Blackburn vs Manchester United, 11th Apr 2010, KO 13:30

Mitch Connor

I FCUKING HATE PARK.

United have been useless today. Just not good enough. Not acceptable.

Le King

Nani :mad:

Headshot

**** off nani

MagicMarker

Wayne Rooney gets injured and our season turns to shít.

Aidric

A day of scuffed shots.

redout

No Fletch and Rooney = avg team tbh

Grid.

He's one lazy cnut that Berbatov:mad:

PHB

MagicMarker wrote: »

Wayne Rooney gets injured and our season turns to shít.

That's the easy analysis and expect the entire English media to peddle it. In reality, the problems with this team are the same as the problems it had at the start of the season, midfield.

Le King

DISGRACE

redout

Oh dear god that was abismal.

Absolutely unacceptable.

Quandary

what a pile of wánk that was

Peyton Manning

What a shít week

Lukker-

goal

JerryHandbag

And that as the fella says is that. Chelsea could win it with a game or 2 to spare now.

Depressing stuff.

Mitch Connor

Fergie will just say it was one of those days, luck wasn't with us, blah blah blah.

Truth is the performance today was a disgrace.

So many players just aren't good enough at this stage. we need a load of new players, but don't have the money for it.

Gutted and ashamed.

monkey9

I like Blackburn!!

Big Sam is about to get the hairdryer treatment

Grid.

Pure muck!!!!!!!!

PHB

Season over. Title race is all but a formality now. Congrats to Chelsea.

United players will now focus on the World Cup, and Fergie will let them. Expect Rooney not to play for a week or two at least.

The only remaining thing that Untied can do this season that would be worthwhile? Beat City then lose to Spurs to ensure that they get 4th.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

utd just played awful today, i lost count of the amount of ****ty passes that went straight to blackburn players without them even reaching for it.

Aidric

Horrible game to watch. In all truth Utd got the result their performance merited.

IvySlayer

Funny, I thought they'd roll over according to the ABUs

Depressing week. A season with only winning the League Cup. Still better than most :pac:

Hopefully Chelsea and Arsenal just implode.

Kold

God if Rooney can make United look as good as he has, I can't wait for the World Cup.

Oat23

Good game, Blackburn deserved a point from it.

Bounty Hunter

so Chelsea double then?

Panthro

cheers blackburn, your my dawg blue

herbieflowers

Arsenal could well sneak into second too!

Kold

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

so Chelsea double then?

Not if Spurs have anything to say about it.

rednik

This season was a chance to make history but because of a lack of ambition we will now end the season with the carling cup when we should have retained the league and reached 19.

IrishIrish

herbieflowers wrote: »

Arsenal could well sneak into second too!

They are 1 point behind. I dont think they would have to be very sneaky to get 2nd...

Kev_ps3

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

so Chelsea double then?

easy

v3ttel

Could be the end of Berba now. Falls over towards the end and lays down for 5 or 10 seconds, beats the ground and gets back up gingerly, then walks around.

Get up, chase the ball down and get it back. Absolutely disgraceful.

When we need him most, he has been awful.

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Fúcking disgrace.
Park is an idiot, Berbatov is a tit, Nani is back to his old self and the golden oldies can't all play at the same time.

As bad as he was, Gary Neville showed determination to win, which was missing in way too many of the players today.

Quandary

IvySlayer wrote: »

Hopefully Chelsea and Arsenal just implode.

Arsenal maybe but Chelsea wont - they have a nice confidenece booster (not that they need it) against bolton during the week. That coupled with our limpdcik performance will be all the encouragement they need to push over the line.

redout

Nev, Giggs and Scholes trio should never be on the the pitch at the same time.

parker kent

I'd really hoped the Chelsea game was the end of Neville, Giggs and Scholes starting the same game. United are at their best when energetic with fast breaks, can't do that with them starting. Plus count in Berbatov who moves around like Monty Burns.

All in all, a very poor performance today, they really need new life in midfield and somebody to replace Berbatov. Very surprised Gibson did not start too, he deserved to and would have added some energy if paired with Fletcher.

applehunter

You'd think that Manchester had a devine right to win going by some of the posts.

You matched Chelsea's result.

killwill

rednik wrote: »

This season was a chance to make history but because of a lack of ambition we will now end the season with the carling cup when we should have retained the league and reached 19.

Lack of ambition? How? It is purely down to a lack of quality. We have a very good GK in VDS with poor backup. We have Vidic, Rio and Evra as class defenders with Evans and the da Silvas as improving squad players with great potential. We have one top class striker with no proven backup apart from Owen and he is injured. Then our midfield, Fletcher is top notch as far as hardwork goes and will always feature in our midfield but that is it really. Scholes is past it, Giggs is past it(great to have him for last 20mins for experience). Valencia and Nani need to improve more and gain consistency but I rate both highly. Everyone else in the midfield squad are good players and I would rate as great backup but what United need is top top quality. Hopefully Hargreaves can improve our average midfield but we need a creative AM too, unfortunately none out there that we can afford. In the last two weeks we have been shown up big time and I fear we will be next week too.

highgiant1985

Osu wrote: »

DISGRACE

Complete over reaction by people on here... I really feel like some people here are not giving Blackburn the respect they deserve.

Sure this was a game where Man Utd were favourites but Blackburn have a very good home record we've only lost 2 games at home ALL season in the league, one of which was on the opening day.

We are not a great side but we are a difficult side to beat at home. We've played Chelsea at home twice this season (once in the carling cup and once in league) and they could only draw with us both times. In normal circumstances a draw away to Blackburn would be a decent result for Utd and even though I can understand with the title at stake a draw was not ideal to call the result a disgrace is just disrespectful.

I hate the way people over react to results like this I know its been a bad week but a Q/final run in the champions league and 2nd or 3rd in the league is hardly disgraceful for utd.

People also need to remember no team can keep winning forever. Utd have won the league 3 seasons in a row and it was only a matter of when they would not win the league again. I fully expect them to be challenging for the title again next season (though I do agree they could do with a new signing or two).

(I'm a Blackburn fan)

x PyRo

Yesssssssss... Go Blackburn.

Chelsea have the league now.

Damn.

TheDoc

Again, complete over reaction on berbatov from united fans....

If I was playing in a team with that much lack of creativity today, I'd find it hard to be bothered aswell.

He made all the chances in the first half, and when he went more advanced to try score a goal, the creativity behind wasn't there.

I dont know why I defend him so much and try educate united fans on him, hopefully he does move to a different club and I can finally see him being utilised properly and being appreciated.

United pretty much dominated the game, but it was pure lack of creativity from the supporting players to the strikers. Nani was poor and Valencia wasnt given enough chances to explode.

The only thing wrong today was uniteds box play. Blackburn were very steely in defence and deserve some credit, however being pumeled for 90 minutes doesnt exactly give them plaudits for a point.

I'd hardly call it a disgrace, but I think its typical over reaction from seeded comments in the week that this team is doomed. Poor 16 yard play was what let united down today, thats all....

rednik

killwill wrote: »

Lack of ambition? How? It is purely down to a lack of quality. We have a very good GK in VDS with poor backup. We have Vidic, Rio and Evra as class defenders with Evans and the da Silvas as improving squad players with great potential. We have one top class striker with no proven backup apart from Owen and he is injured. Then our midfield, Fletcher is top notch as far as hardwork goes and will always feature in our midfield but that is it really. Scholes is past it, Giggs is past it(great to have him for last 20mins for experience). Valencia and Nani need to improve more and gain consistency but I rate both highly. Everyone else in the midfield squad are good players and I would rate as great backup but what United need is top top quality. Hopefully Hargreaves can improve our average midfield but we need a creative AM too, unfortunately none out there that we can afford. In the last two weeks we have been shown up big time and I fear we will be next week too.

We were linked with so many strikers last summer and we end up signing Michael Owen on a free thats how. Valencia was a good signing who else was?. Definite lack of ambition when 19 was on the horizon and Fergie can't go on forever. This should have been his swansong.

MisterAnarchy

rednik wrote: »

This season was a chance to make history but because of a lack of ambition we will now end the season with the carling cup when we should have retained the league and reached 19.

Its more a lack of talent and attacking talent in particular that has Utd in the current position.

Lukker-

Glory Glory ...

killwill

rednik wrote: »

We were linked with so many strikers last summer and we end up signing Michael Owen on a free thats how. Valencia was a good signing who else was?. Definite lack of ambition when 19 was on the horizon and Fergie can't go on forever. This should have been his swansong.

Not signing a top class striker last summer was not a lack of ambition it was a lack of funds. They were beaten to Benzema because Real outbid United, probably just as well too btw. Anyway our midfield needs strengthening up alot more than our strikers right now.

MisterAnarchy

TheDoc wrote: »

I'd hardly call it a disgrace, but I think its typical over reaction from seeded comments in the week that this team is doomed. Poor 16 yard play was what let united down today, thats all....

Thats pretty true,Utd completely dominated the match and did pass it around well especially in the first half.
The problem was in the final third where there was no target man or anyone to hold up the ball.
Berbatov had to keep going deep and tried alot harder than in previous months.
Nani again showed what a useless player he is,he consistently gave the ball away,time after time after time.He has zero footballing brain power.
Blackburn defended well but thats easier to do when you sit back for the whole match and show zero ambition to score.
The only difference between today and last year is that in a tight match like today Ronaldo would score a goal out of nothing.

TheDoc

I'd be keeping tabs on the like of someone like Van Der vaart or some sort of creative midfielder.

With Fletcher in midfield united have enough pace and stamina to let them utilise someone with pure attacking and creative flair. Someone like a Van der Vaart isnt the best at tracking back, but is a clever player and can craft something up front.

You could see the minute berbatov was moved from his deep role, united had no penetration and were firing balls left and right in the hope an off form nani and a very under utilised valencia could craft something.

Reading the other united gossip thread is very laughable, there is a real stem of over reaction on this forum, and a real lack of understanding of football.

After a game that your team has dominated for 90 minutes you can somehow assault your team calling them a disgrace and calling for mass clearout in the summer...its a tad bit dunphy like lads. A lack of creativity , that was it.

Some people here need to take a two hour breather before coming onto post, cause it seems you watch a completely different game with your passions flaring.

Theres calls on that other thread to have Gary neville ousted asap, maybe I'm wrong , but I thought he has been doing very well on his return and looks pretty solid at right back. Just because he hits the loose cross isnt exactly calls for him to get cleared out.

parker kent

TheDoc wrote: »

Again, complete over reaction on berbatov from united fans....

If I was playing in a team with that much lack of creativity today, I'd find it hard to be bothered aswell.

He made all the chances in the first half, and when he went more advanced to try score a goal, the creativity behind wasn't there.

I dont know why I defend him so much and try educate united fans on him, hopefully he does move to a different club and I can finally see him being utilised properly and being appreciated.

United pretty much dominated the game, but it was pure lack of creativity from the supporting players to the strikers. Nani was poor and Valencia wasnt given enough chances to explode.

The only thing wrong today was uniteds box play. Blackburn were very steely in defence and deserve some credit, however being pumeled for 90 minutes doesnt exactly give them plaudits for a point.

I'd hardly call it a disgrace, but I think its typical over reaction from seeded comments in the week that this team is doomed. Poor 16 yard play was what let united down today, thats all....

My problem with Berbatov is that he does not suit United. I don't need to be "educated" as to what he does. His style of play just does not work in the United team. United need somebody in that position who can actually score a goal. You say it yourself, poor play in the penalty box let them down.

When United are without Rooney, teams can push up and know that very few people will make a run behind. That is how Blackburn stifled United. Macheda did try a few times but became visibly upset when Berbatov ignored his runs in the 1st half. After that it was all played in front of Blackburn, making it very easy for them to play to their strengths. A team set up with 2 wingers need people in the box, not dropping off. This will create the space for Valencia and Nani to create chances. The first half against Bayern is a great example of how that works.

Berbatov has some qualities but not what United actually need. Plus in reality, I think he found his level at Spurs. He has too many flaws in his game for United. He needs the team built around him, at United that is not going to happen.

Barr

Good job Blackburn - now Arsenal for second

Johner

Mars Bar

My problem with Berbatov was his attitude today. He was giving out stink left, right and center to Macheda who probably felt like the world was on his shoulders today.

That was such a frustrating game to watch.

Although I did enjoy the crunching tackles that the ref didn't blow the whistle for.