Marseille vs Manchester United 23/2/11 Champions League last 16 match thread

Raskolnikov

Brandao has been terrible.

Mars Bar

Scholes to save the day!

RandolphEsq

Hopefully this ginger lad will give Utd the spark they need

Bodhisopha

You're on television son, stop scratching your knob.

Liam O

Should have been Carrick

daveyboy_1ie

About fcuking time, he done better than I thought but we need scholes out there!

Mars Bar

Liam O wrote: »

Should have been Carrick

But Carrick functions better with Scholes.

Although Gibson was definitely having a better game than Carrick.

Liam O

Actually I'm quite happy with this change

Mr.Crinklewood

Bodhisopha wrote: »

You're on television son, stop scratching your knob.

He was just looking for one of those inch perfect balls.

Pro. F

Liam O wrote: »

Gibson has been the best of the 6 midfielders and attackers by a mile.

No wonder you always have such faith in Gibson. You are already starting to fool yourself into thinking that Gibson has been anything other than woeful tonight.

Fletcher, Nani and Berbatov all have done more than him.

ShamoBuc

Liam O wrote: »

Gibson has been the best of the 6 midfielders and attackers by a mile.

Fergie would disagree.

He had a good first half with a couple of great long passes, although I would agree there were worse than him out there.

adox

Liam O wrote: »

Should have been Carrick

Toss of a coin really. Carrick perhaps has more defensive discipline than Gibson but really I would have been happy to see him take both of them off and just put on Scholes.

Liam O

Pro. F wrote: »

No wonder you always have such faith in Gibson. You are already starting to fool yourself into thinking that Gibson has been anything other than woeful tonight.

Fletcher, Nani and Berbatov all have done more than him.

Don't remember him misplacing a pass. The other 3 that you mentioned have done that constantly.

ShamoBuc

Looks like their main man is coming on.

BERBA

ShamoBuc wrote: »

Looks like their main man is coming on.

there main man is sitting in the stands , GIGNAC

LeeroyJones

Pro. F wrote: »

No wonder you always have such faith in Gibson. You are already starting to fool yourself into thinking that Gibson has been anything other than woeful tonight.

Fletcher, Nani and Berbatov all have done more than him.

Fletcher???!!! Seriously!? Gibson came off for Scholes as part of a like for like substitution. In other words SAF wanted Scholes on but didn't want to change his tactics, not because he thought Gibson was playing inferior to Fletcher.

For the record, Fletcher has given the ball away 16 times so far tonight, Gibson's success rate has been better

Liam O

might actually have a player in the box for the last 10 minutes, imagine that :rolleyes:

MagicMarker

Is this a midget coming on?

Headshot

Somethings never change, bloody dull performance again. On par with the recent pool game and that was abomination to the sport

flahavaj

Its worth noting also that Rooney has been absolutely septic again.

ShamoBuc

BERBA wrote: »

there main man is sitting in the stands , GIGNAC

he's their other main man.... do try to keep up!;)

Nailz

Valbuena has a massive head.

Mars Bar

Oh silky from Evra!

Mister men

Another shocker from Rooney tonight.

adox

LeeroyJones wrote: »

Gibson came off for Scholes as part of a like for like substitution.

The only thing they have in common is the kit they wear. Like for like?:eek:

RandolphEsq

Rooney to score with his knob in injury time

Mars Bar

Get the Little Pea on PLEASE! He might do more in the 10 mins than Rooney and Berba could have mustered up between them tonight.

Liam O

flahavaj wrote: »

Its worth noting also that Rooney has been absolutely septic again.

I really don't get it. It's like in Space Jam when the aliens took all the talent from the players. He has had the odd moment this season when I thought he was getting back to his best but the next game he'd produce something like this.

LeeroyJones

adox wrote: »

The only thing they have in common is the kit they wear. Like for like?:eek:

Granted I actually wouldn't call it his best position but Gibson was deployed tonight behind the forwards and given the role of playing Nani et al behind the defence, generally the role of Scholes-hence the substitution

Quandary

Scholes + tackling =

Nailz

Typical Scholes.

Mars Bar

This game goes to show the delightful understanding Nani and Raf have on the right.

Ordinary man

It never ceases to amaze me to think that carrick, fletcher and gibson get to train and watch scholes every day and still not learn fcuk all about touch, vision and controlling a game:mad:

Pro. F

Liam O wrote: »

Don't remember him misplacing a pass. The other 3 that you mentioned have done that constantly.

LeeroyJones wrote: »

Fletcher???!!! Seriously!? Gibson came off for Scholes as part of a like for like substitution. In other words SAF wanted Scholes on but didn't want to change his tactics, not because he thought Gibson was playing inferior to Fletcher.

For the record, Fletcher has given the ball away 16 times so far tonight, Gibson's success rate has been better

Gibson did almost nothing while he was on the pitch. He constantly hid from the ball when we were in possession, got caught in possession a good proportion of the times when he did receive it and did very little defensively.

Fletcher has given the ball away, but at least he has shown willing to get on it at times and done some work to try and win it back when we don't have it. I'm not saying that he has played well. He hasn't, but at least he has tried a bit, unlike Gibson.

LeeroyJones, the tactics have been changed around completely and Scholes is playing deeper than Gibson was.

Raskolnikov

Pro. F wrote: »

Gibson did almost nothing while he was on the pitch. He constantly hid from the ball when we were in possession, got caught in possession a good proportion of the times when he did receive it and did very little defensively.

Gibson was playing in an advanced role. Carrick was playing deep - he was the one who should have been picking up play from the centre backs, which he has of course failed to do.

Pro. F

LeeroyJones wrote: »

Granted I actually wouldn't call it his best position but Gibson was deployed tonight behind the forwards and given the role of playing Nani et al behind the defence, generally the role of Scholes-hence the substitution

Scholes has been staying deeper (in a Xabi Alonso type of position) a lot for the last ages.

You don't actually ever watch United do you?

MagicMarker

What a fúcking abomination.

Blatter

That must be a champions league record.

Only 1 minute of stoppage time for the whole game.

flahavaj

Smalling Utd's MOTM by a million miles. What a find. Nothing fazes him.

BERBA

Only English team not to win 1st leg

Raskolnikov

Fergie will see this as job done.

Mister men

You gotta feel sorry for any United fan who payed to go over and watch that tripe. Really poor game.

Headshot

Headshot wrote: »

going to be a really really dull match and the only highlight will be Eamo

(thank god RTE have this match)

It was worse than dull

Liam O

Pro. F wrote: »

Gibson did almost nothing while he was on the pitch. He constantly hid from the ball when we were in possession, got caught in possession a good proportion of the times when he did receive it and did very little defensively.

Fletcher has given the ball away, but at least he has shown willing to get on it at times and done some work to try and win it back when we don't have it. I'm not saying that he has played well. He hasn't, but at least he has tried a bit, unlike Gibson.

LeeroyJones, the tactics have been changed around completely and Scholes is playing deeper than Gibson was.

Why should Gibson have had to do anything defensively? He kept attacking moves flowing only for the likes of Nani, Fletcher, Rooney and Berba to fcuk up. The amount of times United lost the ball tonight was deplorable and Gibson was the only one with decent ball retention.

Mars Bar

Well that does nothing to help the shít day I've had today.

That's not the football that will win you the Champions League. That football wouldn't have beaten Crawley fúcking Town either. :mad:

steelcityblues

Weak willed performance by United, but they may still go through!

flahavaj

SOCCER4LIFE wrote: »

That must be a champions league record.

Only 1 minute of stoppage time for the whole game.

Act of mercy by the ref.

adox

Thank **** that's over. Awful. Something that's a common theme for United this season. Again, without being melodramatic, you still have to wonder how the **** we are top of the league.

ShamoBuc

poor game but no away goal could yet make the second leg interesting.

Quandary

Vidic + Smalling were fantastic tonight, but thats about it.

Fergie - open the purse strings in the Summer and buy us a shiny new midfielder or two please.