front and this wasn't the game to throw on an underperforming Januzaj, who has barely played this season, at left wing back.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,057 ✭✭✭✭adox


    Is it worth my time watching?

    Think the second half of Spurs for another 90 minutes and you will get the idea of would lie ahead for you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,116 ✭✭✭Professional Griefer


    http://gfycat.com/PalatableCharmingAfricanjacana

    Hes looking at RVP, he knows what hes doing. What a scummy thing.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭Manutd_4life


    MagicIRL wrote: »
    Jones, Evans and Smalling should be made to walk home.

    There all absolutely horrendous on the ball and what the bloody hell were they doing passing the ball between themselves and not even making a slight attempt to get a pass forward. But then again when smalling did make a pass forward we would lose possession. We need to get Vlaar and even Vidic could do better than this lot.


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