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04 Sep 2017 23:51:30
Hey guys! Do any of you by any chance know of any site where I can download united replay matches. As sometimes would like to watch our games again. I would love suggestions please. Thanks
Andy.
1.) 05 Sep 2017 05:31:50
if you use torrents thepiratebay should have them. got to be quickish as people won't share for long.
2.) 05 Sep 2017 10:13:58
When I was a kid my old man used to buy me the video of the previous season, could watch it over and over again, type in 'Season Review' etc. I'd imagine you can find stuff like that easy-ish online or buy it from the club shop, depends how far back you want to go and doesn't mean you are watching 90mins of the same game, just key highlights and happenings.
Alternatively - if it's the past 4-5 seasons you are after, head down to local DIY store, buy a tin of paint, poor it on a wall (any wall will do so long as it's yours) and pull up a chair for a few hours, might be more fulfilling!
29 Nov 2015 12:45:04
United related question for anyone.
What are your thoughts on Ryan Giggs taking over from LVG as the next manager of United? Do you think he is capable of taking us to the pinnacle of world football on par with the likes of Barcelona madrid and Munich?
My take on this issue is that the man fits the bill. he is united through and through. Knows the ethos and fabrics of what our great clubs stands for. He has the DNA of manchester united, the never die attidude instilled by the great busby and sir alex. Giggs would demand total attacking football from players.
He has respect from the club and the footballing world. He wouldn't be too arrogant or stubborn. if he needs advise he can go to a certain sir alex whom i feel giggs sees as his footballing father. I know he lacks experience as he has never managed a team other than the few cameo as caretake after moyes' sacking.
But i think with the right guidance, support and backing from the club, giggs would be an excellent manager for us in the long run. Take a look at barca, they have a current coach who was woeful at roma, got sacked, took over Barcelona and doing fantastically at the club. He was given a chance and he graps it with full hands.
Pep and enrique were all part and parcel of barcelona. It's not like Giggs is an amateur. He has his coaching fifa license badges and he has worked closely with two great managers in fergie and van gaal, so I think he can do the job. I'd like people's view of this, thanks.
1.) 29 Nov 2015 15:26:36
No. I have posted a few times now that I think it would be a massive risk and mistake to appoint Giggs. He would have to compete with Klopp, Mourinho, Wenger and likely Guardiola at City if we went with Giggs. He is an amateur in comparison, someone who managed four games at the end of a season. We don't even know that Giggs is a good number 2.
A word I use a lot when looking at our club is sentiment, SAF was sentimental, the club and our fans are as well and appointing Giggs is sentimental. Sentimental hoping for what we had before under SAF, sentimental that Giggs must have learned from the experience, sentimental that he will stay around for years giving us the longevity we had under SAF and that some people sentimentally long for.
We need to go all out for Pep in summer and appointing Giggs would seriously make me question the club.
{Ed002's Note - Wenger leaves at the same time van Gaal leaves.}
2.) 29 Nov 2015 15:44:14
like and transfer it would be a risk but why not.
3.) 29 Nov 2015 16:04:51
I've said before and I'll say it again, if Giggs needs to earn the right to manage a big club by proving himself elsewhere. Red Man is completely right, the only reason Giggs would get the job is sentimentality and a naive belief that he will return us to the Fergie heydays.
By the looks of things the new manager will have a lot of work and to do in undoing the van Gaal style and bringing in a manager with a few weeks managerial experience is a recipe for disaster.
4.) 29 Nov 2015 16:13:10
I get the impression Giggs is very weak and not the sharpest tool in the box. Undoubtedly he will want as many friends/allies around him as possible if by some miracle he got the job. New contract for Rooney alert!
I did warm to the idea of Giggs, but not now - we need a lot of work, corrective surgery by an expert not a nodding dog.
5.) 29 Nov 2015 16:52:54
Moyes all over again. Thanks but no thanks 😆😆.
6.) 29 Nov 2015 17:34:33
No he is not ready. How many managers have been players under Sir Alex? Bruce, Robson, Hughes ect ect ect. Being a player under a great manager doesn't make you a great manager. Roy Keane was a player under both Sir Alex and Brian Clough yet was a very poor manager.
Bryan Robson has United running through his veins and was a player under Sir Alex and yet never made it as a top manager.
Giggs is woefully illequiped to run our club. He has no experience and no track record. Ultimately nothing to fall back on when things don't go to plan.
He is also too close to the current squad, he has been a fellow player to several of them. He stated he would have given Rio a new contract yet seeing what he achieved at QPR it is clear to see that giving Rio a new deal would have been a mistake. That would have been a decision made on sentiment and not clear reasoned thinking.
If Giggs is to me a successful manager of Manchester United he needs to go and prove he can be a successful manager first. He needs the time away from the club, to give him perspective and to allow the players he used to play with to move on so when/if he comes back there won't be a blurred line in that relationship.
Your son may well have been a passanger in your car many times, he may well have been a passenger in a car driven by some of the best drivers in the world, would you hand him the keys to a Ferrari with him never having had a driving lesson?
Of course not, he'd probably kill himself or other people.
Seeing success and being successful yourself are very different things.
7.) 29 Nov 2015 17:39:54
Agree Shappy - Darren Ferguson couldn't have had a better chance, just the same as Nigel Clough - their dads would have drummed in so much but it didn't equate to much. Giggs needs to be judged on merit not our fanciful dreams, which often flitter away the first moment of trouble anyway.
8.) 29 Nov 2015 17:46:08
You will get the same tripe on here, people who have a go at LVG for not being attacking and they would rather go down playing attacking than being 'boring' and near the top, then you say about giving giggs the job who would be attacking, they are scared of the reality that we could slip down the league. So I wouldn't even bother asking on here, too many people contradicting them self.
9.) 29 Nov 2015 17:54:18
How do you know Giggs would be attacking? On the basis of his few games in charge? Or on a fanciful idea you have about him being an extension of Fergie?
If Giggs has a genuine desire to be a top level manager, he'll go out and prove himself. As Shappy said, we have had many great players, great leaders, who didn't become great managers. It's a purely fantastical idea that Giggs will magically become a top manager without any real experience.
10.) 29 Nov 2015 17:57:33
How do you know Giggs will be attacking?
My worry is it will be the guy who whispers in his ear enough gets played every week (Rooney and Carrick) . He strikes me as easily led, not a leader of men.
11.) 29 Nov 2015 18:50:48
How do you know giggs won't be attacking?
I thought it would be the response from you two
You are writing off every man and his dog.
You want attacking football, I can clearly see that Giggs would give us that, but if the results went against us you would be straight on here telling us the isn't the right man for the job.
You have clearly stated that you want attacking football, so that must be the remit for the next manager in your eyes.
He isn't a leader? What are you basing that on? like you said how do you know he won't be a leader?
In my eyes Giggs has nothing to prove. You say he needs to go away from the club, why? Imagine if he went away from the club like luis Enrique did with barca, failed badly at Roma and did a average job at celta. Imagine if giggs did that over here, would you want him back at our club.? I think not as you give everyone two mins at a job . Sigh.
12.) 29 Nov 2015 19:18:08
Neither of us said that Giggs wouldn't try to play attacking football. You're the one who can see "clearly" that Giggs would gove us attacking football. What has convinced you of this? The only real evidence we have is a few games after Moyes was sacked (inconsistent and tactically all over the place), and his stint as assistant of the most negative United side in our history. Ultimately nobody knows what type of football a Giggs team will play because he has never managed a team at any level or age group. And that's the problem.
The Enrique example is adorable. Because he did exactly what Giggs should be doing. Realised he wouldn't get the top job at Barca, so he left to prove himself. Even though he failed in a few jobs, he maintains that these experiences were instrumental to his current success.
Be honest, what rationale is there for promoting Giggs? What has he achieved as a coach (not a player) that merits the top job at a huge club? My suspicion is that your sole reasoning is down to his playing career and link to Fergie. So as Red Man argued, sentimentality.
13.) 29 Nov 2015 19:32:27
Streaky, I thought it was a genuine question from both Beast and Danny. How do you know he would be an attack minded coach? Your basing that soley on him being an attacking player during his career. There is nothing to suggest what kind of manager he would be.
We know less than Jon Snow about how he would set a team up, about how he can man manage, how he would deal with the media, the pressure of the job or anything about how he would manage a club as huge as ours.
You know why? Because the guy has never done the job other than for a couple of weeks at the end of a season once. 4 games, that is how long his managerial career is.
It would be a massive gamble and one taken out of sentimentality and not based on concrete evidence.
There is no need to take such a gamble, have we fallen so far that no proven manager would be prepare to work for us?
Hiring Giggs would be repeating the mistake that led us to hiring Moyes. Or Wilf McGuiness all those years ago.
Neither of our greatest managers have come though our club. Sir Matt Busby had a playing career that had him play for the likes of Liverpool and City. Could you imagine the stink if we hired someone like Didi Hamman as our next manager? But inspite of that Sir Matt was a massive success. Sir Alex had a moderate playing career in Scotland, but never played for us. Yet can you question the success or the passion either had for the club?
We don't need to hire an ex player to be successful or for them to understand the club or appreciate our history amd traditions.
There really is only one arguement for hiring Giggs as our next manager and that is sentiment. Unfortunately sentiment hardly ever bring you success.
14.) 29 Nov 2015 19:52:03
my first choice would be pep, a manager that started as a manager at barcelona .
15.) 29 Nov 2015 20:02:29
Every man has to start someone in a job, there are plenty of men who didn't have the credentials to go into the job that they did ( mourinho at benfica for example) , by the sounds of it we should give Bruce or Hughes the job because they have gone away and failed.
I'm just willing to give him a go, we have a good squad and I'm sure he would add it.
He has worked with the good and bad in his career, there isn't anything to suggest that he would fail or would achieve, the point I was trying to make was people moan that we aren't playing attacking football, but if we appointed giggs and played attacking and didn't do well the same people would still be moaning. They need to make there mind up.
16.) 29 Nov 2015 20:11:36
Too much at stake for another coin toss Streaky, in fact it's almost like betting on Zero on a roulette wheel. He needs to at least manage a team before giving him one of the most difficult and important jobs in world football. I would love Giggs to be manager when he has proven he is capable.
17.) 29 Nov 2015 20:44:51
I don't think giggs should get the job next but if he did i defo don't think he would be a soft touch!
Personally would like to see pochettino or ancellotti come in next.
{Ed025's Note - giggs would be on a hiding to nothing calvin, the job is far too big for him at the moment mate, great player and all that but the time is not right imo..
18.) 29 Nov 2015 21:08:39
Other than Pep can you name any manager who was given a chance at a top club having never managed a club before and was a success?
Even that is stretching it as Pep did manage Barcelona B for a season before he managed the first team. Giggs hasn't even managed at youth level.
Out of interest would you give Usain Bolt a playing contract? He is a sportsman of the highest level and has achieved massively in his career. So should be give him a 100k a week contract for a few years?
The answer I suspect is no because he has never been a footballer, so why do the same with a manager.
19.) 29 Nov 2015 22:21:13
I defo agree with you ed just stating what type of manager i thi k he would be and that is no pushover
Tbh if we get beat by wolfsburg next week and keep playing like we are in the prem (scraping results) it wouldn't surprise me if we let lvg go and go for carlo (probs just wishful thinking from me)
20.) 30 Nov 2015 03:28:07
Get Bolt in as manger.
21.) 30 Nov 2015 04:38:13
shappy
del bosque started at madrid and has won everything.
22.) 30 Nov 2015 09:04:11
He did, but like Pep he had experience of managing the Real Madrid B side. In his case for many years prior him getting the first team job.
Also it should be noted that both Real Madrid B and Barcelona B compete in the Spanish second divison and not in a poor youth league. So both had actual managerial experience in a professional league prior to taking a top job.
Also both walked into teams with many top players already at the club, in Pep's case he had arguably the greatest Barcelona team of all time with Messi at its heart. And Del Bosque walked into the Galacticos team with Zidane at his peak.
Both had significantly better teams and better players to work with than we currently possess. Both had a massive amount of managerial experience that Giggs does not yet possess.
We want to groom Giggs into the role and yet we give him little to no rope to either work with or hang himself with. Both Barcelona and Real Madrid gave their future managers experience actually managing a side before they threw them in at the deep end. And both were in a better state than we are currently when they did.
The fact that in the last 20 odd years of football only twice has a virtual novice been given a chance at a top club and been a success shows just how unlikely it is.
There are so many better candidates who we could go for, Ancelotti, Conte, Koeman, Pochettino and Emery. Would all be under serious consideration imo. Schmidt, De Boer, Cocu and Simeone would be other names thrown into the hat.
We should be building up profiles of all these managers, then when the time comes we can short list the ones who we feel best suited and if need be speak to several of them to find out how they feel about the chance and what they would do if given it before we make a decision.
23.) 30 Nov 2015 07:36:13
I haven't seen anything from Giggs that would suggest he is a leader let alone a manager.
If you saw the Salford documentary you can't help but be struck by how quiet and slow he us. Giggs I'd a wallflower
Personally of all the explorers the two I have most hope on are G Neville, obviously, and Keane who is achieving great things with Ireland and getting great praise also.
I also think Hughes could do a job at some point, he is doing well with Stoke whilst changing their style fur the better. It's a shame he spent tin at City.
If we get Pep I might even start watching the games again ðŸ˜.
29 Nov 2015 14:12:30
I am in total support and in agreement with you GDS in your post down the page. I too watch united matches win or lose. No matter how bad we are playing I'd always love the red devils. On a plus note, as bad as it might look under LVG, it isn't compared to the moyes era and as painful as it was watching my united team play awful I never stopped watching a game under moyes.
A fan saying they stopped watching united match because we playing boring under LVG is out of this world! Ridiculous! As Sir Alex Ferguson will always say " If you don't support the team when we lose, do not support us when we win" I think that works both ways with the boring football under LVG! At least we stay patient till the next manager comes in, which i hope is a dynamic attacking minded coach like pep or ancelloti. united forever! Glory Glory Man United.
Andy.
1.) 29 Nov 2015 18:31:02
Watching a game or not has nothing to do with supporting the club. Grow up as some you sound like you are 15.
2.) 29 Nov 2015 20:46:11
Bit harsh that GCU, I think he makes valid points to be honest and obviously many others agree.
3.) 30 Nov 2015 13:41:44
Angel
I believe it is down to a personal choice of any fan to watch a match or not and that makes them a no lesser fan. I do not buy into this thing and do not like it were people are the morality police on who is a good fan or a bad fan.
I went to an event many years ago and outbid everyone for a signed shirt by the 1999 treble wining team and sir bobby was at our table. It does not make me a better fan or worse fan than anyone else as there were other united supporters there and it was a personal choice and alcohol induced moment where I paid quite a bit for it lol.
If someone skips watching us at the moment because of the quality of football that is their personal choice. BTW the boos will keep getting worse if we continue like this and i think the fans have a right to show their displeasure and maybe that will get people at the club to do something about it.
Finally, i actually think LVG is a decent guy but not sure he is right for us. His system will accumulate points for you but will not win you trophies and i think we come undone when we need a result the most and look clueless.
We failed to beat a severely under strength city team at home, failed to beat a average PSV team at home when most needed and failed against a decent leicester team but that should be put away.
Lets see how we do in the coming weeks against Westham at home and Stoke and chelsea away as these are the games that matter and we perform against better opposition and not beating a most likely relegation team like bournemouth at home.
01 Nov 2015 18:18:04
Robin Van Persie on Sir Alex Ferguson
We came from behind 26 times that season. Fergie always made you express yourself. Sometimes he'd come in and say, 'Boys, where do i start? Its boring! . Imagine me 72 years old, watching this kind of game?
He'd say 'Excites me. Try a pass over 40 meters. Try a dribble. I don't care if it goes wrong. I want to sit on the edge of my seat. Please excite me. And make the game quicker, please. He was a genius.
I really do miss Sir Alex Ferguson so much : ( . Imagine what Sir Alex Ferguson would do with this Man United team and with a huge transfer kitty at his disposal! #Total Domination#. Our defensive approach is affecting players like Darmian, depay, herrera and mate for playing with flair and attacking exploits. United have the calibre of players to play good attacking football. Its not rocket science that LVG is too defensive minded. I hope LVG improves our game play as the season goes on as I feel he is experienced enough and i believe he will get things right with united. He has done more good for the club than bad so I fully support him till he leaves. The next manager of MUFC will have a great squad of players and foundation to work on all thanks to LVG. GGMU
Andy Piece.
1.) 01 Nov 2015 18:34:44
Did LVG buy all the players though or did Woodward? Herrera and Shaw were done deals.
Di Maria didn't seem like a LVG buy. So it makes you wonder who he bought and who Woodward bought.
2.) 01 Nov 2015 19:53:43
FZZ
All players purchased are directly by his instructions. Ed woodward has no views on what is a good winger/forward/midfielder/etc ted. he does the deals period.
Patrick Kluivert who was LVG's assistant at the world cup said LVG wanted Di maria very badly and was very excited to know he was coming. Some of you guys are always looking for someone to blame but LVG.
You are correct to assume Herrera and shaw were Moyes scouts but they have not exactly turned into bad buys have they. The rest are all his.
3.) 01 Nov 2015 20:30:01
'Moyes signings' have performed the best for LVG which is worrying.
4.) 01 Nov 2015 21:21:12
Perhaps the best signing of all will be Martial and that is clearly an LVG signing, plus keep an eye on Fosu Mensah. I wonder if LVG will be given the credit for them or Darmian or Memphis? So not all of them are flavour of the week at the moment yet see where they are in a couple of years.
26 Oct 2015 13:14:29
Manuel Pellegrini on the Derby result:, if we need to defend, we can defend. It's a tactical game, the mind games, it's easy to defend with 10 players behind the ball, in
our own box. I don't like this way, our normal way to do it, but if we need, we can do it and of course you cannot win the game or lose it . We try to continue to play the game the way we normally do in our next game. For me it's not the way to do it but if you cannot find the right space and you are not clear of what you might try to do well. His statement shows City were content with defending and coming out with a draw. That's opposite of their style and philosophy. I think its a statement of intent that Old Trafford is becoming a difficult ground for clubs. Stats showed we have kept 6 clean sheets in the league than any other EPL team this season. We have conceded only one goal all season at home. That shows some improvement that we are a compact team. I think we are only lacking in our final ball and attacking play. We need to be more penetrating and forward passing to kill off teams. Re-instate Depay at left wing, Martial central and I wouldn't mind Lingard playing right wing to give us that pace upfront till we can buy a pacey forward like Greizmann. Rooney in all honesty needs to be dropped for the good of the team going forward.
Andy Piece.
1.) 26 Oct 2015 13:47:24
A draw for City was better than a draw for us. Pellegrini adapted his tactics to get what he wanted, we didn't take advantage yet again.
We have sacrificed our attack to over hedge our defence. The fact LVG won't allow us to open up tells me he has little confidence in our defence so the chances of us developing our attacking play are nominal. We rely as always on a moment of magic or luck.
Yaya could have easily swept that ball in and we wouldn't have known how to break them down. Toss of a coin stuff.
2.) 26 Oct 2015 14:09:55
Beast without a balanced squad you have two options to win a game, you either make yourself hard to beat and defensively solid, or you go all out and try and outscore the opponents. Considering the lack of quality in our forward areas atm going all out attack and expecting Rooney and Depay to score more than our opposition seems foolish. Therefore a strong defence is the best way to get the most out of this group of players.
3.) 26 Oct 2015 14:21:42
Maybe so Shappy, but when a team is clearly for the taking like CSKA and City 2nd half, you need to be able to at least look like you want to win the game.
Of course the bigger issue is why do we have a lack of quality going forward after XXX amount of money spent and time to correct matters? The clear answer is our manager has gotten more cautious as he has aged, which is recognised by a lot of so called experts. We have tried a vast array of different players who are/were regarded as top draw footballers and all have suffered under this manager. Martial is the only one that looks good and he has yet to absorb the P word I believe.
4.) 26 Oct 2015 14:55:25
Beast,
We hit the bar and Hart made a good save from Smalling, if we weren't trying to win the game them 2 chances were very silly of us to create weren't they?
5.) 26 Oct 2015 15:50:05
GDS2 - Yeah those two moments woke me from my slumber. I think a non-league side could fashion a couple of efforts on goal against any opposition.
San Marino scored the other day!
6.) 26 Oct 2015 15:50:24
The top teams these days when playing against a close rival, be it at club or international level all have one thing in common and that is they are all well organised making themselves hard to beat. I have said for a long time that football at its highest level is played more with brains skill and technique not with legs lungs and passion. To throw players forward willy nilly is just asking the opposition to pick you off. Witness city and arsenal in the champions league in the last few years who have tried to play bold attacking football only to be picked off by teams that no how to counter attack. Although city beat sevilla on another night they could have been humiliated such was the ease sevilla passed through them.
Yesterday city may have been without 2 top players but they still had there first choice goalie and back 4 plus 2 holding midfield players who rarely ventured forward. They still however had 2 £50m wide men and a capacity to break forward at pace when the chance arose which they threatened to do 2/3 times. I therefore reject the assertion of some that they were 'there for the taking'. If you can't beat your closest rivals hen make sure they don't beat you. Yesterday we were compact, well organised, well disciplined and on another day could have nicked it 1-0. De gea on the other hand never had a save to make.
G nev in the telegraph today described yesterday as the best match he has seen this season being as it was a match played between 2 top teams determined not to make mistakes and let the other team in. I would recommend 1 and all to read it.
Finally 1 person said on here yesterday that he would rather utd lose 3-0 as long as they played with passion. Yes really! . Shame on him. Can i suggest he goes and supports chelsea whose passion resulted in 6 bookings and 3 sendings off ooh and they lost and are in the bottom half of the league. We all want our team to play better football but give me a boring 1-0 win over an exciting 5-3 loss ( leicester last yr) any day.
7.) 26 Oct 2015 15:56:02
Beast, against CSKA and City which players would you have brought on to open up the game and show more attacking intent? And who would you have taken off.
Sadly our squad is lacking those top end attacking talents we had in previous seasons.
Remember when we had Yorke, Cole, Sheringham and Solskjaer, with Giggs, Beckham, Scholes. We had options to change things.
Or when we had Scholes, Giggs, Rooney, Ronaldo, Berbatov and Tevez?
Who do we have on the bench now to seriously change a game? Lingard, Young, Pereira, Memphis or Fellaini?
Three of them are kids, one is good but not great and the other people moan and say "here comes hoof it football".
The fact of the matter is we haven't got enough options upfront nor the quality to attack teams or change things significantly mid game.
You keep laying the blame for that at LvG's door with comments about the amount of money he has spent, but that money was NEEDED to rebuild the rest of the squad. The final pieces, the star on top of the tree are the most expensive players to buy. We need a top striker and a top winger Bale and Cavani or Neymar and Hazard? These kind of players cost in the reigon of 50-100m each in todays market and we need two of them. But if the manager bought two of them instead of Darmian, Blind, Rojo, Shaw, Schneiderlin, Schweinsteiger, Hererra, Depay and Martial then where would we be?
Great we would have players like Bale on the right, and Cavani up top but hey would have Cleverley, Nani, Anderson ect behind them. In short the squad was a farce when LvG took over and required a massive rebuild. The top attacking talent is always hard to bring in and the most expensive. As yet we haven't been able to bring them in. So we will have to put defending ahead of attacking for the minute. I don't like it as much as you don't like it. But its what we have to accept.
8.) 26 Oct 2015 16:21:30
GDS - 'them two chances'. Is that what we've come to, mate?
Celebrating a whole two chances, at home, in the last quarter of the game.
After a big, fat zero attempts on goal up til then, and another 70 minutes of stifled, pedestrian, mundane football.
9.) 26 Oct 2015 16:54:24
You're a glory hunter Stevie. Back in the 70s and 80s we'd be luck to get two chances all season, now we're getting upwards of two or three in a single game.
10.) 26 Oct 2015 16:54:16
Moon
Soem find a silver lining in pi dung around here and will try and tell you it does not smell bad or it might look bad but its really black truffle. :) Sorry GDS could not help myself lol.
11.) 26 Oct 2015 17:04:39
Shappy
I have to disagree and so evident we play not to lose and simple as that. We pass on crossing opportunities for the fear that we might get caught up field and try and score with 4 or 5 players being forward against teams that have 8 players defending.
It is sad how cautious we are that we are scared of a couple any pacey forwards/wingers that we try and keep a back 4 and 2 holding midfielder back to guard against the break.
Next week we have palace who do have pace on the wings so I expect another dour boring game. Beast put it absolutely correct when he said we wait for that one divine piece of individual skill to score a goal. People seem to compare Van Gaal to Guardiola, for me 2 completely different managers and philosophy.
I don't mind the man but my god are we boring to watch and difficult to warm up to this style of play.
We can only use the pace thing for so long as we have bought players who have pace and already had a few with pace, the style nullifies pace IMO as there is nowhere to run and the slow build up makes sure teams have 8 or 9 players behind the ball and even championship level teams can defend to decent level if they are allowed to defend in numbers.
12.) 26 Oct 2015 17:34:16
Guilty, Danny! Spolit feckin' rotten, me :)
13.) 26 Oct 2015 20:24:02
Just don't understand how anyone can say we didn't try and win the game, this place is a joke these days.
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02 Mar 2019 20:20:10
We won and yet you still find negatives to criticise a player. If you expect the team to play like peak barca, iniesta, Scholes and xavi then you are deluding yourself. We had injuries to key players and yet the other players are putting in good performances with win. You can't always win with fine margin all the time. Sometimes this are the kind of performances that gets teams over the line in winning championships. Kudos to the players. If you watch the game you would realise pogba was playing deeper and doing quite defensive work and also in build up play. If you going to judge him every game on his assist and goals then you should channel same energy to other midfielders in the Modric, kroos, Dr Bryune of this world. Pogba had a good game. Not perfect but he did the job for the team. Appreciate the team winning and stop finding negatives
Andh.
26 Oct 2015 13:29:07
Just one question i have for you Beast! Correct me if i am wrong, didn't the so called silva and aguero play last season when we beat them woefully 4-2? That's all i got to say as you are bend of only seeing negatives with LVG and the team. I don't know the team you were watching yesterday but we were never boring. We were the only one willing to get a win, city were all over their own half defending with two defensive minded midfielders. You are just an anti-LVG bandit.
24 Oct 2015 22:59:40
Nice to read your view Ed2 and your valid opinion of it all. I see your points there. Thanks for posting my post and for the response
Andy Piece.
22 Oct 2015 20:10:17
AJH if you read my post well i said i am not against rooney being dropped or Martial being sacrificed to the wings to accommodate him. I know he hasn't been performing to all our expectations. Yes, my issue is the constant name calling and bashing of him. Some terms being used to single him out in every argument and post is uncalled or and shouldn't even be considered by our own fans. We should support every player while they wear the red jersey. Criticising a player is fair enough and acceptable but taking it personal abusive shouldn't be the way for us fans.
Andy Piece.
22 Oct 2015 17:51:18
Very well spot on post GDS2. I agree with everything you have said. A draw away on a champions league match isn't the end of life. We are 2 points off 1st place and a win at home against CSKA moscow pretty much confirms our qualification I think. Saf used to go for an away draw or a likely scappy 1 Nil win. He did that in most of his games away in the UCL so am surprised with the criticism of the team and LVG. My only issue is that Martial shouldn't be sacrificed in the wings to accommodate Rooney. Martial became September player of the month playing Central so i think LVG is not spot on shifting him to left wing. His goal last night moving central for the header is enough prove and testament to how dangerous the boy is when played central. Overall a good and hoping we spank those City persons on sunday. Anyone notice 9 thousand Emptyhad at city stadium? Ridiculous
Andy Piece.