Burnley Fc v Manchester United Fc (Match Thread) [mod warning post #537]

KevR

the lil man wrote: »

cant believe it .....
he shouldn't have sold tevez no way

He didn't sell Tevez. Tevez was offered a contract to stay at the club, he refused it. He didn't want to sign for us because he wanted to start every game. Yet he had no problems signing for City with their 8 other strikers...



Poor performance, we didn't deserve anything from the game. Fair play to Burnley.

mike65

Fcuk, I'm looking forwards to MOTD!

Mr.Nice Guy

There's a shocking contrast between Chelsea's response last night to going a goal down to Sunderland and United's response tonight to going a goal down to Burnley.

Shaneomac

Utd should go out and buy De Rossi Aguerro and anyone else that would make us look like the champions of England. Pass completion rate was a joke. Park and looking increasingly like Anderson arnt up to the standard.

ghouldaddy07

Only utd preformance in a long time were I did not beleave we would score at all. They looked like they had never played together.

Miap

All in all an absolutely dire performance!!! Not happy passing was rubbish and park should never have been on the pitch!!!
SAF has to get someone in before transfer window closes otherwise its gonna be one very long season!!!

Nalz

Felt sorry for Giggs, O Shea and Rooney.

Could of had another penalty. Owens goal should have counted (maybe the keeper would have done more if the whistle didnt go though ) etc etc.

They still didnt create enough chances for the percentage of possession they had. Easy to say I suppose when there is 11 players in front of you, but it was poor.

Well done Burnley. Deserved it, definitely deserved at least a draw.

jesus_thats_gre wrote: »

No comment

If it hadn't been for cotton eye'd Joe, I'd been married long time ago;
Where did you come from where did you go?

give em a packet of bacon fries there

Quint

Absolutly delighted for Burnley!

weemcd

Patrice Evra played out of his skin, if there's a thankless united player its him, fair mention for Giggs also.

But that was absolutly shocking, my worst fears from the summer realised there today, no combative CM/DM to boss the game and bring play forward, no first pass, not enough shots on target, dodgy in defense. The team just completely ran out of ideas and had no way to get themselves out. How Park got 90 minutes i'll never know.

kenon

eclectichoney wrote: »

In fairness, we are far from full strength defensively. With Rio and Vidic we may not have been so sloppy.

So disappointing.

We badly need a CM who can make somethng happen.

Burnley rarely looked like scoring. Foster didnt have to do much. I thought the defense was alright.

They scored because we failed to clear properly after Foster stopped the one on one.

fish fingers

Carrick and anderson didnt do a tap all evening, no creativity in middle. No one to put a foot on it and dictate play.:mad::mad::mad:

Mitch Connor

PHB wrote: »

**** blaming this on Ronaldo. Ronaldo's talent is missed, but that was ****ing awful, awful from the majority of United players.

Owen, Carrick, Anderson, Park, Valencia all need to take a long ****ing look at themselves after that game, utterly shocking.

Desperately missed Fletcher, desperately, who woulda stepped up and treated Burnley with respect and worked his ass off to beat them.

**** this Ronaldo talk, United as a whole were utterly ****e, and while maybe Ronaldo woulda put away the penalty or whatever, it doesn't excuse an absolutely ****e performance.

You are right - but the fact is with Ronaldo in that team, even with that performance, we'd have had a better chance to score than with Anderson on the LW or Park on the right. Ronaldo was a goalscorer and we lacked that tonight.

The team played crap, yeah, utter, utter ****e.

It is not excusable and not all down to Ronaldo being gone. But Ronaldo being gone is a factor. a big one, especially as i don't feel we have replaced him, either in terms of one player, or a number of players - we haven't brought the goals in.

I always thought United selling Ronaldo could help them to push on further, but it hasn't happened cause we haven't actually used the money.

We have unquestionably gone backwards in comparison to last season.

Any word on Fergie apologizing to the United fans for this crap (the game, as opposed to his lack of action in the transfer market)

Zonda999

Worst United performance in ages. reminded me of that loss away to Fulham last season and that was not something i wanted to be reminded of!:(

The only positive is that it might indeed open Fergie's eyes that that central midfield is nowhere near up to the job. The defense should be a lot better when Rio and Vidic(Very soon apparently) are back.

Actually feel gutted!!!:mad:
Burnley, FFS, who people were saying would be this seasons whipping boys!

KevR

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Diabolical stuff from United. Well done to Burnley. Pleased for Owen Coyle but wish he'd got such a big result against another side.

Hopefully Burnley will play that well against all the other top teams and not just us. It's really annoying when some of the 'smaller' teams dig out the performance of their lives against us and just roll over for our title rivals.

CivilServant

mike65 wrote: »

Fcuk, I'm looking forwards to MOTD!

One of those rare occassions, Pool win Utd lose

monkey9

Laugh. The f*ck. Out. Loud. After all the bullsh!t from Utd fans after Liverpool's defeat on Sunday, well this is just delicious!! :pac: :pac: :pac:

Victor McDade

Liam O wrote: »

tbh it was basically the same last season, just then we got the luck in the final few minutes. If Carrick scores the peno, United win imo.

I hope you're right and it's just a 1-off but we've been poor in both games and I think we'll struggle against this kind of defensive setup all season. Anyway, 4.50am here, bedtime

Mr Alan

KevR wrote: »

Hopefully Burnley will play that well against all the other top teams and not just us. It's really annoying when some of the 'smaller' teams dig out the performance of their lives against us and just roll over for our title rivals.

nonsense

mike65

Zonda999 wrote: »

Worst United performance in ages. reminded me of that loss away to Fulham last season

That was only a few games ago.

Thanx 4 The Fish

KevR wrote: »

Hopefully Burnley will play that well against all the other top teams and not just us. It's really annoying when some of the 'smaller' teams dig out the performance of their lives against us and just roll over for our title rivals.

Sour grapes so early in the season???

fair play to Burnley, did the necessary. Does that mean United are out of the title chase then?

grames_bond

that.......was ......f*cking....pathetic!! :mad:

Nalz

monkey9 wrote: »

Laugh. The f*ck. Out. Loud. After all the bullsh!t from Utd fans after Liverpool's defeat on Sunday, well this is just delicious!! :pac: :pac: :pac:

ole, ole ole ole, ole, ole

fish fingers

monkey9 wrote: »

Laugh. The f*ck. Out. Loud. After all the bullsh!t from Utd fans after Liverpool's defeat on Sunday, well this is just delicious!! :pac: :pac: :pac:

Pool thread is that way

ShooterSF

Very poor game from United. Fletcher needs to start every game he is fit for. Well played Burnley the pressed high and refused to sit deep and try and soak United up. If they get relegated though I'll have a wry smile on my face!

Zonda999

mike65 wrote: »

That was only a few games ago.

Yes but on a whole, i think tonights performance was probably worse!

Nalz

Thanx 4 The Fish wrote: »

Does that mean United are out of the title chase then?

If they dont eat ham sandwiches it does, imo

Walsh

Thanx 4 The Fish wrote: »

Sour grapes so early in the season???

fair play to Burnley, did the necessary. Does that mean United are out of the title chase then?

Nah I think Liverpool are back in it now.

Mitch Connor

Thanx 4 The Fish wrote: »

Sour grapes so early in the season???

fair play to Burnley, did the necessary. Does that mean United are out of the title chase then?

with performances like that.

Yes.

Terrible.

SlickRic

KevR wrote: »

Hopefully Burnley will play that well against all the other top teams and not just us. It's really annoying when some of the 'smaller' teams dig out the performance of their lives against us and just roll over for our title rivals.

don't...start...

well done burnley.

utd completely toothless, and lacking anything in the middle, as many people have highlighted pre-season.

Villain

Spurs are gonna win the title, oh no wait only 2 games have been played not 32.

I'm going to bookmark this thread

Stargate

Well done to Burnley

CCCP^

Unlucky United, you were robbed. Heh.

Nalz

Villain wrote: »

Spurs are gonna win the title

It will be their year, just keep eating the ham sambos and stay away from the dodgey chefs. God knows who hires those chefs

jaykay74

CCCP^ wrote: »

Unlucky United, you were robbed. Heh.

what are you on about

Y2J_MUFC

Jesus, its midweek, one team from Manchester are losing at Burnley. The other is beating Barca at the Camp Nou.

This was awful, awful stuff. It reminds me of losing away to Norwich or Wolves in the years where we really struggled.

Hopefully it tempts the cheque book out. This was absolutely shocking.

therecklessone

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UnitedIrishman

Sack Fergie
Sell Giggs

Fair play Burnley.

On another note - why the hell did they get Merson to do our game on SSN? I felt like ripping my ears off.

Chucky the tree

Listening to Merson sounds like a fairly krap performance from United.

Nalz

Y2J_MUFC wrote: »

Hopefully it tempts the cheque book out.

For who though? Looking at that game tonight, who would we get to improve United

The Muppet

Trilla wrote: »

For who though? Looking at that game tonight, who would we get to improve United

All the burnley players

Nalz

The Muppet wrote: »

All the burnley players

haha, does that count as stupidy creeping in!! Probably not based on that game tonight.

Fergie on sky sports news now, being honest enough (apart from *Not* saying how muck Carrick was)

edit - forgot the word not

HashSlinging

Any results from tonights game lads.

UnitedIrishman

HashSlinging wrote: »

Any results from tonights game lads.

United 4-1 Burnley

Us United fans are just a bit mad we didn't win by more if you look over the last couple of pages.

HashSlinging

Damn had some money on burnley winning 1 - 0.

Mitch Connor

Trilla wrote: »

For who though? Looking at that game tonight, who would we get to improve United

Off the top of my head:

De Rossi.

van der Vaart

Sneijder

Ribery

David Silva

Juan Mata

Ashley Young

Marcos Senna

Probably a lot of others too.

Headshot

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Off the top of my head:

De Rossi.

van der Vaart

Sneijder

Ribery

David Silva

Juan Mata

Ashley Young

Marcos Senna

Probably a lot of others too.

those 2 are very much possible but nope :rolleyes:

Zonda999

HashSlinging wrote: »

Damn had some money on burnley winning 1 - 0.

Dammit man, Burnley at 9/1 for the win was a bloody tempting bet alright!:)


From that list, i'd say its more commanding defensive midfielder we need more than anything

SlickRic

to the utd fans who are in here, fair play to pretty much all of ye.

telling it like it is, and not shirking the truth, or making easy excuses, or trolling out the 'fergie always gets it right' excuse.

i still think it's a slight over reaction though. i think, like every team in the league, there are deficiencies in the team which have been discussed a million times and will be discussed again.

but you haven't become sh*te all of a sudden.

you had 5 points from 4 games last year.

it'll probably be a wake up call.

hopefully i'm unbelievably, embarrassingly wrong though :pac:

Mr Alan

how did Owen get on?any chances in the second half?

UnitedIrishman

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Off the top of my head:

De Rossi. - unavailable

van der Vaart - had a good Euro 2008, but hardly set the world alight in Germany or Spain

Sneijder - looking likely to join Inter soon..

Ribery - Currently valued at way over the odds..

David Silva - unavailable and wants to stay in Spain

Juan Mata - Pretty sure he'd want to stay in Spain too

Ashley Young - About the most realistic option

Marcos Senna - maybe 4 years ago..

Probably a lot of others too.

See above..