Birmingham v Man Utd (Mod warning #112)

daveyboy_1ie

Rooney and Valencia should have scored there in the last 3 minutes. Come on lads, keep the pressure up!!!

kenon

Great play from Rooney. He's nicked it off Carr twice now.

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McLeish has Birmingham very well drilled.

Chardee MacDennis

Mad_Max wrote: »

Are united players not allowed touch birmingham players?

Evra got a foul for being hassled by a birmingham player in the first few minutes, Rooney does similar to Carr and birmingham get nothing..

daveyboy_1ie

Rooneys passing has been awful for some time now, whats up with him...

Bukman13

Ridgewell is a disaster waiting to happen, been caught out 3 times already.

PHB

Havent seen scholes dive in years

Mitch Connor

i hate the rolled free kicks. utterly pointless most of the time.

MagicMarker

Park = Useless

Mitch Connor

i HATE park.

whatawaster

Birmingham's game plan should be simple - don't let Rooney have the ball. United haven't much creativity on the pitch besides him

nullzero

Birmingham must be a nightmare to play against.
Fair play to them, they've stuck to it this season.
It's hard to see anything but a 0-0 from this game.

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Mitch Connor wrote: »

i hate the rolled free kicks. utterly pointless most of the time.

Absolutely correct. Rooney should have shot direct from that one.

gar120

Arrghhh Park, he is so frustrating when he gets in on goal:mad:

Mitch Connor

SCIENCE BE DAMNED I FREAKING HATE PARK

redout

MagicMarker wrote: »

Park = Useless

:mad:

I think the guy is a good player.

He just never gets a run in the team in fairness.

Very unlucky with injuries also.

Thanx 4 The Fish

How Scholes got away with that kick on Benitez is beyond me, nowhere near the ball (as usual I know) and straight through his leg.

Bukman13

MagicMarker wrote: »

Park = Useless

Anything higher than 2 on the Beaufort scale and park gets blown around the pitch.

Bandit12

This referee is pathetic. :mad: Not a sign of fairness

Thanx 4 The Fish

Des wrote: »

Absolutely correct. Rooney should have shot direct from that one.

Agreed, is often a waste of a free kick allowing the wall to run forward at you, decreasing the time/distance you have to get it over the wall

nullzero

It's just like watching Brazil, sorry I mean Italy.

Aidric

MagicMarker wrote: »

Park = Useless

Mitch Connor wrote: »

i HATE park.

gar120 wrote: »

Arrghhh Park, he is so frustrating when he gets in on goal:mad:

Bukman13 wrote: »

Anything higher than 2 on the Beaufort scale and park gets blown around the pitch.

He sure is poor, a completely frustrating player to watch. Hate seeing him on the teamsheet.

kenon

Thanx 4 The Fish wrote: »

Agreed, is often a waste of a free kick allowing the wall to run forward at you, decreasing the time/distance you have to get it over the wall

Its normally shifted so you can get it around the wall rather than over it.

copacetic

good timing of goal for City after soaking up a lot of pressure.

Thanx 4 The Fish

Scrappy but a composed finish from Jerome, he could have taken another five mins on it though

MagicMarker

1 up front works wonders as per usual.

Mad_Max

ah ffs. whats that, the 2nd shot?

Nalz

kenon wrote: »

Its normally shifted so you can get it around the wall rather than over it.

and rolling ball = more power

but I'm not a fan

Hank Scorpio

utd absolutely destroying them

PHB

Poor from evans, v poor.

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kenon wrote: »

Its normally shifted so you can get it around the wall rather than over it.

but it usually just means the ball is closed down and whacks the defender and goes back somewhere near the halfway line.

I don't know why Rooney just didn't shoot, he's shown in the past that he can score direct free kicks from that kind of area.

Hank Scorpio

lol
shocking

nullzero

Awful awful awful.
Terrible defending and goalkeeping.
Thats a result now. 1-0 to Birmingham, may as well finish up now before the snow starts.

Mitch Connor

Going to be very tough for United now.

Birmingham are tough to break down at the best of times, and now they have a goal to cling too.

Ferguson really needs to take a proper look at this United side, devoid of spark. My freaking arse there are not players around who could improve this side.

Thanx 4 The Fish

kenon wrote: »

Its normally shifted so you can get it around the wall rather than over it.

That it is but the wall generally run towards it rather than away from it still :pac:

Bandit12

Get in!!!

Mad_Max

Perfect timing, they can use the half time break to park the bus and build a wall.

miralize

FFS

kenon

Thats annoying.

I kind of expected it to happen.

James Forde

Kuzcsack is fcuking awful

Mr Alan

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Ferguson really needs to take a proper look at this United side, devoid of spark. My freaking arse there are not players around who could improve this side.

its not just that though, he doesnt like to overpay for players either.

Bandit12

United might not have conceded there with zonal marking.;)

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Mr Alan wrote: »

its not just that though, he doesnt like to overpay for players either.

he overpaid for Berbatov.

kenon

Des wrote: »

but it usually just means the ball is closed down and whacks the defender and goes back somewhere near the halfway line.

I don't know why Rooney just didn't shoot, he's shown in the past that he can score direct free kicks from that kind of area.

Thanx 4 The Fish wrote: »

That it is but the wall generally run towards it rather than away from it still :pac:

True. Against well organised teams it seems to rarely work. There are always chargers. I'd like to think that it can be made to work though.

Mad_Max

Should see giggs coming on after the break.

MagicMarker

Off: Park, Scholes, Carrick
On: Giggs, Ando, Diof/Owen

Thank you please.

kenon

Fletcher better not of damaged himself...

Mitch Connor

Mr Alan wrote: »

its not just that though, he doesnt like to overpay for players either.

well, shouldn't be manager of united then - United ALWAYS have to over pay.

nullzero

How can United not be going out to sign players in the window?
We've dominated Birmingham and they get two shots and score with one.
It's time to get some experienced quality players in instead of taking a gamble that some Brazilian teenager might turn out to be a good player.
We're headed for trouble already this season, we should have two strikers on the pitch against Birmingham and not be a goal down.
The goalkeeper situation is a big problem, Kuszczak doesn't seem to be up to it.

monkey9

Just reading the first few pages of this thread. Who is Diouf?? A new signing or someone from the reserves?